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Yinka Shonibare, Sean Shibe, cinema and digital decay
April 08, 2024 19:09 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBArtist Yinka Shonibare talks about his new exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, which explores the legacy of Imperialism. Guitarist Sean Shibe performs early Scottish lute music and previews a new classical guitar concerto live in the Front Row studio. And film experts Stephen McConnachie and Inés Toharia explain how fast changing technology and digital decay is putting preserving cinema under threat. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Olivia Skinner
Beyonce’s new album Cowboy Carter, Netflix drama Ripley, Io Capitano movie reviewed
April 04, 2024 19:08 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBBeyonce’s new album Cowboy Carter - Netflix drama Ripley starring Andrew Scott - Io Capitano, the Oscar-nominated movie about teens in Senegal in search of a better life - all reviewed by film critic Leila Latif and music writer Jasper Murison-Bowie. And novelist and critic John Domini remembers the American novelist (and his former teacher) John Barth, author of cult bestseller Giles Goat Boy, who has died at the age of 93. Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Paul Waters
50 years of ABBA’s Waterloo, Harewood House exhibition, Trevor Griffiths remembered, the rise of eco fiction and drama
April 03, 2024 19:46 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBAlmost 50 years to the day when ABBA's Waterloo triumphed at Eurovision, ABBA specialist Carl Magnus Palm and Millie Taylor, professor of musical theatre, discuss how the song became such an all-conquering hit. A visit to Harewood House to see a new exhibition, Colours Uncovered, which tells the story of this stately home through the prism of colour. Darren Pih, chief curator and artistic director of the Harewood House Trust and curator and archivist Rebecca Burton, take Nick through the ho...
Dev Patel on Monkey Man, which books are on the curriculum?
April 02, 2024 19:10 - 42 minutes - 39 MBActor Dev Patel joins to talk about his directorial debut Monkey Man, a movie inspired by the Indian legend of Hunaman that tells the dark and brutal story of a young man in Mumbai out to avenge the life of his mother. As exam season approaches we ask which books are currently being taught in our schools, and why? We speak to Kit de Waal, whose breakthrough novel My Name is Leon has just been made a curriculum text, and Carol Atherton, English teacher and author of “Reading Lessons: The Bo...
The National Gallery at 200
April 01, 2024 18:42 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBThe National Gallery opened its doors on 10th May 1824. The public could view 38 paintings, free. Now there are more than 2,300, including many masterpieces of European art by geniuses such as Rembrandt, Turner and Van Gogh. It is still free. The gallery's director, Gabriele Finaldi, guides Samira Ahmed through the collection. Artists Barbara Walker, Bob and Roberta Smith and Celine Condorelli, last year's artist-in-residence , choose paintings from the collection that are important to th...
Steven Knight drama This Town reviewed, The Perth Museum re-opening
March 28, 2024 20:07 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBPeaky Blinders' writer Steven Knight's new drama, This Town, is out this week. Author Daniel Rachel and art historian Sarah Gaventa review. We'll also review a landmark exhibition on the Italian designer Enzo Mari which opens at the Design museum, showcasing his infinite calendar, self assembly book cases and beautiful children’s books. We take a look inside Perth Museum after its 27 million pound refurbishment. And we remember the American Sculptor Richard Serra who has died at the ag...
Big Mood, how does comedy work? Bach St John Passion
March 27, 2024 20:19 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBCamilla Whitehill on her new Channel 4 sitcom Big Mood, starring Nicola Coughlan and Lydia West, which explores the lives of Millennials. Gareth Malone and Hannah French celebrate Bach's St John Passion, which was first performed in Leipzig 300 years ago this Easter. Joel Morris, author of Be Funny or Die, discusses how comedy works and what makes us laugh with Father Ted director Lissa Evans. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Olivia Skinner
Norah Jones performs, Sir Ian McKellen on Player Kings, Keisha Thompson
March 26, 2024 21:02 - 42 minutes - 39 MBNorah Jones discusses her new album, Visions, and reflects on the song, Come Away With Me, that made her name along with a special performance in the Front Row studio; Sir Ian McKellen and theatre director Robert Icke on tackling one of Shakespeare's greatest characters, Falstaff, in their new production Player Kings; and Keisha Thompson on how her year as artist-in-residence at Yorkshire Sculpture Park led to her creation of "sculpted poetry" in her new collection, Dé-rive. Presenter: Ni...
