Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMission Impossible, Herzog & de Meuron, Walter Murch
Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One - the long awaited seventh film in the series - and the Royal Academy's new exhibition about architecture …
2 years, 11 months ago
Remembering Milan Kundera, author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Northern Soul Prom, the winner of the Art Fund Museum of the Year
Front Row remembers the renowned Czech-born novelist, poet and essayist Milan Kundera who has died aged 94. Novelist Howard Jacobson and French jour…
2 years, 11 months ago
Film-maker Sally Potter on her first music album, the British Library turns 50, romance in later life on stage
Sally Potter is best known as a filmmaker- from Orlando starring Tilda Swinton to The Roads Not Taken with Javier Bardem. But she's also a musician, …
2 years, 11 months ago
PJ Harvey, the Scapa Flow museum, pianist Benjamin Grosvenor performs
PJ Harvey talks to Samira Ahmed about her new album, I Inside the Old Year Dying. She explains how her poetry and lyrics were influenced by the Dors…
2 years, 11 months ago
Kwame Kwei-Armah, Disney Pixar film Elemental reviewed
Kwame Kwei-Armah discusses his play Beneatha's Place, which imagines a future for Beneatha Younger, a character from Lorraine Hansberry’s ground-brea…
2 years, 11 months ago
Manchester International Festival Special
Yayoi Kusama: You, Me & The Balloons is the inaugural show in Aviva Studios, the new headquarters for the Manchester International Festival. In a var…
2 years, 11 months ago
Ben Okri, film director Shamira Raphaela, Leighton House Museum
The Booker Prize-winning author Sir Ben Okri joins Antonia Quirke to reflect on his new collection Tiger Work, intended as a wake up call for a warmi…
2 years, 11 months ago
The legendary Dolly Parton and celebrating children's books
Dolly Parton, one of the few global stars to have truly earned the title icon, talks to Samira Ahmed about departing from her Country sound to record…
2 years, 11 months ago
Front Row reviews Indiana Jones; author Brandon Taylor; Young V&A reviewed
Our critics Hanna Flint and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh watch Harrison Ford’s last outing as the title character in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, al…
2 years, 11 months ago
Playwright Kimber Lee, the art of pattern discussed, Elgan Llŷr Thomas on queer culture in classical song
In 2019 Kimber Lee won the first International Award from the Bruntwood Prize, the UK’s biggest national competition for playwriting, with her work -…
2 years, 11 months ago