Podcast Episodes

Muhammad Ali in South Shields, Sheila Fell exhibition in Cumbria, Dame Myra Hess

Playwright Ishy Din on his new play, Champion inspired by the 1977 visit of celebrated boxer, Muhammed Ali, to South Shields.

Art historian Frances S…

1 year, 7 months ago

Walter Salles on I'm Still Here, Matt Goss performs live, The Face magazine exhibition at National Portrait Gallery

Samira Ahmed talks to Brazilian director Walter Salles about his film I'm Still Here - which has already won multiple awards including the Golden Glo…

1 year, 7 months ago

Review: Bridget Jones; Linder Stirling exhibition; Memoir of a Snall animation

Robbie Collin and Louisa Buck join Tom Sutcliffe to review the fourth Bridget Jones film Mad About the Boy staring Renée Zellweger, the Oscar nominat…

1 year, 7 months ago

Future of TV soaps, Joseph O'Connor's new book, stage version of Murakami short stories

As scheduling changes are made to ITV soaps Coronation Street and Emmerdale, and as the 40th anniversary of EastEnders is celebrated with a live spec…

1 year, 7 months ago

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, 7 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, 7 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 months ago