Front Row

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

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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.
29 Jun 2018,30 mins
Japan Special: Ryuichi Sakomoto, Japanese Short Stories, Sou Fujimoto
Ryuichi Sakomoto on his extraordinary career in music and beyond.
28 Jun 2018,30 mins
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.
27 Jun 2018,30 mins
Michael Jackson at the National Portrait Gallery, Kynren in Bishop Auckland
Michael Jackson's personal photographer Todd Gray talks to John Wilson.
26 Jun 2018,30 mins
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.
25 Jun 2018,30 mins
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.
22 Jun 2018,30 mins
James Corden, Poet Raymond Antrobus, Arts Minister Michael Ellis
James Corden talks to John Wilson about bringing his Late Late Show to London.
21 Jun 2018,30 mins
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.
20 Jun 2018,30 mins
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.
19 Jun 2018,30 mins
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.
18 Jun 2018,30 mins
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.
15 Jun 2018,30 mins
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.
14 Jun 2018,30 mins
Eddie Izzard, Wilko Johnson and novelist Benjamin Markovits
Comedian Eddie Izzard talks about why he is reading all of Dickens' novels aloud.
13 Jun 2018,30 mins
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.
12 Jun 2018,30 mins
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.
11 Jun 2018,30 mins
Pieter-Dirk Uys, Joan Bakewell and Christopher Frayling on older audiences, Gaël Faye
South African satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys on his new autobiographical show.
08 Jun 2018,30 mins
Rupert Everett, Abir Mukherjee, Sex and the City 20 years on
Rupert Everett on writing, directing and playing Oscar Wilde in The Happy Prince.
07 Jun 2018,30 mins
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.
06 Jun 2018,30 mins
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.
05 Jun 2018,30 mins
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.
04 Jun 2018,30 mins
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.
01 Jun 2018,30 mins
Westminster Abbey, The culture of the countryside, Gillian Allnutt
A visit to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries at Westminster Abbey.
31 May 2018,30 mins
Angélique Kidjo, Book Club reviewed, Roseanne controversy, novelist Anuradha Roy
Beninese singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo performs live and the film Book Club reviewed.
30 May 2018,30 mins
François Ozon's L'Amant Double, Patrick Heron, Rachel Kushner
François Ozon on his latest film, the psychological thriller L'Amant Double.
29 May 2018,30 mins
Dame Cleo Laine
At the age of 90, jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine looks back at her extraordinary career.
28 May 2018,30 mins
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.
25 May 2018,30 mins
Orla Kiely, British Asian theatre, Belinda Bauer
Designer Orla Kiely on her famous Stem graphics.
24 May 2018,30 mins
Novelist Philip Roth remembered
American novelist Philip Roth, 1933-2018.
23 May 2018,30 mins
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.
22 May 2018,30 mins
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.
21 May 2018,30 mins