Front Row Episodes Episode guide
-
Colm TĂłibĂn
Covid-related theatre closures and a dance round-up with Sarah Crompton.
-
Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Sarah Phelps, puppetry on stage
Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, and BBC TV's drama series A Very British Scandal.
-
Cat Power performs live. Amanda Gorman poetry, Sex And The City follow up and Drive My Car reviewed
Cat Power performs live.
-
Musician Carwyn Ellis performs; The Rules of Art? exhibition; filmmaker Rosemary Baker; Port Talbot postcard
Welsh musician Carwyn Ellis performs live from Cardiff.
-
Steven Spielberg, Working Class Heritage, Will Sharpe
Steven Spielberg on his remake of West Side Story.
-
Playwright James Graham on Best of Enemies; Lamb film review; The Belarus Free Theatre; remembering actor Antony Sher
Political dramatist James Graham on writing his new play, Best of Enemies.
-
The Hand of God and DĂĽrer exhibition reviewed, Aaron Sorkin on Lucille Ball
The Hand of God, Paolo Sorrentino's autobiographical film, reviewed. Plus Aaron Sorkin
-
The 2021 Turner Prize Ceremony
Front Row live from the 2021 Turner Prize Ceremony.
-
The Parthenon Marbles; Get Back documentary review; Turner Prize nominees Project Artworks; the literary canon
We take a deep dive into the decades old dispute around the fate of the Parthenon Marbles.
-
Kelly Lee Owens, Stephen Sondheim, Rowan Williams, Black Obsidian Sound System
Musician Kelly Lee Owens, Stephen Sondheim's songwriting, poems by Rowan Williams, BOSS.
-
House of Gucci, Adele's 30 and The Every by Dave Eggers
House of Gucci reviewed
-
Suzanne Lacy, Bishop Auckland, Silent Night
Artist Suzanne Lacy on standing at the junction of aesthetics and activism, Silent Night.
-
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Turner Prize nominees Gentle / Radical, Costa Book Awards
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Turner Prize nominees Gentle / Radical, Costa Book Awards.
-
The Power of the Dog film review; Turner Prize nominees Cooking Sections; South African literature today
We review Jane Campion’s new film The Power of the Dog, starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
-
King Richard, Wheel of Time and new Zadie Smith play reviewed, Playwright Moira Buffini
We review King Richard, about the Williams sisters and their father, starring Will Smith.
-
Ralph Fiennes on Four Quartets, Songlines exhibition, art postcard from Plymouth
Ralph Fiennes on performing in his stage adaptation of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets.
-
Céline Sciamma on her film Petite Maman, author Sarah Moss on The Fell, diversity in folk arts
Writer and director Céline Sciamma on her new film Petite Maman.
-
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Climate Fiction, Kayleigh Llewellyn
Lin-Manuel Miranda on making his debut as a film director with tick, tick...BOOM!
-
Tori Amos performs, The Courtauld Gallery reopening and Dopesick series reviewed, Heidi Stephens live blogs
Singer-songwriter Tori Amos plays live from Cornwall.
-
Art in Shetland, Timothy Ogene, Sharon Heal and Paul McCartney
Jen Stout reports on the ancient and modern arts in Shetland.
-
Venice and climate change, the story that inspired Dostoevsky, Dean Stockwell remembered
Venice under threat, the story that inspired Dostoevsky, Dean Stockwell remembered.
-
Jeymes Samuel on The Harder They Fall, author Sofi Oksanen, John Gilchrist of UK Theatre, Paul McCartney
Film-maker and musician Jeymes Samuel AKA The Bullitts on his film The Harder They Fall.
-
Spencer, Alan Cumming and Paul McCartney
Alexandra Shulman and Leila Latif discuss Spencer, the controversial new film about Diana.
-
The 2021 Booker Prize Ceremony
The winner of the 2021 Booker Prize is announced live from the Radio Theatre at the BBC.
-
Little Amal, Anne Carson, Paul McCartney and The National Trust
Little Amal, Anne Carson, Paul McCartney and the future of The National Trust.
-
Armando Iannucci, Booker shortlisted author Maggie Shipstead, Paul McCartney on Penny Lane
Armando Iannucci discusses his mock-heroic epic poem and Paul McCartney on Penny Lane.
-
Passing film, Colin in Black and White, Booker Prize book group on Bewilderment, Paul McCartney
Michael Donkor and Jan Asante review the film Passing and series Colin in Black and White.
-
The reopening of the Hall for Cornwall, Paul McCartney on Eleanor Rigby and Booker Prize nominated author Nadifa Mohamed
Front Row visits Truro to report on the re-opening of the Hall for Cornwall.
-
Booker shortlisted novelist Patricia Lockwood, Science Museum director Ian Blatchford, Paul McCartney
Science Museum greenwashing claims: museum director Ian Blatchford responds.
-
Paul McCartney, Paul Muldoon, Booker Prize Book Group on The Promise
Paul McCartney reveals how he wrote The Beatles’ classic, All My Loving.