Podcast Episodes

TV's I Claudius; Jules Buckley's Stevie Wonder Prom; the difficulty buying concert tickets

As the acclaimed 1976 Roman Empire drama series I Claudius returns to television screens, classicist Natalie Haynes and cultural critic Charlotte Hig…

3 years, 1 month ago

Live from the Edinburgh Festival: Nicola Benedetti, Colson Whitehead, Karine Polwart, Susie McCabe, Andrew O’Hagan

Front Row is live from Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh for festival season, presented by Kate Molleson.

Scotland’s own Grammy award-winning violinist Nico…

3 years, 1 month ago

Christy Lefteri's The Book of Fire, Artistic Directors in theatre, Palestinian Embroidery

As the death toll from wildfires in Hawaii rises, The Beekeeper of Aleppo author Christy Lefteri explains how similar tragedies in Greece inspired he…

3 years, 1 month ago

Composer György Ligeti, L'immensità starring Penelope Cruz, La Cage Aux Folles

György Ligeti: on the 100th anniversary of his birth, we celebrate the Hungarian-Austrian composer and the 2023 Proms performances of his work - musi…

3 years, 1 month ago

Anohni, artists' intellectual property, Bruntwood Prize-winning play Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz

Mercury Prize winning and Oscar-nominated artist Anohni returns with a soulful new album, My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross, released under the m…

3 years, 1 month ago

Bruce Lee, mental health in reality TV, poet Sean Street on birdsong

On the 50th anniversary of the release of the martial arts film Enter The Dragon, actor and filmmaker Daniel York Loh and Bruce Lee’s biographer Matt…

3 years, 1 month ago

Lucy Prebble on The Effect, Welsh band Adwaith perform and Is the Critic Dead?

When you fall in love how do you know it’s for real, and not just the result of chemicals in your brain? Lucy Prebble’s play The Effect is back at t…

3 years, 1 month ago

Soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha; Joy Ride film and Ann Patchett’s novel Tom Lake reviewed; composer Carl Davis

The South African soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha talks to Front Row ahead of returning to the Proms this Saturday to sing Strauss’s Four Last S…

3 years, 2 months ago

Welsh Fleabag, Social media and comedy in Edinburgh; Moon Palace in Leeds

A new Welsh version of the comedy hit Fleabag is about to premiere at the National Eisteddfod in Boduan. Branwen Davies’ adaptation of the one-woman…

3 years, 2 months ago

The Booker Prize longlist; Freddie Mercury's costume archive, Scottish theatre

As the Booker Prize longlist is announced, literary critic Alex Clark takes us through the contenders for the £50,000 literary award for fiction, to …

3 years, 2 months ago