Podcast Episodes

25 Years of 21st Century: Books

Front Row continues to look at how culture has changed in the first 25 years of this century with an edition focusing on books.

Tom Sutcliffe is in th…

1 year, 4 months ago

Robert de Niro, Gladiators exhibition, Festen: Mark Anthony Turnage and Lee Hall's new opera

Hollywood legend Robert De Niro explains why he's starring in his first ever TV series Zero Day, where he plays a former US President out to find the…

1 year, 4 months ago

Review: The Last Showgirl, Oedipus, Nobel author Han Kang's novel We Do Not Part

Tom is joined by the writer and broadcaster Octavia Bright and the Observer's theatre critic Susannah Clapp to review another version of the Greek cl…

1 year, 4 months ago

September 5 director Tim Fehlbaum, new Motherland spin-off TV series Amandaland, the history of Slapstick

Writer Holly Walsh and actor Lucy Punch on the Motherland spin-off series, Amandaland which also stars Joanna Lumley Director, screenwriter and produ…

1 year, 4 months ago

25 Years of 21st Century: Film and Television

Front Row continues to look at how culture has changed in the first 25 years of the century with an edition focusing on film and TV.

Samira is joined …

1 year, 4 months ago

Director Coralie Fargeat on The Substance, Josephine Baker's autobiography, poet Anne Carson on Elektra on stage

Coralie Fargeat has been nominated as best director for her film The Substance which stars Demi Moore. She tells Samira about her inspiration for th…

1 year, 4 months ago

Review: Mike Leigh's Hard Truths, Inside No. 9 on stage, film Saturday Night

Tom Sutcliffe is joined by writer Dreda Say Mitchell and critic Scott Bryan to assess the week's cultural releases, including a new stage version of …

1 year, 4 months ago

The Great Gatsby centenary, The Testament of Gideon Mack, A New Prize for Contemporary Dance

We celebrate the centenary of the publication of F Scott Fitzgerald's seminal novel The Great Gatsby, with Fitzgerald experts James West and Sarah Ch…

1 year, 4 months ago

Jane Austen's sister, artist Chila Kumari Singh Burman, football in fiction

As new BBC One drama adaptation, Miss Austen, shines fresh light on Jane Austen's sister Cassandra, Gill Hornby, who wrote the eponymous novel on whi…

1 year, 4 months ago

Samira Ahmed on the seismic transformation of music and the music industry so far this century

Front Row looks at how culture has changed in the first 25 years of this century, starting with Music.

Samira is joined by Radio 4's Add to Playlist …

1 year, 4 months ago