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Back to SearchGeorgia Oakley director of Blue Jean, Burt Bacharach obituary, Salman Rushdie's Victory City and Peter Doig exhibition reviewed
Director and screenwriter Georgia Oakley talks about her BAFTA nominated debut feature film Blue Jean, which tells the story of a female closeted PE …
3 years, 4 months ago
The Reytons, film-maker Saim Sadiq, The Beekeeper of Aleppo
From a pop-up shop in Meadowhall Shopping Centre in Sheffield to the top spot in the album charts - The Reytons join Front Row to discuss their break…
3 years, 4 months ago
Les Dennis and Mina Anwar, writer Tania Branigan, Kerry Shale on Yentl
Mina Anwar and Les Dennis discuss their new production of Spring and Port Wine at the Bolton Octagon. They explain why the 1960s classic play about …
3 years, 4 months ago
Costume designer Sandy Powell, playwright Chris Bush, Donatello sculptures at the V&A
Sandy Powell is the first costume designer to receive a BAFTA Fellowship. She talks to Tom Sutcliffe about collaborating with directors Martin Scorse…
3 years, 4 months ago
TV drama Nolly and film The Whale reviewed, director M Night Shyamalan
Noele Gordon was the star of Crossroads, the soap that ran on ITV from 1964 to 1988, attracting audiences of 15 million in its heyday. She was sacke…
3 years, 4 months ago
Sonia Boyce, The Quiet Girl, Theatre Freelance Pay, Oldham Coliseum
Sonia Boyce’s exhibition, Feeling Her Way, won the top prize at the Venice Biennale international art fair. As the sound, video and wallpaper install…
3 years, 4 months ago
Beethoven's Für Elise, playwright Garry Lyons, film director Rajkumar Santoshi
Beethoven’s love life has long fascinated music scholars primarily because so little is known about it despite some tantalising clues. In his new bo…
3 years, 4 months ago
Film director Sarah Polley, novelist Ann-Helen Laestadius and deep fakes on TV
Director Sarah Polley discusses her latest film, Women Talking, nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. Based on the true story of the women in a …
3 years, 4 months ago
The Fabelmans and Noises Off reviewed, Joe Cornish on new TV drama Lockwood and Co.
Tom Sutcliffe is joined by critics Karen Krizanovich and Michael Billington to review The Fabelmans and the 40th anniversary production of Noises Off…
3 years, 4 months ago
Mel C on dancing with Jules Cunningham, film-maker Laura Poitras, musician Rasha Nahas
Melanie C, aka Sporty Spice, is best known for being in one of the most successful girl groups of all time. But this week she’s swapping the pop wo…
3 years, 4 months ago