Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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David Baddiel, Apple TV+, Wellcome Collection's scary podcasts
David Baddiel, Apple TV+, Welcome Collection's eerie podcasts
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Harry Hill, Peter Brook, film podcasts
Harry Hill on his new comedy cabaret television programme
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24/10/2019
Jack Thorne's new drama The Accident, about the aftershocks of an industrial disaster.
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Bruce Springsteen's Western Stars, Harold Bloom, Islamic folios, new 'Monuments Men'
Bruce Springsteen's new film Western Stars, and the legacy of the late Harold Bloom.
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Joy Labinjo, By The Grace of God reviewed, Alastair Sooke, actors doing other jobs
Artist Joy Labinjo on her paintings inspired by photos and Francois Ozon's film reviewed.
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David Attenborough's cameraman, Bridget Riley exhibition, Forward Poetry winner
David Attenborough's new wildlife series, Bridget Riley exhibition, Forward Poetry Winner
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Scooby Doo at 50, Poetry in endangered languages, Composer Judith Weir
Scooby Doo is 50 and, Stig Abell discovers, of considerable cultural significance.
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Gavin Hood, Moving to Mars, Salvator Mundi, Winsome Pinnock & Amit Sharma
Gavin Hood on his new film Official Secrets starring Keira Knightley.
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VÃkingur Ólafsson, social housing on screen, Hannah Khalil
Pianist VÃkingur Ólafsson, playwright Hannah Khalil
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Aisling Bea, Booker Prize Double, Zawe Ashton
Aisling Bea on her new drama Living with Yourself. Plus Zawe Ashton on her new play.
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Margaret Atwood book group, LA artist Mark Bradford, Peanut Butter Falcon review
Booker shortlisted author Margaret Atwood, LA artist Mark Bradford, Peanut Butter Falcon.
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Sienna Miller, Elif Shafak, Giri/Haji
Sienna Miller on American Woman, and Elif Shafak is the guest for the Front Row book group
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Nobel Prizes in Literature, Goldie's Drum'n'Bass picks, artist Es Devlin
More controversy for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Goldie on Drum'n'Bass, Es Devlin
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Salman Rushdie, playwright Katori Hall, computer games tax avoidance
Salman Rushdie answers listeners’ questions about his Booker shortlisted novel Quichotte.
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Extinction Rebellion, Staging Shakespeare, Timothee Chalamet in The King, Dancer/choreographer Dada Masilo
Extinction Rebellion, Staging Shakespeare, The King, Dada Masilo
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The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Economics of Publishing, Ravel's Bolero
Director Joe Talbot and star Jimmie Fails on The Last Black Man in San Francisco.
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Booker Book Group with Chigozie Obioma, RuPaul's Drag Race UK, Kurt Weill's The Silver Lake
Booker Prize nominee Chigozie Obioma on his novel An Orchestra of Minorities.
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Debbie Harry, the Portraits of Gauguin, the best political podcasts
Debbie Harry on her life and career and her new memoir, Face It
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Rupert Goold on his film Judy, Kara Walker reviewed, Booker Book Group with Bernardine Evaristo
Director Rupert Goold on his Judy Garland biopic starring Renée Zellweger.
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The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Short Story Award ceremony
The winners are announced for the 2019 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ NSSA and the Young Writers' Award.
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Helen Mirren, Joker, Rona Munro
Helen Mirren on playing Catherine the Great in a new TV miniseries.
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Poetry and performance from Hull's Contains Strong Language festival
Poetry and performance from Hull's Contains Strong Language festival
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Derek Paravicini, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Booker Book Group with Lucy Ellmann
Derek Paravicini, the blind autistic savant pianist, performs on Front Row.
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Brittany Howard, Boarding schools in fiction, Ed Thomas
Alabama Shakes' Brittany Howard discusses her first solo album, Jaime.
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Staging Antony Gormley, Dolly Wells, The Politician
The logistical challenge of staging Antony Gormley's new exhibition, and Dolly Wells.
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Peter Bowker on World on Fire, The Emmys, Amina Atiq, New poetry releases
Writer Peter Bowker discusses his epic new TV drama World On Fire.
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Lulu Wang on The Farewell, Dave, Jessie Burton
Film-maker Lulu Wang on her latest movie The Farewell.
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Rotters in literature, John Keats' poem To Autumn, The Art of Innovation at the Science Museum
We explore favourite rotters in fiction and ask why so few of them are women.
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Soweto Kinch, Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture launch, Sam Fender
Soweto Kinch, Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture launch, Sam Fender
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Maurizio Cattelan at Blenheim Palace, Ad Astra reviewed, Japanese Culture, Shakespeare Folio discovered
Cattelan's solid gold toilet has been stolen from Blenheim Palace.