Podcast Episodes

Jane Campion on The Power of the Dog, Ukrainian artist Pavlo Makov

Filmmaker Jane Campion is the first woman to be nominated twice for the Oscar for Best Director and the first woman to win the Palme d’Or at the Cann…

4 years, 6 months ago

Tears for Fears, English Heritage, Unboxed Festival, Welsh poetry on St. David's Day

Tears For Fears, the duo who sound-tracked the 1980s with songs such as Shout, Mad World and Everybody Wants to Rule the World, have just released a…

4 years, 6 months ago

Ali & Ava reviewed, Cultural Responses to Ukraine, Cherry Jezebel

On tonight’s Front Row, we take a look at the cultural responses to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with the BBC’s Culture Editor, Katie Razzall.

Clio Ba…

4 years, 6 months ago

Mark Neville photographing Ukraine, Whistler's Woman in White exhibition and The Duke film reviewed, Adam McKay on Don't Look Up

Director Adam McKay talks to Tom about his film Don’t Look Up. He discusses why it divided audiences and how he thinks cinema can influence politics.…

4 years, 7 months ago

David Byrne, Arts Minister Lord Parkinson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Agnès Poirier on culture in Paris

Musician, film maker and artist David Byrne discusses his new book A History of the World (in Dingbats) - a collection of more than 100 line drawings…

4 years, 7 months ago

Samuel Bailey, Sensitivity Readers, Social Media Satire

Samuel Bailey’s debut play, Shook, about three young men in a young offender's institution, won the Papatango New Writing Prize in 2019, glowing revi…

4 years, 7 months ago

Kit Harington, Chris Riddell on Jan Pieńkowski, Jamal Edwards, Surrealism

Game of Thrones star Kit Harington and director Max Webster discuss their new production of Henry V, and why they chose to make Henry a more complex …

4 years, 7 months ago

Living Sculpture Daniel Lismore, Severance and The Real Charlie Chaplin reviewed, Lady Joker crime thriller

Artist Daniel Lismore describes himself as a ‘living sculpture.’ His elaborate creations have been worn by Naomi Campbell, Boy George and the cast of…

4 years, 7 months ago

Richard Bean on Hull Truck at 50, portrayal of autism on screen, Sheila Heti

Comedy writer Sara Gibbs and actor and writer JJ Green discuss the portrayal of autistic characters on TV and film and call for change.

Half a centur…

4 years, 7 months ago

British dance post-pandemic, Pissarro, Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton

Cassa Pancho and Billy Trevitt on the future of British dance, the "father of Impressionism" Pissarro and Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton on n…

4 years, 7 months ago