Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Review Show: Kristin Scott Thomas in Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard
Thursday
Plus survival thriller Whalefall and Elif Shafak's novel about Gustave Flaubert.
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Comedian Leo Reich on his Channel 4 sitcom It Gets Worse
Wednesday
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music.
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Anne-Marie Duff, M John Harrison, Bayreuth 150th anniversary
Last Tuesday
Samira talks to Anne-Marie Duff and M John Harrison, the 150th anniversary of Bayreuth.
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Christine Baranski and Richard E Grant on Hay Fever
Last Monday
Also Douglas Stuart, London Film Festival and AI writing prize-winning books.
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Review Show: The Social Reckoning, The 90s at Tate Britain and reaction to Nobel Prize winner Anne Carson
Thu 8 Oct 2026
Plus Barbara Kingsolver's new novel Partita.
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Does the discovery of a 'talkie' made in 1926 change cinema history?
Wed 7 Oct 2026
News of a film made in 1926 which pioneered the use of new sound and audio technology.
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Johnny Marr on his new album
Tue 6 Oct 2026
Monet's letters and Booker shortlisted author Rebecca Perry.
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SNL, Paul Greengrass, The Bayeux Tapestry and Sarah Hall
Mon 5 Oct 2026
Saturday Night Live, film director Paul Greengrass, Booker-nominated novelist Sarah Hall
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Review Show: Tom Cruise in the film Digger
Thu 1 Oct 2026
Sienna Miller and Dominic West in Sky legal drama War and The Standard of Living play.
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Actors David Harewood and Sir Simon Russell Beale
Wed 30 Sep 2026
Simon Russell Beale on playing Liberace on stage and David Harewood on his new legal drama
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BBC National Short Story Award and Young Writers Award 2026
Tue 29 Sep 2026
The winners of both prizes are announced live from BBC Broadcasting House.
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Es Devlin retrospective, Sebastian Faulks, Turner Prize, Apple Music Hall
Mon 28 Sep 2026
Stage designer Es Devlin, novelist Sebastian Faulks, the Turner Prize and Apple Music Hall
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Front Row at the Contains Strong Language festival
Thu 24 Sep 2026
A special edition of Front Row from the BBC's Contains Strong Language festival
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Review Show: Exit Party by Emily St John Mandel, South Korean alien invasion thriller Hope and an adaptation of 1984.
Wed 23 Sep 2026
Our critics review three new dystopian thrillers - in novel form, on screen and on stage.
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Comedian Russell Kane on playing an older Romeo
Tue 22 Sep 2026
John Coltrane's centenary and the Booker Prize shortlist 2026.
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Roger Taylor, drummer from the super band Queen, on his latest album
Mon 21 Sep 2026
Plus the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, and ex-politicans under pressure in The Wargame.
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Review Show: Rose Tremain’s The Housekeeper, inspired by Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca
Thu 17 Sep 2026
Plus film Queen at Sea starring Juliette Binoche and Thelma & Louise the musical.
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The Proclaimers on their new album, You May Offend
Wed 16 Sep 2026
Novelist Kate Atkinson on her new novel, Our Noble Selves.
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Hermione Lee on her biography of the notoriously private author Anita Brookner
Tue 15 Sep 2026
Plus Ian McCulloch on Echo & the Bunnymen's new album.
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The Beatles' early days, Juliette Binoche's directorial debut, Jack Thorne
Mon 14 Sep 2026
Samira talks to Hunter Davies, Juliette Binoche, Jack Thorne and Lucy Caldwell.
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Review Show: Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum
Thu 10 Sep 2026
Rebecca F Kuang's new novel, and the BBC National Short Story Award is back.
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Call My Agent's writer and creator Fanny Herrero on bringing the French sitcom to the big screen
Tue 8 Sep 2026
Plus, Maria Friedman on playing a prematurely ageing teenager in her latest musical.
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Helen of Troy - a new play by Ava Pickett
Mon 7 Sep 2026
Plus The Cazalet Chronicles and the latest from the Venice Film Festival.
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Review: Pedro Almodóvar's new film Bitter Christmas
Thu 27 Aug 2026
Plus Ridley Scott's film The Dog Stars and Chloe Benjamin's novel Under Story.
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YouTube's Pedro Pina on the future of television, and celebrating Tim Curry
Wed 26 Aug 2026
Pedro Pina on the continuing evolution of tv, and celebrating the life of Tim Curry.
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Remembering Dolly Parton, Meg Mason and Notting Hill Carnival at 60
Tue 25 Aug 2026
Dolly Parton's last interview on Front Row.
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Review Show: Rachel Cusk's new novel and the return of the Looney Tunes
Thu 20 Aug 2026
Plus a comedy disaster movie from RuPaul's Drag Race universe.
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From the Edinburgh Festivals: Ann Droid and Motherland star Paul Ready; founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales; comedian Rosie Holt
Wed 19 Aug 2026
Paul Ready, star of Motherland and Ann Droid, on his one-man show Little Animals.
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