Podcast Episodes

Don't Look Up, Around the World in 80 Days, Cutting It Fine

Jonathan Freedland, Sarah Churchwell and Leila Latif review Adam McKay's satire Don't Look Up, with a stellar cast including Jennifer Lawrence and Le…

4 years, 5 months ago

Postcard from Scarborough, Derek Jarman Protest!, Benjamin Cleary

A major retrospective of Derek Jarman’s work, Protest!, opens at the Manchester Art Gallery this week. One of the most influential figures in 20th c…

4 years, 5 months ago

Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín on winning the David Cohen prize, the sudden rise in Covid-19 related theatre closures and a seasonal dance round-up with Sarah Crompton.

4 years, 5 months ago

Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Sarah Phelps, puppetry on stage

Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, which transforms a West End theatre into a Berlin night club in the late 1920s, stars Eddie Redmayne as the Emcee and Je…

4 years, 5 months ago

Cat Power performs live. Amanda Gorman poetry, Sex And The City follow up and Drive My Car reviewed

What makes a good cover version? And is it an underrated musical genre? American singer-songwriter and queen of the cover-version Cat Power AKA Chan …

4 years, 6 months ago

Musician Carwyn Ellis performs; The Rules of Art? exhibition; filmmaker Rosemary Baker; Port Talbot postcard

Front Row comes from Cardiff this evening. Joining presenter Huw Stephens to play live in the studio is Welsh musician Carwyn Ellis, who has been col…

4 years, 6 months ago

Steven Spielberg, Working Class Heritage, Will Sharpe

Samira talks to Steven Spielberg about his new version of the musical West Side Story, along with Ariana DeBose who plays Anita.

Following the recent …

4 years, 6 months ago

Playwright James Graham on Best of Enemies; Lamb film review; The Belarus Free Theatre; remembering actor Antony Sher

Britain’s foremost writer of political drama, James Graham, has written a new play ‘Best of Enemies’, about the television debates in the US in 1968 …

4 years, 6 months ago

The Hand of God and Dürer exhibition reviewed, Aaron Sorkin on Lucille Ball

Paolo Sorrentino’s film The Great Beauty won an Oscar. Now he has returned to his home city of Naples to make a film based on his own autobiography,…

4 years, 6 months ago

The 2021 Turner Prize Ceremony

Front Row is live from the 2021 Turner Prize Ceremony at Coventry Cathedral.

Samira Ahmed hears from Turner Prize judges actor Russell Tovey and cur…

4 years, 6 months ago