Podcast Episodes

Pat Barker, the films of Alain Delon, Proms played by memory, Orlando Weeks

Samira Ahmed talks to Pat Barker about the final part of her Troy trilogy, The Voyage Home.

Alain Delon has died at the age of 88 - President Macron …

2 years, 1 month ago

The Outrun, Gwyneth Paltrow dramas, Comedy Roundup, Rebels & Patriots

Kirsty Wark reviews highlights from the Edinburgh Festival, joined by critics Ian Rankin, Chitra Ramaswamy and Dominic Maxwell.

They discuss two adap…

2 years, 1 month ago

David Morrissey, Relaxed performances, Alien: Romulus

David Morrissey stars as a hapless father in the new BBC comedy Daddy Issues - alongside Sex Education's Aimee Lou Wood as his pregnant daughter. Sam…

2 years, 1 month ago

Nish Kumar, Miriam Margolyes, Rose Matafeo, Teenage Fanclub

Kirsty Wark launches Front Row's regular Scottish editions with a live show from the Edinburgh Festival.

Kirsty's guests are the comedians Rose Mataf…

2 years, 1 month ago

Emily Tesh and the Hugo Awards; Dating shows; Kelly Jones

This year’s WorldCon - the World Science Fiction Convention - took place in Glasgow and pop culture critic Gavia Baker-Whitelaw reports on the intern…

2 years, 2 months ago

Pericles, Babes, Michael Longley

Critics Susannah Clapp and Tim Robey join Tom to review a new RSC production at Stratford of one Shakespeare’s less performed plays Pericles, the pr…

2 years, 2 months ago

Sky Peals film, documentary Doom Scroll, & could a book written 100 years ago be the ultimate millennial read?

Ex-Wife, a 1929 novel by Ursula Parrott, about the failure of a young couple’s marriage and the subsequent promiscuous partying of the wife in New Yo…

2 years, 2 months ago

Joan Baez, Shakespeare in British Sign Language, Charlotte Mendelson

Joan Baez on her poetry collection inspired by her diagnosis of multiple personality disorder, called When You See My Mother Ask Her to Dance.

Shakes…

2 years, 2 months ago

Kensuke Kingdom, best Young Adult Fiction reads, do film trailers reveal too much?

Directors Neil Boyle and Kirk Hendry on Kinsuke's Kingdom, their hand-drawn animated film which features a shipwrecked boy who learns about the natur…

2 years, 2 months ago

Didi and Echoes by Evie Wyld reviewed; Benjamin Grosvenor performs Busoni

Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Rhianna Dhillon and Viv Groskop to review novel Echoes by Evie Wyld, which focuses on Max, a ghost who, stuck in the flat …

2 years, 2 months ago