Podcast Episodes

Freddie De Tommaso, Women’s Prize For Fiction Winner, John Byrne, Ukrainian Antiquities

Operatic tenor Freddie De Tommaso on his overnight breakthrough to stardom and performing at the First Night Of The Proms.

We announce and speak to th…

4 years, 3 months ago

Theaster Gates, Lightyear, Dean Atta, Music Back Catalogues

Chicago based artist Theaster Gates on The Black Chapel - his design for this year’s Serpentine Gallery pavilion, which is created each year by world…

4 years, 3 months ago

George Ezra performs, TV drama Sherwood reviewed, Norway's National Museum opens

Fresh from performing at the Queen's platinum jubilee concert, singer-songwriter George Ezra plays in the Front Row studio from his new album, Gold R…

4 years, 3 months ago

Reviews of the film All My Friends Hate Me and the play Cancelling Socrates; the Women's Prize for Fiction nominee Ruth Ozeki

On our Thursday review panel this week: the film critic Leila Latif and Simon Goldhill, Professor of Greek Literature and Culture at the University o…

4 years, 3 months ago

Paula Rego Remembered, Cressida Cowell, Elif Shafak, Stones In His Pockets

Artist Paula Rego remembered. Following the sad news today of the death of one of the most important figurative painters of our times, we look back o…

4 years, 3 months ago

Ayanna Witter Johnson performs, Clement Ishmael, digital theatre

Ayanna Witter-Johnson is a singer-songwriter, cellist and composer blurring the boundaries of classical, jazz, reggae and R&B. Performing live in the…

4 years, 3 months ago

Africa Oyé, Queer Poetry, Maggie Shipstead

Africa Oyé, the UK's largest festival of music from the continent of Africa, celebrates its 30th anniversary in Liverpool's Sefton Park this month. …

4 years, 3 months ago

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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months ago