Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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Review: Film Green Border, Exhibition Stories of Henry VIII's Queens, TV: Federer: Twelve Final Days. Plus Joseph Coelho
Six Lives exhibition, Asif Kapadia’s Federer, Yoto Carnegie Medal winner Joseph Coelho.
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Graham Gouldman, Jaws anniversary, queering Shakespeare
Graham Gouldman performs, Jaws at 50 and queering Shakespeare with Will Tosh.
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Stephen Fry, New Comedians, Questlove
Stephen Fry on new film Treasure, new stand-ups discussion, Questlove on Hip-Hop history.
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Kiss Me Kate, UK election: culture policies, Persephone Books
Stephanie J Block sings from Kiss Me Kate, UK election: culture policies, Persephone Books
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Review of films Sasquatch Sunset and Ama Gloria and a look at Vivienne Westwood's clothes
The Women's Prize for fiction and non fiction and the Walter Scott prize announced.
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James Shapiro, BEKA, Molly Bloomsday
Groundbreaking 1930s US theatre, live music from BEKA, and an all-women festival.
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Liverpool's Taylor Swift Art Trail, Les Dennis, the state of UK festivals
Taylor Swift art trail, Les Dennis in Twelfth Night, independent festivals at risk?
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Jon Bon Jovi, Clare Pollard & Marina Warner, Viggo Mortensen and Vikki Krieps
Jon Bon JovI, Clare Pollard and Marina Warner, The Dead Don't Hurt
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Review: Film - Rosalie, TV - Becoming Karl Lagerfeld, Book - The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
A wild west love story, the world of Paris fashion, and an unconventional marriage.
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Christos Tsiolkas, Victoria Canal, Baillie Gifford festival sponsorship
Christos Tsiolkas, Victoria Canal, Baillie Gifford festival sponsorship.
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Queenie, Female pirates, dating dramas
Candice Carty-Williams, portraying modern dating on stage, and female pirates in fiction.
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Richard Linklater, Ultimate 90s Bollywood Song, Esther Swift
The director on his new film, Hit Man, and the Scottish harpist plays live.
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Review: The Beast, We Are Lady Parts, Beyond Fashion exhibition
Samira Ahmed and guests review some of this week's TV and film releases.
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Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett, Degas exhibitions, Chigozie Obioma
Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett, Degas exhibitions, Chigozie Obioma on his new novel.
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Bernard Butler, Kafka, Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch's new TV drama, Bernard Butler's solo album and a Kafka exhibition.
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Hay Festival 2024 - Young Adult Fiction
Anthony Horowitz, Alex Wheatle, Manon Steffan Ros and Frances Hardinge.
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The Sympathizer, Ivor Novello Awards, Michelle Terry on Richard III
The Sympathizer, Michelle Terry on her Richard III, and the Ivor Novello Awards.
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Vicky McClure, LS Lowry and the sea, International Booker Prize 2024
Vicky McClure on new TV thriller Insomnia, International Booker Prize, Lowry and the sea.
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Colm TΓ³ibΓn, Miranda Rutter & Rob Harbron, Iain Sinclair on John Deakin
Colm TΓ³ibΓn's Long Island, Miranda Rutter & Rob Harbron, Iain Sinclair finds Deakin's Soho
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George Miller, Miranda July, Orchestral Qawwali Project
Mad Max director George Miller and the visual artist and film-maker Miranda July.
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Review: Big Cigar on AppleTV, Elton John’s photos at V&A, animated/live action film If
The Big Cigar, Elton John’s Fragile Beauty, film IF plus the Dylan Thomas Prize winner.
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John Cleese's Fawlty Towers on stage, Beatrice Harrison, Cannes
John Cleese talks to Tom Sutcliffe about adapting his classic sitcom for the stage.
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Withnail and I on stage, Women & Art at Tate Britain, Alan Murrin
Withnail and I on stage, 400 years of women in art, Alan Murrin on Ireland before divorce
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Damian Barr on Maggie & Me, Italian neorealist film, A.I. and Fake Art
Maggie & Me adapted for stage and how A.I. is tackling fake art online.
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La Chimera, Bodkin, a new novel called Great Expectations reviewed
Boyd Hilton and Jo Hamya review.
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Sir Stephen Hough, Arab Strap, can authors make money?
Pianist and composer Stephen Hough, the future of publishing, Scottish band Arab Strap.
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Party Games play, 200 years of Beethoven’s 9th, literary editing
200 years of Beethoven’s Symphony No 9, a political comedy and the art of literary editing
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Sir Alan Ayckbourn, Jeremy Deller, Scarborough Spa Orchestra
Scarborough Bank Holiday Special.
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Marc Quinn at Kew, The Fall Guy,
Naomi Alderman and Jason Solomons join Tom Sutcliffe to review this week's highlights.
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Spirited Away at London Coliseum, Eurovision build-up, terminal diagnosis films
Antonia Quirke talks to John Caird and Maoko Imai about adapting Spirited Away for stage.