Front Row

by BBC Radio 4
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Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music

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Recent Episodes
  • Muriel's Wedding the Musical, Doctor Who new series & impact on culture, Anthony Hororwitz on Marble Hall Murders
    Apr 14, 2025 – 42:17
  • Review: The Return reunites Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes, On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle, Holy Cow film
    Apr 10, 2025 – 42:06
  • Tracy Chapman, the Arthur Miller moment in UK theatres, Rock Royalty
    Apr 9, 2025 – 42:03
  • Kym Marsh on Abigail's Party, Severance creator Dan Erickson, film franchises in flux
    Apr 8, 2025 – 42:38
  • Manhunt play by Robert Icke, new Edwardians exhibition, film director Waris Hussein
    Apr 7, 2025 – 42:44
  • Reviews of Mobland, The Most Precious of Cargoes and Giuseppe Penone exhibition
    Apr 3, 2025 – 42:27
  • Tilda Swinton, Michael Sheen on the new Welsh National Theatre, Richard Burton's influential teacher
    Apr 2, 2025 – 42:13
  • Black Mirror's Charlie Brooker, Design Council at 80, The Women of Llanrumney
    Apr 1, 2025 – 42:23
  • Freedom of Expression in the Arts
    Mar 31, 2025 – 42:24
  • Review: The Studio, Grayson Perry, La Cocina
    Mar 27, 2025 – 42:26
  • Peter Capaldi's new album, the great Ossian myth, Brian Friel's short stories
    Mar 26, 2025 – 42:09
  • Peter Mullan as Bill Shankly, 100 years of Art Deco, Jonathan Pie
    Mar 25, 2025 – 42:57
  • Bryan Ferry, Disney's Snow White, the impact of cash prizes on creativity
    Mar 24, 2025 – 42:21
  • Review: Clueless the Musical, Oscar winning animated film Flow, Robert de Niro in The Alto Knights. Plus poetry from Seán Hewitt
    Mar 20, 2025 – 42:32
  • Francois Ozon's new film When Autumn Falls, Pierre Boulez Centenary, Shona McCarthy on leaving Edinburgh Festival's Fringe
    Mar 19, 2025 – 42:00
  • Julian Barnes's new book Changing My Mind, Victor Hugo's artwork, Emma Donoghue's novel The Paris Express
    Mar 18, 2025 – 42:25
  • Vikingur Olafsson's lockdown piano performance, how the pandemic changed The Arts, Liz Pichon's interactive world of The Mubbles
    Mar 17, 2025 – 42:21
  • Review: Edvard Munch portraits, Indian film Sister Midnight, Chekhov's The Seagull with Cate Blanchett
    Mar 13, 2025 – 42:19
  • Former Orange Juice frontman Edwyn Collins performs, Torrey Peters' new book, centenary of Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay
    Mar 12, 2025 – 42:19
  • The Leopard, Natasha Brown, Manchester International Festival, Elizabeth Fritsch
    Mar 11, 2025 – 42:15
  • Jack Thorne and Philip Barantini on Adolescence, Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi
    Mar 10, 2025 – 42:20
  • Review: film Mickey 17, David Szalay’s novel Flesh, Get Millie Black TV series
    Mar 6, 2025 – 42:27
  • Jessica Lange, Welsh National Opera's new joint leaders, artist Alison Watt
    Mar 5, 2025 – 42:11
  • Raoul Peck on photographer Ernest Cole, the death of Bill Dare, 14th-century art in Siena, Colum McCann's novel Twist
    Mar 4, 2025 – 42:32
  • Daniel Evans as Edward II, Laura Carreira's film On Falling, last night's Oscar winners
    Mar 3, 2025 – 42:05
  • Review: Leigh Bowery exhibition, The Summer with Carmen film, Michael Amherst's novel The Boyhood of Cain
    Feb 27, 2025 – 42:26
  • Anjelica Huston, Tim Roth and British Museum Director Nicholas Cullinan
    Feb 26, 2025 – 41:59
  • New medical drama Berlin ER, Stacy L Smith, German Elections, Santanu Bhattacharya
    Feb 25, 2025 – 42:34
  • 25 Years of 21st Century: Theatre
    Feb 24, 2025 – 42:22
  • Review: A Thousand Blows, Richard II, Perspectives by Laurent Binet
    Feb 20, 2025 – 42:12
  • 25 Years of 21st Century: Art and Architecture
    Feb 19, 2025 – 42:05
  • Muhammad Ali in South Shields, Sheila Fell exhibition in Cumbria, Dame Myra Hess
    Feb 18, 2025 – 42:52
  • Walter Salles on I'm Still Here, Matt Goss performs live, The Face magazine exhibition at National Portrait Gallery
    Feb 17, 2025 – 42:19
  • Review: Bridget Jones; Linder Stirling exhibition; Memoir of a Snall animation
    Feb 13, 2025 – 42:21
  • Future of TV soaps, Joseph O'Connor's new book, stage version of Murakami short stories
    Feb 12, 2025 – 42:00
  • 25 Years of 21st Century: Books
    Feb 11, 2025 – 42:29
  • Robert de Niro, Gladiators exhibition, Festen: Mark Anthony Turnage and Lee Hall's new opera
    Feb 10, 2025 – 42:21
  • Review: The Last Showgirl, Oedipus, Nobel author Han Kang's novel We Do Not Part
    Feb 6, 2025 – 42:21
  • September 5 director Tim Fehlbaum, new Motherland spin-off TV series Amandaland, the history of Slapstick
    Feb 5, 2025 – 41:59
  • 25 Years of 21st Century: Film and Television
    Feb 4, 2025 – 41:56
  • Director Coralie Fargeat on The Substance, Josephine Baker's autobiography, poet Anne Carson on Elektra on stage
    Feb 4, 2025 – 42:30
  • Review: Mike Leigh's Hard Truths, Inside No. 9 on stage, film Saturday Night
    Jan 31, 2025 – 42:22
  • Jane Austen's sister, artist Chila Kumari Singh Burman, football in fiction
    Jan 28, 2025 – 42:22
  • 25 Years of 21st Century: Music
    Jan 27, 2025 – 42:22
  • Review: supernatural thriller film Presence, Edmund White's sex memoir and Brazil! Brazil! at the Royal Academy
    Jan 23, 2025 – 43:21
  • James Graham on Brian & Maggie, The Merchant of Venice, Live music from Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart
    Jan 22, 2025 – 42:23
  • Anora director Sean Baker, Caryl Phillips's new novel, Somerset House exhibition on Soil
    Jan 21, 2025 – 42:19
  • The Brutalist director Brady Corbet and star Adrien Brody, Sidney Poitier season at BFI
    Jan 20, 2025 – 42:21
  • Review: Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, TS Eliot prize poetry, Italian wartime film Vermiglio
    Jan 16, 2025 – 42:17
  • Franz Ferdinand play in the studio, Richard Price on his new novel Lazarus Man, verdict on BAFTA nominations
    Jan 15, 2025 – 42:41
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