Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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You Were Never Really Here, Colin Currie, Charlotte Salomon
Lynne Ramsay's thriller, You Were Never Really Here, reviewed, Percussionist Colin Currie.
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Jess Thom on Beckett's Not I, Disbelieved women in fiction, Deep Throat Choir
Jess Thom on why Beckett's Not I speaks to her so strongly as someone with Tourette's.
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Civilisations, Wendy Cope, Contemporary Chinese Art
We review new TV series Civilisations which explores thousands of years of visual culture.
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Sharon Horgan, Maya Youssef, Samantha Harvey
Sharon Horgan in Game Night, Maya Youssef on the qanun and Samantha Harvey's new novel.
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A Fantastic Woman, playing drunk, Lewis Gilbert and paintings under paintings
A Fantastic Woman reviewed, playing drunk, paintings under paintings, and Lewis Gilbert.
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The Assassination of Gianni Versace, All Too Human exhibition, Debut novelist Mick Kitson
The Assassination of Gianni Versace, All Too Human, Girls on the run in new novel Sal.
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Red Sparrow, Adapting novels for the stage, Neanderthal art
The verdict on Jennifer Lawrence as a prima ballerina-turned-Russian spy in Red Sparrow.
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Tracey Thorn, Rival Biographers, Image Licensing, Stormzy
Tracey Thorn, rivalry between biographers, licensing museum images and Stormzy.
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Carey Mulligan, Spoiler Alert!, Mosaic and the Death of the Lead Guitar
Carey Mulligan, spoilers discussed, Mosaic and the death of the lead guitar.
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I, Tonya; Robin Cousins on the art of ice skating; Jess Kidd
I, Tonya reviewed, plus Robin Cousins considers the art and the sport of ice skating.
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Suffrage art and a celebration of female artists
To mark 100 years since women got the vote we look at suffrage art.
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Art in response to trauma: Louise Allen and Maude Julien
Writers of two memoirs on how art and literature served as a lifeline in very dark times.
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Ruth Wilson on Dark River, Cal McCrystal on ENO's Iolanthe, Creative Scotland funding decisions
Ruth Wilson on her latest big screen role in the psychological drama Dark River.
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Greta Gerwig, Opportunities for disabled actors, National Short Story Award
Greta Gerwig on her directorial debut film Lady Bird.
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The Shape of Water, Terracotta Warriors, Samira Ahmed, RuPaul's Drag Race
Samira Ahmed discusses Guillermo del Toro's Oscar-nominated film The Shape of Water.
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Bob Geldof on WB Yeats, The Fifty Shades phenomenon, Julian Rowlands & the Santiago Quartet
Musician Bob Geldof on A Fanatic Heart, his documentary about Irish poet WB Yeats.
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Chadwick Boseman, The Black Panther, Shakespeare for Children, Welsh Music - In Welsh
Chadwick Boseman, Black Super-heroes, Shakespeare for Children and Welsh Music - in Welsh.
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David Hare on Collateral, Carmen, John Burningham and Helen Oxenbury
Playwright David Hare on his latest TV drama series Collateral.
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Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz, Irish Women Writers, Vaseem Khan
Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz on their new film The Mercy.
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Mica Paris, Ethics of Arts Funding, Jim Crace
Mica Paris sings Ella Fitzgerald, the ethics of funding the arts, author Jim Crace.
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Mike Bartlett on Trauma, Cornelia Parker, Val McDermid
Mike Bartlett discusses his new TV drama Trauma, and election artist Cornelia Parker.
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Nicola Benedetti, Winchester, Reading Europe: Russia
Nicolas Benedetti on rewriting the cadenza of Beethoven's Violin Concerto.
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Simple Minds, Phantom Thread, Napoleon Disrobed, Alex La Guma
Scottish rock band Simple Minds perform live and discuss their 40-year career.
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Fiddler on the Roof lyricist, how musicals have evolved since 'Fiddler', Olafur Eliasson
Sheldon Harnick on his new musical, 50 years of musicals and artist Olafur Eliasson.
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James Graham on The Culture, Costa Book Prize winner announced, Ocean Liners
James Graham on his new play about Hull's year as City of Culture.
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Julius Caesar, the Grammys, Joe Dunthorne, architect Neave Brown
Nicholas Hytner on Julius Caesar, author Joe Dunthorne, social housing design.
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Turkish literature special from Istanbul featuring Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk
Kirsty Lang explores the literary scene in Istanbul including Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk.
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Paapa Essiedu, Rebecca Watts and Don Paterson, A J Finn
Actor Paapa Essiedu on Hamlet, poet Rebecca Watts' criticism of the poetry establishment.
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Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Ursula K Le Guin remembered, Charles I: King and Collector
Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Ursula K Le Guin remembered.
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Oscar Nominations 2018
The Oscar nominations for 2018 were announced on Monday, so who's in and who's out?