Podcast Episodes

Cash Carraway on BBC drama Rain Dogs, the might of the UK gaming industry, Kidnapped on stage

Rain Dogs, billed as ‘a love story told from the gutter,’ is a new comedy drama series starring Daisy May Cooper. Shahidha Bari is joined in the stud…

3 years, 2 months ago

Musician Natalie Merchant, poet Victoria Adukwei Bulley, library funding

Singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant talks to Samira Ahmed about Keep Your Courage, her first album in nearly a decade.

Libraries were awarded the small…

3 years, 2 months ago

Barbara Demick on North Korea; Dungeons and Dragons controversy; folk musicians Hack-Poets Guild

Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick’s book 'Nothing to Envy' has been short-listed for this year’s Baille Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of…

3 years, 2 months ago

Steven Knight on Great Expectations, After Impressionism at the National Gallery

Writer and director Steven Knight, whose work includes Peaky Blinders and SAS Rogue Heroes, discusses his new BBC adaptation of Great Expectations wh…

3 years, 2 months ago

Touchstones Rochdale art gallery's radical 80s history, James Shapiro on Shakespeare

A Tall Order! Rochdale Art Gallery in the 1980s is the name of the show currently on at Touchstones Rochdale, which reflects on the gallery’s radical…

3 years, 2 months ago

Danny Lee Wynter and play Black Superhero; badly behaved theatre audiences; violinist Pekka Kuusisto

Are theatre audiences behaving badly? After recent complaints, we discuss expectations of audience etiquette. Tom is joined by: Dr Kirsty Sedgman, Le…

3 years, 2 months ago

Lisa O’Neill performs live, Dance of Death from the National Theatre of Norway

Irish singer songwriter Lisa O’Neill talks to Samira Ahmed about her latest album, All Of This Is Chance, and performs live in the Front Row studio. …

3 years, 2 months ago

Richard Eyre on his film Allelujah, and climate change TV drama Extrapolations reviewed

Richard Eyre on directing the screen version of Alan Bennett’s play Allelujah, starring Jennifer Saunders, set on the geriatric ward of a fictional Y…

3 years, 2 months ago

Scottish-Iranian film Winners, playwright Calum L MacLeòid, neurodiversity and creativity

Filmmaker Hassan Nazar talks to Kate Molleson about his new film Winners, a love letter to the art of cinema. Set in Iran, it follows two children w…

3 years, 3 months ago

Diversity at the Oscars and Baftas; plays and the cost of living; children's books; Phyllida Barlow

The conclusion of the Oscars marks the end of the film awards season, so Front Row took the opportunity to look at the progress made on representatio…

3 years, 3 months ago