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One Day, American Fiction, Beyond Form
Tom Sutcliffe talks to the Evening Standard’s Arts Editor Nancy Durrant and art historian and curator Catherine McCormack about a new adaptation of David…
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The Chosen, Cymande, Tayari Jones
The Chosen, a self-funded TV drama about the life of Christ, has become an international hit with over 100 million views. The creator Dallas Jenkins explains…
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The Reytons, Phoebe Eclair-Powell, Andrew McMillan
The Reytons' second album, What's Rock and Roll, debuted at No 1 in the charts - a rare feat for a band without a label. They discuss following it up with…
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Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter, Jez Butterworth and Declan McKenna
Oscar-winning director and artist Steve McQueen has collaborated with his partner, the writer and historian Bianca Stigter, to document the hidden histories of…
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Legion exhibition at the British Museum and Mr and Mrs Smith reviewed
Today the British Museum unveils a new exhibition – Legion: Life in the Roman Army – on the lives of soldiers who helped conquer more than a million square…
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Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone, author Leo Vardiashvili and the Great Escapes exhibition at Kew
Award-winning actress Lily Gladstone on working with Martin Scorsese and Native American representation in his new film Killers of the Flower Moon.Leo…
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Jonny Greenwood of The Smile, Self Esteem on music industry report, Artes Mundi prize winner
The Smile is a trio comprising Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner. That Yorke and Greenwood are members of Radiohead assures keen interest the band…
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Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, Gruff Rhys, Colin Barrett
Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, who have been married for close to thirty years, talk to Tom Sutcliffe about playing three couples on stage in Neil…
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The Color Purple reviewed, and the pop concert as cinema phenomenon
The Color Purple reviewed, and the pop concert as cinema phenomenon.
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Masters of the Air, Ronan Bennett on his Top Boy novel, hobbies and DIY art
Masters of the Air creator John Orloff, Literary spin offs from film and TV with Ronan Bennet and Robert Lautner, and when does a hobby turn into art? with…
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Oscar Nominations, Howard Jacobson, Culture Funding Cuts
Following today’s announcement of the 2024 Oscar nominations, film critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh joins Front Row to consider how well this year’s shortlisted…
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Andrew Haigh on All of Us Strangers, Lulu Wang on Expats starring Nicole Kidman
Andrew Haigh’s new film All of Us Strangers, is both a love story and a ghost story. Starring Andrew Scott, it explores the impact of a chance encounter in a…
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Paul Giamatti and Alexander Payne on The Holdovers and reivews of The Vulnerables and The Artful Dodger
Actor Paul Giamatti and director Alexander Payne on The Holdovers, their award-winning film about the unlikely friendship between a curmudgeonly teacher, a…
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Daniel Kaluuya, the arts in Wales, shelving big budget films discussion, Jane Jin Kaisen
Daniel Kaluuya on making his debut as a director and screenwriter with his new film, Kitchen - a dystopian thriller set in London twenty years from now.Dafydd…
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Poor Things, Jodie Comer, RSC new season, TS Eliot poetry prize
Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos talk about their award-winning film Poor Things, based on Alasdair Gray’s novelJodie Comer is a new mother struggling to…
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Jonathan Glazer, history of radio drama, Molly Tuttle
British director Jonathan Glazer tells Tom Sutcliffe about The Zone of Interest, his award-winning new film about Auschwitz Commandant Rudolf Höss and family’s…
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Mean Girls and Hisham Matar’s My Friends reviewed
Mean Girls is 20 years old and has its cult following - but will fans love the new film of the hit Broadway musical of the same name? Critics Sarah Ditum and…
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Jack Rooke on TV sitcom Big Boys, Eliza Carthy goes wassailing
Jack Rooke drew on his own life for his hit Channel 4 sitcom Big Boys which focussed on an unlikely friendship between two first year university students –…
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Ins Choi on Kim’s Convenience, why are so many films set in a dystopian future?
