Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
Episodes to download
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Nish Kumar, Miriam Margolyes, Rose Matafeo, Teenage Fanclub
Tue 13 Aug 2024
Kirsty Wark presents Front Row live from the Edinburgh Festival.
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Emily Tesh and the Hugo Awards; Dating shows; Kelly Jones
Mon 12 Aug 2024
Emily Tesh on her Hugo Award winning book, Some Desperate Glory.
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Pericles, Babes, Michael Longley
Thu 8 Aug 2024
Pericles, Babes and Michael Longley's poetry collection reviewed.
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Sky Peals film, documentary Doom Scroll, & could a book written 100 years ago be the ultimate millennial read?
Wed 7 Aug 2024
Jazz age novel, Ex-Wife - have we rediscovered a classic?
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Joan Baez, Shakespeare in British Sign Language, Charlotte Mendelson
Tue 6 Aug 2024
Joan Baez on her poems inspired by her multiple personality disorder.
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Kensuke Kingdom, best Young Adult Fiction reads, do film trailers reveal too much?
Mon 5 Aug 2024
Animation Kinsuke's Kingdom, Young Adult fiction, movie trailers, Christopher Hall.
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Didi and Echoes by Evie Wyld reviewed; Benjamin Grosvenor performs Busoni
Thu 1 Aug 2024
Reviews of the film Didi and book Echoes, and Benjamin Grosvenor plays live.
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Dramatizing MPs, Jon Savage on LGBTQ and music, Stirling Prize shortlist, Screenwriters v AI
Wed 31 Jul 2024
Dramatizing MPs, Jon Savage on LGBTQ and music, Stirling Prize, Screenwriters v AI.
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Deadpool v Wolverine, Cherry Jones, Leyla McCalla
Tue 30 Jul 2024
Cherry Jones on staging John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.
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Deadpool & Wolverine, Cherry Jones, Leyla McCalla
Tue 30 Jul 2024
Cherry Jones on staging John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath today
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James Baldwin Centenary Special
Mon 29 Jul 2024
Colm Toibin, Bonnie Greer and Mendez celebrate the life and work of writer James Baldwin.
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Review: theatre: Hello Dolly; TV: The Decameron; film: About Dry Grasses
Thu 25 Jul 2024
Tom Sutcliffe and guests review the week's cultural highlights.
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Keanu Reeves & China Mi茅ville, The Cultural Olympiad in Paris, Making in Blackburn
Wed 24 Jul 2024
The actor and author on their new sci-fi book, and the Cultural Olympiad in Paris.
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Arts Sponsorship in Crisis?
Tue 23 Jul 2024
Samira Ahmed looks at the perilous situation facing arts sponsorship in the UK.
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Fangirls musical, countertenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski, Sam West
Mon 22 Jul 2024
Tom talks to the creators of the hit new musical Fangirls.
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Review: TV: Those About To Die, Film: Thelma, Theatre: ECHO
Thu 18 Jul 2024
Review Show: Those About to Die TV series, the film Thelma and play Echo.
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Danny Dyer and Pete Bellotte on his hits for Donna Summer
Wed 17 Jul 2024
The cultural impact of the Olympics in Paris 1924 and a look at new series Mr Bigstuff.
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Disco Prom, fast-food themed immersive art, arts funding crisis in Wales, Bill Viola remembered
Tue 16 Jul 2024
Disco at the Proms, Sweet Dreams in Manchester, arts funding crisis in Wales, Bill Viola.
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Anne-Marie Duff, Al Murray, Melvyn Hayes, Billboard art
Mon 15 Jul 2024
Anne-Marie Duff, World War 2 on Film, Melvyn Hayes, Billboard art.
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Review Show: Theatre: Slave Play, Film: Fly Me To The Moon, TV: Sunny
Thu 11 Jul 2024
Film Fly me to the Moon, TV show Sunny and Slave Play are reviewed.
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Museum of the Year winner announced
Wed 10 Jul 2024
Breaking as an Olympic sport, Museum of the Year winner, playwright Mark Ravenhill.
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Chariots of Fire staged, Pompidou Centre redeveloped, My Native Land republished
Tue 9 Jul 2024
Chariots of Fire on stage, the Pompidou Centre redeveloped, and My Native Land republished
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Laurie Anderson's album Amelia, what's in the new Culture Secretary's in-tray?
Mon 8 Jul 2024
Laurie Anderson on Amelia Earhart and Julie Hesmondhalgh on saving the Oldham Coliseum.
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Review: Starlight Express, Anita Desai's book Rosarita, film: The Nature of Love
Thu 4 Jul 2024
Reviews of Starlight Express, Rosarita by Anita Desai and rom-com The Nature of Love.
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Poet Paul Muldoon, film Unicorns and writer Stefan Zweig.
Wed 3 Jul 2024
Unicorns film directors Sally El Hosaini and James Krishna Floyd.
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The Bear, Moonchild Sanelly, Dundee Contemporary Gallery
Tue 2 Jul 2024
Ebon Moss-Bacharach on The Bear, Moonchild Sanelly performs live, new Children's Laureate.
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Lynda la Plante, AI and copyright, funding literary festivals
Mon 1 Jul 2024
Lynda la Plante discusses her final Jane Tennison novel.
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Reviews - Douglas is Cancelled, Ronald Moody Sculptures, The Importance of Being Earnest
Thu 27 Jun 2024
Reviews of Douglas is Cancelled, Ronald Moody sculptures, The Importance of Being Earnest.
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Next to Normal, British TV history, In the Eye of the Storm
Wed 26 Jun 2024
Musical star Caissie Levy, Modernism in Ukraine exhibition and key moments in TV history.
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The Marilyn Conspiracy, Rachel Podger, Emma Glass
Tue 25 Jun 2024
Rachel Podger plays live, a new play about Marilyn Monroe, Emma Glass's novel Mrs Jekyll.
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