Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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Christian Dior exhibition, Costa Book Prize winner and book prize sponsorship
Live daily magazine programme on the arts, literature, film, media and music.
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Germaine Greer
As she turns 80, Germaine Greer reflects on her life as a writer and public intellectual.
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The Mule, Anne Griffin, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Brexit Arts Funding
Review of Clint Eastwood's latest film about an elderly drug mule
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Watercooler TV, Bill Viola/Michelangelo, Art Fund Volunteers, Diana Athill remembered
The biggest recent TV hits provoking debate, and Bill Viola/Michelangelo reviewed.
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Dick Cheney film Vice, Barrie Rutter and Eliza Carthy on Jack Lear, disability and casting, Detainment
Dick Cheney biopic Vice reviewed by Gavin Esler, plus King Lear set in 1970s Hull
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Oscar Nominations 2019
Oscars 2019 : Roma and The Favourite lead the nominations.
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Nicole Kidman, Fanny Hill, Women artists
Nicole Kidman on her film Destroyer, Fanny Hill, Female Old Masters.
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Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright MP, Radio Breakfast Shows, Chigozie Obioma
Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright MP discusses his plans to ‘unleash creativity’.
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Brexit and the arts, Diane Setterfield, Charlie Luxton on beautiful buildings, composer Du Yun
How Brexit might impact upon the arts. Plus Diane Setterfield's new novel.
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Film director M Night Shyamalan, DH Lawrence as dramatist, New work by Bridget Riley
M Night Shyamalan discusses his new movie Glass, and a major new work by Bridget Riley
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Steve Carell, Brian Tyler, London Borough of Culture
Steve Carell discusses new film Beautiful Boy, a father and son story plagued by addiction
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Octavian, The Killing creator Soren Sveistrup, TS Eliot Prize-winner
Octavian - ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Music's Sound of 2019, and Soren Sveistrup, creator of The Killing
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Steve Coogan and John C Reilly, Costa First Novel winner Stuart Turton
Steve Coogan and John C Reilly on playing Laurel and Hardy in Stan & Ollie
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Hugh Jackman on The Front Runner, Costa Biography Award winner Bart van Es, Da Vinci loan refusal
Hugh Jackman on playing scandal-hit 1988 US presidential hopeful Gary Hart.
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Comedian Nish Kumar, Acoustics in architecture, 2018 Costa Children’s Book Award winner Hilary McKay
Comedian Nish Kumar, from The Mash Report, on why his new tour is his most political yet.
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Keira Knightley, Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney, Costa Poetry Winner
Keira Knightley on Colette, Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney, Costa Poetry Award winner
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Charlie Brooker on Bandersnatch, Sophie Raworth reveals the Costa Book Award Winners
Charlie Brooker on his ground-breaking new interactive film, Bandersnatch
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Robert Zemeckis, Poet Laureate, The Victorian House of Arts and Crafts
Robert Zemeckis on new film Welcome to Marwen
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Brexit: The Uncivil War, JD Salinger Centenary, Tracy-Ann Oberman
New Brexit drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch as leader of the Leave campaign reviewed.
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Olivia Colman, Luther, Surgery and embroidery
Olivia Colman on her new film The Favourite, and Luther reviewed
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Keeley Hawes
From Bodyguard and The Durrells to Spooks, Keeley Hawes looks back on her career.
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Cultural Quiz of the Year
We test our guests' knowledge of 2018 in the arts.
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An appreciation of the late Amos Oz the Israeli novelist who died today
Amos Oz, a look ahead to the arts events of 2019, Spiderman creator Stan Lee.
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As a generation of choreographers pass, we hear from the new generation rising
Front Row marks the deaths of three great choreographers and hears from the new generation
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Slow radio: Land artist Chris Drury's Morecambe Bay project
Land artist Chris Drury visits his Horizon Line Chamber at Morecambe Bay
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Choirs - a celebration of singing together
A special programme exploring the benefits of choral singing.
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Les Misérables discussed by Andrew Davies, adapter of a new TV version
Screenwriter Andrew Davies on Les Misérables; Christmas literature; Yuletide poems
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Ben Elton on Shakespeare, Call to Action Art, Vanessa Kisuule
Ben Elton on his fascination with Shakespeare. Plus is art becoming more political?
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Lin-Manuel Miranda in Mary Poppins Returns, Hip Hop Musicals, Richard Sherman
Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda on his starring role in Mary Poppins Returns.
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Eileen Atkins, Penny Marshall remembered, The Shining, Sister Bliss
Eileen Atkins looks back over her career, and director Penny Marshall remembered