Podcast Episodes

Underwater Museum in Cyprus, Poet Fred D'Aguiar, Helen Zaltzman on Answer Me This podcast

Jason deCaires Taylor has been working in underwater art for 15 years. Today, he joins us to discuss his new museum Musan, built in the Mediterranean…

4 years, 9 months ago

The Rolling Stones in conversation with John Wilson

Following the announcement of the death of the musician Charlie Watts, tonight’s Front Row is an archive edition featuring John Wilson in conversatio…

4 years, 9 months ago

Natalya Romaniw, John Tanner, Josh Azouz, Charlie Watts

Music journalist David Hepworth reflects on the life and drums of Rolling Stone Charlie Watts who has died aged 80.

Natalya Romaniw is a soprano on h…

4 years, 9 months ago

Kalena Bovell, Don Everly, Jack Thorne, Reza Mohammadi

American conductor Kalena Bovell makes her Proms debut with the Chineke! Orchestra this week. She tells Samira about her path into conducting, and wh…

4 years, 9 months ago

Nicolas Cage film Pig, Singer-songwriter Moses Sumney, The White Lotus, Sisters

Michael Sarnoski is the director and co-writer of Pig, starring Nicolas Cage and a pig that is brilliant at finding truffles – until it’s stolen. Cag…

4 years, 9 months ago

Cinderella, Sean Shibe, Censor, Firstsite

At last, Cinderella has made it to the ball. After postponement, rearrangement, and postponement again because of, first the lockdown, then social di…

4 years, 9 months ago

Live from The Edinburgh Festival, including film-maker Isaac Julien

This year's Edinburgh Festival is a smaller affair than normal but it's packed full of delicious cultural goodness. We speak with film director Isaac…

4 years, 9 months ago

Live from the Edinburgh Festival with Henning Wehn, Frances Poet, Fara and Arusa Qureshi

The Edinburgh Festival is a much more pared-down event this year because of Covid, but despite this there is still plenty on offer.

Comedian Henning…

4 years, 9 months ago

Music in Afghanistan, The Song Project, Manchester Collective

Dr Ahmad Sarmast, founder and director of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music tells John Wilson of his fears and hopes for music-making as hi…

4 years, 9 months ago

Vikingur Olafsson, Power in publishing, Thackray Museum of Medicine.

Last year, Icelandic pianist Vikingur Olafsson was Front Row's artist-in-residence from Reykjavik. Finally this week, he's able to join John Wilson i…

4 years, 9 months ago