Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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The Bette Davis/Joan Crawford Feud, The Twilight Zone, A Snow Poem
The Bette Davis/Joan Crawford Feud series, The Twilight Zone on stage and a snow poem.
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Vanessa Redgrave, Imperium, French African artefacts, Sally Rooney
Vanessa Redgrave looks back over her long and varied career, and Imperium at the RSC.
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Christopher Nolan, Guys and Dolls, City of Culture 2021
Christopher Nolan, director of Inception and The Dark Knight, looks back at his career.
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Jonathan Yeo, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Designing awards
Portrait painter Jonathan Yeo makes his first sculpture using virtual reality.
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Claire Foy, Bryan Hymel, Film Heritage
Claire Foy on playing the Queen in The Crown.
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Stronger, Shashi Kapoor, Douglas Henshall, Tokio Myers
Jake Gyllenhaal in Stronger, the true story of a victim of the Boston Marathon bombing.
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Cecilia Bartoli, The Face, Louis CK film
Cecilia Bartoli and Sol Gabetta on their album intertwining voice and cello, Dolce Duello.
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Sir Michael Parkinson, Wonder, A Christmas Carol
Michael Parkinson's American Songbook, review of Wonder, adaptations of A Christmas Carol.
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Amy Sherman-Palladino, Hollywood Film Awards Season, Costume Workers
Screenwriter Amy Sherman-Palladino on her new TV comedy drama, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
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Chinese characters on TV, Actor James Franco, Sports Book of the Year
James Franco on new film The Disaster Artist about 'the Citizen Kane of bad films'.
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Joyce DiDonato, European Capital of Culture, Puppets in theatre
Soprano Joyce DiDonato on tackling the vocal pyrotechnics of Rossini.
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Benjamin Clementine performs live
Benjamin Clementine, Oscar Wilde's Women, and David LaChapelle.
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Inua Ellams on Barber Shop Chronicles, Battle of the Sexes, Charles Causley, Godless
Inua Ellams on his play Barber Shop Chronicles. Plus a review of TV drama Godless.
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James Bolam on Rodney Bewes, Gilbert & George, Marnie the opera
Actor James Bolam talks about his Likely Lads co-star, Rodney Bewes, who died yesterday.
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Modigliani, Costa Book Awards shortlists, John Lithgow
The announcement of the Costa Book Awards shortlists and Modigliani reviewed.
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Cate Blanchett, Priscilla Presley, Arts Manifestos
Priscilla Presley on forty years of looking after Elvis's legacy, plus Cate Blanchett.
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Fenella Fielding, Gluck, Mona Arshi, Call of Duty
Fenella Fielding, 90, recalls her famous, steamy Carry On moment, and playing Hedda Gabler
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Noel Gallagher, Poets in Zimbabwe, Surrealism in Egypt
Noel Gallagher discusses his new album.
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Robert Pattinson, Ian McMillan, the voice behind the puppet, Goldsmiths Prize winner
Robert Pattinson, Ian McMillan, the voices behind the puppets, Goldsmith Prize winner.
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Dee Rees, Pussy Riot, Theatre governance
Dee Rees on her film, Mudbound, which explores the racial divide in 1940s Mississippi.
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Annette Bening, Music managers, Drama podcast review
Annette Bening discusses Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, co-starring Jamie Bell.
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Sheridan Smith, Fred D'Aguiar, Maxine Peake play, UNESCO Creative Cities
Sheridan Smith on her first solo album.
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Christian Slater and Sam Yates, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, Ivor Wood
Christian Slater and Sam Yates on Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, Animator Ivor Wood's legacy
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Hugh Grant, Stephen Fry, Hollywood and homosexuality
Hugh Grant on how his early stage career equipped him to play the villain in Paddington 2.
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Toby Jones, Mackenzie Crook, Film director Yorgos Lanthimos, The Louvre in Abu Dhabi
Toby Jones, Mackenzie Crook, the Louvre in Abu Dhabi, plus film director Yorgos Lanthimos.
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Kenneth Lonergan on Howards End, The Florida Project, Artists as curators
Kenneth Lonergan on his adaptation of EM Forster's Howards End.
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Modern fairytales with Joanne Harris and Jonathan Coe; Call Me by Your Name; Catalonian culture
Writers Joanne Harris and Jonathan Coe on their latest work; Film director Luca Guadagnino
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Kenneth Branagh, Keeping TV secrets, Josie Lawrence, Parents in film
Kenneth Branagh is Poirot; Josie Lawrence is Mother Courage; Keeping TV secrets.
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Tracey Emin, Minette Walters, Gauguin biopic
Artist Tracey Emin, author Minette Walters, and a film about French painter Paul Gauguin.
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Lisette Oropesa, Richard Flanagan, Kate MccGwire
Opera singer Lisette Oropesa, novelist Richard Flanagan, artist Kate MccGwire.