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Front Row Episodes

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    The Irishman, Abomination opera, Murder In The Cathedral, The joy or blight of fireworks

    Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, Abomination opera, Murder In The Cathedral

  2. Scott Z Burns, writer and director of The Report, poet Katrina Porteous and the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting winner

    Scott Z Burns on his docudrama The Report, exploring corruption and subversion in the CIA

  3. Patti Smith, Tom Harper, Doctor Sleep reviewed

    Patti Smith on Year of the Monkey, her memoir of a difficult year.

  4. Jack Thorne on His Dark Materials, Sorry We Missed You, Emily Howard

    Jack Thorne on the task of adapting Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials for the BBC.

  5. Ian McKellen; theatre director Sarah Frankcom; Guilt reviewed

    Ian McKellen on his film The Good Liar. He plays an elderly conman. It's akin to acting.

  6. Introducing New Artists from Devon

    Sarah Gosling presents a showcase from the Barbican Theatre in Plymouth

  7. David Baddiel, Apple TV+, Wellcome Collection's scary podcasts

    David Baddiel, Apple TV+, Welcome Collection's eerie podcasts

  8. Harry Hill, Peter Brook, film podcasts

    Harry Hill on his new comedy cabaret television programme

  9. 24/10/2019

    Jack Thorne's new drama The Accident, about the aftershocks of an industrial disaster.

  10. Bruce Springsteen's Western Stars, Harold Bloom, Islamic folios, new 'Monuments Men'

    Bruce Springsteen's new film Western Stars, and the legacy of the late Harold Bloom.

  11. Joy Labinjo, By The Grace of God reviewed, Alastair Sooke, actors doing other jobs

    Artist Joy Labinjo on her paintings inspired by photos and Francois Ozon's film reviewed.

  12. David Attenborough's cameraman, Bridget Riley exhibition, Forward Poetry winner

    David Attenborough's new wildlife series, Bridget Riley exhibition, Forward Poetry Winner

  13. Scooby Doo at 50, Poetry in endangered languages, Composer Judith Weir

    Scooby Doo is 50 and, Stig Abell discovers, of considerable cultural significance.

  14. Gavin Hood, Moving to Mars, Salvator Mundi, Winsome Pinnock & Amit Sharma

    Gavin Hood on his new film Official Secrets starring Keira Knightley.

  15. Víkingur Ólafsson, social housing on screen, Hannah Khalil

    Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson, playwright Hannah Khalil

  16. Aisling Bea, Booker Prize Double, Zawe Ashton

    Aisling Bea on her new drama Living with Yourself. Plus Zawe Ashton on her new play.

  17. Margaret Atwood book group, LA artist Mark Bradford, Peanut Butter Falcon review

    Booker shortlisted author Margaret Atwood, LA artist Mark Bradford, Peanut Butter Falcon.

  18. Sienna Miller, Elif Shafak, Giri/Haji

    Sienna Miller on American Woman, and Elif Shafak is the guest for the Front Row book group

  19. Nobel Prizes in Literature, Goldie's Drum'n'Bass picks, artist Es Devlin

    More controversy for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Goldie on Drum'n'Bass, Es Devlin

  20. Salman Rushdie, playwright Katori Hall, computer games tax avoidance

    Salman Rushdie answers listeners’ questions about his Booker shortlisted novel Quichotte.

  21. Extinction Rebellion, Staging Shakespeare, Timothee Chalamet in The King, Dancer/choreographer Dada Masilo

    Extinction Rebellion, Staging Shakespeare, The King, Dada Masilo

  22. The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Economics of Publishing, Ravel's Bolero

    Director Joe Talbot and star Jimmie Fails on The Last Black Man in San Francisco.

  23. Booker Book Group with Chigozie Obioma, RuPaul's Drag Race UK, Kurt Weill's The Silver Lake

    Booker Prize nominee Chigozie Obioma on his novel An Orchestra of Minorities.

  24. Debbie Harry, the Portraits of Gauguin, the best political podcasts

    Debbie Harry on her life and career and her new memoir, Face It

  25. Rupert Goold on his film Judy, Kara Walker reviewed, Booker Book Group with Bernardine Evaristo

    Director Rupert Goold on his Judy Garland biopic starring Renée Zellweger.

  26. The BBC National Short Story Award ceremony

    The winners are announced for the 2019 BBC NSSA and the Young Writers' Award.

  27. Helen Mirren, Joker, Rona Munro

    Helen Mirren on playing Catherine the Great in a new TV miniseries.

  28. Poetry and performance from Hull's Contains Strong Language festival

    Poetry and performance from Hull's Contains Strong Language festival

  29. Derek Paravicini, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Booker Book Group with Lucy Ellmann

    Derek Paravicini, the blind autistic savant pianist, performs on Front Row.

  30. Brittany Howard, Boarding schools in fiction, Ed Thomas

    Alabama Shakes' Brittany Howard discusses her first solo album, Jaime.

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