Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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Cultural Quiz of 2019
We test our guests' knowledge of 2019 in the arts.
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A decade of TV, Ballet podcast Tom and Ty Talk, Long Day's Journey into Night reviewed, Neil Innes
Boyd Hilton and Eleanor Stanford on how television has changed in the last decade
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Art and Churches
An exploration of the evolving role of art in churches and cathedrals
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Candice Carty-Williams in conversation with Bernardine Evaristo
Candice Carty-Williams and Bernardine Evaristo discuss their dazzling literary year.
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Motown legends Brian and Eddie Holland
Legendary Motown songwriters Brian and Eddie Holland
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Screenwriter Amanda Coe, Bad films we love, Diana Evans
Amanda Coe discusses her screenplay for TV drama The Trial of Christine Keeler
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The Goes Wrong Show, Slow Painting, Reviving the high street with culture
The Goes Wrong Show, Slow Painting in Leeds, and reviving the high street with culture.
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JJ Abrams, musicals moving from stage to screen, Derek Owusu
JJ Abrams on directing The Rise of Skywalker - the last film in the 42-year Star Wars saga
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Robert De Niro on The Irishman, subverting the gaze, The Witcher showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich
Fairview director Nadia Latif and portraitist Lorna May Wadsworth on challenging the gaze
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Saoirse Ronan, The Book People goes into administration, How to paint babies
Saoirse Ronan on playing Jo March in Little Women, indie publisher calamity, babies in art
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Taron Egerton, A Christmas Carol, Joe Stilgoe
Taron Egerton on playing Elton John in the musical film Rocketman.
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Mark Gatiss, Kate Rusby, Creating New Traditions
Mark Gatiss on his TV offerings - Martin's Close for Christmas, and Dracula at New Year
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Jonathan Pryce, Survival literature, Fictional politicians
Jonathan Pryce on playing one of The Two Popes, and survival fiction.
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Francesca Hayward on Cats and Romeo and Juliet, Joker composer Hildur Guðnadóttir
Ballet star Francesca Hayward on Romeo and Juliet and the new film version of Cats
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Mike Bartlett, staging of art exhibitions, Any One Thing
Mike Bartlett, staging of art exhibitions, Any One Thing
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Teenage Dick, Traces review, Olga Neuwirth, Nobel Prize for Literature controversy
A darkly comic take on Richard III with Teenage Dick.
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Gender Imbalance in Art Collections, Whitechapel Bell Foundry, Three Sisters Rewired
Why women artists are hugely under presented in art collections and what to do about this.
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Inua Ellams on Three Sisters, Noah Baumbach on Marriage Story, Art goes Bananas
Inua Ellams on transposing Chekhov's Three Sisters to 1960s Nigeria.
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Front Row at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Music Introducing Live
Ferris & Sylvester perform at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Music Introducing Live
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Lesley Manville, Turner Prize, Bat for Lashes
Award-winning actress Lesley Manville talks about her latest film, Ordinary Love
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Difficult comedy audiences, Netflix v cinema?, Honey Boy, Romesh Gunesekera
Difficult comedy audiences, Honey Boy, Romesh Gunesekera and Netflix v Cinema?
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Edward Norton, Elizabeth is Missing, artist Luke Jerram
Edward Norton on Motherless Brooklyn, TV adaptation of Elizabeth is Missing reviewed
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The Boy in the Dress, Turner Prize Shortlisted Artists, The First Nowell
A review of new musical The Boy in the Dress based on David Walliams' book
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Atlantics, Scheherazade and 1001 Nights, Political parties' arts manifestos
Poets Ruth Padel and Daljit Nagra on Scheherazade, the storyteller in 1001 Nights
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Tributes to Clive James and Sir Jonathan Miller
Clive James and Sir Jonathan Miller remembered.
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Costa Book Prize shortlist, Rian Johnson on Knives Out, art theft
We announce the 2019 Costa Book Prize shortlist and Rian Johnson on comedy Knives Out
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Rapper Wretch 32, Hamlet on the Faroe Islands, Blue Story controversy
Wretch 32's memoir Rapthology, and Hamlet on the Faroe Islands
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Coldplay and Leonard Cohen albums, Norman Cornish, Roy Chubby Brown controversy
Stig discusses new albums from Coldplay and the late Leonard Cohen
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Harriet, Les Misérables and social realist films, risk in publishing, street art
Slave abolitionist Harriet Tubman's story makes it to the big screen, we review.
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Frozen's Idina Menzel, Dora Maar, power in publishing
Idina Menzel on reprising her role as Elsa in Frozen II, and surrealist artist Dora Maar