Front Row

Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music

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Motown legends Brian and Eddie Holland
Legendary Motown songwriters Brian and Eddie Holland
25 Dec 2019,28 mins
Screenwriter Amanda Coe, Bad films we love, Diana Evans
Amanda Coe discusses her screenplay for TV drama The Trial of Christine Keeler
24 Dec 2019,28 mins
The Goes Wrong Show, Slow Painting, Reviving the high street with culture
The Goes Wrong Show, Slow Painting in Leeds, and reviving the high street with culture.
23 Dec 2019,28 mins
JJ Abrams, musicals moving from stage to screen, Derek Owusu
JJ Abrams on directing The Rise of Skywalker - the last film in the 42-year Star Wars saga
20 Dec 2019,28 mins
Robert De Niro on The Irishman, subverting the gaze, The Witcher showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich
Fairview director Nadia Latif and portraitist Lorna May Wadsworth on challenging the gaze
19 Dec 2019,28 mins
Saoirse Ronan, The Book People goes into administration, How to paint babies
Saoirse Ronan on playing Jo March in Little Women, indie publisher calamity, babies in art
18 Dec 2019,28 mins
Taron Egerton, A Christmas Carol, Joe Stilgoe
Taron Egerton on playing Elton John in the musical film Rocketman.
17 Dec 2019,30 mins
Mark Gatiss, Kate Rusby, Creating New Traditions
Mark Gatiss on his TV offerings - Martin's Close for Christmas, and Dracula at New Year
16 Dec 2019,28 mins
Jonathan Pryce, Survival literature, Fictional politicians
Jonathan Pryce on playing one of The Two Popes, and survival fiction.
13 Dec 2019,28 mins
Francesca Hayward on Cats and Romeo and Juliet, Joker composer Hildur Guðnadóttir
Ballet star Francesca Hayward on Romeo and Juliet and the new film version of Cats
12 Dec 2019,28 mins
Mike Bartlett, staging of art exhibitions, Any One Thing
Mike Bartlett, staging of art exhibitions, Any One Thing
11 Dec 2019,28 mins
Teenage Dick, Traces review, Olga Neuwirth, Nobel Prize for Literature controversy
A darkly comic take on Richard III with Teenage Dick.
10 Dec 2019,28 mins
Gender Imbalance in Art Collections, Whitechapel Bell Foundry, Three Sisters Rewired
Why women artists are hugely under presented in art collections and what to do about this.
09 Dec 2019,28 mins
Inua Ellams on Three Sisters, Noah Baumbach on Marriage Story, Art goes Bananas
Inua Ellams on transposing Chekhov's Three Sisters to 1960s Nigeria.
06 Dec 2019,28 mins
Front Row at BBC Music Introducing Live
Ferris & Sylvester perform at BBC Music Introducing Live
05 Dec 2019,27 mins
Lesley Manville, Turner Prize, Bat for Lashes
Award-winning actress Lesley Manville talks about her latest film, Ordinary Love
04 Dec 2019,28 mins
Difficult comedy audiences, Netflix v cinema?, Honey Boy, Romesh Gunesekera
Difficult comedy audiences, Honey Boy, Romesh Gunesekera and Netflix v Cinema?
03 Dec 2019,28 mins
Edward Norton, Elizabeth is Missing, artist Luke Jerram
Edward Norton on Motherless Brooklyn, TV adaptation of Elizabeth is Missing reviewed
02 Dec 2019,28 mins
The Boy in the Dress, Turner Prize Shortlisted Artists, The First Nowell
A review of new musical The Boy in the Dress based on David Walliams' book
29 Nov 2019,28 mins
Atlantics, Scheherazade and 1001 Nights, Political parties' arts manifestos
Poets Ruth Padel and Daljit Nagra on Scheherazade, the storyteller in 1001 Nights
28 Nov 2019,28 mins
Tributes to Clive James and Sir Jonathan Miller
Clive James and Sir Jonathan Miller remembered.
27 Nov 2019,28 mins
Costa Book Prize shortlist, Rian Johnson on Knives Out, art theft
We announce the 2019 Costa Book Prize shortlist and Rian Johnson on comedy Knives Out
26 Nov 2019,28 mins
Rapper Wretch 32, Hamlet on the Faroe Islands, Blue Story controversy
Wretch 32's memoir Rapthology, and Hamlet on the Faroe Islands
25 Nov 2019,28 mins
Coldplay and Leonard Cohen albums, Norman Cornish, Roy Chubby Brown controversy
Stig discusses new albums from Coldplay and the late Leonard Cohen
22 Nov 2019,28 mins
Harriet, Les Misérables and social realist films, risk in publishing, street art
Slave abolitionist Harriet Tubman's story makes it to the big screen, we review.
21 Nov 2019,28 mins
Frozen's Idina Menzel, Dora Maar, power in publishing
Idina Menzel on reprising her role as Elsa in Frozen II, and surrealist artist Dora Maar
20 Nov 2019,28 mins
Taylor Swift rights row, RJ Palacio, Nan Goldin and Judy Chicago reviewed, Le Mans '66 reviewed, Amazon's impact on publishing
Wonder writer RJ Palacio on her new graphic novel
19 Nov 2019,28 mins
Dear Evan Hansen, Emmanuel Jal, How to Make a Living as a Writer
Hit musical Dear Evan Hansen's co-creator and Sudanese hip-hop star Emmanuel Jal performs
18 Nov 2019,28 mins
Northern Ballet at 50, Art B&B, Iced Bodies
Northern Ballet at 50, Blackpool's Art B&B, Iced Bodies
15 Nov 2019,27 mins
Floods and art, Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries, Tom Rosenthal
How floods have affected - and been in depicted in - art, and Tom Rosenthal performs
14 Nov 2019,28 mins