Podcast Episodes

Daniel Day Lewis on his return to the big screen

On this week's Front Row review, we discuss a new production of Othello with David Harewood as the Moor and Toby Jones as Iago. Tom speaks with Dan…

7 months ago

Benedict Cumberbatch on The Thing with Feathers

Benedict Cumberbatch speaks to Kate Molleson about the new film adaptation of Max Porter's Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, an exploration of loss a…

7 months, 1 week ago

Sarah Snook, Riz Ahmed and return of Play for Today

Riz Ahmed is one of his generation’s great British actors. He starred alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler, before landing roles in big budget f…

7 months, 1 week ago

Zadie Smith and Brenda Blethyn live in studio

Zadie Smith talks about the art of the essay, as she publishes a non-fiction collection, Dead and Alive.

Brenda Blethyn discusses her new film Dragon…

7 months, 1 week ago

Review Show: Bugonia, Salman Rushdie stories, The Line of Beauty

Tahmima Anam and Tristram Fane Saunders join Tom Sutcliffe to review The Eleventh Hour, a collection of five short stories from Salman Rushdie in his…

7 months, 1 week ago

Live from Derry: two of the stars of police drama Blue Lights

Live from Derry.

As the climax of the current series approaches, actors Dearbháile McKinney and Martin McCann, two of the cast of hit police series B…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Prunella Scales, Palestine 36 film, Making Documentaries with World Leaders

In tribute to Prunella Scales, whose death was announced today, Front Row rebroadcasts an interview with the Fawlty Towers star from 2012, recorded o…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Reese Witherspoon on her novel and Colin Farrell on his new film

Actor Reese Witherspoon on why she's teamed up with thriller writer Harlan Coben to write a novel called Gone Before Goodbye, about a struck-off army…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere - Tom and guests deliver their verdict

Tom Sutcliffe and guests review the Bruce Springsteen film, Deliver Me From Nowhere, which tells the story of his recording of the album Nebraska Als…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

John Grisham on his new thriller, The Widow

Bestselling thriller writer John Grisham on his latest book, The Widow, in which a smalltown lawyer from Virginia finds himself accused of a serious …

7 months, 3 weeks ago