Front Row

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

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Sean Hayes, from Will & Grace, on his Tony Award-winning stage show Good Night, Oscar
Sean Hayes' play opens in London and how composer Shostakovich survived Stalin's purges.
05 Aug 2025,42 mins
Freakier Friday
Freakier Friday, returning Buddhist gems to India.
04 Aug 2025,42 mins
Review Show: The Naked Gun, Madonna, Paul Weller, The Assassin
The Naked Gun, The Assassin, new albums from Paul Weller and Madonna.
31 Jul 2025,42 mins
Artist Andy Goldsworthy on his five-decade retrospective exhibition.
Artist Andy Goldsworthy on his new exhibition which spans a five-decade career.
30 Jul 2025,42 mins
Motherland writer Helen Serafinowicz on making her debut as a playwright with a Liverpool legend
Booker Prize longlist examined, and the redeveloped National Science and Media Museum.
29 Jul 2025,42 mins
Tom Lehrer remembered, plus Nick Drake's unreleased songs
Tribute to Tom Lehrer by fellow songwriter Richard Stilgoe.
28 Jul 2025,42 mins
Review Show: Burlesque the Musical
Burlesque the Musical, Washington Black on Disney Plus, German black comedy Dying.
24 Jul 2025,42 mins
Prison-themed stage productions, Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne and the composer Bruckner's fascination with death masks
Prison-themed stage productions and the composer Bruckner's fascination with death masks.
23 Jul 2025,42 mins
Jimmy McGovern on Unforgivable and Has Marvel cracked the superhero reboot?
We discuss the new Fantastic Four, and Jimmy McGovern talks about BBC drama Unforgivable.
22 Jul 2025,42 mins
Mark Gatiss on Bookish
Mark Gatiss on new detective series Bookish, cuts to NPR, Inter Alia play and 80s film.
21 Jul 2025,42 mins
Review: The Narrow Road to the Deep North TV Series
TV series The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Friendship film, the latest AI advances.
17 Jul 2025,42 mins
How Scandinavian design has influenced our homes
How Scandinavian design has influenced our homes.
16 Jul 2025,42 mins
Football and Art - united in a new work created by former footballer Edgar Davids and artist Paul Pfeiffer
Football and Art, opera and theatre shorts, digital technology and the crime fiction novel
15 Jul 2025,42 mins
Gruelling film productions - stories from the sets of Apocalypse now and Fitzcarraldo
Tales from the set of infamous productions, Bastille Day, Errollyn Wallen, Kasim Ali novel
14 Jul 2025,42 mins
Review Show: Wet Leg's new album and Johnny Depp's artist biopic Modigliani
More than Human at the Design Museum, which explores how design can help the planet.
10 Jul 2025,42 mins
Kat Sadler, creator of BAFTA-winning sitcom Such Brave Girls
Kat Sadler, creator of BAFTA-winning sitcom Such Brave Girls. And the new opera Taj Mahal.
09 Jul 2025,42 mins
Superman is back on the big screen
Superman director James Gunn. Pioneering black film star Dorothy Dandridge, Gerald Scarfe.
08 Jul 2025,42 mins
Oasis comeback tour reviewed
Oasis comeback tour reviewed by Ted Kessler.
07 Jul 2025,42 mins
Review: RSC's The Constant Wife
Review show: RSC's The Constant Wife, Wendy Erskine's The Benefactors, Hot Milk film
03 Jul 2025,42 mins
Reaction to the Sean 'Diddy' Combs court case verdicts, and Back to the Future at 40
Back to the Future at 40 and reaction to the verdicts in the Sean 'Diddy' Combs trial.
02 Jul 2025,42 mins
Tim Key on his sleeper hit The Ballad of Wallis Island
Comedian and poet Tim Key on his sleeper hit The Ballad of Wallis Island.
01 Jul 2025,42 mins
Jurassic World Rebirth director Gareth Edwards
Jurassic World, Lena Dunham, and are militant groups exploiting the art market?
30 Jun 2025,42 mins
Review Programme: Van Gogh and Anselm Kiefer
We review the RA's Kiefer/Van Gogh exhibition, and new film From Hilde, with Love.
26 Jun 2025,42 mins
UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy
UK culture secretary LIsa Nandy on the government's Creative Industries Sector Plan.
25 Jun 2025,42 mins
Billy Porter on activism and artists
Billy Porter discusses his new play the Bitter Earth, and a look ahead to Glastonbury.
24 Jun 2025,42 mins
Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer on F1 starring Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt's F1, Erik Satie at 100, and a museum bringing history to life
23 Jun 2025,42 mins
Review Show: Pixar's new film Elio
Artist Jenny Saville at the National Portrait Gallery, Catherine Lacey's The Möbius Book
19 Jun 2025,42 mins
Mercury Prize-shortlisted pianist Fergus McCreadie plays live, plus poet and Edinburgh Makar Michael Pedersen on his new novel
Mercury Award-shortlisted pianist Fergus McCreadie performs live in the Front Row studio.
18 Jun 2025,42 mins
The producers of RuPaul's Drag Race, plus pianist Alfred Brendel remembered
A review of the Bedrock themed Liverpool Biennial which is back for its 13th edition.
17 Jun 2025,43 mins
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland on 28 Years Later
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland on their new film 28 Years Later
16 Jun 2025,42 mins,