Podcast Episodes

Front Row Special: Rachmaninoff – the 20th century’s great romantic

Samira celebrates the music and life of Sergei Rachmaninoff.

With pianist Kirill Gerstein, who has released a new recording of Rachmaninoff's Second …

2 years, 5 months ago

George Clooney, writer Gwyneth Hughes, The Scala Cinema

The Boys in the Boat tells the story of the surprise success of the US rowing team at 1936 Munich Olympics. Samira talks to the director George Cloo…

2 years, 5 months ago

Final Ghosts, Tennant's Macbeth, Next Goal Wins, National Theatre of Wales

One of the TV hits of 2023, Ghosts returns for a one-off special on Christmas Day. Festive viewing for many families will also probably include othe…

2 years, 5 months ago

The Unthanks, Lucinda Coxon, the North East Cultural Partnership

Acclaimed English folk group The Unthanks are currently touring the UK with what they describe as a winter fantasia - a mix of traditional and newly …

2 years, 5 months ago

Movie stars Adam Driver and Bill Nighy, author AL Kennedy, and the Process of Poetry

Adam Driver stars in Michael Mann’s film Ferrari, set in the summer of 1957 as the ex-racer turned entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari pushes his drivers to th…

2 years, 5 months ago

Helena Bonham Carter and Russell T Davies, Stranger Things: The First Shadow

Helena Bonham Carter and Russell T Davies talk to Samira about their ITV drama series Nolly, in which Bonham Carter plays Crossroads star Noele Gordo…

2 years, 6 months ago

Front Row reviews Cold War the musical and Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

Front Row reviews some of the week’s cultural highlights. Tom Sutcliffe is joined by film critic Hanna Flint and Will Hodgkinson, chief pop and rock…

2 years, 6 months ago

Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan on Maestro, Noel Coward's Songs, Wien Museum reopens

Bradley Cooper directs and stars in the new film Maestro about the hugely influential American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein alongside Car…

2 years, 6 months ago

Margaret Cavendish, Margareth Olin, Christmas TV

Margaret Cavendish was born exactly 400 years ago, and her many achievements include writing The Blazing World, arguably the first ever sci-fi novel.…

2 years, 6 months ago

Andy Serkis and Louisa Harland on Ulster American, Panto and Gender Roles, Graphic Novels with Rachel Cooke and Ian Dunt

Tom Sutcliffe talks to Andy Serkis and Louisa Harland about Ulster American, a new play in which they star at Riverside Studios with Woody Harrelson.…

2 years, 6 months ago