Podcast Episodes

Ascension, John Preston on Robert Maxwell and is vinyl manufacturing at breaking point?

Kirsty Lang speaks to John Preston who has won the Costa biography award for Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell.

As a new vinyl pressing plant opens …

4 years, 5 months ago

Winner of TS Elliot Prize for Poetry, Unboxed, Folk at the Hampstead Theatre

We talk to Joelle Taylor fresh from her win last night of the 2021 TS Eliot Prize for Poetry for her collection of poems which explores her life as a…

4 years, 5 months ago

Sheffield Crucible Theatre at 50, Philosophy in the Gallery, Self Esteem

As Sheffield's Crucible Theatre celebrates its 50th anniversary, Nick Ahad talks to Artistic Director Robert Hastie.

Sheffield pop star Self Esteem o…

4 years, 5 months ago

Joe Wright on Cyrano, Costa poetry winner Hannah Lowe, A Hero

In his latest film Cyrano, director Joe Wright has tackled the 1897 French verse drama, Cyrano de Bergerac. He joins Tom Sutcliffe to discuss turning…

4 years, 5 months ago

Andrea Arnold, Claire Fuller, Afghanistan National Institute of Music

Filmmaker Andrea Arnold on her first documentary film, Cow, about the life of two cows, which one critic described as 'a meaty slice of bovine socio-…

4 years, 5 months ago

The Costa Book Awards, Julia Ducournau on Titane, disabled access to arts and culture

The Costa Book Awards are in their 50th year. Tonight on Front Row, Chair of Judges Reeta Chakrabarti will join Samira Ahmed to announce each of this…

4 years, 5 months ago

Joan Didion remembered, Call the Midwife, The Tragedy of Macbeth and a review of the year in culture

Writer and essayist Olivia Laing reflects on the work of the American journalist and essayist Joan Didion, who has died at the age of 87.

With the Chr…

4 years, 5 months ago

Paul Thomas Anderson, Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden, Postcard from Doncaster

Paul Thomas Anderson discusses directing and writing his new romantic comedy, Licorice Pizza, starring Sean Penn, Bradley Cooper and Tom Waits. The f…

4 years, 5 months ago

Anything Goes, Live arts venues under Omicron, The Princess Bride

Broadway star Sutton Foster and director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall talk to Samira Ahmed about staging the musical Anything Goes, one of the…

4 years, 5 months ago

Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kehinde Wiley, Christmas book gifts

Maggie Gyllenhaal discusses her new film The Lost Daughter, an adaptation of the novel by Elena Ferrante. Gyllenhaal has written the film and it is h…

4 years, 5 months ago