Front Row
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Folk musician Martin Simpson, movie icon Anna May Wong, and classical music leaders criticise Arts Council England
42 mins; April 10, 2024
Nathan Hill, Maggie Rogers, International Booker shortlist
42 mins; April 09, 2024
Yinka Shonibare, Sean Shibe, cinema and digital decay
42 mins; April 08, 2024
Beyonce’s new album Cowboy Carter, Netflix drama Ripley, Io Capitano movie reviewed
42 mins; April 04, 2024
50 years of ABBA’s Waterloo, Harewood House exhibition, Trevor Griffiths remembered, the rise of eco fiction and drama
42 mins; April 03, 2024
Dev Patel on Monkey Man, which books are on the curriculum?
42 mins; April 02, 2024
The National Gallery at 200
42 mins; April 01, 2024
Steven Knight drama This Town reviewed, The Perth Museum re-opening
42 mins; March 28, 2024
Big Mood, how does comedy work? Bach St John Passion
42 mins; March 27, 2024
Norah Jones performs, Sir Ian McKellen on Player Kings, Keisha Thompson
42 mins; March 26, 2024
Poet Nikki Giovanni, Andrew Buchan on TV drama Passenger
42 mins; March 25, 2024
Kristen Wiig drama Palm Royale and animation Robot Dreams reviewed, Michael Ondaatje on his new poetry collection
42 mins; March 21, 2024
Kazuo Ishiguro on jazz, March hares and film ratings
42 mins; March 20, 2024
Marjane Satrapi, using AI for alternative history, and the Harlow Sculpture Trail
42 mins; March 19, 2024
Architect Daniel Libeskind, composer Karl Jenkins
42 mins; March 18, 2024
Keir Starmer, Monster and Reading Genesis reviewed
42 mins; March 14, 2024
Paul Theroux on Orwell, Patsy Rodenburg on training actors, musician Sam Lee
42 mins; March 13, 2024
Philippa Gregory on Richard III, Blackpool's Showtown, has the superhero franchise bubble burst?
42 mins; March 12, 2024
Beth Ditto of Gossip, Ethan Coen on Drive-Away Dolls, Michael Donkor
42 mins; March 11, 2024
Jordan Harvey in session, Nye and Copa 71 reviewed
42 mins; March 07, 2024
Ava DuVernay on Origin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julianne Moore
42 mins; March 06, 2024
Kate Rusby, Edward Bond, Eve Steele and the decline of female filmmakers
42 mins; March 05, 2024
Ray Winstone, K Patrick, Ferris & Sylvester
42 mins; March 04, 2024
Dune 2, Brian Bilston, Angelica Kauffman RA, Nachtland
42 mins; February 29, 2024
Benjamin Britten, director Kaouther Ben Hania, music from Owen Spafford and Louis Campbell
41 mins; February 28, 2024
The Jury: Murder Trial, Bhangra Nation, Bluestockings
42 mins; February 27, 2024
Sheridan Smith. Movement Coaches and Sexism in French Cinema
42 mins; February 26, 2024
Minority Report at Nottingham Playhouse, Wicked Little Letters, and TV series Boarders reviewed
42 mins; February 22, 2024
Wim Wenders, Len Pennie and Angus Robertson
42 mins; February 21, 2024
Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Sarsgaard, Casting Directors
42 mins; February 20, 2024
Sir Peter Blake, David Harewood, John Logan
42 mins; February 19, 2024
Jed Mercurio on Breathtaking, Yoko Ono retrospective reviewed
42 mins; February 15, 2024
Ukraine drama A Small Stubborn Town, Emma Rice, The Hugo Awards
42 mins; February 14, 2024
Stephen Sanchez, Godzilla turns 70
42 mins; February 13, 2024
Reinaldo Marcus Green on One Love, Bryce Dessner of The National
42 mins; February 12, 2024
One Day, American Fiction, Beyond Form
42 mins; February 08, 2024
The Chosen, Cymande, Tayari Jones
42 mins; February 07, 2024
The Reytons, Phoebe Eclair-Powell, Andrew McMillan
42 mins; February 06, 2024
Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter, Jez Butterworth and Declan McKenna
42 mins; February 05, 2024
Legion exhibition at the British Museum and Mr and Mrs Smith reviewed
42 mins; February 01, 2024
Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone, author Leo Vardiashvili and the Great Escapes exhibition at Kew
42 mins; January 31, 2024
Jonny Greenwood of The Smile, Self Esteem on music industry report, Artes Mundi prize winner
42 mins; January 30, 2024
Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, Gruff Rhys, Colin Barrett
42 mins; January 29, 2024
The Color Purple reviewed, and the pop concert as cinema phenomenon
42 mins; January 25, 2024
Masters of the Air, Ronan Bennett on his Top Boy novel, hobbies and DIY art
42 mins; January 24, 2024
Oscar Nominations, Howard Jacobson, Culture Funding Cuts
42 mins; January 23, 2024
Andrew Haigh on All of Us Strangers, Lulu Wang on Expats starring Nicole Kidman
42 mins; January 22, 2024
Paul Giamatti and Alexander Payne on The Holdovers and reivews of The Vulnerables and The Artful Dodger
42 mins; January 18, 2024
Daniel Kaluuya, the arts in Wales, shelving big budget films discussion, Jane Jin Kaisen
42 mins; January 17, 2024
Poor Things, Jodie Comer, RSC new season, TS Eliot poetry prize
42 mins; January 16, 2024
Jonathan Glazer, history of radio drama, Molly Tuttle
42 mins; January 15, 2024
Mean Girls and Hisham Matar’s My Friends reviewed
42 mins; January 11, 2024
Jack Rooke on TV sitcom Big Boys, Eliza Carthy goes wassailing
42 mins; January 10, 2024
Ins Choi on Kim’s Convenience, why are so many films set in a dystopian future?
