Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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Mel Giedroyc on new musicals showcase, Michael Morpurgo, Bad Santa 2, Penelope Lively
Mel Giedroyc, Gemma Wheelan & Maria Friedman showcase new musicals, writer Penelope Lively
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William Hill Sports Book of the Year, Rillington Place, Johnny Cash
William Finnegan, winner of Sports Book of the Year, and poet Paul Muldoon on Johnny Cash.
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Mark Rylance and Claire van Kampen on Nice Fish; Anselm Kiefer; Spike Lee's Chi-raq
Mark Rylance and Claire van Kampen on Nice Fish, Anselm Kiefer on Walhalla, Chi-raq review
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Adam Driver, Costa Book Awards shortlist announced, Gilmore Girls
Adam Driver; the Costa Book Awards shortlists are announced for the five categories.
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Zadie Smith, William Trevor, Lucy Kirkwood, Allied
William Trevor obituary, Zadie Smith on her latest novel and Lucy Kirkwood's new play.
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Ed Harris on stage, Jonathan Dove, Gavin Turk
Actor Ed Harris discusses bringing Sam Shepard's play Buried Child to the London stage.
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The Hepworth Prize, New Art Gallery Walsall, Indignation, Don Giovanni
Who's won the Hepworth Prize for Sculpture? The New Art Gallery Walsall closure.
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Paulo Coelho, Your Name, Turner Contemporary, The art of writing non-fiction
Author Paulo Coelho, Japanese anime film Your Name, Philippe Sands on non-fiction.
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Rosamund Pike & David Oyelowo on A United Kingdom, Van Gogh controversy, Cape Town City Ballet
David Oyelowo on A United Kingdom, and the controversy of Van Gogh's lost sketchbook.
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J K Rowling's Fantastic Beasts, Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols, French film Divines, Chris Riddell on school libraries
The filmmakers behind JK Rowling's screenwriting debut and Sex Pistol Steve Jones.
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Leonard Cohen, BalletBoyz, Contemporary war poetry
A rare interview with the singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, whose death was announced today
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Zadie Smith's NW, Rambert, Norman Ackroyd, War memorials
The TV adaptation of Zadie Smith's novel NW, and artist Norman Ackroyd in his studio.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ewan McGregor, Elton John's photos, Goldsmiths Prize winner
With Andrew Lloyd Webber on School of Rock, and actor and director Ewan McGregor.
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Musician Kathryn Tickell, Writer David Almond, Live Theatre
John Wilson explores the role of art in the regeneration of the north east of England.
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R.E.M., Illuminated River, Napoleon and Stephen Poliakoff
R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe and Mike Mills on the album Out of Time, 25 years after its release
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Michael Fassbender, Love to Read, The Goldfinch, Artists who tour
Actor Michael Fassbender on his new film, Neel Mukherjee reads Twain's Huckleberry Finn.
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Director Stephen Daldry on The Crown, Novelist Linda Grant, Nocturnal Animals, Francesca Simon reads The Scarlet Letter
Stephen Daldry on The Crown, novelist Linda Grant, Francesca Simon on The Scarlet Letter.
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Levi David Addai, Kit de Waal, Flaming June, The art of fireworks.
Our Loved Boy, Flaming June returns home, Kit de Waal's unread classic, fireworks as art.
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Amy Adams, John Rutter and Tracy Chevalier
Actress Amy Adams on sci-fi film Arrival and composer and conductor John Rutter.
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Sting, David Bowie's art collection, Mark Haddon, Ian McDiarmid and Chris Hannan
Sting on his new album; David Bowie's curator; Ian McDiarmid and Chris Hannan; Mark Haddon
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Benedict Cumberbatch, Tasmin Little, Elena Ferrante
Superhero film Doctor Strange, Tasmin Little on Vivaldi, Elena Ferrante's new book.
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Amadeus, Astrid Lindgren's war diaries, Richard Wright
Michael Longhurst and Lucian Msamati discuss their new NT production of Amadeus.
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Bryan Cranston, Lazarus, Oneworld, Remembering Howard Davies
Breaking Bad actor Bryan Cranston on his memoir, and Bowie's Lazarus on stage.
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Emma Rice to leave The Globe, plus Boyz n the Hood director John Singleton and the new Design Museum
Changes at Shakespeare's Globe, a new Design Museum, and Boyz n the Hood 25 years on.
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Jude Law, Paul Nash, The National Centre for the Written Word, New, but always old, ballet
Jude Law as pope; painter Paul Nash; The Word; do ballet stories always have to be old?
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Chrissie Hynde, The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture, Bamber Gascoigne, Joe Queenan
Chrissie Hynde on her new Pretenders album Alone, and The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture.
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Stella Duffy, New Art Gallery Walsall, Shostakovich's The Nose, Art of Yves Klein
Stella Duffy discusses her novel London Lies Beneath, and Yves Klein in Liverpool.
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Ali Smith, Osmo Vänskä, the Nicholas Brothers, Islamic Art & the Supernatural, A Martian Sends a Postcard ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½
Ali Smith discusses her Brexit-era novel, Autumn, with Samira Ahmed.
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Ken Loach, Rodin and Dance, Suggs, Tony Robinson
Ken Loach on I Daniel Blake; Rodin and Dance at the Courthauld; Suggs on new Madness album
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Phil Collins, Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke, Patrick Ness
Phil Collins discusses his new memoir, and poets Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke.