Front Row
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Front Row reviews Hamnet at the RSC and TV drama Obsession; Michael Frayn on his memoir
42 mins; April 13, 2023
Max Porter on new novel Shy, Chris Killip exhibition at the Baltic, Kevin Sampson on The Hunt for Raoul Moat
42 mins; April 12, 2023
Wade Davis on George Mallory, Benbrick on AI and creativity
42 mins; April 11, 2023
The 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio
42 mins; April 10, 2023
Ai Weiwei at the Design Museum and TV drama Rise of the Pink Ladies
42 mins; April 06, 2023
Boris Becker documentary, Commemorating the Good Friday Agreement in art, Artist-led organisations
42 mins; April 05, 2023
Joe Pearlman on his Lewis Capaldi film, author Craig Brown, Tartan at the V&A
42 mins; April 04, 2023
The Beatles at Stowe School, Hugh Laurie on Agatha Christie
42 mins; April 03, 2023
Ria Zmitrowicz on The Power, The ENO’s The Dead City and God’s Creatures reviewed
42 mins; March 30, 2023
Cash Carraway on BBC drama Rain Dogs, the might of the UK gaming industry, Kidnapped on stage
42 mins; March 29, 2023
Musician Natalie Merchant, poet Victoria Adukwei Bulley, library funding
42 mins; March 28, 2023
Barbara Demick on North Korea; Dungeons and Dragons controversy; folk musicians Hack-Poets Guild
42 mins; March 27, 2023
Steven Knight on Great Expectations, After Impressionism at the National Gallery
42 mins; March 23, 2023
Touchstones Rochdale art gallery's radical 80s history, James Shapiro on Shakespeare
42 mins; March 22, 2023
Danny Lee Wynter and play Black Superhero; badly behaved theatre audiences; violinist Pekka Kuusisto
42 mins; March 21, 2023
Lisa O’Neill performs live, Dance of Death from the National Theatre of Norway
42 mins; March 20, 2023
Richard Eyre on his film Allelujah, and climate change TV drama Extrapolations reviewed
42 mins; March 16, 2023
Scottish-Iranian film Winners, playwright Calum L MacLeòid, neurodiversity and creativity
42 mins; March 15, 2023
Diversity at the Oscars and Baftas; plays and the cost of living; children's books; Phyllida Barlow
42 mins; March 14, 2023
Author Percival Everett, director Pravesh Kumar on Little English
42 mins; March 13, 2023
Film My Sailor, My Love; Atwood’s Old Babes In The Wood; Baillie Gifford prize; Nicole Flattery
41 mins; March 09, 2023
Pioneering play Top Girls turns 40, do publishers owe a duty of care to memoirists? and the benefits of stopping the show
36 mins; March 08, 2023
Daniel Mays on a new production of Guys and Dolls, and how accessible are venues and film sets for performers?
42 mins; March 07, 2023
Steven Moffat and Lucy Caldwell on writing about the Hadron Collider
42 mins; March 06, 2023
Daisy Jones & The Six on TV. Lukas Dhont’s film Close. Edmund De Waal on potter Lucie Rie
42 mins; March 02, 2023
Barry Male Voice Choir, new play Romeo and Julie, WNO’s Blaze of Glory and Welsh culture minister Dawn Boden
42 mins; March 01, 2023
Tracy-Ann Oberman, Director Michael B Jordan, Oldham Coliseum
42 mins; February 28, 2023
Conductor Antonio Pappano on Puccini’s Turandot and the Ukrainian cabaret artists performing in exile
42 mins; February 27, 2023
Immersive David Hockney art and Korean film Broker reviewed; artist Mike Nelson; AI-generated writing
42 mins; February 23, 2023
New film The Strays, artists Chila Kumari Singh Burman and Dawinder Bansal, Janet Malcolm’s photography memoir
42 mins; February 22, 2023
Michael Douglas, culture in Ukraine a year after invasion, visual effects and animation in the UK
42 mins; February 21, 2023
Hugh Jackman, Kevin Jared Hosein, the future of opera
42 mins; February 20, 2023
Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, Alice Neel, Spitting Image
42 mins; February 16, 2023
Asif Kapadia's dance film Creature; the Barbellion Book Prize winner; South Asian and South East Asian galleries in Manchester
42 mins; February 15, 2023
Tracy Chevalier on Vermeer exhibition; live v streaming theatre audiences; American poet A. E. Stallings; The King's Singers
42 mins; February 14, 2023
Kate Prince on her suffragette musical, the art of casting, set design at the Brits.
