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Front Row reviews 1952

A Jubilee Special: Front Row reviews some of the cultural highlights of 1952.

• 42 mins

Africa Oyé, Queer Poetry, Maggie Shipstead

Music festival Africa Oyé; 100 Queer Poems, Maggie Shipstead, author of Great Circle.

• 42 mins

Ayanna Witter Johnson performs, Clement Ishmael, digital theatre

Ayanna Witter Johnson plays live, plus Clement Ishmael and digital theatre.

• 42 mins

Paula Rego Remembered, Cressida Cowell, Elif Shafak, Stones In His Pockets

Paula Rego’s life and work, Cressida Cowell, Elif Shafak's Women's Prize shortlisted book.

• 42 mins

Reviews of the film All My Friends Hate Me and the play Cancelling Socrates; the Women's Prize for Fiction nominee Ruth Ozeki

A review of British comedy-horror film All My Friends Hate Me, directed by Andrew Gaynord.

• 42 mins

George Ezra performs, TV drama Sherwood reviewed, Norway's National Museum opens

George Ezra performs tracks from his new album Gold Rush Kid.

• 42 mins

Theaster Gates, Lightyear, Dean Atta, Music Back Catalogues

Theaster Gates' new pavilion, Pixar's Lightyear, Kate Bush, Dean Atta's YA novel in verse.

• 42 mins

Freddie De Tommaso, Women’s Prize For Fiction Winner, John Byrne, Ukrainian Antiquities

Tenor Freddie De Tommaso; we announce the Women's Prize winner; John Byrne's retrospective

• 42 mins

Circle of Fifths, reviews of Good Luck to You, Leo Grande and The Lazarus Project

Gavin Porter on National Theatre Wales's live documentary performance Circle of Fifths.

• 42 mins

Baz Lurhmann on Elvis, new productions of Carmen and Tom, Dick and Harry

Baz Luhrmann on Elvis.

• 42 mins

Live music festivals; Roy Williams' play The Fellowship; The Horniman Museum

The post-pandemic challenges facing the festival sector as Glastonbury returns.

• 42 mins

Rowan Atkinson, Windrush Sculptures, Susanne Bier

Rowan Atkinson, Thomas J Price on his Windrush sculptures, director Susanne Bier.

• 42 mins

Reviews of the plays Rock, Paper, Scissors and documentary Studio Electrophonique, The People's History Museum, Michael Rosen

We review Rock, Paper, Scissors - three new plays marking 50 years of Sheffield Theatres.

• 42 mins

Stephen Beresford, A harp concerto about bees, James Graham, Peter Kosminsky

Playwright and BAFTA winning screenwriter Stephen Beresford on The Southbury Child.

• 42 mins

Arthur Hughes as Richard III, Literary Prizes, Dadaist Interventions

Arthur Hughes, the future of literary prizes, Dadaist interventions.

• 42 mins

In the Black Fantastic exhibition; Maya Youssef performs live; visual artist Colin Davidson's exhibition

Ekow Eshun on curating the exhibition In The Black Fantastic at the Hayward Gallery.

• 43 mins

All Our Yesterdays, Sun & Sea, Laura Veirs

Natalia Ginzburg's All Our Yesterdays, opera Sun & Sea, singer-songwriter Laura Veirs

• 42 mins

Peter Brook; Gone With The Wind; new children’s laureate Joseph Coelho

Peter Brook remembered, the new children's laureate, Gone With The Wind and the US today.

• 42 mins

Claudia Rankine, Derby's Museum of Making, Streamer Fatigue

Claudia Rankine on her play The White Card and Derby's Museum of Making

• 42 mins

New national poet of Wales, Lucian Freud show, The Royal Cornwall Museum, The Blue Woman opera

New national poet of Wales announced, Lucian Freud show, The Blue Woman opera premiere.

• 42 mins

The Story Museum, The Waste Land and Brian and Charles reviewed, Grand Theft Hamlet

The Waste Land, Brian and Charles reviewed, The Story Museum Oxford, Grand Theft Hamlet.

• 42 mins

Jack Absolute Flies Again, Joe Stilgoe, Cattelan / Druet

Jack Absolute Flies Again, Joe Stilgoe, Cattelan/Druet

• 42 mins

Hildur Guðnadóttir, National Plan for Music Education, Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

Oscar-winning Joker composer Hildur Guðnadóttir on her upcoming ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms concerts.

• 42 mins

Shakespeare North Playhouse, TÅ· Pawb in Wrexham, The Railway Children Return

Shakespeare North Playhouse opens in Prescot.

• 42 mins

Persuasion & Patriots reviewed, Durham Brass Festival, Museum of the Year winner

Luke Harding and Hanna Flint review Carrie Cracknell's adaptation of Persuasion.

• 41 mins

Kraftwerk's Karl Bartos, the Spooky Men’s Chorale, playwright Lucy Kirkwood

Life in Kraftwerk, the Spooky Men's Chorale perform, Lucy Kirkwood on Maryland for TV.

• 42 mins

Jean Paul Gaultier, Much Ado About Nothing, Music Tours

Jean Paul Gaultier's new show, Shakespeare's productions, and a report on music touring.

• 42 mins

Where The Crawdads Sing; On Sonorous Seas; Maison Margiela's Cinema Inferno

Crawdads director Olivia Newman; theatre on the runway; Hebridean artist Mhairi Killin.

• 42 mins

Notre-Dame On Fire and novel Milk Teeth reviewed; Jennifer Walshe performs live; writer Alan Grant remembered

A review of the film Notre-Dame On Fire, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud.

• 42 mins

Singer Bella Hardy, Poet Thomas Lynch, Birmingham 2022 Festival

Folk singer Bella Hardy performs; poet Thomas Lynch reads, art at the Commonwealth Games

• 42 mins