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Front Row Episodes

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    Irvine Welsh's Performers, Bookshop economics, England Is Mine, CN Lester on Stone Butch Blues

    Irvine Welsh, Bookshop economics, Morrissey's early years and CN Lester's Queer Icon.

  2. Stockard Channing, Matisse in the Studio, Thomas Ades, representations of war

    Actor Stockard Channing on her new stage role, feminism and the enduring power of Grease.

  3. Emergency services on screen; plus Sally Hawkins, Josette Bushell-Mingo, and Damian Barr

    Emergency services on screen; plus Sally Hawkins, Josette Bushell-Mingo, and Damian Barr.

  4. Writer Bernard MacLaverty, Nicholas Hytner's Queer Icon, Riding the Mail Rail

    Nicholas Hytner's Queer Icon, writer Bernard MacLaverty, riding the Mail Rail.

  5. David Walliams, Jeanne Moreau and Sam Shepard remembered, Zinzi Clemmons, Jukebox musicals

    David Walliams on Gangsta Granny, and Jeanne Moreau and Sam Shepard remembered.

  6. Mary Portas' Queer Icon, Michael Symmons Roberts, Howard's End, Susie Dent

    Susie Dent on how the arts have entered the English language.

  7. Patrick Gale's Man in an Orange Shirt, Olly Alexander's Queer Icon, Man Booker Prize longlist, Mercury Prize shortlist

    Patrick Gale, Olly Alexander, Man Booker Prize longlist, Mercury Prize shortlist.

  8. Horror on film; Crime writer Kathy Reichs; Actors who become artistic directors; LGBT youtuber Ben Hunte's Queer Icon

    Frightening films, crime writer Kathy Reichs and actors-turned-artistic directors.

  9. Daniel Mays, Girls Trip, Asifa Lahore's Queer Icon, Young Poets competition

    Actor Daniel Mays on playing gay rights campaigner Peter Wildeblood.

  10. Jack O'Connell; Emma Donoghue's Queer Icon; Diana, Our Mother; Jules Buckley

    Actor Jack O'Connell on playing Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on the West End stage.

  11. Jane Campion and Alice Englert, Chris Smith's Queer Icon, Lucy Kirkwood, Love Island

    Jane Campion on Top of the Lake, Chris Smith's Queer Icon, Lucy Kirkwood, and Love Island.

  12. Artist Richard Long, Stella Duffy chooses her Queer Icon, Daljit Nagra on Liu Xiaobo

    Richard Long, Stella Duffy's Queer Icon, Daljit Nagra on Liu Xiaobo, the value of art.

  13. Mark Rylance on Dunkirk, Game of Thrones, best summer reads

    Mark Rylance discusses his role in Christopher Nolan's new film Dunkirk.

  14. Jodie Whittaker, Nicola Barker, Jason Bateman - plus Tony Kushner's Queer Icon

    Arts news, interviews and reviews, presented by Samira Ahmed.

  15. Handel Water Music at 300 celebration; Grace Evangeline Mason

    Front Row is live from a boat on the Thames on the tricentennial of Handel's Water Music.

  16. Sofia Coppola on The Beguiled, Neil McGregor, Plywood, Children's Poetry prizewinner

    Sofia Coppola on The Beguiled, Neil McGregor's Queer Icon, the virtues of Plywood.

  17. Whales vs dinosaurs in art; A.Dot; Nick Laird; Igor Levit

    We debate whether dinosaurs or whales have inspired the best art.

  18. Alan Carr's Queer Icon, New Tate boss Maria Balshaw, The role of the understudy, The Sunbathers on The Southbank

    New Tate boss Maria Balshaw, Alan Carr's Queer Icon and The Sunbathers on the Southbank.

  19. War for Planet of the Apes, Alan Hollinghurst's Queer Icon, Soul of a Nation exhibition

    War for Planet of the Apes; Alan Hollinghurst on his Queer Icon; Soul of a Nation at Tate.

  20. Shirley MacLaine, Bolshoi Ballet, Paris Lees' Queer Icon, baritone and composer Roderick Williams

    Shirley MacLaine looks back on her career.

  21. Sarah Hall, Antony Sher, Fatherhood, Beethoven's 9th Symphony

    Sarah Hall, Antony Sher's Queer Icon, Fatherhood, Beethoven's 9th Symphony.

  22. Tarell Alvin McCraney's Queer Icon; Romola Garai and Helen Edmundson on Queen Anne; Jamaica's Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison

    Oscar-winning writer Tarell Alvin McCraney; Helen Edmundson on the overlooked Queen Anne.

  23. Christine and the Queens' Queer Icon; Spider-Man: 蜜芽传媒coming; Acting Guilty; Museum of the Year - 5th contender

    Christine & the Queens, Spider-Man: 蜜芽传媒coming, acting guilty and Lapworth Museum.

  24. Sam Taylor-Johnson, Will Young, Stage and screen violence, Museum of the Year finalist

    Sam Taylor-Johnson on Gypsy; singer Will Young's Queer Icons choice.

  25. The launch of Queer Icons; Maggi Hambling; Nitin Sawhney; Museum of the Year finalist

    Artist Maggi Hambling launches Front Row's new Queer Icons series.

  26. Newmarket's Museum of the Year, Committee Musical, Fair Field - Piers Plowman re-imagined, Ebb and Flow

    Committee Musical, Fair Field - Piers Plowman re-imagined, Museum of the Year, Ebb and Flo

  27. Manchester International Festival, Poet turned novelist Kenneth Steven, Museum of the Year nominee Hepworth Wakefield

    Manchester International Festival launch with Jeremy Deller.

  28. V&A Exhibition Road Quarter, Assange documentary Risk, Anthony Cartwright's Brexit novel

    Architect Amanda Levete and V&A director Tristram Hunt on the museum's 拢40m new project.

  29. Ian Rankin, Photographer Gregory Crewdson, National Rural Touring Awards

    Ian Rankin on Rebus, American photographer Gregory Crewdson, National Rural Touring Awards

  30. Baby Driver, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Scaffold art controversy, Alba Arikha

    Edgar Wright, director of Baby Driver; Julie Hesmondhalgh; Alba Arikha.

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