Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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Booker shortlisted novelist Patricia Lockwood, Science Museum director Ian Blatchford, Paul McCartney
Science Museum greenwashing claims: museum director Ian Blatchford responds.
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Paul McCartney, Paul Muldoon, Booker Prize Book Group on The Promise
Paul McCartney reveals how he wrote The Beatles’ classic, All My Loving.
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Booker Prize Book Group: Anuk Arudpragasam on A Passage North
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Bradford Postcard; Ron’s Gone Wrong; Re-directing a play
Front Row goes to Bradford to check out what’s happening on the arts scene
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BBC National Short Story Award and BBC Young Writers' Award winners
We announce the winners of BBC National Short Story Award and BBC Young Writers' Award.
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Arinzé Kene on playing Bob Marley; Clare Norburn sings John Dowland; the first Working Class Writers Festival
Arinzé Kene on playing Bob Marley in the new musical Get Up, Stand Up!
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The RIBA Stirling Prize for architecture, Succession, John Le Carré’s final novel, The London Film Festival
The RIBA Stirling Prize for architecture is announced
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Theatre director Emma Jordan, Omagh's Ulster American Folk Park and Ridley Scott
Emma Jordan on The Border Game, Omagh's Ulster American Folk Park and Ridley Scott.
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Suzan-Lori Parks, Owen Sheers, stolen artefacts and the portrayal of scientists
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks.
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Joan Collins, Armistead Maupin and Verbatim Theatre
Joan Collins discusses her memoir My Unapologetic Diaries
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Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah, Cush Jumbo's Hamlet, Poet Laureate Simon Armitage
Cush Jumbo as Hamlet, Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah and poet Simon Armitage.
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The Arts in Aberystwyth, The Boy with Two Hearts in Cardiff and Welsh film director Craig Roberts
The arts in Aberystwyth; The Boy with Two Hearts in Cardiff; Welsh director Craig Roberts
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Wole Soyinka, post-pandemic theatre, Michael Winterbottom
Wole Soyinka on his new novel, Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth.
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Hilary Mantel, Lianne La Havas, Candice Carty Williams, Kieran Hurley
Hilary Mantel on adapting The Mirror and the Light for the stage.
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No Time To Die, Soul Train, Karl Ove Knausgaard
Charlie Higson & Naima Khan review the new Bond film No Time To Die.
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Dave Grohl, Jimmy Savile
Dave Grohl on new memoir "The Storyteller", and Dramatizing Jimmy Savile?
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David Chase, Laura Lomas, Betty Campbell statue
Sopranos writer David Chase on new film The Many Saints of Newark.
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Comedian Njambi McGrath, Turner Prize shortlist review, 25 Years of Buena Vista Social Club
Kenyan British Comedian Njambi McGrath on her new show Accidental Coconut.
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Arthur C. Clarke Award winner, K-pop band BTS address the UN and new film, The Man Who Sold His Skin
Arthur C. Clarke Award winner, BTS at the UN and new film, The Man Who Sold His Skin.
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Dame Elizabeth Blackadder, Megan Swann, Richard Smyth, The Story of Looking.
Dame Elizabeth Blackadder celebrated.
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The Contains Strong Language Festival
Front Row at the Contains Strong Language Festival from Coventry, UK City of Culture 2021
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Spiers and Boden, music streaming economics, Calvin Kasulke, Danny Rhodes
Spiers and Boden have reunited, recorded a new album, and are embarking on a UK tour.
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We announce the winner of the 2021 Art Fund Museum of the Year
We announce the winner of the 2021 Art Fund Museum of the Year.
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Everybody's Talking about Jamie, Rory Gleeson, Grinling Gibbons Exhibition
Ellen E Jones reviews Everybody's Talking about Jamie.
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Peter Brathwaite, Indecent play review, Small Bells Ring story barge, Lucy Caldwell
Peter Brathwaite, Indecent play review, Small Bells Ring story barge, Lucy Caldwell.
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Peaceophobia, Help Review, Georgina Harding, Kurt Elling
Eve Manning co-director of Peaceophobia discusses the show.
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Anuradha Roy, Propaganda ceramics, British Ceramics Biennial, a new Culture Secretary
Anuradha Roy on 'The Earthspinner', Propaganda ceramics, British Ceramics Biennial
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Julian Clary, Antonio Pappano, Booker Prize shortlist
Julian Clary on playing Norman in Ronald Harwood's play The Dresser.
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Liane Moriarty, Matthew Bourne, Igor Levit
Best-selling novelist Liane Moriarty on her new novel Apples Never Fall.
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BBC National Short Story Award Shortlist, tenor Stuart Skelton, Shang-Chi film review, Girl Bands now
BBC National Short Story Award shortlist announced, tenor Stuart Skelton, Shang-Chi film.