Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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Film director Alice Wu, writer Frank Cottrell Boyce, the allure of Golden Brown and baritone Peter Brathwaite remakes paintings
Alice Wu on her film, The Half of It, a queer love triangle based on Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Nicola Benedetti, Music Memories, The Tempest
Nicola Benedetti on her new free online tuition sessions and her Elgar album.
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Crafts in lockdown, VÃkingur Ólafsson performs Glass, Netflix series Hollywood and Lionel Shriver novel reviewed
The benefits of craft, VÃkingur Ólafsson performs live, Netflix series Hollywood reviewed
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Emma Thompson, Damien Chazelle, Film news
Dame Emma Thompson, and Damien Chazelle on The Eddy.
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Singer James Bay, film director Pablo LarraÃn, tribute to actor Irrfan Khan and new drama by disabled writers
James Bay plays his hit Hold Back the River live, and offers tips on playing the guitar.
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Nmon Ford, Eavan Boland, Kit de Waal, London Mozart Players
Baritone Nmon Ford on new opera Orfeus, which fuses opera with house music.
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Randy Newman; song lyrics in Latin; Romeo and Juliet; the NHS on radio and TV
Randy Newman's new song; Romeo and Juliet performed; the NHS on radio and TV.
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Normal People, VÃkingur Ólafsson, Seán Hewitt, Theresa Lola
Sophie Raworth and Naomi Alderman on TV drama Normal People. And pianist VÃkingur Ólafsson
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Moffie director Oliver Hermanus, Sharon D Clarke, Lesbian visibility, Anna Meredith
Director Oliver Hermanus and Sharon D. Clarke on World Book Night.
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Paapa Essiedu, Arts Minister Caroline Dinenage, Turning our tragedies into comedy
Paapa Essiedu's Hamlet, Arts Minister Caroline Dinenage, Turning tragedy into comedy
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Organist Anna Lapwood, The Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist, Gangs of London
Organist Anna Lapwood performs, and we announce The Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist.
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Jackie Kay, Roderick Williams, Killing Eve Season 3 and C Pam Zhang
Roderick Williams, Jackie Kay, author C Pam Zhang and Killing Eve Season 3
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Adam Macqueen's thriller, pianist VÃkingur Ólafsson, a podcast masterclass and the amazing set of Treasure Island
Adam Macqueen on imagining, in his first novel, that Jeremy Thorpe did murder his lover.
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Virus Art, Naomi Alderman, Angela Barnes
Artist Luke Jerram on replicating Covid-19 in sculpture.
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Sir Patrick Stewart on Shakespeare's Sonnets, Shahnaz Ahsan, Devs
Patrick Stewart on his daily performance of Shakespeare's Sonnets.
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Russell Howard, Siobhan Miller, International Prize for Arabic Fiction, John Mullan on Northanger Abbey
Russell Howard on his new lockdown TV show made from his childhood bedroom.
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Roy Hudd
Speaking in 2015, the late music hall veteran on his seven-decade career.
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Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese in conversation about his latest film, The Irishman
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VÃkingur Ólafsson, Christabel Blackburn, Nitin Sawhney, Audiobooks
Icelandic pianist VÃkingur Ólafsson, Front Row's first Artist-in-Residence.
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James Graham on Quiz, Braids, changes in the ways we listen to music, and John Prine
James Graham on Quiz, his three-part television drama about the coughing major controversy
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AL Kennedy, Sam Sweeney performs live, lockdown listening habits
AL Kennedy's new short stories and fiddle player Sam Sweeney performs live
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Wordsworth Anniversary, Kerry Shale radio play, Critic Gillian Reynolds, Composer Nainita Desai
Wordsworth anniversary, Kerry Shale on working with Kubrick, composer Nainita Desa.
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Miles Davis's Bitches Brew, Gaming, Cressida Cowell in the Culture Clinic
Soweto Kinch on Miles Davis's album Bitches Brew, and Children's Laureate Cressida Cowell.
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Dua Lipa, Sara Collins, Edinburgh festivals cancelled, Molly O’Cathain
Dua Lipa discusses her new album Future Nostalgia.
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The Dramatist James Graham
Kirsty Lang interviews playwright James Graham, author of Quiz, This House and Ink.
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Soprano Chen Reiss, Theatre Online, National Poetry Competition
Soprano Chen Reiss on her recording of Beethoven's Arias
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Icelandic pianist VÃkingur Ólafsson plays live from Reykjavik
Icelandic pianist VÃkingur Ólafsson talks to Front Row and plays live from Reykjavik
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Gloria Gaynor, Offline Arts, film Vivarium and novel Hamnet reviewed, Culture Clinic
Gloria Gaynor on Grammy-winning album Testimony and on going viral against the virus
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Owen Sheers, Nikita Lalwani, Writing in isolation
Owen Sheers on adapting The Snow Spider for TV, Nikita Lalwani on her new novel You People
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Eliza Carthy, Art galleries and coronavirus, Terrence McNally obituary
Folk musician Eliza Carthy, art galleries under coronavirus, Terrence McNally obituary.