Ins Choi, the creator of the Netflix hit comedy series, Kim’s Convenience, talks about getting past stereotypes, keeping audiences on edge and bringing his…
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Golden Globe winner Poor Things reviewed, new deal for Warhammer 40,000
Yorgis Lanthimos’ black comedy Poor Things won Best Film and Best Actress for its star Emma Stone at last night’s Golden Globe awards, so this evening we’re…
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Priscilla and Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Kagami reviewed
Priscilla is Sofia Coppola’s film about Priscilla Beaulieu who first met Elvis Presley when she was 14 years old and later became his wife. Critics Hannah…
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Dan Levy, National Poetry Library at 70, Clarke Peters
In the work for which he is best known, the multi-award winning television sitcom, Schitt’s Creek, as well as being the show’s creator, Dan Levy played the…
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George Clooney, writer Gwyneth Hughes, The Scala Cinema
The Boys in the Boat tells the story of the surprise success of the US rowing team at 1936 Munich Olympics. Samira talks to the director George Clooney and its…
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Final Ghosts, Tennant's Macbeth, Next Goal Wins, National Theatre of Wales
One of the TV hits of 2023, Ghosts returns for a one-off special on Christmas Day. Festive viewing for many families will also probably include other work by…
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The Unthanks, Lucinda Coxon, the North East Cultural Partnership
Acclaimed English folk group The Unthanks are currently touring the UK with what they describe as a winter fantasia - a mix of traditional and newly written…
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Movie stars Adam Driver and Bill Nighy, author AL Kennedy, and the Process of Poetry
Adam Driver stars in Michael Mann’s film Ferrari, set in the summer of 1957 as the ex-racer turned entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari pushes his drivers to the limit on…
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Helena Bonham Carter and Russell T Davies, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Helena Bonham Carter and Russell T Davies talk to Samira about their ITV drama series Nolly, in which Bonham Carter plays Crossroads star Noele Gordon. As a…
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Front Row reviews Cold War the musical and Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Front Row reviews some of the week’s cultural highlights. Tom Sutcliffe is joined by film critic Hanna Flint and Will Hodgkinson, chief pop and rock critic for…
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Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan on Maestro, Noel Coward's Songs, Wien Museum reopens
Bradley Cooper directs and stars in the new film Maestro about the hugely influential American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein alongside Carey…
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Margaret Cavendish, Margareth Olin, Christmas TV
Margaret Cavendish was born exactly 400 years ago, and her many achievements include writing The Blazing World, arguably the first ever sci-fi novel. Novelist…
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Andy Serkis and Louisa Harland on Ulster American, Panto and Gender Roles, Graphic Novels with Rachel Cooke and Ian Dunt
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Andy Serkis and Louisa Harland about Ulster American, a new play in which they star at Riverside Studios with Woody Harrelson.It's panto…
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Benjamin Zephaniah, Wim Wenders' Anselm,The Famous Five, Xmas Ads
Fred D'Aguiar discusses the life and poetry of Benjamin Zephaniah, whose death was announced today.Tom Sutcliffe reviews Wim Wenders' film about the artist…
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Paul King on directing Wonka, Best non-fiction books of 2023, British pop art artist Pauline Boty
Paddington director Paul King returns with Wonka starring Timothée Chalamet in the title role. He talks with Samira about exploring the backstory of Willy…
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Shane Meadows on the British film industry, Children’s books round-up, the Turner Prize
Shane Meadows talks about his unconventional journey into the British film industry and his vision for more diversity in film, as he prepares to give the David…
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Julia Roberts on Leave the World Behind, guitarist MILOŠ, The Peasants
Julia Roberts, and the director of her latest project, Sam Esmail, discuss their new film, Leave The World Behind - a psychological thriller which explores…
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Front Row reviews Eileen and The House of Bernarda Alba
Front Row reviews the week’s cultural highlights. Samira Ahmed is joined by critics Sarah Crompton and Isabel Stevens to discuss William Oldroyd’s new film…
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Billie Marten, Yinka Shonibare, Richard Mantle on Opera North
Since 1994 Sir Richard Mantle has been General Director of Opera North. He's led the company through the creation of a new home in Leeds; the establishment of…
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AI and publishing, terrible record covers, Fred D'Aguiar
Michael Connelly is one of several authors suing the tech company OpenAI for "theft" of his work. Nicola Solomon, outgoing Society of Authors CEO, and Sean…
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Maria Callas, Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane, Rory Pilgrim
For what would have been the 100th birthday of soprano Maria Callas, Front Row brought together singer Dame Sarah Connolly and music critic Fiona Maddocks to…
