Podcast Episodes

Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah, Cush Jumbo's Hamlet, Poet Laureate Simon Armitage

Cush Jumbo’s long-awaited performance as Hamlet and debbie tucker green’s film ear for eye come under the critical gaze of Ekow Eshun, Vanessa Kisuul…

4 years, 8 months ago

The Arts in Aberystwyth, The Boy with Two Hearts in Cardiff and Welsh film director Craig Roberts

Broadcaster Huw Stephens sends an audio postcard from Aberystwyth, the small seaside town with the big arts centre mounting exhibitions and concerts,…

4 years, 8 months ago

Wole Soyinka, post-pandemic theatre, Michael Winterbottom

Wole Soyinka, the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells Samira Ahmed about what impelled him to write his first new novel …

4 years, 8 months ago

Hilary Mantel, Lianne La Havas, Candice Carty Williams, Kieran Hurley

In tonight's new look, 45 minute long Front Row...

Hilary Mantel talks about turning her 874 page novel, The Mirror and the Light, the third volume in…

4 years, 8 months ago

No Time To Die, Soul Train, Karl Ove Knausgaard

The new 007 film No Time To Die has had its release pushed back and back and back due to Covid. But now it’s finally here with Daniel Craig playing J…

4 years, 8 months ago

Dave Grohl, Jimmy Savile

Widely known as the nicest guy in rock, Dave Grohl has written a memoir ‘The Storyteller’ documenting his life in the rock and roll business, from ea…

4 years, 8 months ago

David Chase, Laura Lomas, Betty Campbell statue

American screenwriter, show-runner, director, and producer David Chase is best known for writing and producing the HBO drama The Sopranos which aired…

4 years, 8 months ago

Comedian Njambi McGrath, Turner Prize shortlist review, 25 Years of Buena Vista Social Club

Kenyan British Comedian Njambi McGrath’s work focuses on identity politics, Brexit, colonialism, and race. She joins Kirsty to discuss her 2019 show,…

4 years, 8 months ago

Arthur C. Clarke Award winner, K-pop band BTS address the UN and new film, The Man Who Sold His Skin

Front Row announces this year’s winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction and Samira Ahmed interviews the winner. They are joined by C…

4 years, 8 months ago

Dame Elizabeth Blackadder, Megan Swann, Richard Smyth, The Story of Looking.

Megan Swann is the first ever female President of The Magic Circle, and the youngest ever President at just 28 years old. She tells Tom how she got i…

4 years, 8 months ago