Poet Nikki Giovanni, Andrew Buchan on TV drama Passenger
March 25, 2024 20:31 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBNikki Giovanni is one of only a handful of poets whose work has been published as a Penguin Modern Classic in their own life time. A key figure of America's Black Arts Movement as both a writer an activist, she speaks to Tom about her life and career. A well-known actor, Andrew Buchan has now turned to writing with Passenger, the new ITV crimes drama set in the gothic landscape of the Lancashire-Yorkshire border. And Oxford's Ashmolean museum has a new exhibition of Flemish drawings, Brue...
Kristen Wiig drama Palm Royale and animation Robot Dreams reviewed, Michael Ondaatje on his new poetry collection
March 21, 2024 20:09 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBThe Independent’s chief film critic Clarisse Loughrey and the Telegraph’s film critic Tim Robey review the Oscar-nominated animation Robot Dreams which follows the friendship of a dog and a robot - can their bond survive Robot being locked up on Coney Island beach, after his joints rust over following a paddle in the sea? They also give their verdict on Apple TV’s drama Palm Royale, in which a former beauty queen longs to join the super-rich ladies who lunch in 1960s Florida. And on World...
Kazuo Ishiguro on jazz, March hares and film ratings
March 20, 2024 20:25 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBWriter Kazuo Ishiguro and jazz musician Stacey Kent talk about collaborating on their new book of lyrics, The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain. What’s the significance of the hare in art and mythology? To mark the season of the March hare, writer Jane Russ, sculptor Sophie Ryder and musician Fay Hield explain. And following the British Board of Film Classification’s update to their guidance, film critic Larushka Ivan Zedah and professor of film Ian Christie ask what age ratings mean f...
Iranian graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi, using AI for alternative history, and the Harlow Sculpture Trail
March 19, 2024 20:05 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBIranian graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi talks to Samira Ahmed about her new book - Women, Life, Freedom - which she has created with 17 Iranian and international comic book artists. Women, Life, Freedom tells the story of the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman detained for allegedly not properly wearing the Islamic headscarf in 2022 and the protest movement in Iran that grew from her death. In the Event of Moon Disaster is a new exhibition at the Sainsbury...
Marjane Satrapi, using AI for alternative history, and the Harlow Sculpture Trail
March 19, 2024 20:05 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBMarjane Satrapi is best known for being the cartoonist and film maker behind Persepolis. She talks to Samira Ahmed about her new book - Woman, Life, Freedom - which she has created with 17 Iranian and international comic book artists. It documents the story of the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, a woman detained for allegedly not properly wearing the Islamic headscarf in 2022, and the subsequent protest movement which has swept Iran. In the Event of Moon Disaster is part of a n...
Architect Daniel Libeskind, composer Karl Jenkins
March 18, 2024 20:27 - 42 minutes - 39 MBDaniel Libeskind, the architect best known for the Jewish Museum in Berlin and the World Trade Centre masterplan in New York, talks about designing a building to house Einstein’s archive in Jerusalem. As Germany celebrates the 250th birthday of the painter Caspar David Friedrich with three major exhibitions, art historians Louisa Buck and Waldemar Januszczak discuss the significance of the Romantic artist famous for his paintings of people in evocative landscapes. And the musician and co...
Keir Starmer, Monster and Reading Genesis reviewed
March 14, 2024 20:28 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBLabour leader Keir Starmer joins to discuss his party's new arts strategy, which he unveiled this morning, aiming to boost access to the arts and grow the creative industries. Writer and theologian Professor Tina Beattie and critic and broadcaster Matthew Sweet review Marilynne Robsinson’s new book Reading Genesis which offers a fresh look at the story of creation as told in the first book of the Bible. They also give their verdict on the Japanese filmmaker Kore-eda Hirokazu's new film Mo...
Paul Theroux on Orwell, Patsy Rodenburg on training actors, musician Sam Lee
March 13, 2024 20:30 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBPaul Theroux discusses his new novel, Burma Sahib, about George Orwell’s formative years as a colonial police officer in what is now Myanmar. Voice expert Professor Patsy Rodenburg quit her job over fears that actors’ traditional “craft” skills are being lost, as screen acting overshadows theatre work. Sam Lee, Bernard Butler and James Keay perform live and talk about Sam's new album, Songdreaming. Sam draws on traditional songs to explore the richness and fragility of the natural world he...
