Podcast Episodes

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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months ago

Playing Putin on stage in Patriots, DJ Taylor on Orwell, new V&A Photography Centre

Patriots, Peter Morgan’s play set in Russia in 1991, traces the rise and fall of Boris Berezovsky, who helped Vladimir Putin take power. As Patriots …

3 years, 4 months ago

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, 4 months ago