Podcast Episodes

Mad Musicals, Eric Whitacre, Women's Prize - Laline Paull

Surprising musicals: new musicals are packing in audiences - and some with quite unlikely subjects. Whilst the classic Broadway musical, like 42nd St…

3 years ago

Film Chevalier and new TV drama Significant Other reviewed

Gaming isn’t just something you play, it is also a spectator sport! Comedian and streamer Ellie Gibson and journalist and gamer Marie Le Conte join u…

3 years ago

Dave Johns on I, Daniel Blake; the Liverpool Biennial; why Dario Fo's plays speak to this moment?

The Liverpool Biennial, the UK’s largest contemporary visual arts festival, begins this weekend. Arts journalist Laura Robertson reviews, and the cur…

3 years ago

Rufus Wainwright, hairdressing film Medusa Deluxe, the rise of the understudy

Rufus Wainwright talks to Samira Ahmed about his new album Folkocracy, a collection of reimagined Folk songs. The album includes collaborations with…

3 years ago

Author Maggie O’Farrell, New opera Giant, The consumerism in creativity

Charles Byrne was an 18th-century “Irish giant” whose skeleton was stolen and put on display against his wishes. 240 years after his death, he is be…

3 years ago

Punk exhibition reviewed, Reality film director, TV drama White House Plumbers reviewed

Critics Katie Puckrik and Michael Carlson join Front Row to review the exhibition Punk: Rage and Revolution at Leicester Museum and Art Gallery and S…

3 years ago

Shane Meadows on The Gallows Pole, and GoGo Penguin perform live

Writer/director Shane Meadows and actor Michael Socha on the new BBC TV adaptation of Benjamin Myers' novel, The Gallows Pole.

The Mercury Music Prize…

3 years ago

Chita Rivera, a new funding model for the arts discussed, Priscilla Morris

Broadway legend Chita Rivera, who made her name playing Anita in the original stage production of West Side Story, talks to Samira Ahmed about the hi…

3 years ago

The 75th anniversary of the Windrush - the cultural legacy of a generation

The Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks on 22 June 1948 from Jamaica. Front Row marks the artistic and cultural contribution of a generation of…

3 years ago

Jhalak Book Prize, Tate Britain Rehang, The Little Mermaid, Cannes

The Jhalak Prize is an annual literary prize for British or British-Resident writers of colour, established in 2016. Previous winners include Reni Ed…

3 years ago