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Front Row Episodes

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    2020 BBC National Short Story Award and the BBC Young Writers' Award

    We announce the winners of the National Short Story Award and the Young Writers' Award.

  2. Grace Jones exhibition, Steve McQueen's film Mangrove, A newly rediscovered work by Henry Purcell

    Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio - a new exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary.

  3. Radha Blank, Chuck D, Dramas The Trial of the Chicago 7 and The Comey Rule reviewed

    Radha Blank in The 40 Year Old Version, Public Enemy's Chuck D, Dana Gioia, Friday Reviews

  4. An extended interview with Graham Norton

    A special half hour Front Row with Graham Norton.

  5. Miss Virginia, Helen Reddy remembered, Sarah Nicolls, Gary Clarke

    Miss Virginia reviewed, and Sarah Nicolls who plays an inside-out vertical grand piano.

  6. Little Mix: The Search, Artemisia Gentileschi, No Masks

    The National Gallery's ground-breaking Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition

  7. Michael Kiwanuka, Boys in the Band film, the future for arts freelancers

    Mercury Prize winner Michael Kiwanuka, The Boys in the Band film; freelancers in the arts.

  8. Poetry and performance from Cumbria's Contains Strong Language festival

    Poets Kate Clanchy, Jacob Polley and Zosia Wand join Katie Popperwell at the festival.

  9. David McKee - BookTrust Lifetime Achievement Award, Royal Academy dilemma, Serlina Boyd on Cocoa Girl

    David McKee, creator of Elmer and Mr Benn, on his BookTrust Lifetime Achievement Award.

  10. Mike Bartlett, Miss Juneteenth film, theatres repurposed as courtrooms, Susanna Clarke

    Mike Bartlett's Doctor Foster spinoff, Miss Juneteenth, Susanna Clarke's new novel

  11. Skin, The Box in Plymouth, Sean Borodale

    Skin from Skunk Anansie on her new memoir.

  12. ENO drive in opera, ITV drama Honour, Jesse Armstrong, 'Festival of Brexit'

    New ITV drama Honour, Jesse Armstrong, Drive in opera, 'Festival of Brexit'.

  13. Katherine Ryan, Nick Hornby, artist Mark Bradford, TV drama Us reviewed

    Katherine Ryan in The Duchess.

  14. Rocks, Phoebe Stuckes, Eley Williams

    New film Rocks, Poet Phoebe Stuckes, and the JK Rowling controversy.

  15. Tricky, Ratched reviewed, live theatre returns to The Playhouse Londonderry, NSSA nominee Jack Houston

    Tricky on his new album, Fall to Pieces. Plus live theatre returns to Northern Ireland

  16. 2020 Booker shortlist, Nicholas Serota, author Sarah Hall

    2020 Booker shortlist, Nicholas Serota, BBC National Short Story Award nominee Sarah Hall.

  17. Dennis Kelly on The Third Day, Nica Burns, Jan Carson, Sir Terence Conran

    Writer Dennis Kelly, and theatre producer Nica Burns.

  18. David Tennant on playing Dennis Nilsen, BBC National Short Story Award shortlist announced, The Painted Bird reviewed

    David Tennant on playing infamous serial killer Dennis Nilsen.

  19. Lang Lang, Diana Rigg remembered, Cinema distribution under Covid-19

    Mark Gatiss on Diana Rigg and Lang Lang discusses Bach's Goldberg Variations at the piano.

  20. The future of Arts broadcasting, Winner of 2020 Women's Prize For Fiction, Film director Antonio Campos

    The future of Arts broadcasting, Women's Prize For Fiction winner, Antonio Campos.

  21. Andrew O'Hagan, The Singapore Grip, Theatre at the point of no return

    Andrew O'Hagan on his novel Mayflies. Plus ITV's new drama The Singapore Grip.

  22. Benjamin Grosvenor performs for Front Row

    Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, Venice Film Festival, Understanding artworks.

  23. Mulan review, Lorna Sage's memoir 20 years on, and must art be political?

    Does Disney's live-action remake of Mulan work?

  24. The office in culture, Kate Clanchy, publishers' Super Thursday

    The history of the office in culture; Kate Clanchy on her book How to Grow Your Own Poem.

  25. Bernardine Evaristo shortlisted for Women's Prize, Anoushka Shankar at the Proms, Film Les Misérables reviewed

    Bernardine Evaristo, Anoushka Shankar at the Proms, Film Les Misérables reviewed.

  26. Ruth Jones, Roger Kneebone, Game Review, The Tempest

    Ruth Jones, Roger Kneebone on craft and skills, Game Review, The Tempest.

  27. Robert Macfarlane, bestselling author, walker, mountaineer and campaigner, talks to Kirsty Lang

    Robert Macfarlane on his books, collaborating with artists and musicians and campaigning.

  28. Luke Jerram, Elena Ferrante's new novel, Bolu Babalola, Britney Spears's conservatorship battle

    Luke Jerram on In Memoriam - his artwork to commemorate those lost to the pandemic.

  29. Eastenders returns, Composer Errollyn Wallen, Katy Perry profiled, I'm Thinking of Ending Things reviewed

    The return of Eastenders & composer Errollyn Wallen on rearranging Jerusalem for the Proms

  30. Women’s Prize For Fiction - Natalie Haynes; 2020 International Booker Prize winner; Agatha Christie’s lost play, The Lie

    Natalie Haynes on A Thousand Ships; International Booker Prize winner reviewed.

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