Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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Okwui Okpokwasili, Literary events at non-literary festivals, Tiananmen Square, Apple moves to streaming
Literary events at festivals Okwui Okpokwasili, Tiananmen Square, Apple moves to streaming
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03/06/2019
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Elizabeth Gilbert, BTS and K-pop, Natalia Goncharova
Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, on new novel City of Girls.
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Aladdin composer Alan Menken, Amitav Ghosh, Georgia boycott
Alan Menken on creating the music for Disney's Aladdin, The Little Mermaid and Pocahontas
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David Tennant and Michael Sheen, Scottish Smallpiper Brìghde Chaimbeul, Youth Music Projects
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Lenny Henry, Posy Simmonds, When They See Us
Lenny Henry on his latest stage role in King Hedley II, and graphic artist Posy Simmonds
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Drag Becomes Her, The moon in the arts, Restoration tragedy at the RSC
BenDeLaCreme and Jinkx Monsoon, how the moon has inspired artists, RSC's Venice Preserved
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Anish Kapoor, Beanie Feldstein, Vampire Weekend
Anish Kapoor on a rare exhibition of his paintings, and Booksmart's Beanie Feldstein.
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Matthew Bourne's Romeo and Juliet, Little Steven, Judith Kerr
John visits rehearsals for Matthew Bourne's new dance work, Romeo and Juliet
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Frank Skinner, George the Poet, TV affecting social change
Frank Skinner discusses his new comedy tour Showbiz.
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Stephen Poliakoff, News from Cannes Film Festival, Selina Thompson
Stephen Poliakoff, Cannes Film Festival update, playwright Selina Thompson
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Dexter Fletcher on Rocket Man, Jessica Andrews, Artists as activists, Folio Prize winner
Rocket Man, Jessica Andrews' novel Saltwater, artists as activists, Folio Prize winner.
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Cannes, David Chipperfield on I.M. Pei, Denise Mina, Sean Edwards
Report from the Cannes Film Festival, including Elton John biopic Rocketman
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Stephen Graham, new Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, ENO's Dido
Stephen Graham discusses working with Shane Meadows on TV drama The Virtues
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Gentleman Jack, correcting the contemporary art canon, #BeMoreMartyn, Futbolka
Gentleman Jack review, correcting the contemporary art canon, #BeMoreMartyn and Futbolka.
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Fun Lovin' Crime Writers - band, AI: More than Human - exhibition, Medusa - ballet
Fun Lovin' Crime Writers - a band of famous detective story authors perform live
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Keanu Reeves, Doris Day remembered, art as an aphrodisiac
Keanu Reeves on reprising his action role in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum.
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Edmund de Waal and other news from the Venice Biennale, Elizabeth Macneal
Edmund de Waal at the Venice Biennale and debut novelist Elizabeth Macneal.
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Mark Haddon, Jimmie Durham controversy, Anglo-Saxon burial, Michelle Terry
Mark Haddon on The Porpoise, his new novel based on Shakespeare's Pericles
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Guy Chambers, Nina Stibbe, Creativity and wellbeing
Songwriter Guy Chambers explains how to write a hit.
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Film director Amma Asante, Joe Boyd on Aretha Franklin, Ireland's Abbey Theatre
Amma Asante, TV drama Years and Years reviewed, Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace concert
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Architect Sir David Adjaye in Venice
Sir David Adjaye discusses his approach to architecture, including his new Ghana Pavilion
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Rokia Traoré, Bill Buford on Granta, artworks in political posters
Malian singer Rokia Traoré on guest directing this year’s Brighton Festival.
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Small Island, Chernobyl, Poet Laureate, Obamas
The National Theatre's adaptation of Andrea Levy's Small Island reviewed.
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Leonardo da Vinci 500th Anniversary, Salvator Mundi
The art and legacy of Leonardo da Vinci, on the eve of the 500th anniversary of his death
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John Singleton remembered, Afghanistan's music scene, Tolkien reviewed, the effect of music on the brain
We assess the work of Boyz n the Hood director John Singleton and review Tolkien biopic
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Les Murray remembered, Women's Prize For Fiction shortlist, Kubrick exhibition, Captain Corelli on stage
Women's Prize For Fiction shortlist, Kubrick exhibition, Captain Corelli play, Les Murray.
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The Avengers phenomenon, Linda Grant, Adapting Ibsen for today
Avengers: Endgame, and Linda Grant on her new novel A Stranger City
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The Cranberries, The Art Fund Museum of the Year shortlist, Cultural Repatriation
The Cranberries on finishing their final album after the death of singer Dolores O’Riordan
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The Looming Tower, Birdsong in the charts, 18-certificate films
The road to 9/11 in a new TV drama, and Let Nature Sing - the single by a band of 25 birds