Podcast Episodes

Sparks, EM Forster adaptations, nature mystery writer Bob Gilbert

Sparks, the American pop duo formed in 1960s Los Angeles, are back with their 26th album, The Girl is Crying in her Latte. Samira Ahmed meets brother…

3 years ago

Arlo Parks, Martin Amis remembered, depicting The Troubles

Singer songwriter Arlo Parks talks about following her highly acclaimed first album with a new release, My Soft Machine, which includes a collaborati…

3 years ago

Caleb Azumah Nelson, Reviews of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret & China's Hidden Century

Caleb Azumah Nelson’s debut novel, Open Water, won the Costa First Novel award and critical acclaim. He joins Front Row to talk about his second, Sm…

3 years ago

Chuck D of Public Enemy on watercolours; author Jacqueline Crooks; artist Andy Holden

Chuck D on his watercolour art. He is regarded as one of hip-hop's greatest MCs with his powerful lyrical dexterity a key component in Public Enemy's…

3 years ago

Contemporary sari design; the politics of museum labelling; Mat Osman's novel The Ghost Theatre

Samira Ahmed talks to Priya Khanchandani, the curator of The Offbeat Sari, an exhibition of contemporary saris at the Design Museum in London.

The art…

3 years, 1 month ago

Brokeback Mountain on stage, Venice architecture biennale, author Tan Twan Eng

Brokeback Mountain on stage: musician and librettist Dan Gillespie Sells discusses writing the songs for a new stage production of Brokeback Mountai…

3 years, 1 month ago

June Givanni on the PanAfrican cinema archive, Gwen John at Pallant House Gallery reviewed

In 2021, June Givanni was presented with the British Independent Film Awards Special Jury Prize for what was described as “an extraordinary, selfless…

3 years, 1 month ago

Author Louise Kennedy, Royal patronage in the arts, beatboxer SK Shlomo

Louise Kennedy's debut novel Trespasses has been shortlisted for this year's Women's Prize for Fiction. Set in Belfast in 1975 at the height of the T…

3 years, 1 month ago

Dennis Potter’s newly discovered play, Cathi Unsworth on goth culture, artist Isaac Julien

Samira Ahmed speaks to John Cook, Professor of Media at Glasgow Caledonian University about his discovery of a previously unknown early version of th…

3 years, 1 month ago

Eurovision comes to Liverpool

Recorded at the Hornby Library inside Liverpool Central Library, in front of a live audience, as Liverpool gears up to host The Eurovision Song Conte…

3 years, 1 month ago