Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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Laurie Anderson's album Amelia, what's in the new Culture Secretary's in-tray?
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
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.
Unicorns film directors Sally El Hosaini and James Krishna Floyd.
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The Bear, Moonchild Sanelly, Dundee Contemporary Gallery
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
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
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
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
Rachel Podger plays live, a new play about Marilyn Monroe, Emma Glass's novel Mrs Jekyll.
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Kyoto, Nathaniel Rateliff, Midsummer Day poetry
A play inspired by a climate conference, live Americana, and poems for midsummer.
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Review: Film Green Border, Exhibition Stories of Henry VIII's Queens, TV: Federer: Twelve Final Days. Plus Joseph Coelho
Six Lives exhibition, Asif Kapadia’s Federer, Yoto Carnegie Medal winner Joseph Coelho.
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Graham Gouldman, Jaws anniversary, queering Shakespeare
Graham Gouldman performs, Jaws at 50 and queering Shakespeare with Will Tosh.
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Stephen Fry, New Comedians, Questlove
Stephen Fry on new film Treasure, new stand-ups discussion, Questlove on Hip-Hop history.
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Kiss Me Kate, UK election: culture policies, Persephone Books
Stephanie J Block sings from Kiss Me Kate, UK election: culture policies, Persephone Books
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Review of films Sasquatch Sunset and Ama Gloria and a look at Vivienne Westwood's clothes
The Women's Prize for fiction and non fiction and the Walter Scott prize announced.
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James Shapiro, BEKA, Molly Bloomsday
Groundbreaking 1930s US theatre, live music from BEKA, and an all-women festival.
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Liverpool's Taylor Swift Art Trail, Les Dennis, the state of UK festivals
Taylor Swift art trail, Les Dennis in Twelfth Night, independent festivals at risk?
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Jon Bon Jovi, Clare Pollard & Marina Warner, Viggo Mortensen and Vikki Krieps
Jon Bon JovI, Clare Pollard and Marina Warner, The Dead Don't Hurt
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Review: Film - Rosalie, TV - Becoming Karl Lagerfeld, Book - The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
A wild west love story, the world of Paris fashion, and an unconventional marriage.
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Christos Tsiolkas, Victoria Canal, Baillie Gifford festival sponsorship
Christos Tsiolkas, Victoria Canal, Baillie Gifford festival sponsorship.
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Queenie, Female pirates, dating dramas
Candice Carty-Williams, portraying modern dating on stage, and female pirates in fiction.
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Richard Linklater, Ultimate 90s Bollywood Song, Esther Swift
The director on his new film, Hit Man, and the Scottish harpist plays live.
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Review: The Beast, We Are Lady Parts, Beyond Fashion exhibition
Samira Ahmed and guests review some of this week's TV and film releases.
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Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett, Degas exhibitions, Chigozie Obioma
Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett, Degas exhibitions, Chigozie Obioma on his new novel.
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Bernard Butler, Kafka, Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch's new TV drama, Bernard Butler's solo album and a Kafka exhibition.
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Hay Festival 2024 - Young Adult Fiction
Anthony Horowitz, Alex Wheatle, Manon Steffan Ros and Frances Hardinge.
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The Sympathizer, Ivor Novello Awards, Michelle Terry on Richard III
The Sympathizer, Michelle Terry on her Richard III, and the Ivor Novello Awards.
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Vicky McClure, LS Lowry and the sea, International Booker Prize 2024
Vicky McClure on new TV thriller Insomnia, International Booker Prize, Lowry and the sea.
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Colm Tóibín, Miranda Rutter & Rob Harbron, Iain Sinclair on John Deakin
Colm Tóibín's Long Island, Miranda Rutter & Rob Harbron, Iain Sinclair finds Deakin's Soho
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George Miller, Miranda July, Orchestral Qawwali Project
Mad Max director George Miller and the visual artist and film-maker Miranda July.
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Review: Big Cigar on AppleTV, Elton John’s photos at V&A, animated/live action film If
The Big Cigar, Elton John’s Fragile Beauty, film IF plus the Dylan Thomas Prize winner.