Philippa Gregory on Richard III, Blackpool's Showtown, has the superhero franchise bubble burst?
March 12, 2024 20:41 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBHistorical novelist Philippa Gregory talks to Nick Ahad about writing her first stage play, Richard, My Richard, for Shakespeare North Playhouse in Prescot. Unlike Shakespeare's, Gregory's play is a tender, passionate, portrait of man in his time, surrounded by the women who influence his fate. With Marvel, DC and Sony superhero films boring fans and the box office, Nick speaks with Comic Crush editor Paul Dunne and film journalist Feyi Adebanjo about what's gone wrong and if these billion ...
Philippa Gregory on Richard III, has the superhero franchise bubble burst?
March 12, 2024 20:41 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBHistorical novelist Philippa Gregory talks to Nick Ahad about writing her first stage play, Richard, My Richard, for Shakespeare North Playhouse in Prescot. Unlike Shakespeare's, Gregory's play is a tender, passionate, portrait of man in his time, surrounded by the women who influence his fate. With Marvel, DC and Sony superhero films boring fans and the box office, Nick speaks with Comic Crush editor Paul Dunne and film journalist Feyi Adebanjo about what's gone wrong and if these billion ...
Beth Ditto of Gossip, Ethan Coen on Drive-Away Dolls, Michael Donkor
March 11, 2024 20:08 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBBeth Ditto talks to Tom Sutcliffe about reuniting with her band Gossip for their first new album in nearly a decade. Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke discuss collaborating as a husband and wife team on their new film, Drive Away Dolls. Michael Donkor discusses his new novel Grow Where They Fall, about a young British Ghanian teacher exploring his sexuality, heritage and past. Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Paula McGrath
Beth Ditto of Gossip, Ethan Coen on Drive-Away Dolls
March 11, 2024 20:08 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBBeth Ditto talks to Tom Sutcliffe about reuniting with her band Gossip for their first new album in nearly a decade. Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke discuss collaborating as a husband and wife team on their new film, Drive Away Dolls. Michael Donkor discusses his new novel Grow Where They Fall, about a young British Ghanian teacher exploring his sexuality, heritage and past. Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Paula McGrath
Nye at the National Theatre and football documentary Copa 71 reviewed
March 07, 2024 20:15 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBNye at the National Theatre and football documentary Copa 71 reviewed.
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March 07, 2024 20:15 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBLive magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
Jordan Harvey in session, Nye and Copa 71 reviewed
March 07, 2024 20:15 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBThe up'n'coming Scottish country singer performs songs from his debut album It Is What It Is ahead of his debut solo performance at the Country To Country Festival in London this weekend. Plus, Susannah Clapp, the theatre critic for the Observer, and Boyd Hilton, the entertainment director of Heat Magazine, join to review the new play Nye at the National, which stars Michael Sheen as the politician who helped found the NHS and to look at the new football documentary Copa 71 about the real l...
Ava DuVernay on Origin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julianne Moore
March 06, 2024 20:13 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBAva DuVernay talks to Tom Sutcliffe about her latest film, Origin. It stars Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor as the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson, following her journey as she researches her best-selling book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents while dealing with personal tragedy. Gabriel García Márquez’s final novel Until August is being published posthumously today despite his final wishes. His son Gonzalo explains why, and critics Max Liu and Blake Morrison discuss the eth...
Kate Rusby, Edward Bond, Eve Steele and the decline of female filmmakers
March 05, 2024 21:40 - 42 minutes - 39 MBThe acclaimed English folk singer-songwriter Kate Rusby performs live and chats about her new Singy Songy Session Tour. Theatre critic Michael Billington celebrates the life and legacy of the provocative British playwright Edward Bond, whose death was announced today. Dr Stacy Smith, and film data researcher Stephen Follows, discuss Dr Smith's recent report revealing that the number of female film directors in Hollywood has fallen. And playwright Eve Steele on her new play, Work It Out, ...