42 mins; February 13, 2023
Georgia Oakley director of Blue Jean, Burt Bacharach obituary, Salman Rushdie's Victory City and Peter Doig exhibition reviewed
42 mins; February 09, 2023
The Reytons, film-maker Saim Sadiq, The Beekeeper of Aleppo
42 mins; February 08, 2023
Les Dennis and Mina Anwar, writer Tania Branigan, Kerry Shale on Yentl
42 mins; February 08, 2023
Costume designer Sandy Powell, playwright Chris Bush, Donatello sculptures at the V&A
42 mins; February 06, 2023
TV drama Nolly and film The Whale reviewed, director M Night Shyamalan
42 mins; February 02, 2023
Sonia Boyce, The Quiet Girl, Theatre Freelance Pay, Oldham Coliseum
42 mins; February 01, 2023
Beethoven's FĂĽr Elise, playwright Garry Lyons, film director Rajkumar Santoshi
42 mins; January 31, 2023
Film director Sarah Polley, novelist Ann-Helen Laestadius and deep fakes on TV
42 mins; January 30, 2023
The Fabelmans and Noises Off reviewed, Joe Cornish on new TV drama Lockwood and Co.
42 mins; January 26, 2023
Mel C on dancing with Jules Cunningham, film-maker Laura Poitras, musician Rasha Nahas
42 mins; January 25, 2023
Artist John Akomfrah, Oscar Nominations, Arts Council England responds
42 mins; January 24, 2023
The play Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons; conductor Alice Farnham; the short film An Irish Goodbye.
41 mins; January 23, 2023
Spain and the Hispanic World exhibition, new film Holy Spider, artist Clarke Reynolds
42 mins; January 19, 2023
Hepworth, Moore, landscape and cows' backs; fiddle player John McCusker; novelist Victoria MacKenzie
42 mins; January 18, 2023
Poet Anthony Joseph, new novels about witches and the fall in female film-makers
42 mins; January 17, 2023
Rebecca Frecknall on A Streetcar Named Desire, Rick Rubin, Clarinetist Kinan Azmeh
42 mins; January 16, 2023
The Last of Us & Enys Men reviewed
42 mins; January 12, 2023
Filmmaker Todd Field on Tár, Glyndebourne tour cancellation, Debut novelist Jyoti Patel
42 mins; January 11, 2023
How AI is changing art, the TS Eliot Prize for poetry and the folk music of wassailing
41 mins; January 10, 2023
The Light in the Hall, The Shipping Forecast photographs, Nell Zink
42 mins; January 09, 2023
Two of the year's major films, Till and Empire of Light, reviewed and John Preston on his TV drama Stonehouse.
