Front Row
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Review Show: The Smashing Machine film and Ben Elton’s autobiography
42 mins; October 02, 2025
Steve Coogan on the return of Alan Partridge
42 mins; October 01, 2025
BBC National Short Story Award and Young Writers Award
42 mins; September 30, 2025
Actors Matthew McConaughey and Harris Dickinson on their latest films
42 mins; September 29, 2025
Leonardo DiCaprio comes on Front Row to talk about One Battle After Another
42 mins; September 25, 2025
Will & Grace star Eric McCormack on his latest TV role.
42 mins; September 24, 2025
Stephen Knight on House of Guinness
42 mins; September 23, 2025
Late-night shows under fire
42 mins; September 22, 2025
Front Row at the Contains Strong Language festival in Bradford
42 mins; September 18, 2025
Review Show: Ian McEwan's new novel and Small Acts of Love at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre
41 mins; September 17, 2025
Robert Redford remembered, Mark Ronson and Picasso on stage
42 mins; September 16, 2025
Robert Plant discusses Zeppelin and folk music
42 mins; September 15, 2025
Review Show: David Bowie Centre and the BBC National Short Story Award Shortlist
42 mins; September 11, 2025
The Grand Finale of Downton Abbey
42 mins; September 10, 2025
Marks and Gran on Freud and Hitler, Jeneba Kanneh-Mason performance, Medea on stage and screen
42 mins; September 09, 2025
Maxine Peake on Mary Whitehouse, West End star Marisha Wallace
42 mins; September 08, 2025
Review Show: CMAT's new album, The Office spin-off series The Paper, Jacob Elordi in On Swift Horses
42 mins; September 04, 2025
Bryan Adams’ new album, plus writer Damian Barr
42 mins; September 04, 2025
Aaron Sorkin on adapting Harper Lee's novel To Kill Aa Mockingbird for the stage
42 mins; September 02, 2025
Sebastian Faulks' memoir
42 mins; September 01, 2025
Review: Historical TV epic King and Conqueror, and Boudicca's Daughter by Elodie Harper
42 mins; August 21, 2025
Indigenous Australian didgeridoo virtuoso William Barton performs live
42 mins; August 20, 2025
Tom Hiddleston on becoming a dancing accountant in new Stephen King film, The Life of Chuck
42 mins; August 19, 2025
18/08/2025
42 mins; August 18, 2025
Review show: Brigadoon at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
42 mins; August 14, 2025
Our critics' guide to the best theatre at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
42 mins; August 13, 2025
Norwich Castle reopening, plus director Adrian Noble
42 mins; August 12, 2025
Peter Sellers at 100
42 mins; August 11, 2025
Review Show: Rom-Com Materialists and sci-fi drama Alien: Earth
42 mins; August 07, 2025
Special edition from the Edinburgh Festivals with guests including Emmy and Olivier Award-winning actor Brian Cox
42 mins; August 06, 2025
Sean Hayes, from Will & Grace, on his Tony Award-winning stage show Good Night, Oscar
42 mins; August 05, 2025
Freakier Friday
42 mins; August 04, 2025
Review Show: The Naked Gun, Madonna, Paul Weller, The Assassin
42 mins; July 31, 2025
Artist Andy Goldsworthy on his five-decade retrospective exhibition.
42 mins; July 30, 2025
Motherland writer Helen Serafinowicz on making her debut as a playwright with a Liverpool legend
42 mins; July 29, 2025
Tom Lehrer remembered, plus Nick Drake's unreleased songs
42 mins; July 28, 2025
Review Show: Burlesque the Musical
42 mins; July 24, 2025
Prison-themed stage productions, Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne and the composer Bruckner's fascination with death masks
42 mins; July 23, 2025
Has Marvel cracked the superhero reboot?
42 mins; July 22, 2025
Mark Gatiss on Bookish
42 mins; July 21, 2025
Review: The Narrow Road to the Deep North TV Series
42 mins; July 17, 2025
How Scandinavian design has influenced our homes
42 mins; July 16, 2025
Football and Art - united in a new work created by former footballer Edgar Davids and artist Paul Pfeiffer
42 mins; July 15, 2025
Gruelling film productions - stories from the sets of Apocalypse now and Fitzcarraldo
42 mins; July 14, 2025
Review Show: Wet Leg's new album and Johnny Depp's artist biopic Modigliani
42 mins; July 10, 2025
Kat Sadler, creator of BAFTA-winning sitcom Such Brave Girls
42 mins; July 09, 2025
Superman is back on the big screen
42 mins; July 08, 2025
Oasis comeback tour reviewed
42 mins; July 07, 2025
Review: RSC's The Constant Wife
42 mins; July 03, 2025
Reaction to the Sean 'Diddy' Combs court case verdicts, and Back to the Future at 40
42 mins; July 02, 2025
Tim Key on his sleeper hit The Ballad of Wallis Island
42 mins; July 01, 2025
Jurassic World Rebirth director Gareth Edwards
42 mins; June 30, 2025
Review Programme: Van Gogh and Anselm Kiefer
42 mins; June 26, 2025
UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy
42 mins; June 25, 2025
Billy Porter on activism and artists
42 mins; June 24, 2025
Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer on F1 starring Brad Pitt
42 mins; June 23, 2025
Review Show: Pixar's new film Elio
42 mins; June 19, 2025
Mercury Prize-shortlisted pianist Fergus McCreadie plays live
42 mins; June 18, 2025
The creators of RuPaul's Drag Race, plus pianist Alfred Brendel remembered
43 mins; June 17, 2025
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland on 28 Years Later
42 mins; June 17, 2025
Review Show: Pulp's new album More
42 mins; June 12, 2025
Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys remembered.
