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Front Row Episodes

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    Toni Morrison remembered, the Sound of Space in Music

    Stig Abell and guests pay tribute to the American writer Toni Morrison.

  2. The Crucible, the music of Peterloo, Patrick Bronte and DA Pennebaker

    A new ballet interpretation of The Crucible, and two musical perspectives on a massacre.

  3. Fast and Furious: Hobbs and Shaw, T茅a Obreht, Kathy Hinde, Dalia Stasevska

    We review Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw and Kathy Hinde composes with sounds from a bog

  4. k.d. lang, paying inheritance tax with art, ceramicist Magdalene Odundo

    k.d. lang reveals that she is retiring from music now that the muse has left her.

  5. Notre-Dame organist Olivier Latry, Gurinder Chadha, Rupert Everett's Uncle Vanya

    Notre-Dame's organist Olivier Latry on the recent fire, and film director Gurinder Chadha

  6. Herman Melville and Moby Dick, Luddite rebellion on stage, TV's I Am the Night

    The great whaling novel Moby Dick and - is there something to be said for Luddism?

  7. Blacking-up in opera, How to watch Shakespeare, Fiona Kidman, Carlos Cruz-Diez

    Blacking-up in opera, How to watch Shakespeare, Fiona Kidman's novel and Carlos Cruz-Diez.

  8. Horrible Histories, Barbara Strozzi at 400, Barney Norris, V&A and Extinction Rebellion

    Horrible Histories review, Barbara Strozzi at 400 and Extinction Rebellion at the V&A.

  9. Oklahoma!, Audience behaviour, Mercury Prize shortlist

    Oklahoma! at Chichester Festival Theatre. And is audience behaviour getting worse?

  10. The Booker Prize Longlist, A Tea Journey at Compton Verney gallery, Fashion influenced by TV

    A look at the 2019 Booker Prize longlist. Plus the influence of TV on high street fashion.

  11. The Current War, How culture affects relationship expectations, Experimental novels, Cool culture

    The Current War, culture and relationships, experimental novels, and cool culture

  12. Macy Gray, Morris Dance Protest at Parliament, Libraries - Threatened and Reprieved

    Macy Gray talks, performs work from her latest album, Ruby, and sings her huge hit, I Try.

  13. Fab 5 Freddy, Laurie Anderson, Summer reads, film trailers

    Hip hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy on the hidden black figures of Italian Renaissance art.

  14. Illuminated River, Jon Favreau on The Lion King, RIBA Stirling shortlist

    Why the River Thames is about to become the world's longest artwork

  15. Conductor Karina Canellakis, a review of Channel 4 drama series I Am... and the director of cricket documentary The Edge

    Karina Canellakis on conducting the first night of the Proms.

  16. Philip Glass and Phelim McDermott, Political knitting, Black women in theatre, Statues of performers

    The power of knitting as protest and a huge statue of Ed Sheeran is unveiled in Moscow.

  17. Dominic Dromgoole, new theatres, Karina Ramage

    Dominic Dromgoole, new theatres, Karina Ramage.

  18. Deborah Moggach, Elsinore computer game, Ivo van Hove, Can high notes shatter glass?

    Deborah Moggach on new novel The Carer

  19. Pavarotti documentary, Wendell Berry, Port Eliot Festival closure, How our attitudes are reflected in culture

    Pavarotti documentary reviewed, and how our attitudes are reflected in culture.

  20. Peter Gynt, how to listen to opera, The Left Behind, Rip Torn

    Peter Gynt at the National Theatre reviewed and hard-hitting Welsh drama The Left Behind

  21. Cressida Cowell, the new children's laureate; Cherie Blair goes into film

    Children's laureate Cressida Cowell, Cherie Blair, and Life of Pi on the stage

  22. Isata Kanneh-Mason plays Clara Schumann, Dark Money, Tree authorship row

    Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason plays Clara Schumann

  23. Olly Alexander, Midsommar, Britain's First Female Artists, Leon Kossoff obituary

    Olly Alexander on gay pop songs and his Glastonbury speech

  24. Manchester International Festival

    Tania Bruguera, Yoko Ono and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.

  25. Chanya Button on Vita & Virginia, Michael Frayn's Noises Off, Mental health in gaming, Ode to Joy

    New film Vita & Virginia, Noises Off, mental health in gaming, the story of Ode to Joy

  26. Howard Jacobson; Othello Remixed; Museum of the Year shortlister - St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff

    Howard Jacobson, Othello Remixed, MOTY St Fagans National Museum of History in Cardiff

  27. Cornelia Funke, V&A Dundee, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

    Inkheart writer Cornelia Funke on Pan's Labyrinth, a collaboration with Guillermo del Toro

  28. Todd Douglas Miller, 50 years of queer books, Cultural and political memes

    Todd Douglas Miller on his documentary Apollo 11 which uses previously unseen archive

  29. Kate Atkinson, YA fiction controversy, Queer writing in the noughties

    Novelist Kate Atkinson on her new Jackson Brodie thriller, Big Sky.

  30. In Fabric, Queer books of the '90s, HMS Caroline, A forgotten female script

    In Fabric stars a red dress with murderous intent. Front Row reviews the new horror film.

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