Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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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
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Adeel Akhtar, Artist Doris Hatt, Joe Orton
Adeel Akhtar on his new ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½1 series Back to Life
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A Celebration of the Pub in Culture
Al Murray, Eliza Carthy and David Mark on finding inspiration down their local.
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Golden Age of Children's Books?
Tom Gates author Liz Pichon and the quality of books for 6- to-12-year-olds.
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Saxophonist Jess Gillam, war poster artist Abram Games, author Tayari Jones
Saxophonist Jess Gillam plays live and talks about the sax in classical music.
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Beyoncé, Madonna, West Side Story, Children's Literature
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½coming: A film by Beyoncé and Madonna's new Madame X alter-ego is discussed.
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Notre-Dame de Paris, Roger McGough, Chimerica
Notre-Dame de Paris' artistic and musical significance, plus poet Roger McGough.
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Andrew Scott, Maggie Smith's new play reviewed, William Eggleston
Andrew Scott, star of Sherlock and Fleabag, talks about his new film, Steel Country.
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The Work, Life and Legacy of Poet Seamus Heaney
On the eve of what would have been his 80th birthday Front Row on poet Seamus Heaney
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Jenny Saville, Laura van der Heijden, The art of the deadline
Jenny Saville on her new self-portrait, painted in response to a Rembrandt masterpiece.
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Composer Gavin Bryars, Isabella Hammad, Opera singers sing pop
Gavin Bryars on a 12-hour performance of his 1971 piece Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
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Useful Art, Embodying Ruskin, National Theatre for Northern Ireland? Unicorn Store
Useful art, embodying Ruskin, National Theatre for Northern Ireland? Unicorn Store review.
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Munch at British Museum, Neil Jordan - Greta, Legacy of Game Of Thrones, What makes a great ending to a TV series?
Neil Jordan, Munch at the British Museum, Game of Thrones legacy, great TV series endings.