Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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Jean Toomer's Cane adapted, Bloomsday, Alison Brackenbury, Museums in lockdown
Jean Toomer's Cane adapted, Bloomsday, Alison Brackenbury, Museums in lockdown
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Tracey Emin, Alison Brackenbury, Book Covers
Tracey Emin on the artworks she has produced during lockdown.
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The Salisbury Poisonings, VÃkingur Ólafsson, Walter Scott Prize, Pilgrims
TV drama The Salisbury Poisonings, and VÃkingur Ólafsson's final performance for Front Row
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Simon Bird, Whiteness, Ruth Patterson, Tony Walsh
Simon Bird on Days of the Bagnold Summer, Whiteness discussed, Ruth Patterson, Tony Walsh
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Robert Lindsay, Tony Hall, How to make a new musical
Robert Lindsay on his first acting job 50 years ago. Plus ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ DG Tony Hall.
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Spike Lee; Hope Mirrlees' Paris - A Poem; and are we being more creative in lockdown?
Spike Lee on Da 5 Bloods, his film about African American veterans returning to Vietnam.
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Michaela Coel, The Comedy Women in Print Prize, Bristol's Colston statue
Actor and writer Michaela Coel on I May Destroy You, and Bristol's Colston statue.
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VÃkingur Ólafsson, David Greig, El Presidente, Inclusive publishing
VÃkingur Ólafsson performs Bach. Plus David Greig's new play.
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Andrew Patterson, Writing about Race, Mark Damazer Chair of Booker Prize Foundation
Andrew Patterson on The Vast of Night, an homage to 50s sci-fi TV.
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David Tennant and Michael Sheen in Staged, Ethiopian poetry, Talking About Race
Staged, starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen, and an anthology of Ethiopian poetry.
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Carrie Mae Weems, Liz Lochhead, How will museums reflect the pandemic
Carrie Mae Weems on the role art can play in the current crisis in the US
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Sitting in Limbo, Joanna Briscoe, Christo, The Uncertain Kingdom
TV drama about the Windrush scandal reviewed and Joanna Briscoe on her new novel Seduction
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Indira Varma, VÃkingur Ólafsson, Snowpiercer and The Lockdown Plays reviewed, DJ Mr Switch, Tom Morris
Indira Varma on A Room of One's Own.
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Can arts venues survive social distancing?
Will the finances ever stack up and what is lost when there's no crowd?
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John Grisham, re-opening of museums and galleries, the best of theatre online
Bestselling author John Grisham on his latest novel.
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Tracee Ellis Ross, Walter Iuzzolino, Southbank Centre
Tracee Ellis Ross on The High Note, and Walter Iuzzolino on Walter Presents.
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Kirsty Lang talks to American writer AM ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½s
AM ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½s, writer of darkly comic fiction, talks about her novels, short stories and memoir
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The County & Little Fires Everywhere; The Archers; VÃkingur Ólafsson; poetry to console
Little Fires Everywhere and The County reviewed. The Archers and Coronavirus
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Unprecedented: Real Time Theatre from a State of Isolation, Rubaiyat Hossain, Abigail Pogson, Martin Green
Unprecedented - new plays respond to the pandemic, Rubaiyat Hossain on her new film.
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Simon Schama on Rembrandt's The Night Watch, can the performing arts survive coronavirus?
We take a close look at the masterpiece as a hyper-resolution photograph of it goes online
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Stephen La Rivière, Nancy Kerr, Silas Marner
Nebula-75 creator Stephen La Rivière, and singer Nancy Kerr.
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Tom Sutcliffe talks to playwright and poet Inua Ellams
Inua Ellams, writer of hit play Barber Shop Chronicles, on his life and work.
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White Lines, VÃkingur Ólafsson, How to write a play, Eliza Hittman
Netflix drama White Lines, and pianist VÃkingur Ólafsson live from ReykjavÃk
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Benjamin Zephaniah
Benjamin Zephaniah in conversation with Samira Ahmed.
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Jude Kelly, Emma Thompson, how to write a musical, online art games reviewed
Jude Kelly on the first online WOW Festival, Emma Thompson reads poetry by Liz Lochhead.
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Alicia Keys, Vanessa Redgrave
Alicia Keys on her early life and career, and Vanessa Redgrave performs poetry for VE Day.
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Will Pound, Future of Television, Royal Albert Hall
Harmonica player Will Pound. Plus the future of television after the lockdown.
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Jeremy Deller
Artist Jeremy Deller looks back at his career and reflects on making art under lockdown.
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George the Poet, VÃkingur Ólafsson, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Pride and Prejudice
George the Poet, and pianist VÃkingur Ólafsson.
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Miranda July, The Fall's Greatest Album? Gemma Bodinetz
Film-maker, artist and writer Miranda July, The Fall's greatest album discussed.