Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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Oliver Knussen remembered, Natalie Dormer, Life modelling
Mark Anthony Turnage and Roger Wright remember the life and work of Oliver Knussen.
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100 Poems by Seamus Heaney, Jesse Jones, Ulysses at the Abbey Theatre
Seamus Heaney's wife and daughter talk about gathering his poems in a new collection.
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Rob Brydon on Swimming With Men, Laura Wade, Ferens Art Gallery
Rob Brydon on the set of film Swimming With Men, playwright Laura Wade, Claude Lanzmann.
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Emily Mortimer, Man Booker Prize at 50, Glasgow Women's Library
Actor Emily Mortimer on a new film adaption of Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop.
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Film director Haifaa al-Mansour, Sharp Objects, Brooklands Museum, Holiday reads
Saudi Arabia's first female director, Haifa al-Mansour.
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Maxine Peake, Gillian Lynne remembered, Whitney documentaries
Maxine Peake on her new play Queens of the Coal Age, and a tribute to Dame Gillian Lynne.
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Fun ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, Portrayal of lesbians in drama, Caryl Phillips, Tate St Ives
We review the stage musical adaption of Alison Bechdel's memoir Fun ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½.
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Japan Special: Ryuichi Sakomoto, Japanese Short Stories, Sou Fujimoto
Ryuichi Sakomoto on his extraordinary career in music and beyond.
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Bartlett Sher and The King and I, Olivia Laing, Museum of the Year report
The King and I director Bartlett Sher, and Olivia Laing on her debut novel Crudo.
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Michael Jackson at the National Portrait Gallery, Kynren in Bishop Auckland
Michael Jackson's personal photographer Todd Gray talks to John Wilson.
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Duran Duran, The Bradford Literature Festival, Stained Glass artist Brian Clarke, and the Poetry of Sun and Summer
John Taylor and Roger Taylor on 40 years of making music in Duran Duran.
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Fly by Night, Tim Winton, Poems by teenagers, Music discovered in a painting
Fly by Night pigeon art, Tim Winton's new novel, Kate Clanchy and her student poets.
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James Corden, Poet Raymond Antrobus, Arts Minister Michael Ellis
James Corden talks to John Wilson about bringing his Late Late Show to London.
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Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain, GLOW star Kate Nash, Pop-up arts
Singer and GLOW star Kate Nash, and model-turned-photographer Lee Miller and Surrealism.
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Caitlin Moran, Beyonce and Jay-Z's new album, National Youth Folk Ensemble, Frank Styles
Caitlin Moran on her latest novel How to be Famous about fame, Britpop and revenge porn.
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Snatches, Carnegie Prize Winner, Best New Video Games, Glasgow School of Art fire
Vicky Featherstone on Snatches, celebrating the lives of women over the past 100 years.
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Frida Kahlo, Fly by Night, Queer Eye, Cats in literature
The new Frida Kahlo exhibition Making Her Self Up at the V&A and Queer Eye on TV.
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Ocean's 8, Football kit design, Tacita Dean on drawing, Classical pianist Alexis Ffrench on hip-hop
Ocean's 8 reviewed, football kit, hip-hop's lesson for the classics, the art of drawing.
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Eddie Izzard, Wilko Johnson and novelist Benjamin Markovits
Comedian Eddie Izzard talks about why he is reading all of Dickens' novels aloud.
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Rosemary's Baby at 50, scary movies, James Joyce's daughter Lucia
Film critic Kim Newman explores the impact of Polanski's chiller Rosemary's Baby.
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Timothy Spall, Tracy Chapman's Fast Car turns 30, Novelist Lissa Evans
Timothy Spall on playing every part in his new film Stanley, a Man of Variety.
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Pieter-Dirk Uys, Joan Bakewell and Christopher Frayling on older audiences, Gaël Faye
South African satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys on his new autobiographical show.
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Rupert Everett, Abir Mukherjee, Sex and the City 20 years on
Rupert Everett on writing, directing and playing Oscar Wilde in The Happy Prince.
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Women's Prize for Fiction winner, Jurassic World, Sunderland musician Nadine Shah, The Future Library
Front Row announces and interviews the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction.
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Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Shebeen in Nottingham, Will Sharpe, Vampyr video game
The 250th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition opens and is reviewed by Jacky Klein.
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David Edgar, Women's non-fiction writing, Art in the aftermath of World War One
Playwright David Edgar at 70, Art in the wake of WW1, Women's non-fiction writing.
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Orlando Bloom, Grief as muse, Antony Gormley, Novello Award-winning rapper Dave.
Orlando Bloom on his return to the stage as a cop and assassin in Killer Joe.
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Westminster Abbey, The culture of the countryside, Gillian Allnutt
A visit to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries at Westminster Abbey.
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Angélique Kidjo, Book Club reviewed, Roseanne controversy, novelist Anuradha Roy
Beninese singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo performs live and the film Book Club reviewed.
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François Ozon's L'Amant Double, Patrick Heron, Rachel Kushner
François Ozon on his latest film, the psychological thriller L'Amant Double.