Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Liverpool's Taylor Swift Art Trail, Les Dennis, the state of UK festivals
Tue 11 Jun 2024
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
Mon 10 Jun 2024
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
Thu 6 Jun 2024
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
Wed 5 Jun 2024
Christos Tsiolkas, Victoria Canal, Baillie Gifford festival sponsorship.
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Queenie, Female pirates, dating dramas
Tue 4 Jun 2024
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
Mon 3 Jun 2024
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
Thu 30 May 2024
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
Wed 29 May 2024
Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett, Degas exhibitions, Chigozie Obioma on his new novel.
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Bernard Butler, Kafka, Benedict Cumberbatch
Tue 28 May 2024
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
Mon 27 May 2024
Anthony Horowitz, Alex Wheatle, Manon Steffan Ros and Frances Hardinge.
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The Sympathizer, Ivor Novello Awards, Michelle Terry on Richard III
Thu 23 May 2024
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
Wed 22 May 2024
Vicky McClure on new TV thriller Insomnia, International Booker Prize, Lowry and the sea.
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Colm T贸ib铆n, Miranda Rutter & Rob Harbron, Iain Sinclair on John Deakin
Tue 21 May 2024
Colm T贸ib铆n's Long Island, Miranda Rutter & Rob Harbron, Iain Sinclair finds Deakin's Soho
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George Miller, Miranda July, Orchestral Qawwali Project
Mon 20 May 2024
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鈥檚 photos at V&A, animated/live action film If
Thu 16 May 2024
The Big Cigar, Elton John鈥檚 Fragile Beauty, film IF plus the Dylan Thomas Prize winner.
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John Cleese's Fawlty Towers on stage, Beatrice Harrison, Cannes
Wed 15 May 2024
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
Tue 14 May 2024
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
Mon 13 May 2024
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
Thu 9 May 2024
Boyd Hilton and Jo Hamya review.
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Sir Stephen Hough, Arab Strap, can authors make money?
Wed 8 May 2024
Pianist and composer Stephen Hough, the future of publishing, Scottish band Arab Strap.
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Party Games play, 200 years of Beethoven鈥檚 9th, literary editing
Tue 7 May 2024
200 years of Beethoven鈥檚 Symphony No 9, a political comedy and the art of literary editing
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Sir Alan Ayckbourn, Jeremy Deller, Scarborough Spa Orchestra
Mon 6 May 2024
Scarborough Bank Holiday Special.
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Marc Quinn at Kew, The Fall Guy,
Thu 2 May 2024
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
Wed 1 May 2024
Antonia Quirke talks to John Caird and Maoko Imai about adapting Spirited Away for stage.
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Michelangelo exhibition at British Museum, Jembaa Groove perform, Inside Number 9
Tue 30 Apr 2024
Michelangelo: the last decades, Reece Shearsmith and Jembaa Groove.
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Hanif Kureishi, Ingrid Persaud, Arts Council funding
Mon 29 Apr 2024
As a stage version of the Buddha of Suburbia opens at the RSC, we talk to Hanif Kureishi.
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Pet Shop Boys, review of Challengers film and Expressionists exhibiition
Thu 25 Apr 2024
Pet Shop Boys new album, Zendaya's film Challengers, Expressionists at Tate Modern.
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The Legend of Ned Ludd, Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, Mohammad Barrangi
Wed 24 Apr 2024
The Legend of Ned Ludd, Women's Fiction Prize shortlist, Degas and Monet at The Walker.
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Women and Shakespeare, best beach reads, Black British music exhibition
Tue 23 Apr 2024
Women and Shakespeare, best beach reads, black British music exhibition
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Designer Sir Kenneth Grange, Taylor Swift's new album, Venice Art Biennale
Mon 22 Apr 2024
Taylor Swift's new album reviewed, designer Sir Kenneth Grange, the Venice Biennale
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