Podcast Episodes

Antoine Fuqua on Emancipation, NDAs in film and TV casting, playwright April De Angelis

Film director Antoine Fuqua discusses his new film, Emancipation, which stars Will Smith. He discusses basing his film on the true story of an ensl…

3 years, 6 months ago

Fergus McCreadie, Leyla Josephine, Scottish National Gallery

Jazz pianist Fergus McCreadie performs live from his latest album Forest Floor, which recently won the Scottish Album of the Year award and a Mercury…

3 years, 6 months ago

Veronica Ryan - shortlisted for the Turner Prize, reviews of new Stormzy album and film White Noise

Veronica Ryan OBE is shortlisted for the Turner Prize. She talks to Front Row about her Windrush Commission sculptures in Hackney that have won the h…

3 years, 6 months ago

Maxine Peake on Betty! A Sort of Musical, Turner Prize nominee Heather Phillipson, Signal Film and Media in Barrow-in-Furness

Maxine Peake discusses playing Betty Boothroyd, former Speaker of the House of Commons in Betty! A Sort of Musical, which is about to open at Manches…

3 years, 6 months ago

Clint Dyer on Othello, Turner Prize nominee Ingrid Pollard, should museums close controversial galleries?

Clint Dyer discusses directing Othello starring Giles Terera at the National Theatre, the first Black director to do so. He talks about how he is ap…

3 years, 6 months ago

Turner Prize nominee Sin Wai Kin, Katherine Rundell on John Donne, Ballet Black

Author Katherine Rundell talks to Tom Sutcliffe about her book Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, which has won this year’s The Baill…

3 years, 6 months ago

Joan Armatrading, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye exhibition and film She Said reviewed

The much-celebrated singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading on her 50-year career, her book of lyrics, The Weakness in Me, and new album Live at Asylum Ch…

3 years, 6 months ago

Lady Chatterley's Lover reviewed, Jake Heggie on It's A Wonderful Life, casting Ukrainian actors, Wilko Johnson

Lara Feigel and Tom Shakespeare review Netflix’s new adaptation of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, starring Emma Corrin.

The English National Opera stages an…

3 years, 6 months ago

Matthew Warchus on Matilda, Kapil Seshasayee performs, climate protests in galleries

Director Matthew Warchus discusses his new film Matilda the Musical. Based on the Tony and Olivier award winning stage play, it brings Roald Dahl’s m…

3 years, 6 months ago

Director Luca Guadagnino on Bones and All, Gainsborough’s House, writer Ronald Blythe at 100

Luca Guadagnino won the Silver Lion for Best Director at this year's Venice Film Festival for his latest film, Bones and All, starring Timothée Chala…

3 years, 6 months ago