Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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Caitlin Moran, Beyonce and Jay-Z's new album, National Youth Folk Ensemble, Frank Styles
Caitlin Moran on her latest novel How to be Famous about fame, Britpop and revenge porn.
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Snatches, Carnegie Prize Winner, Best New Video Games, Glasgow School of Art fire
Vicky Featherstone on Snatches, celebrating the lives of women over the past 100 years.
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Frida Kahlo, Fly by Night, Queer Eye, Cats in literature
The new Frida Kahlo exhibition Making Her Self Up at the V&A and Queer Eye on TV.
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Ocean's 8, Football kit design, Tacita Dean on drawing, Classical pianist Alexis Ffrench on hip-hop
Ocean's 8 reviewed, football kit, hip-hop's lesson for the classics, the art of drawing.
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Eddie Izzard, Wilko Johnson and novelist Benjamin Markovits
Comedian Eddie Izzard talks about why he is reading all of Dickens' novels aloud.
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Rosemary's Baby at 50, scary movies, James Joyce's daughter Lucia
Film critic Kim Newman explores the impact of Polanski's chiller Rosemary's Baby.
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Timothy Spall, Tracy Chapman's Fast Car turns 30, Novelist Lissa Evans
Timothy Spall on playing every part in his new film Stanley, a Man of Variety.
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Pieter-Dirk Uys, Joan Bakewell and Christopher Frayling on older audiences, Gaël Faye
South African satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys on his new autobiographical show.
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Rupert Everett, Abir Mukherjee, Sex and the City 20 years on
Rupert Everett on writing, directing and playing Oscar Wilde in The Happy Prince.
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Women's Prize for Fiction winner, Jurassic World, Sunderland musician Nadine Shah, The Future Library
Front Row announces and interviews the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction.
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Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Shebeen in Nottingham, Will Sharpe, Vampyr video game
The 250th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition opens and is reviewed by Jacky Klein.
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David Edgar, Women's non-fiction writing, Art in the aftermath of World War One
Playwright David Edgar at 70, Art in the wake of WW1, Women's non-fiction writing.
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Orlando Bloom, Grief as muse, Antony Gormley, Novello Award-winning rapper Dave.
Orlando Bloom on his return to the stage as a cop and assassin in Killer Joe.
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Westminster Abbey, The culture of the countryside, Gillian Allnutt
A visit to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries at Westminster Abbey.
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Angélique Kidjo, Book Club reviewed, Roseanne controversy, novelist Anuradha Roy
Beninese singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo performs live and the film Book Club reviewed.
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François Ozon's L'Amant Double, Patrick Heron, Rachel Kushner
François Ozon on his latest film, the psychological thriller L'Amant Double.
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Dame Cleo Laine
At the age of 90, jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine looks back at her extraordinary career.
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Akram Khan, Egon Schiele and Francesca Woodman exhibition, soldier-turned-novelist Kevin Powers
Akram Khan shows us his home studio and discusses a life in dance.
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Orla Kiely, British Asian theatre, Belinda Bauer
Designer Orla Kiely on her famous Stem graphics.
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Novelist Philip Roth remembered
American novelist Philip Roth, 1933-2018.
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Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge on Star Wars, Andrew Sean Greer, Comic novels
Phoebe Waller-Bridge on being L3, a female droid in the latest Star Wars episode.
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Ian McKellen, The Handmaid's Tale Season 2, Bill Gold remembered, Tishani Doshi
Ian McKellen on life as an actor, review of The Handmaid's Tale Season 2, Tishani Doshi.
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Hamlet and As You Like It at Shakespeare's Globe, Mysterious Marginalia, Morris Dance Music
Hamlet and As You Like It, Michelle Terry's first productions at The Globe.
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Joel Meyerowitz, The Girl on the Train on stage, the Famous Women Dinner Service
Photographer Joel Meyerowitz, and a review of The Girl on the Train on stage.
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Brighton Festival, Laurie Anderson on the poetry of Lou Reed, Cannes Film Festival
Brighton Festival, Laurie Anderson and the poetry of Lou Reed, News from Cannes.
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King Lear, Tom Wolfe remembered, Deadpool 2, Royal Academy at 250
Richard Eyre on his new TV production of King Lear, starring Anthony Hopkins.
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Backstage at Swan Lake, Emily Bronte and Wuthering Heights, Kaffe Fassett
Behind the scenes at the Royal Ballet's new production of Swan Lake
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David Nicholls on Patrick Melrose, Gaz Coombes, Kayo Chingonyi
David Nicholls on adapting Patrick Melrose starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Male full-frontal nudity, Chris Lang, Stuart Hall's memoirs
Why is male full-frontal nudity so rare on screen?
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Neil Gaiman's How To Talk To Girls At Parties and rewatching old films in the #MeToo era
Author Neil Gaiman on the film version of his story How To Talk To Girls At Parties.