Podcast Episodes

Vivaldi film, author Ben Lerner and V+A East's Music Is Black exhibition

Primavera, a new film about Vivaldi tells the story of his composing for pupils of an institution for abandoned girls. We speak to the film's directo…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Echoes of Shakespeare in a Scottish gangster drama

Director Charlotte Regan on her new BBC thriller, Mint

Have heterosexual male novelists stopped writing sex scenes? We discuss with writer Luke Kennar…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Reviewing Lena Dunham's memoir, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Big Mistakes

Tom Sutcliffe is joined by reviewers Dreda Say Mitchell and Viv Groskop to consider Lena Dunham's controversial memoir - Famesick. A new adaptation o…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Dancer and choreographer Gene Kelly's wife and biographer Patricia Ward Kelly on Starstruck

Scottish Ballet's Starstruck honours Gene Kelly's creative legacy and his passion for creating "dance for the common man". His wife Patricia Ward Kel…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Jack Savoretti sings live, plus Turner Prize winner Veronica Ryan

Jack Savoretti sings a song from his latest album We Will Always Be The Way We Were, which is leading the race to top the charts this week.

David Sza…

1 month, 4 weeks ago

Mark Gatiss at the RSC and novelist Margaret Drabble

Mark Gatiss takes on the role he's always wanted to play, the lead in Brecht's Hitler satire The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.

As the Government cons…

1 month, 4 weeks ago

Reviewing new work from Francois Ozon, Amitav Ghosh and Jim Jarmusch

We review Francois Ozon's film: The Stranger. Based on the Albert Camus novel which has often been described as unfilmable...how well has he done? Am…

2 months ago

W1A writer John Morton on his new series Twenty Twenty Six

Writer and director John Morton, one of the team behind 2012 and W1A, on the new comedy Twenty Twenty Six, set in the run up to this year's football …

2 months ago

A darker side of a royal marriage

Writer Daisy Goodwin on Victoria: A Queen Unbound. Was the marriage between Victoria and Albert as idyllic as it has been portrayed? Her new play exp…

2 months ago

The Birth of Television: A Forgotten History

100 years ago, inventor John Logie Baird demonstrated his new 'televisor' to the public for the first time. In this special edition of Front Row, Sam…

2 months ago