41 mins; January 09, 2024
Golden Globe winner Poor Things reviewed, new deal for Warhammer 40,000
42 mins; January 08, 2024
Priscilla and Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Kagami reviewed
42 mins; January 04, 2024
Dan Levy, National Poetry Library at 70, Clarke Peters
42 mins; January 03, 2024
Front Row Special: Rachmaninoff – the 20th century’s great romantic
42 mins; January 03, 2024
George Clooney, writer Gwyneth Hughes, The Scala Cinema
42 mins; January 02, 2024
Final Ghosts, Tennant's Macbeth, Next Goal Wins, National Theatre of Wales
42 mins; December 21, 2023
The Unthanks, Lucinda Coxon, the North East Cultural Partnership
42 mins; December 20, 2023
Movie stars Adam Driver and Bill Nighy, author AL Kennedy, and the Process of Poetry
42 mins; December 19, 2023
Helena Bonham Carter and Russell T Davies, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
42 mins; December 18, 2023
Front Row reviews Cold War the musical and Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
42 mins; December 14, 2023
Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan on Maestro, Noel Coward's Songs, Wien Museum reopens
42 mins; December 13, 2023
Margaret Cavendish, Margareth Olin, Christmas TV
42 mins; December 12, 2023
Andy Serkis and Louisa Harland on Ulster American, Panto and Gender Roles, Graphic Novels with Rachel Cooke and Ian Dunt
41 mins; December 12, 2023
Benjamin Zephaniah, Wim Wenders' Anselm,The Famous Five, Xmas Ads
42 mins; December 07, 2023
Paul King on directing Wonka, Best non-fiction books of 2023, British pop art artist Pauline Boty
42 mins; December 06, 2023
Shane Meadows on the British film industry, Children’s books round-up, the Turner Prize
42 mins; December 05, 2023
Julia Roberts on Leave the World Behind, guitarist MILOĹ , The Peasants
42 mins; December 04, 2023
Front Row reviews Eileen and The House of Bernarda Alba
42 mins; November 30, 2023
Billie Marten, Yinka Shonibare, Richard Mantle on Opera North
42 mins; November 29, 2023
AI and publishing, terrible record covers, Fred D'Aguiar
42 mins; November 28, 2023
Maria Callas, Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane, Rory Pilgrim
42 mins; November 27, 2023
The Booker Prize Ceremony 2023
28 mins; November 26, 2023
Maestro, reality TV Squid Game, Brutalist architecture
42 mins; November 23, 2023
Joanna Hogg, map making, Ghislaine Leung
42 mins; November 22, 2023
Ridley Scott's Napoleon, Albert Hall tickets resales, Bob Mortimer's winning comedy fiction
42 mins; November 21, 2023
The Alehouse Boys, Sarah Bernstein and AS Byatt
42 mins; November 20, 2023
Annette Bening and Jodie Foster
42 mins; November 16, 2023
The Barber of Seville in Yorkshire dialect, Art as experience, Turner Prize nominee Jesse Darling, Northern Creative Corridor
42 mins; November 15, 2023
Emerald Fennell, Lucy Frazer and Paul Harding
42 mins; November 14, 2023
Todd Haynes, Trevor Horn, new galleries at the Imperial War Museum
42 mins; November 13, 2023
Anatomy of a Fall, Pete McKee, Wu-Tang Clan 30th anniversary
42 mins; November 09, 2023
Front Row reviews 1623, to mark the anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio
41 mins; November 08, 2023
Billy Bragg, Paul Murray, feminist art of the 1970s
42 mins; November 07, 2023
Rebecca Lucy Taylor aka Self Esteem, Judi Jackson, the rise of the Ghanaian art scene
42 mins; November 06, 2023
Kenneth Branagh in King Lear, Andrew Motion on Elegies
42 mins; November 02, 2023
Henry Winkler, Northern Ballet, David Fennessey
42 mins; November 01, 2023
Duran Duran, Dobrivoje Beljkasic at 100 and Sandra Newman on retelling Orwell’s 1984
41 mins; October 31, 2023
Backstairs Billy, Jonathan Escoffery, National Theatre Wales
42 mins; October 30, 2023
David Fincher’s The Killer and the week’s highlights reviewed
42 mins; October 26, 2023
A history of 2 Tone, actor Martin Shaw remembers producer Bill Kenwright, Booker-shortlisted author Chetna Maroo, Lyonesse
42 mins; October 25, 2023
Patrick Stewart, Steven Isserlis, The art of skateboard design
42 mins; October 24, 2023
Aviva Studios, The Chemical Brothers, Rufus Norris on 60 years of the National Theatre, Danny Boyle's Free Your Mind
42 mins; October 23, 2023
The Rolling Stones; Foe; television food consultant; Doctors axed
42 mins; October 19, 2023
Bonnie Langford performs Sondheim, film director Maysoon Pachachi, the portrayal of nuns in culture
42 mins; October 18, 2023
Front Row from Belfast with writer Paul Lynch and singer Cara Dillon
42 mins; October 17, 2023
Martin Scorsese film, John le Carré’s legacy, Madonna on Tour
42 mins; October 16, 2023