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Back to SearchChristos Tsiolkas, Victoria Canal, Baillie Gifford festival sponsorship
Christos Tsiolkas, the Australian writer best known for The Slap, talks about The In-Between, his visceral yet tender new novel about two men finding…
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Queenie, Female pirates, dating dramas
Presenter Samira Ahmed talks to Candice Carty-Williams who has adapted her award-winning novel Queenie for an eight-part series on Channel 4, starrin…
2 years ago
Richard Linklater, Ultimate 90s Bollywood Song, Esther Swift
American director Richard Linklater, who made his name with Boyhood and the Before Sunset films, talks about his new comedy thriller Hit Man, which s…
2 years ago
Review: The Beast, We Are Lady Parts, Beyond Fashion exhibition
Samira Ahmed is joined by author Anita Sethi and critic Tim Robey to review time-skipping sci-fi epic The Beast, where human emotions are perceived a…
2 years ago
Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett, Degas exhibitions, Chigozie Obioma
Adrian Dunbar is co-curator of the Beckett Unbound Festival that takes place in various venues across Liverpool this weekend and sees him directing B…
2 years ago
Bernard Butler, Kafka, Benedict Cumberbatch
Hollywood star Benedict Cumberbatch talks about his new series Eric, where he plays a troubled puppeteer in 80s New York whose life and marriage unra…
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Hay Festival 2024 - Young Adult Fiction
In a special edition of Front Row recorded at this year's Hay Festival, school children and young people put questions to four giants of Young Adult …
2 years ago
The Sympathizer, Ivor Novello Awards, Michelle Terry on Richard III
Samira Ahmed is joined by the Guardian’s music editor Ben Beaumont-Thomas plus cultural sociologist and music researcher Dr. Monique Charles to revie…
2 years ago
Vicky McClure, LS Lowry and the sea, International Booker Prize 2024
Line of Duty star Vicky McClure on her new TV thriller Insomnia, in which she plays a lawyer losing her grip on the daily juggle of family life and w…
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Colm Tóibín, Miranda Rutter & Rob Harbron, Iain Sinclair on John Deakin
Colm Tóibín's not a fan of follow-ups so why has he written a sequel to his bestseller Brooklyn, which was made into a film starring Saoirse Ronan? …
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