Edward Bond, Kate Rusby, Eve Steele and the decline of female film-makers
March 05, 2024 21:40 - 42 minutes - 39 MBTheatre critic Michael Billington celebrates the life and legacy of the provocative British playwright Edward Bond, whose passing was announced today. The acclaimed English folk singer-songwriter performs live and chats about her new Singy Songy Session Tour. Film data researcher Stephen Follows and Dr Stacy Smith join to discuss her recent report that the number of female directors in film and television continues to decline in the US and what it means for the industry. And playwright Ev...
Ray Winstone, K Patrick, Ferris & Sylvester
March 04, 2024 20:09 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBRay Winstone, star of Sexy Beast and Nil By Mouth, talks about new Netflix series The Gentlemen brought to television screens by director Guy Ritchie. K Patrick’s in the studio to read from their first collection of poetry Three Births, which explores nature, contemporary queer experience and pop-culture icons like Catwoman and George Michael. And folk duo Ferris & Sylvester perform live and discuss their new album, Otherness. Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Corinna Jones
Dune 2, Brian Bilston, Angelica Kauffman RA, Nachtland
February 29, 2024 21:19 - 42 minutes - 39 MBThis week sees the release of the much anticipated Dune part 2, the sequel to 2021’s part 1, a series based on Frank Herbert’s 1960’s sci fi classic. We also look at Marius von Mayenburg’s play Nachtland directed by Patrick Marber at the Young Vic in London and Angelica Kauffman: the Swiss artist finally gets a solo exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, more than 250 years after she was one of its founding members. Seán Williams and Sam Marlowe review. Plus, the 'unofficial poet Laureate...
Benjamin Britten, director Kaouther Ben Hania, music from Owen Spafford and Louis Campbell
February 28, 2024 20:16 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBKate Molleson talks to Kaouther Ben Hania about her Oscar-nominated documentary Four Daughters, which explores the impact of two sisters fleeing to join Islamic State, by bringing in actors to play them alongside the rest of their family in Tunisia. We look at two new plays about British composer Benjamin Britten and the light they shed on a life shrouded with mystery and controversy. Kate is joined by Erica Whyman, the director of Ben and Imo by Mark Ravenhill, which is on at the Royal Sh...
The Jury: Murder Trial, Bhangra Nation, Bluestockings
February 27, 2024 20:09 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBChannel 4’s new reality TV series, The Jury: Murder Trial features a real-life murder case, re-run in front of two juries who are unaware of each other’s existence. Its creator Ed Kellie and BBC News' former legal affairs correspondent Clive Coleman discuss what the TV experiment tells us about how emotions can be swayed in the courtroom - and whether the juries will reach the same verdict. Susannah Gibson’s new book “Bluestockings: The First Women’s Movement” explores the often overlooke...
Sheridan Smith. Movement Coaches and Sexism in French Cinema
February 26, 2024 20:08 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBIn an exclusive for Front Row, Sheridan Smith performs Magic, a song from her new musical Opening Night, which is directed by Ivo Van Hove, with music from Rufus Wainwright. They discuss creating the new musical, which is based on the 1970s film and follows an actress going through a breakdown as she prepares to open a new show on Broadway. Journalist Agnes Poirier on the French film awards the Cesars, and why they were overshadowed by allegations of male directors sexually abusing young fe...
Minority Report at Nottingham Playhouse, Wicked Little Letters, and TV series Boarders reviewed
February 22, 2024 21:15 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBMinority report, the Sci-Fi classic by Philip K Dick, has already been adapted for film and television and now it’s a stage play that employs an innovative mix of technology, stagecraft and live performance. As it opens at the Nottingham Playhouse, Mark Burman talks to some of the creatives involved. We review Wicked Little Letters, a black comedy starring Olivia Coleman and Jessie Buckley about a real-life poison pen letter writing campaign that scandalised a small seaside town in Susse...
Wim Wenders, Len Pennie and Angus Robertson
February 21, 2024 20:23 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBWim Wenders on his new Oscar nominated Japanese language film Perfect Days, about a toilet cleaner in Tokyo as he goes about his work. Koji Yakusho won the Best Actor Award when the film premiered at this year’s Cannes film festival, and the film has been dubbed ‘slow cinema’. Len Pennie came to prominence as a poet on social media during the Covid pandemic. As she publishes her first collection, Poyums, the feminist performance poet talks about writing predominantly in the Scots language....
Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Sarsgaard, Casting Directors
February 20, 2024 20:09 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBRhiannon Giddens, the musician, composer and former lead singer of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, performs live with her band. She talks about her work in uncovering the real history of the banjo and writing her first solo album of original material. Peter Sarsgaard discusses playing a man with early onset dementia in Memory, a performance that won him the Best Actor Award at last year’s Venice Film Festival. What is the role of a casting director? As the BBC launches Bring the Drama, ...
Sir Peter Blake, David Harewood, John Logan
February 19, 2024 20:13 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBSir Peter Blake is famous for his Pop Art paintings, collages and album covers – and not just Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. But the artist, now 91, has throughout his career made three dimensional works. For the first time in two decades there is an exhibition devoted to these. Samira Ahmed meets the artist in the gallery on the eve of the opening of Peter Blake: Sculpture and Other Matters. Actor David Harewood is appointed the new President of RADA – the Royal Academy for the Dra...
Jed Mercurio on Breathtaking, Yoko Ono retrospective reviewed
February 15, 2024 20:18 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBThe writer of Line of Duty, Jed Mercurio, a former doctor, turns his attention to the impact of the Covid pandemic on NHS staff and patients in the ITV drama Breathtaking. Tom Sutcliffe talks to him and co-writer Prasanna Puwanarajah, who’s also an ex-doctor, about the power of drama depicting recent events. The Arts Council England has come in for criticism for new guidance about “overtly political” art, guidelines that some artists felt could amount to censorship. Darren Henley, the Ch...
Ukraine drama A Small Stubborn Town, Emma Rice, The Hugo Awards
February 14, 2024 20:39 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBAndrew Harding on the Radio 4 drama, A Small Stubborn Town, inspired by his work as the BBC Ukraine correspondent Emma Rice is one the UK’s most celebrated theatre-makers known for her musical and comedic approach, and with numerous innovative and successful productions such as Brief Encounter, The Red Shoes, and Tristan and Yseult, under her belt. As her latest production goes on a UK tour, she talks to Nick about reimagining that darkest of fairy tales, Blue Beard, as a feminist cri de co...
Stephen Sanchez, Godzilla turns 70
February 13, 2024 20:17 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBStephen Sanchez found fame on Tik Tok, bringing his 1950s inspired music and style to an audience of young fans. At just 20 years old, he was Elton John’s guest on the main stage at Glastonbury. He talks to Samira Ahmed about his UK tour and performs two songs from his new album, Angel Face. What do Gen Z’s viewing habits mean for the future of TV and film? Dr Antonia Ward, Chief Futurist at Stylus, and Entertainment Reporter Palmer Haasch explain how the preferences of younger viewers a...
Reinaldo Marcus Green on One Love, Bryce Dessner of The National
February 12, 2024 20:15 - 42 minutes - 39 MBDirector Reinaldo Marcus Green talks to Tom Sutcliffe about One Love, his biopic about the legendary reggae singer-songwriter Bob Marley and his music. Bryce Dessner, the guitarist of the award-winning rock band The National, discusses his other life in classical music and writing a new concerto for pianist Alice Sara Ott, which is having its UK premiere at the Royal Festival Hall. This week the liturgical calendar marks the moment when Joseph was warned by an angel of King Herod’s intent ...
One Day, American Fiction, Beyond Form
February 08, 2024 20:12 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBTom Sutcliffe talks to the Evening Standard’s Arts Editor Nancy Durrant and art historian and curator Catherine McCormack about a new adaptation of David Nicholls’s book, One Day, which is released on Netflix today. It follows Emma and Dexter who meet at their graduation in Edinburgh in the late 80s, as they weave in and out of each other’s lives. They also discuss Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction, a new exhibition featuring the work of women artists who pushed at the boundaries of art-mak...
The Chosen, Cymande, Tayari Jones
February 07, 2024 20:15 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBThe Chosen, a self-funded TV drama about the life of Christ, has become an international hit with over 100 million views. The creator Dallas Jenkins explains why he wanted to make a bingeable series about Jesus and Priest Lucy Winkett and historian Joan Taylor discuss its impact and significance. The 1970s Soul Funk band Cymande has had a lasting influence on music globally, but they are little known in the UK where they first formed. Director Tim McKenzie Smith explored their music and ...