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The Booker Prize Ceremony 2023
A special edition of Front Row, live from the Booker Prize for Fiction. Samira Ahmed is joined on stage by Booker Prize judges actor Adjoa Andoh and…
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Maestro, reality TV Squid Game, Brutalist architecture
Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose has attracted a lot of media attention for Maestro, his portrayal of the composer Leonard Bernstein. Tom Sutcliffe asks music…
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Joanna Hogg, map making, Ghislaine Leung
In her acclaimed films Joanna Hogg blurs the lines between her art and her life. As she releases her first ghost story film, The Eternal Daughter - an…
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Ridley Scott's Napoleon, Albert Hall tickets resales, Bob Mortimer's winning comedy fiction
Tom Sutcliffe talks to director Ridley Scott about his new film Napoleon - a subject that takes him back to an actor who’s played an emperor for him before –…
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The Alehouse Boys, Sarah Bernstein and AS Byatt
Thomas Guthrie and “The Alehouse Boys” bring the music of Schubert to pubs with their new album Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin. Their arrangements of…
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Annette Bening and Jodie Foster
Annette Bening and Jodie Foster star in a new sports biopic Nyad, the eponymous story of Diana Nyad who attempted to swim between Cuba and Florida in her 60s…
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The Barber of Seville in Yorkshire dialect, Art as experience, Turner Prize nominee Jesse Darling, Northern Creative Corridor
Ian McMillan explains the challenge of translating Rossini's comedy opera, The Barber of Seville, into Yorkshire dialect and singers Oscar Castellino and…
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Emerald Fennell, Lucy Frazer and Paul Harding
Emerald Fennell’s follow-up to her award-winning film Promising Young Woman aims to have cinema-goers squirming in their seats. The mystery drama Saltburn…
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Todd Haynes, Trevor Horn, new galleries at the Imperial War Museum
The UK’s first art, film and photography galleries dedicated to war and conflict have just opened at the Imperial War Museum. Al Murray, who has made several…
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Anatomy of a Fall, Pete McKee, Wu-Tang Clan 30th anniversary
Tonight on Front Row - reviews of something old and something new. At this year's Cannes Film Festival, Anatomy of a Fall, a whodunnit fused with a portrait of…
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Front Row reviews 1623, to mark the anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio
To mark 400 hundred years to the day since the First Folio of Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies was published according to the True…
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Billy Bragg, Paul Murray, feminist art of the 1970s
Singer, songwriter and activist Billy Bragg joins Samira Ahmed to perform live in the Front Row studio and discuss The Roaring Forty, a box set and nationwide…
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Rebecca Lucy Taylor aka Self Esteem, Judi Jackson, the rise of the Ghanaian art scene
Rebecca Lucy Taylor also known as Self Esteem is making her stage debut in the Olivier-award winning production of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club in London as…
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Kenneth Branagh in King Lear, Andrew Motion on Elegies
Coming under the Front Row spotlight today are: Kenneth Branagh’s new stage production of King Lear, in which he both stars and directs, and How to Have Sex, a…
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Henry Winkler, Northern Ballet, David Fennessey
From 1974 to 1984 Henry Winkler played the character of Arthur Fonzarelli, “The Fonz”, in the hit American sitcom, Happy Days. The role dominated the public’s…
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Duran Duran, Dobrivoje Beljkasic at 100 and Sandra Newman on retelling Orwell’s 1984
To mark Halloween, Duran Duran have released Danse Macabre, a “spooky concept” album. Samira talks to Simon Le Bon and John Taylor about working with Nile…
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Backstairs Billy, Jonathan Escoffery, National Theatre Wales
Backstairs Billy is a new play about Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother, and her loyal, camp and working class servant, William Tallon…
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David Fincher’s The Killer and the week’s highlights reviewed
The Killer, starring Michael Fassbender, has been hailed as a return to tense and stylish form for the director David Fincher. Critics Rhianna Dhillon and John…
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A history of 2 Tone, actor Martin Shaw remembers producer Bill Kenwright, Booker-shortlisted author Chetna Maroo, Lyonesse
Daniel Rachel’s book Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story is a new history of the iconic record label. He’s joined by Pauline Black, lead singer of The…
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Patrick Stewart, Steven Isserlis, The art of skateboard design
Sir Patrick Stewart's memoir Making It So looks back over his long and eclectic acting career encompassing stage, film and television and video games. He has…
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Aviva Studios, The Chemical Brothers, Rufus Norris on 60 years of the National Theatre, Danny Boyle's Free Your Mind
Aviva Studios, a reportedly £240 million pound arts complex, has opened in Manchester with Free Your Mind, an immersive stage version of The Matrix from Oscar…