Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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Shawanda Corbett, Booker longlist 2020, Claire Oakley
Shawanda Corbett, The Booker longlist, Claire Oakley
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Shirley Collins, Kit de Waal, Caine Prize for African Writing winner, Olivia de Havilland remembered
Folk singer Shirley Collins on her album Heart's Ease.
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Mira Nair on A Suitable Boy, Taylor Swift's album Folklore, the film How to Build a Girl, Alberta Whittle and Theatre News
Director Mira Nair on her television adaptation of Vikram Seth's novel, A Suitable Boy.
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Jimmy McGovern; crime writing prize; dancing in lockdown; photographer Tyler Mitchell
Jimmy McGovern; crime writing; dancing in lockdown; photographer Tyler Mitchell.
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Tom Sutcliffe talks to screenwriter and film director Oliver Stone about his memoir Chasing the Light
Director Oliver Stone on getting into Hollywood chronicled in his memoir Chasing the Light
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Nell Dunn, Kelly O'Sullivan, 846, Q Magazine
Nell Dunn on her new memoir The Muse, Kelly O'Sullivan, 846, Q Magazine.
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Josephine Mackerras, Sean Edwards, summer theatre round-up, John Mullan on Mansfield Park
Josephine Mackerras on her film, Alice, about a woman who becomes an escort.
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Alfre Woodard, film Come As You Are and Ellie Goulding album Brightest Blue reviewed, Richard Herring
Alfre Woodard on playing a death row prison warden in Clemency.
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Get Carter director Mike Hodges, Tate Bursary artist Oreet Ashery, the plight of arts freelancers in the pandemic
Mike Hodges, director of Get Carter, on his 1989 film Black Rainbow, with Rosanna Arquette
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Winning back audience trust, the doctor turned novelist, musical collaboration in lockdown
Winning back audience trust, the doctor turned novelist, musical collaboration in lockdown
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The Chicks, Hammed Animashaun, Liz Johnson Artur
The Chicks, the biggest selling U.S. female band, on their new album Gaslighter.
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Anish Kapoor, The Plot Against America, Rachel De-Lahay, drive in comedy
Review of The Plot Against America, Rachel De-Lahay, Anish Kapoor, Daniel Sloss.
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The Kanneh-Masons, Minack Theatre, Imran Perretta
Isata and Sheku Kanneh-Mason perform live from their family home.
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Philip Pullman on Northern Lights 25 years on, Mrs America reviewed, Simon Schama
Philip Pullman and Northern Lights 25 years on, Simon Schama and a review of Mrs America.
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Katori Hall; cinema after lockdown; documenting empty arts spaces
US playwright Katori Hall; the future of cinema after lockdown.
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Rufus Wainwright, Neil Mendoza, Tate Bursaries, Ringo at 80
Rufus Wainwright, Neil Mendoza, Tate Bursaries and Ringo Starr at 80.
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Funding for the arts, Wayne McGregor, Ennio Morricone
Arts funding - is it enough? Wayne McGregor's new ballet and a tribute to Ennio Morricone.
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Theatres in pink, David Pickard on the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms, Friday Review on Hamilton, Decolonising arts curriculum in school
Theatres wrapped in pink to campaign for survival.
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The Secrets She Keeps, Fyzal Boulifa, Urdu poetry in Bradford
The Secrets She Keeps, Fyzal Boulifa on his new film Lynn + Lucy, Urdu poetry in Bradford.
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Director Werner Herzog, actor Danny Sapani, Watford bookclub
Werner Herzog on his latest film, Danny Sapani on play Les Blancs, Watford's big bookclub.
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The Arts in Crisis
Simon Rattle and other leading figures discuss the crisis facing the arts.
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Kevin Kwan, Annilese Miskimmon of ENO, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
Kevin Kwan, author of the Crazy Rich Asians novels, and ENO's Annilese Miskimmon
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Michael Palin, The Last of Us Part II reviewed, Anthony Thwaite, Rethink - Nicola Triscott, Roadmap to Reopening Theatres
Michael Palin on Waiting for Godot
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Crisis in theatre, Stuart Evers new novel, Eurovision the film, Bristol’s Colston statue
Theatre Royal Plymouth in crisis, Stuart Evers novel, Eurovision the film, Colston statue.
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Griselda Pollock
Griselda Pollock, the first art historian to win the prestigious Holberg Prize.
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Rethink The Arts
Rethinking the arts for a post Covid-19 world.
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Talking Heads, Jarvis Cocker, Thomas Clay
We review the remake of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads and consider the art of the monologue
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Rebel Wilson, Ian Holm remembered, Bob Dylan, The Luminaries
Rebel Wilson on her TV series Last One Laughing, and actor Sir Ian Holm remembered.
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Vera Lynn remembered, guitarist Sean Shibe, PlacePrints audio plays reviewed, Poetry from Alison Brackenbury
Tributes to Dame Vera Lynn, guitarist Sean Shibe and PlacePrints audio plays reviewed.
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Judd Apatow, Carnegie and Greenaway Medals for children's literature, job losses in theatre, Alison Brackenbury
Judd Apatow on The King of Staten Island, and the Carnegie and Greenaway winners announced