42 mins; June 12, 2025
Was 1975 the best year for music?
42 mins; June 10, 2025
Remembering Twin Peaks
42 mins; June 09, 2025
Review show: Paris Lees drama What It Feels Like for a Girl
42 mins; June 05, 2025
Daisy Goodwin on her play about the late Queen and her dresser
42 mins; June 04, 2025
Nick Mohammed on comedy and improvisation
42 mins; June 03, 2025
Fiddler on the Roof returns to the stage
42 mins; June 02, 2025
Imelda Staunton in Mrs Warren's Profession
42 mins; May 29, 2025
Paul Hartnoll of Orbital on the band's Brown album, and a new biography of Muriel Spark.
42 mins; May 28, 2025
Will Butler formerly of Arcade Fire on his play set in a recording studio
42 mins; May 27, 2025
Alison Steadman live from Hay Festival
42 mins; May 26, 2025
Award-winning actor Benicio Del Toro
42 mins; May 22, 2025
Shirley Manson of Garbage
42 mins; May 21, 2025
Musician Rhiannon Giddens on returning to her North Carolina roots after working with Beyoncé
42 mins; May 20, 2025
Joanne Harris on the return of Chocolat
42 mins; May 19, 2025
Review: Sondheim's final musical Here We Are, The Marching Band, Daniel Kehlmann's The Director
42 mins; May 15, 2025
Ocean with Attenborough, Garden Design, Turning Contemporary Politics into Opera
42 mins; May 14, 2025
Morcheeba perform, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway 100th anniversary
42 mins; May 13, 2025
Suzanne Vega sings in the studio, P Diddy trial, Mother Courage in County Durham
42 mins; May 12, 2025
Review, The Wedding Banquet, Isabel Allende, The Brightening Air
42 mins; May 08, 2025
Leni Riefenstahl, Queen Elizabeth Memorial, Keli
42 mins; May 07, 2025
Hamlet Radiohead mashup, Stoke-on-Trent pottery in crisis
42 mins; May 06, 2025
A snapshot of culture on VE Day 1945
42 mins; May 05, 2025
Review: John Lennon docs, Tina Fey's The Four Seasons and The Great Gatsby musical
41 mins; May 01, 2025
King James IV & I, Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, The Extraordinary Miss Flower
43 mins; April 30, 2025
Noddy Holder of Slade, Stephen Rea and Simone de Beauvoir
41 mins; April 29, 2025
Universal Theme Park, Olivier award-winning play Giant, Two to One
42 mins; April 28, 2025
Review: Self Esteem's album A Complicated Woman; RSC's Much Ado About Nothing; Julie Keeps Quiet tennis film
42 mins; April 24, 2025
The ethics of publishing posthumous diaries, Pianist Igor Levit, and Memorials to great women.
42 mins; April 23, 2025
Dante's Inferno in Jamaica, Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time re-examined, Shakespeare's first theatre
42 mins; April 22, 2025
JMW Turner: 250th anniversary of Britain's greatest painter
42 mins; April 21, 2025
Review: Alex Garland's film Warfare, Audition by Katie Kitamura, Shanghai Dolls by Amy Ng on stage
42 mins; April 17, 2025
Photographer Susan Meiselas, The Impact of Trump's Tariffs on Musical Instrument Manufacturers, Author Ewan Morrison.
42 mins; April 16, 2025
Ryan Coogler on Sinners, The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, Book Bans in the US
42 mins; April 15, 2025
Muriel's Wedding the Musical, Doctor Who new series & impact on culture, Anthony Hororwitz on Marble Hall Murders
42 mins; April 14, 2025
Review: The Return reunites Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes, On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle, Holy Cow film
42 mins; April 10, 2025
Tracy Chapman, the Arthur Miller moment in UK theatres, Rock Royalty
42 mins; April 09, 2025
Kym Marsh on Abigail's Party, Severance creator Dan Erickson, film franchises in flux
42 mins; April 08, 2025
Manhunt play by Robert Icke, new Edwardians exhibition, film director Waris Hussein
42 mins; April 07, 2025