Podcast Episodes

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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 8 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, 8 months ago

Artist John Akomfrah, Oscar Nominations, Arts Council England responds

John Akomfrah was announced today as the artist chosen to represent the UK at the next Venice Biennale - the world's biggest contemporary art exhibit…

3 years, 8 months ago

The play Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons; conductor Alice Farnham; the short film An Irish Goodbye.

Jenna Coleman (Clara in Dr Who) and Aidan Turner (Poldark) are appearing in a new production of Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons at The Harold Pint…

3 years, 8 months ago

Spain and the Hispanic World exhibition, new film Holy Spider, artist Clarke Reynolds

Samira Ahmed and guests Maria Delgado and Isabel Stevens review two of the week’s top cultural picks.

They discuss a new exhibition of Spanish art, S…

3 years, 8 months ago

Hepworth, Moore, landscape and cows' backs; fiddle player John McCusker; novelist Victoria MacKenzie

A new exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield celebrates the relationship that two of the UK’s greatest sculptors, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, had…

3 years, 8 months ago

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, 8 months ago