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Front Row Episodes

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    Love Island, Melvin Burgess, Milos Karadaglic and Joby Talbot, Roy Foster on Brian Friel

    Love Island is over, but what is the cultural impact? Plus Melvin Burgess on his new book.

  2. Dad's Army at 50, Jazz on streaming services, Marvellous Mechanical Museum

    Fifty years of Dad's Army, jazz renaissance on streaming services, and automata on show.

  3. Iceman, Suicide in the performing arts, Samuel Barber opera Vanessa

    Iceman, the film inspired by the discovery of Otzi, the prehistoric man.

  4. Marlon James, Mercury Prize shortlist, Decolonising museum collections

    Marlon James champions cult novel Oreo and we assess this year's Mercury Prize shortlist.

  5. Andre Holland, Housing for artists, Feminist sci-fi

    Moonlight actor Andre Holland on playing Othello with Mark Rylance as Iago.

  6. Exit the King, Man Booker Longlist, Tony Walsh, Nick Drnaso

    Playwright Patrick Marber on Exit the King, starring Rhys Ifans and Indira Varma.

  7. John Hurt's paintings, The Fool in King Lear, Summer reads for the UK

    John Hurt as Artist, and the role of the Fool in King Lear.

  8. Mission: Impossible - Fallout, American footballer-turned-opera star Morris Robinson, Commercial bookclubs

    Morris Robinson, American footballer-turned-opera star, tells his story - and sings.

  9. The Lehman Trilogy, Now That's What I Call Music 100, Zaffar Kunial

    Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Ben Miles on The Lehman Trilogy play.

  10. Alan Bennett and Nicholas Hytner, Diversity in children's fiction, Yves Klein at Blenheim Place

    Alan Bennett and director Nicholas Hytner discuss their new play Allelujah!

  11. Sacha Baron Cohen's Who Is America?, Glasgow School of Art Rebuild, Anita Corbin, China's Most Expensive Film Flops

    The verdict on Sacha Baron Cohen's new TV series and rebuilding the Glasgow School of Art.

  12. Pierce Brosnan on Mamma Mia, Irish arts funding, Summer reads

    Pierce Brosnan on his role in the Mamma Mia sequel, and arts funding news from Ireland.

  13. Agnès Varda, The rise of grime, Artistic superstitions

    Agnès Varda on her life in film and art.

  14. Eve Myles, Bernie Taupin, This Class Works exhibition

    Eve Myles on Welsh-noir thriller Keeping Faith.

  15. Singer Olly Alexander, Veteran documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, Can a critic call an actor overweight?

    Olly Alexander from Years and Years discusses the band's new album Palo Santo and performs

  16. 10/07/2018

    Holly Hunter talks to Samira Ahmed about her latest film, Incredibles 2.

  17. Oliver Knussen remembered, Natalie Dormer, Life modelling

    Mark Anthony Turnage and Roger Wright remember the life and work of Oliver Knussen.

  18. 100 Poems by Seamus Heaney, Jesse Jones, Ulysses at the Abbey Theatre

    Seamus Heaney's wife and daughter talk about gathering his poems in a new collection.

  19. Rob Brydon on Swimming With Men, Laura Wade, Ferens Art Gallery

    Rob Brydon on the set of film Swimming With Men, playwright Laura Wade, Claude Lanzmann.

  20. Emily Mortimer, Man Booker Prize at 50, Glasgow Women's Library

    Actor Emily Mortimer on a new film adaption of Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop.

  21. Film director Haifaa al-Mansour, Sharp Objects, Brooklands Museum, Holiday reads

    Saudi Arabia's first female director, Haifa al-Mansour.

  22. Maxine Peake, Gillian Lynne remembered, Whitney documentaries

    Maxine Peake on her new play Queens of the Coal Age, and a tribute to Dame Gillian Lynne.

  23. Fun Home, Portrayal of lesbians in drama, Caryl Phillips, Tate St Ives

    We review the stage musical adaption of Alison Bechdel's memoir Fun Home.

  24. Japan Special: Ryuichi Sakomoto, Japanese Short Stories, Sou Fujimoto

    Ryuichi Sakomoto on his extraordinary career in music and beyond.

  25. Bartlett Sher and The King and I, Olivia Laing, Museum of the Year report

    The King and I director Bartlett Sher, and Olivia Laing on her debut novel Crudo.

  26. Michael Jackson at the National Portrait Gallery, Kynren in Bishop Auckland

    Michael Jackson's personal photographer Todd Gray talks to John Wilson.

  27. Duran Duran, The Bradford Literature Festival, Stained Glass artist Brian Clarke, and the Poetry of Sun and Summer

    John Taylor and Roger Taylor on 40 years of making music in Duran Duran.

  28. Fly by Night, Tim Winton, Poems by teenagers, Music discovered in a painting

    Fly by Night pigeon art, Tim Winton's new novel, Kate Clanchy and her student poets.

  29. James Corden, Poet Raymond Antrobus, Arts Minister Michael Ellis

    James Corden talks to John Wilson about bringing his Late Late Show to London.

  30. Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain, GLOW star Kate Nash, Pop-up arts

    Singer and GLOW star Kate Nash, and model-turned-photographer Lee Miller and Surrealism.

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