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Front Row Episodes

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    An interview with Jamaican dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson

    An interview with Jamaican dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, 2020 PEN Pinter Prize winner.

  2. Gloria Estefan, Pinocchio, Shane McCrae

    Gloria Estefan on her album Brazil305, a new film version of Pinocchio, poet Shane McCrae.

  3. Lyricist Don Black

    Lyricist Don Black on writing songs like Diamonds are Forever and Born Free.

  4. Lovecraft Country, Prison Radio Drama, Women's Prize For Fiction Shortlisted Jenny Offill

    TV drama Lovecraft Country, set in 1950s Jim Crow America, reviewed.

  5. Glyndebourne Opera returns. My Rembrandt film. How dangerous is playing the trumpet?

    Glyndebourne Opera returns. My Rembrandt film. How dangerous is playing the trumpet?

  6. Xiaolu Guo, Belarus Free Theatre, Blindness, The Leach Pottery

    Novelist Xiaolu Guo, Belarus Free Theatre arrests, Bernard Leach's St Ives pottery

  7. Es Devlin, Drama by postcard, Ali Smith's Summer, photographer Alys Tomlinson

    Es Devlin on her artwork marking the 75th anniversary of Nagasaki and Hiroshima

  8. Arts in the Midlands, Love Letters to Scotland, Soweto Kinch

    Arts in the Midlands, Love Letters to Scotland, and Soweto Kinch's Lockdown Discovery.

  9. Maggie O'Farrell, Singing in Choirs and Covid, Mark Billingham's Lockdown Discovery

    Maggie O'Farrell on Hamnet, shortlisted for the Women's Prize.

  10. Little Birds writer Sophia Al-Maria, Simon Armitage, Summer reads, Tara Gbolade

    Artist, writer, and filmmaker Sophia Al-Maria on Little Birds, and Simon Armitage.

  11. Barbara Kingsolver as poet, Es Devlin's Lockdown Discovery, Sculptor Thomas J. Price, pianist Leon Fleisher remembered

    Barbara Kingsolver, designer Es Devlin, and artist Thomas J Price

  12. Sir Alan Parker remembered, Beyonc茅's Black is King, Prodigal Son, Natasha Trethewey, Don Hahn

    Sir Alan Parker remembered by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.

  13. Whipped cream on The Fourth Plinth, Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee, and Booker Prize nominated Avni Doshi

    Heather Phillipson's Trafalgar Square whipped cream sculpture, and Derry Girls' Lisa McGee

  14. Hilary Mantel, Electronic at The Design Museum, Ai Wei Wei, the future for the panto?

    Hilary Mantel, Electronic at The Design Museum, Ai Wei Wei, the future for the panto?

  15. Shawanda Corbett, Booker longlist 2020, Claire Oakley

    Shawanda Corbett, The Booker longlist, Claire Oakley

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. Jimmy McGovern; crime writing prize; dancing in lockdown; photographer Tyler Mitchell

    Jimmy McGovern; crime writing; dancing in lockdown; photographer Tyler Mitchell.

  19. 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

  20. Nell Dunn, Kelly O'Sullivan, 846, Q Magazine

    Nell Dunn on her new memoir The Muse, Kelly O'Sullivan, 846, Q Magazine.

  21. 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.

  22. 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.

  23. 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

  24. Winning back audience trust, the doctor turned novelist, musical collaboration in lockdown

    Winning back audience trust, the doctor turned novelist, musical collaboration in lockdown

  25. The Chicks, Hammed Animashaun, Liz Johnson Artur

    The Chicks, the biggest selling U.S. female band, on their new album Gaslighter.

  26. 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.

  27. The Kanneh-Masons, Minack Theatre, Imran Perretta

    Isata and Sheku Kanneh-Mason perform live from their family home.

  28. 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.

  29. Katori Hall; cinema after lockdown; documenting empty arts spaces

    US playwright Katori Hall; the future of cinema after lockdown.

  30. Rufus Wainwright, Neil Mendoza, Tate Bursaries, Ringo at 80

    Rufus Wainwright, Neil Mendoza, Tate Bursaries and Ringo Starr at 80.

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