42 mins; January 05, 2023
Vocal ensemble Stile Antico, Fay Weldon obituary, director John Strickland
42 mins; January 04, 2023
Tom Hanks On A Man Called Otto, Author Deepti Kapoor, The London Ticket Bank
42 mins; January 03, 2023
Leeds 2023 Year of Culture
42 mins; January 02, 2023
The Pale Blue Eye and Happy Valley reviewed, Artist Alexander Creswell
41 mins; December 22, 2022
Marie Kreutzer on the film Corsage, Film director Mike Hodges remembered, Artistic buzzwords, The T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry
42 mins; December 21, 2022
Terry Hall remembered, state of UK theatre, board games of the last 40 years
42 mins; December 20, 2022
Lucy Prebble, immersive experiences, what next for ENO
42 mins; December 20, 2022
Quentin Blake discussion, reviews of Avatar and Magdalena Abakanowicz
42 mins; December 15, 2022
Neil Gaiman, China's art censorship in Europe, Decline of the working class in the creative industries
42 mins; December 14, 2022
Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance with Somebody; Qatar art, architecture & the World Cup; Hannah Khalil
42 mins; December 13, 2022
Zadie Smith on The Wife of Willesden, David Tennant on Litvinenko and Rick Wakeman's stolen gear
42 mins; December 12, 2022
Orlando starring Emma Corrin & Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio reviewed, Damian Lewis on A Spy Among Friends
42 mins; December 08, 2022
The Turner Prize winner, poet Kim Moore, Razorlight's Johnny Borrell
41 mins; December 07, 2022
Antoine Fuqua on Emancipation, NDAs in film and TV casting, playwright April De Angelis
42 mins; December 06, 2022
Fergus McCreadie, Leyla Josephine, Scottish National Gallery
42 mins; December 05, 2022
Veronica Ryan - shortlisted for the Turner Prize, reviews of new Stormzy album and film White Noise
42 mins; December 01, 2022
Maxine Peake on Betty! A Sort of Musical, Turner Prize nominee Heather Phillipson, Signal Film and Media in Barrow-in-Furness
42 mins; November 30, 2022
Clint Dyer on Othello, Turner Prize nominee Ingrid Pollard, should museums close controversial galleries?
42 mins; November 29, 2022
Turner Prize nominee Sin Wai Kin, Katherine Rundell on John Donne, Ballet Black
42 mins; November 28, 2022
Joan Armatrading, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye exhibition and film She Said reviewed
42 mins; November 24, 2022
Lady Chatterley's Lover reviewed, Jake Heggie on It's A Wonderful Life, casting Ukrainian actors, Wilko Johnson
42 mins; November 23, 2022
Matthew Warchus on Matilda, Kapil Seshasayee performs, climate protests in galleries
42 mins; November 22, 2022
Director Luca Guadagnino on Bones and All, Gainsborough’s House, writer Ronald Blythe at 100
42 mins; November 22, 2022
The Wonder, Making Modernism, Frantic Assembly, Opera and elitism
42 mins; November 17, 2022
Football Inspired Art, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Bruntwood Playwriting Prize winner, Chornobyldorf opera
42 mins; November 16, 2022
Crime writer Michael Connelly, Folk trio Lady Maisery
41 mins; November 15, 2022
BBC Centenary, The Art of Radio, Joy Whitby, Climate Fiction
42 mins; November 14, 2022
The Crown, Jafar Panahi's No Bears, Jez Butterworth, Goldsmiths Prize
42 mins; November 10, 2022
Black Panther Director Ryan Coogler, Photographer Craig Easton
42 mins; November 09, 2022
Jennifer Lawrence, mandolin player Chris Thile, Chokepoint Capitalism
42 mins; November 08, 2022
Arts Council Funding, the art of the infographic, film director Tas Brooker
42 mins; November 07, 2022
The English and Living reviewed, Royal Opera's Director of Opera Oliver Mears
42 mins; November 03, 2022
Live from Cardiff with Connor Allen, Zoë Skoulding and music from Catrin Finch and Aoife Ni Bhriain
42 mins; November 02, 2022
Nick Hornby, dancer Cecilia Iliesiu, Derek Owusu and Anthony Anaxagorou
42 mins; November 01, 2022
Alison Lapper on Sarah Biffin, Ric Renton, Plastics at the V&A Dundee
42 mins; October 31, 2022
Tammy Faye musical, Paul Newman's memoir, Daniel Arsham, Simon Armitage
42 mins; October 27, 2022
Turn It Up: The Power of Music exhibition; The Turner Prize at Tate Liverpool; Linton Kwesi Johnson
42 mins; October 26, 2022
Eliza Carthy, Ruben Ă–stlund, Brutalist Architecture
42 mins; October 25, 2022
Taylor Swift and Arctic Monkeys
42 mins; October 24, 2022
Front Row reviews popular culture of 1922
42 mins; October 20, 2022
Martin McDonagh on The Banshees of Inisherin and The Royal National Mòd
42 mins; October 19, 2022
New theatre @sohoplace, director Edward Berger, Jenny Beavan on fair pay for costume designers
42 mins; October 18, 2022
The Booker Prize for Fiction 2022
42 mins; October 17, 2022