The Reytons, Phoebe Eclair-Powell, Andrew McMillan
February 06, 2024 21:01 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBThe Reytons' second album, What's Rock and Roll, debuted at No 1 in the charts - a rare feat for a band without a label. They discuss following it up with Ballad of a Bystander which features songs about pulling and politics. Phoebe Eclair-Powell on her Bruntwood Prize-winning play, Shed: Exploded View, which was inspired by the work of art Cornelia Parker created when she asked the British Army to blow up a garden shed, capturing the fragments in a frozen moment. The play centres on three...
Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter, Jez Butterworth and Declan McKenna
February 05, 2024 20:20 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBOscar-winning director and artist Steve McQueen has collaborated with his partner, the writer and historian Bianca Stigter, to document the hidden histories of World War Two beneath the streets of modern day Amsterdam. The couple join Samira to discuss their mesmerising and poetic new film. Mojo brought him great success when he was just 26. Later came Jerusalem, the greatest play of the 20th century in the Daily Telegraph theatre critic’s opinion. Then, The Ferryman, also highly acclaimed....
Legion exhibition at the British Museum and Mr and Mrs Smith reviewed
February 01, 2024 20:08 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBToday the British Museum unveils a new exhibition – Legion: Life in the Roman Army – on the lives of soldiers who helped conquer more than a million square miles of land, settling in communities from Scotland to the Red Sea. Elodie Harper – author of the Wolf Den trilogy - and critic Amon Warmann give their verdict on the exhibition as well as the new Amazon Prime spy comedy Mr & Mrs Smith - and how it compares with the 2005 Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie film version. And Tom Sutcliffe talk...
Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone, author Leo Vardiashvili and the Great Escapes exhibition at Kew
January 31, 2024 20:13 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBAward-winning actress Lily Gladstone on working with Martin Scorsese and Native American representation in his new film Killers of the Flower Moon. Leo Vardiashvili chats about his new book set in his hometown of Tbilisi, Georgia in the post-Soviet era. Curators William Butler and Roger Kershaw talk about their new exhibition, 'Great Escapes: Remarkable Second World War Captives' at the National Archives at Kew. It explores not just the creativity involved in physically getting away from ...
Jonny Greenwood of The Smile, Self Esteem on music industry report, Artes Mundi prize winner
January 30, 2024 20:55 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBThe Smile is a trio comprising Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner. That Yorke and Greenwood are members of Radiohead assures keen interest the band. Nick Ahad talks to Jonny Greenwood about Wall of Eyes, The Smile’s second album. After many years Greenwood still enjoys making music with Yorke, and drummer Tom Skinner adds to the excitement. The winner of this year’s Artes Mundi prize, the UK’s leading international contemporary art prize is Taloi Havinian, an artist from the A...
Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, Gruff Rhys, Colin Barrett
January 29, 2024 20:08 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBSarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, who have been married for close to thirty years, talk to Tom Sutcliffe about playing three couples on stage in Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite. They’re joined by director John Benjamin Hickey to explain why they wanted to bring this very New York show to London’s West End. Having won both awards and praise for his short stories, Colin Barrett discusses his funny and thrilling first novel Wild Houses, set in the margins rural Ireland. Welsh musician, c...
The Color Purple reviewed, and the pop concert as cinema phenomenon
January 25, 2024 20:16 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBThe Color Purple reviewed, and the pop concert as cinema phenomenon.
Masters of the Air, Ronan Bennett on his Top Boy novel, hobbies and DIY art
January 24, 2024 20:17 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBMasters of the Air creator John Orloff, Literary spin offs from film and TV with Ronan Bennet and Robert Lautner, and when does a hobby turn into art? with Miriam Elia and Hetain Patel. Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Corinna Jones
Oscar Nominations, Howard Jacobson, Culture Funding Cuts
January 23, 2024 20:18 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBFollowing today’s announcement of the 2024 Oscar nominations, film critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh joins Front Row to consider how well this year’s shortlisted categories reflect the year in cinema. In Howard Jacobson’s new novel, What Will Survive of Us, nothing much happens but everything changes. Lily and Sam, in middle age and longstanding relationships – with other people - fall in love, then stay that way for years and years. The Booker Prize winning author talks to Shahidha Bari about lo...