Podcast Episodes

Poet Anthony Joseph, new novels about witches and the fall in female film-makers

Over the last three weeks Front Row has broadcast a poem by each of the 10 writers shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry. The winner was anno…

3 years, 4 months ago

Rebecca Frecknall on A Streetcar Named Desire, Rick Rubin, Clarinetist Kinan Azmeh

Nine-time Grammy winning record producer and Def Jam co-founder Rick Rubin has produced hits for artists including Run DMC, Red Hot Chili Peppers and…

3 years, 4 months ago

The Last of Us & Enys Men reviewed

The film critic Clarisse Loughrey and literary editor Sam Leith join Tom Sutcliffe live in the studio to review the new HBO series The Last of Us, ba…

3 years, 5 months ago

Filmmaker Todd Field on Tár, Glyndebourne tour cancellation, Debut novelist Jyoti Patel

Tár is a psychological drama about an imaginary conductor, Lydia Tár, which has already made waves both for its central performance by Cate Blanchett…

3 years, 5 months ago

How AI is changing art, the TS Eliot Prize for poetry and the folk music of wassailing

Designer Steven Zapata and artist Anna Ridler discuss whether AI art poses a threat to artists and designers.

Imagine reading more than 200 new books…

3 years, 5 months ago

The Light in the Hall, The Shipping Forecast photographs, Nell Zink

The Light in the Hall, a crime drama starring Joanna Scanlan, has launched on Channel 4 following its previous incarnation in Welsh on S4C, as Y Gola…

3 years, 5 months ago

Two of the year's major films, Till and Empire of Light, reviewed and John Preston on his TV drama Stonehouse.

John Preston, the Costa Award-winning biographer of media tycoon Robert Maxwell, makes his screenwriting debut with a drama about another infamous fi…

3 years, 5 months ago

Vocal ensemble Stile Antico, Fay Weldon obituary, director John Strickland

The English composer William Byrd died 400 years ago. To mark this the acclaimed vocal ensemble Stile Antico is about to release an album of his musi…

3 years, 5 months ago

Tom Hanks On A Man Called Otto, Author Deepti Kapoor, The London Ticket Bank

Tom Hanks talks about playing a curmudgeonly older man whose life changes when a young family moves in next door in his latest film, A Man Called Ott…

3 years, 5 months ago

Leeds 2023 Year of Culture

Front Row visits Leeds as the city prepares to celebrate culture throughout 2023.

Following Brexit, Leeds’ bid for European Capital of Culture was rul…

3 years, 5 months ago