Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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Sarah Perry, The Cry, Cultural First Aid
The Essex Serpent author Sarah Perry discusses her new novel Melmoth, The Cry reviewed
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Contains Strong Language festival, Sean Scully, A Northern Soul
Front Row live from the Contains Strong Language festival in Hull
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Lord of the Flies, Silence in art, Javier Marias
Lord of the Flies with an all-female cast, and the significance of silence in art.
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The Goodies, Holst's The Planets at 100, Debris Stevenson
Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie look back at their 70s cult comedy series
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Oceania exhibition, Suede, How the police help crime writers
The first major UK exhibition of art from the Pacific, and former Britpop band Suede
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Glenn Close in The Wife, Little Women in 2018
New Glenn Close film, Little Women in 2018, composer Jocelyn Pook, Chas Hodges remembered
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Cary Fukanaga, Royal Opera House CEO, Nureyev Documentary
New James Bond director Cary Fukanaga discusses his latest Netflix series, Maniac
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MIA, Man Booker Shortlist, Short Story Award nominee Nell Stevens, Playwright Stephen Jeffreys remembered.
Kieran Yates reviews Matangi/Maya/MIA, a documentary about the political rapper MIA
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Eileen Atkins, the financial crash and the arts, Denis Norden remembered, Ingrid Persaud
Eileen Atkins on her latest stage role in Florian Zeller’s The Height of the Storm
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The Little Stranger, creating art in the dark, and Kiare Ladner, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ NSSA nominee
Director Lenny Abrahamson on his film adaption of Sarah Waters’ novel The Little Stranger
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Christine and the Queens, Sarah Hall, Tartuffe set in a Birmingham Muslim community
Christine and the Queens, Sarah Hall, Tartuffe set in a Birmingham Muslim community
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Killing Eve, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Short Story Award Shortlist, Ghetts
Killing Eve, the new series from Phoebe Waller-Bridge, reviewed.
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Crazy Rich Asians, Touching the Void, Novels about the super rich, Leeds Piano Competition
Touching the Void at the Bristol Old Vic, Crazy Rich Asians.
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Michael Caine, Wagner's music in Israel, V&A Dundee
Sir Michael Caine looks back on his career in Hollywood.
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Sally Rooney, Trust, Catwalk music, Serena Williams cartoon
Sally Rooney on her new novel, Normal People, which is winning ecstatic reviews.
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Nick Payne on Wanderlust, YolanDa Brown, Battersea Arts Centre after the fire
Wanderlust's creator Nick Payne, and BAC's Grand Hall re-opens after the fire in 2015.
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Alison Brackenbury, Vaseem Khan and Testament reveal their finished artworks for the Inspire season
Three artists unveil the work they've created for Front Row's Inspire season.
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New ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ drama Press, Kate Tempest, John Wilson learns the art of watercolouring
Mike Bartlett and Charlotte Riley on new ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ drama Press; Kate Tempest's new collection.
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Khaled Hosseini, Roxanna Panufnik, The inspiration of dreams
Composer Roxanna Panufnik on her new CD and writing for the Last Night of the Proms.
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The Seagull, Refashioning Shakespeare, Alison Balsom
The Seagull review, Reimagining Shakespeare and Alison Balsom's inspirations.
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John Simm, Patrick Ness, Testament
John Simm on his latest role in TV drama, Strangers.
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Proms at Alexandra Palace, Venice Film Festival, Inspire - myths and legends
The theatre at Alexandra Palace re-opens after 80 years.
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Nick Leather on Mother's Day, Natasha Carthew, Drawing comic-book characters
Nick Leather discusses his TV drama Mother's Day, about the Warrington bomb.
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Idris Elba, director; Listed buildings; Stig Abell, poet
Idris Elba on directing his first film, Yardie. Plus, are there too many listed buildings?
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The muse in history, Andrew Miller, Vanity Fair, Neil Simon remembered
Andrew Miller on his new novel, Muses in History (part of our Inspire season), Vanity Fair
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Michael Palin
Delving into the archives with comedian, writer, actor and presenter Michael Palin.
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Ian McMillan, The internet as a source for horror, Patrick Gale, The end of The Big Bang Theory
Ian McMillan on graveyard inspiration, and the internet as a setting for horror.
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BSO Resound at the Proms, Edinburgh Comedy Awards shortlist, Creativity and the brain, Melissa Harrison
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra disabled-led ensemble, Resound, on their Proms debut.
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Bodyguard, Fanfiction, Bryony Lavery's stage adaptation of The Lovely Bones, Vaseem Khan
We review Jed Mercurio's latest TV drama, Bodyguard, starring Richard Madden.
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BlacKkKlansman, Helen Lederer, Alison Brackenbury, Esi Edugyan
Spike Lee's film BlacKkKlansman, Helen Lederer, Alison Brackenbury, Esi Edugyan.