Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMartin Scorsese film, John le Carré’s legacy, Madonna on Tour
Madonna is still in the spotlight 45 years after bursting onto the pop scene in the 1980s, inspiring fashion, dance and youth culture, as well as bei…
2 years, 11 months ago
Front Row reviews the Frasier reboot and performance from folk musician Martin Hayes
Samira Ahmed is joined by critics Anne Joseph and Nancy Durrant to review some of this week’s cultural highlights. They discuss the new series of t…
2 years, 11 months ago
Lubaina Himid, Richard Armitage, David Pountney’s new opera
Actor Richard Armitage – who starred in North and South and the Hobbit - joins Nick to discuss writing his debut novel, the bio-tech thriller Geneva,…
2 years, 11 months ago
Nigel Kennedy, art gallery labels, how do museums recover stolen art?
Nigel Kennedy remains the best selling violinist of all time with a repertoire that spans jazz, classical, rock, klezmer and more. Ahead of his four…
2 years, 11 months ago
Piper Kathryn Tickell performs, film director Terence Davies remembered, author Jhumpa Lahiri, £200 million for Heritage Places
Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening’s new album, Cloud Horizons, fuses synthesizers with a bone flute, a sistrum – very old Egyptian instrument - and …
2 years, 11 months ago
Front Row reviews Philip Guston at the Tate Modern and new film Golda
The winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature is Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, who is best known for his innovative plays. Playwright Simon Stephe…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Streets, the British Textile Biennial, Kate Prince on her mentor
Mike Skinner helped define an era with The Streets' album Original Pirate Material in 2002. Now he's back with not only new music but an accompanying…
2 years, 11 months ago
Patsy Ferran, Rubens & Women, the portrayal of black men in British film
The actor Patsy Ferran talks to Samira about her transformation from flower girl (with some autonomy) to duchess (with none at all) in Pygmalion at t…
2 years, 11 months ago
Claudette Johnson, ghosts in literature, the Dutch Golden Age
The portraits in the National Gallery’s new retrospective of the artist Frans Hals capture his informal and fresh style which contrasted with other m…
3 years ago
Víkingur Ólafsson on Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Ken Loach’s The Old Oak
Front Row reviews two of this week’s cultural highlights. Tom Sutcliffe is joined by writer Hettie Judah and film critic Peter Bradshaw to discuss H…
3 years ago