Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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Singer Bella Hardy, Poet Thomas Lynch, Birmingham 2022 Festival
Folk singer Bella Hardy performs; poet Thomas Lynch reads, art at the Commonwealth Games
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Notre-Dame On Fire and novel Milk Teeth reviewed; Jennifer Walshe performs live; writer Alan Grant remembered
A review of the film Notre-Dame On Fire, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud.
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Where The Crawdads Sing; On Sonorous Seas; Maison Margiela's Cinema Inferno
Crawdads director Olivia Newman; theatre on the runway; Hebridean artist Mhairi Killin.
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Jean Paul Gaultier, Much Ado About Nothing, Music Tours
Jean Paul Gaultier's new show, Shakespeare's productions, and a report on music touring.
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Kraftwerk's Karl Bartos, the Spooky Men’s Chorale, playwright Lucy Kirkwood
Life in Kraftwerk, the Spooky Men's Chorale perform, Lucy Kirkwood on Maryland for TV.
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Persuasion & Patriots reviewed, Durham Brass Festival, Museum of the Year winner
Luke Harding and Hanna Flint review Carrie Cracknell's adaptation of Persuasion.
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Shakespeare North Playhouse, Tŷ Pawb in Wrexham, The Railway Children Return
Shakespeare North Playhouse opens in Prescot.
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Hildur Guðnadóttir, National Plan for Music Education, Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
Oscar-winning Joker composer Hildur Guðnadóttir on her upcoming BBC Proms concerts.
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Jack Absolute Flies Again, Joe Stilgoe, Cattelan / Druet
Jack Absolute Flies Again, Joe Stilgoe, Cattelan/Druet
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The Story Museum, The Waste Land and Brian and Charles reviewed, Grand Theft Hamlet
The Waste Land, Brian and Charles reviewed, The Story Museum Oxford, Grand Theft Hamlet.
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New national poet of Wales, Lucian Freud show, The Royal Cornwall Museum, The Blue Woman opera
New national poet of Wales announced, Lucian Freud show, The Blue Woman opera premiere.
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Claudia Rankine, Derby's Museum of Making, Streamer Fatigue
Claudia Rankine on her play The White Card and Derby's Museum of Making
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Peter Brook; Gone With The Wind; new children’s laureate Joseph Coelho
Peter Brook remembered, the new children's laureate, Gone With The Wind and the US today.
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All Our Yesterdays, Sun & Sea, Laura Veirs
Natalia Ginzburg's All Our Yesterdays, opera Sun & Sea, singer-songwriter Laura Veirs
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In the Black Fantastic exhibition; Maya Youssef performs live; visual artist Colin Davidson's exhibition
Ekow Eshun on curating the exhibition In The Black Fantastic at the Hayward Gallery.
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Arthur Hughes as Richard III, Literary Prizes, Dadaist Interventions
Arthur Hughes, the future of literary prizes, Dadaist interventions.
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Stephen Beresford, A harp concerto about bees, James Graham, Peter Kosminsky
Playwright and BAFTA winning screenwriter Stephen Beresford on The Southbury Child.
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Reviews of the plays Rock, Paper, Scissors and documentary Studio Electrophonique, The People's History Museum, Michael Rosen
We review Rock, Paper, Scissors - three new plays marking 50 years of Sheffield Theatres.
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Rowan Atkinson, Windrush Sculptures, Susanne Bier
Rowan Atkinson, Thomas J Price on his Windrush sculptures, director Susanne Bier.
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Live music festivals; Roy Williams' play The Fellowship; The Horniman Museum
The post-pandemic challenges facing the festival sector as Glastonbury returns.
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Baz Lurhmann on Elvis, new productions of Carmen and Tom, Dick and Harry
Baz Luhrmann on Elvis.
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Circle of Fifths, reviews of Good Luck to You, Leo Grande and The Lazarus Project
Gavin Porter on National Theatre Wales's live documentary performance Circle of Fifths.
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Freddie De Tommaso, Women’s Prize For Fiction Winner, John Byrne, Ukrainian Antiquities
Tenor Freddie De Tommaso; we announce the Women's Prize winner; John Byrne's retrospective
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Theaster Gates, Lightyear, Dean Atta, Music Back Catalogues
Theaster Gates' new pavilion, Pixar's Lightyear, Kate Bush, Dean Atta's YA novel in verse.
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George Ezra performs, TV drama Sherwood reviewed, Norway's National Museum opens
George Ezra performs tracks from his new album Gold Rush Kid.
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Reviews of the film All My Friends Hate Me and the play Cancelling Socrates; the Women's Prize for Fiction nominee Ruth Ozeki
A review of British comedy-horror film All My Friends Hate Me, directed by Andrew Gaynord.
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Paula Rego Remembered, Cressida Cowell, Elif Shafak, Stones In His Pockets
Paula Rego’s life and work, Cressida Cowell, Elif Shafak's Women's Prize shortlisted book.
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Ayanna Witter Johnson performs, Clement Ishmael, digital theatre
Ayanna Witter Johnson plays live, plus Clement Ishmael and digital theatre.
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Africa Oyé, Queer Poetry, Maggie Shipstead
Music festival Africa Oyé; 100 Queer Poems, Maggie Shipstead, author of Great Circle.
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Front Row reviews 1952
A Jubilee Special: Front Row reviews some of the cultural highlights of 1952.