Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJames Graham on Boys from the Blackstuff, and are maestros behaving badly?
Alan Bleasdale’s Boys From The Blackstuff is widely regarded as television drama at its best with a cultural footprint that led to the phrase “Gi’s a…
3 years ago
Front Row hosts the BBC National Short Story Award Ceremony
The announcement of the winners of the BBC National Short Story Award and the BBC Young Writers’ Award with Cambridge University, live from the Radio…
3 years ago
Philip Barantini on Boiling Point, The Archers cast on Lark Rise to Ambridge
As the cast of the Archers star in a new adaptation of Flora Thompson's Lark Rise to Candleford, Samira is joined by actors Louiza Patikas, who plays…
3 years ago
Live from the Contains Strong Language festival
Front Row opens this year’s Contain’s Strong Language festival live in Leeds. Nick Ahad talks to Detectorists star Toby Jones about his stage adaptat…
3 years ago
Marina Abramovic and The Long Shadow reviewed, Dmitry Glukhovsky's The White Factory
Writer Joan Smith and art historian Katy Hessel review a retrospective exhibition of the performance artist Marina Abramovic at the Royal Academy and…
3 years ago
Carlos Acosta on the Black Sabbath ballet; Birmingham arts funding; the business of British fashion
Birmingham Royal Ballet is celebrating the city’s pioneering heavy metal band in a new production, Black Sabbath – the Ballet. Tom Sutcliffe talks to…
3 years ago
Jane Austen fashion, poet Daljit Nagra, musician Alice Phoebe Lou performs live
From the enduring legacy of Colin Firth’s wet shirt to the colourful extravagance of Bridgerton, costumes have always been central in period dramas. …
3 years ago
Paul Simon and Charlie Mackesy, the V&A’s Chanel exhibition and author Kamila Shamsie.
When the artist Charlie Mackesy, best-known for his book The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, heard Paul Simon’s most recent album, the acclaime…
3 years ago
Katherine Rundell on Impossible Creatures, the rise of crafts on social media
Katherine Rundell on her new children’s fantasy book, Impossible Creatures. It's a story of two worlds, ours and one where the animals of myth and le…
3 years ago
The impact of the Hollywood strikes, author K Patrick, the iconic chant from the Halo video game
Front Row looks at the impact of the Hollywood strikes. Film critic Leila Latif, Equity UK’s Secretary General Paul Fleming, and Lisa Holdsworth, scr…
3 years ago