Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
Episodes to download
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Steven Knight on Great Expectations, After Impressionism at the National Gallery
Thu 23 Mar 2023
Steven Knight on Great Expectations, the After Impressionism exhibition reviewed.
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Touchstones Rochdale art gallery's radical 80s history, James Shapiro on Shakespeare
Wed 22 Mar 2023
The radical history of Rochdale Art Gallery in the 1980s.
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Danny Lee Wynter and play Black Superhero; badly behaved theatre audiences; violinist Pekka Kuusisto
Tue 21 Mar 2023
Danny Lee Wynter on his play; Pekka Kuusisto plays live; theatre audience etiquette.
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Lisa O’Neill performs live, Dance of Death from the National Theatre of Norway
Mon 20 Mar 2023
Lisa O'Neill performs live, Dance of Death from the National Theatre of Norway, FESPACO.
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Richard Eyre on his film Allelujah, and climate change TV drama Extrapolations reviewed
Thu 16 Mar 2023
Richard Eyre on his film Allelujah, TV series Extrapolations, southern US black artists.
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Scottish-Iranian film Winners, playwright Calum L MacLeΓ²id, neurodiversity and creativity
Wed 15 Mar 2023
Scottish-Iranian film Winners, playwright Calum L MacLeΓ²id, neurodiversity and creativity.
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Diversity at the Oscars and Baftas; plays and the cost of living; children's books; Phyllida Barlow
Tue 14 Mar 2023
After the Oscars and Baftas, Tom discusses diversity at awards and in the film industry.
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Author Percival Everett, director Pravesh Kumar on Little English
Mon 13 Mar 2023
Percival Everett's novel Dr No; Pravesh Kumar on film Little English; Yeats & smartphones.
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Film My Sailor, My Love; Atwood’s Old Babes In The Wood; Baillie Gifford prize; Nicole Flattery
Thu 9 Mar 2023
Reviews of My Sailor My Love and Margaret Atwood’s new collection; Baillie Gifford winners
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Pioneering play Top Girls turns 40, do publishers owe a duty of care to memoirists? and the benefits of stopping the show
Wed 8 Mar 2023
Pioneering play Top Girls turns 40, and do publishers have a duty of care to memoirists?
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Daniel Mays on a new production of Guys and Dolls, and how accessible are venues and film sets for performers?
Tue 7 Mar 2023
Daniel Mays in Guys and Dolls, making film and TV sets more accessible for performers.
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Steven Moffat and Lucy Caldwell on writing about the Hadron Collider
Mon 6 Mar 2023
Steven Moffat and Lucy Caldwell on writing short stories inspired by the science of Cern.
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Daisy Jones & The Six on TV. Lukas Dhont’s film Close. Edmund De Waal on potter Lucie Rie
Thu 2 Mar 2023
Reviews of Daisy Jones And The Six and Close, plus ceramicist Edmund de Waal on Lucie Rie.
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Barry Male Voice Choir, new play Romeo and Julie, WNO’s Blaze of Glory and Welsh culture minister Dawn Boden
Wed 1 Mar 2023
Barry Male Voice Choir, WNO’s Blaze of Glory and Welsh culture minister Dawn Boden.
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Tracy-Ann Oberman, Director Michael B Jordan, Oldham Coliseum
Tue 28 Feb 2023
Tracy-Ann Oberman on playing Shylock, Creed III's Michael B Jordan, and theatre funds.
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Conductor Antonio Pappano on Puccini’s Turandot and the Ukrainian cabaret artists performing in exile
Mon 27 Feb 2023
Antonio Pappano on Turandot, and the Ukrainian cabaret artists performing in exile.
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Immersive David Hockney art and Korean film Broker reviewed; artist Mike Nelson; AI-generated writing
Thu 23 Feb 2023
Immersive Hockney art, Korean film Broker, installation artist Mike Nelson, AI writing.
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New film The Strays, artists Chila Kumari Singh Burman and Dawinder Bansal, Janet Malcolm’s photography memoir
Wed 22 Feb 2023
New film The Strays and artists Chila Kumari Singh Burman and Dawinder Bansal.
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Michael Douglas, culture in Ukraine a year after invasion, visual effects and animation in the UK
Tue 21 Feb 2023
Oscar-winner Michael Douglas talks about his new film, Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania.
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Hugh Jackman, Kevin Jared Hosein, the future of opera
Mon 20 Feb 2023
Hugh Jackman, Kevin Jared Hosein, the future of opera.
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Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, Alice Neel, Spitting Image
Thu 16 Feb 2023
Animation Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, Alice Neel's art, Al Murray on Spitting Image
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Asif Kapadia's dance film Creature; the Barbellion Book Prize winner; South Asian and South East Asian galleries in Manchester
Wed 15 Feb 2023
Director Asif Kapadia on collaborating with choreographer Akram Khan on the film Creature
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Tracy Chevalier on Vermeer exhibition; live v streaming theatre audiences; American poet A. E. Stallings; The King's Singers
Tue 14 Feb 2023
Author Tracy Chevalier on the major Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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Kate Prince on her suffragette musical, the art of casting, set design at the Brits.
Mon 13 Feb 2023
Kate Prince on her suffragette musical, the art of casting, set design at the Brits.
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Georgia Oakley director of Blue Jean, Burt Bacharach obituary, Salman Rushdie's Victory City and Peter Doig exhibition reviewed
Thu 9 Feb 2023
Georgia Oakley on her film Blue Jean about the impact of Section 28 on a teacher and pupil
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The Reytons, film-maker Saim Sadiq, The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Wed 8 Feb 2023
The Reytons on making a number 1 album, film-maker Saim Sadiq, The Beekeeper of Aleppo.
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Les Dennis and Mina Anwar, writer Tania Branigan, Kerry Shale on Yentl
Tue 7 Feb 2023
Les Dennis and Mina Anwar, writer Tania Branigan, and Kerry Shale on Yentl.
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Costume designer Sandy Powell, playwright Chris Bush, Donatello sculptures at the V&A
Mon 6 Feb 2023
Costume designer Sandy Powell, playwright Chris Bush, Donatello sculptures at the V&A.
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TV drama Nolly and film The Whale reviewed, director M Night Shyamalan
Thu 2 Feb 2023
A review of Nolly starring Helena Bonham Carter and written by Russell T Davies.
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Sonia Boyce, The Quiet Girl, Theatre Freelance Pay, Oldham Coliseum
Wed 1 Feb 2023
Sonia Boyce's Venice Biennale show, The Quiet Girl, Theatre pay discussed, Oldham Coliseum
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