Podcast Episodes

Front Row reviews 1952

To celebrate the Queen’s platinum jubilee, Front Row discusses some of the cultural highlights of 1952.

Samira Ahmed is joined by broadcaster Dame Joa…

4 years ago

Tracey Emin, Anthony Joseph, Bergman Island

Anthony Joseph – poet, musician, and academic – joins us to talk about his new poetry collection, Sonnets for Albert, which considers the personal im…

4 years ago

Rory Kinnear on the film Men, Lord Parkinson on the new UK City of Culture, The Duchess of Cornwall, Mo Abudu on Blood Sisters

Actor Rory Kinnear plays ten characters- all the male roles but one- in the new psychological horror film from Alex Garland, Men. He joins Samira Ahm…

4 years ago

Refik Anadol, Jasdeep Singh Degun, The British Art Show

Immersive digital art in Coventry, the British Art Show, & music from Jasdeep Singh Degun.

4 years ago

Reviews of The Midwich Cuckoos, Pistol and Edvard Munch, Meg Mason on Sorrow and Bliss

Meg Mason is the latest in our series of interviews with authors shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her novel Sorrow and Bliss is narrat…

4 years ago

The Art of Burning Man, dementia on stage, dogs on screen at Cannes

Radical Horizons: The Art of Burning Man is an outdoor exhibition on the Chatsworth House estate - a series of monumental sculptures from the festiva…

4 years ago

ABBA Voyage, Terence Davies, Zaffar Kunial's poem for George Floyd

48 years after the British jury gave them nul points at the Eurovision song contest, ABBA the avatars begin a long term arena residency in London. Sa…

4 years ago

The Cannes Film Festival, John Godber's Teechers, the winner of the British Book Awards

Jason Solomons reports live from the Cannes Film Festival, with news of the surprise hits of this year's festival and who's in contention for the big…

4 years ago

Cornelia Parker and Emergency reviewed, The Wreckers, Ivor Novello Awards

Melly Still on directing ‘The Wreckers’, by Ethel Smyth, the first ever opera by a woman composer to be performed at the Glyndebourne Festival.

Morgan…

4 years ago

Joanna Scanlan; director Indu Rubasingham; the Norfolk and Norwich Festival

Bafta-winning actress Joanna Scanlan on learning Welsh and acting in the language for the very first time in Y Golau - a new crime drama for S4C and …

4 years ago