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Tom Hanks, artists and risk, Brexit dance piece Brink
Tom Hanks talks about his new film, A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood, which is based on the true story of the popular American children's TV presenter Fred…
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Agnieszka Holland on Mr Jones, Risk Season - Failure, Timur Vermes
Polish director Agnieszka Holland, best-known for her Oscar nominated feature films about the Holocaust, discusses her new film Mr Jones, starring James Norton…
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Robert Pattinson on The Lighthouse, Risk in Films, Greta Gerwig on Little Women
Robert Pattinson talks to Samira about his new Oscar nominated film The Lighthouse, a gothic thriller in black and white from Robert Eggers (The Witch), in…
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Melina Matsoukas on Queen and Slim, Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy years reviewed, Faustus: That Damned Woman, Richard Armitage
Director Melina Matsoukas talks about her first feature film Queen and Slim, which follows a black couple on a lackluster date pulled over for a minor traffic…
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Patrick Stewart, Costa Book of the Year winner, Arts Council England's new 10-year strategy
Samira talks to Sir Patrick Stewart about what tempted him back to Star Trek to play Jean-Luc Picard for the first time in 18 years. Star Trek: Picard finds…
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Scorsese - The Irishman, Risk Season continues, Naum Gabo exhibition
Martin Scorsese has the most Oscar nominations of any living director though he has only won once, for his 2006 film The Departed. Nominated again this year…
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Martin Scorsese
In a career spanning half a century, Martin Scorsese has told stories about masculinity, music, violence, guilt and redemption – in films including Taxi…
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Pet Shop Boys, Emotional risk taking in the arts, The Eye As Witness
The Pet Shop Boys talk about their highly anticipated new studio album Hotspot, which is released today. Hotspot is the duo’s final release with producer…
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Guz Khan, Calculating Risk, Northern Writing
As the BBC Three hit comedy Man Like Mobeen returns for a third series, its creator and star, Guz Khan, discusses the development of his on screen persona…
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Terry Jones remembered by Michael Palin, Hugh Laurie on Avenue 5, Gabrielle Aplin
Michael Palin remembers his friend and fellow Python, Terry Jones - writer, director, actor and historian - whose death at the age of 77 was announced today…
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Terry Gilliam, Samantha Strauss, Risk in art: Jeremy Deller, Picasso and Paper exhibition
It's taken 25 years and several false starts but Terry Gilliam has at last succeeded in bringing his version of Don Quixote to the big screen. The director…
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Dev Patel on David Copperfield, Front Row's Risk Season, bestselling author Kimberley Chambers
Dev Patel talks about playing David Copperfield in Armando Iannucci’s retelling of Charles Dickens' classic ode to grit and perseverance, The Personal History…
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Playwright Lucy Kirkwood, Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life, Sam Lee and Bernard Butler
Playwright Lucy Kirkwood discusses her return to the National Theatre following the critically-acclaimed Mosquitoes in 2017 with her new play The Welkin, which…
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Charlize Theron on Bombshell, The Outsider reviewed, Ayeesha Menon, Independent Venue Week
Charlize Theron discusses her new film Bombshell, for which she's been Oscar nominated, in which she stars alongside Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie. It tells…
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Fire in Australian art and culture, writer Ben Richards and The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel
As bushfires continue to ravage huge areas of land in Australia, how have artists and writers responded to the complex historical relationship the country has…
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Michael B Jordan & Jamie Foxx, Spotlight directory, TS Eliot Prize winner Roger Robinson
Michael B Jordan and Jamie Foxx on their new film Just Mercy, the story of one of America’s great miscarriages of justice. Michael plays lawyer Bryan…
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2020 Oscar Nominations
John talks to Oscar nominees including Charlize Theron (Best Actress), Jonathan Pryce (Best Actor) and Florence Pugh (Best Supporting Actress). Critics…
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Jonathan Coe, Johnny Flynn on Magnitsky the Musical, Selena Gomez album reviewed
Jonathan Coe talks about Middle England which has won the Costa Novel Award 2019. Set in the outskirts of Birmingham where car factories have been replaced by…
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Laurie Nunn on Sex Education, Mary Jean Chan, Podcast news
A teenage sex therapist on a high school campus is the premise of the hit Netflix series Sex Education. Starring Asa Butterfield and Gillian Anderson, its…
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Freddie Fox, Costa Children's Prize winner Jasbinder Bilan, theatre ticket pricing
Freddie Fox on playing Jeremy Bamber in ITV's new six part factual drama White House Farm, about one fateful night in August 1985 when five members of the same…
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BAFTAs so white, Adam Sandler, Costa First Novel winner Sara Collins, Fidelio reinvented
We discuss the controversy over this years BAFTA nominations. The most prominent categories - Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress – remain predominantly white…
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Sam Mendes on WWI movie 1917, Costa Book Awards 2019 winners
Suzannah Lipscomb (Chair of Costa Biography Award) announces the category winners of the five 2019 Costa Book Awards exclusively on Front Row and Stig talks…
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Hugh Grant and Matthew McConaughey, Daisy Coulam, Bill Bryson
Hugh Grant and Matthew McConaughey discuss working with Guy Ritchie on his new gangster film The Gentlemen, but never actually sharing a scene.Television…
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Jojo Rabbit reviewed, Alex Michaelides, protecting artworks from light damage
Taika Waititi’s new film Jojo Rabbit is a satire about a 10-year-old budding Nazi who falls under the spell of his imaginary friend Adolf Hitler, played by the…
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Beethoven at 250
A celebration of Ludwig van Beethoven, marking the composer's 250th anniversary year. To discuss what sets Beethoven apart from other composers, John Wilson is…
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Cultural Quiz of 2019
Writer Juno Dawson, critic Sarah Crompton, comedian Ayesha Hazarika and folk musician Matthew Crampton battle it out to see who'll be crowned champion in our…
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A decade of TV, Ballet podcast Tom and Ty Talk, Long Day's Journey into Night reviewed, Neil Innes
How has TV changed in the last decade, from what we watch to how we watch it. Critics Boyd Hilton and Eleanor Stanford discuss, alongside contributions from…
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Art and Churches
The most recent statistics released by the Church of England reveal record cathedral attendance, despite falling numbers in many Anglican parish churches…
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Candice Carty-Williams in conversation with Bernardine Evaristo
A sparkling and razor-sharp conversation marks the end of a remarkable year for two authors. Queenie has been one of the breakthrough novels of the year…
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Motown legends Brian and Eddie Holland
Three names on the Motown label, Holland-Dozier-Holland, were behind a string of hits including 13 number 1s in a row. The songs they wrote included Reach Out…
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Screenwriter Amanda Coe, Bad films we love, Diana Evans
Amanda Coe, novelist and screenwriter of Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story, Room at the Top and Apple Tree Yard talks about her latest television drama series…
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The Goes Wrong Show, Slow Painting, Reviving the high street with culture
The Mischief Theatre team – Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields have had an amazing year with their Play That Goes Wrong theatre franchise – three…
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JJ Abrams, musicals moving from stage to screen, Derek Owusu
JJ Abrams on overcoming his initial qualms about directing The Rise of Skywalker, the epic conclusion of the 42 year Star Wars saga. A huge juggling act, the…
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Robert De Niro on The Irishman, subverting the gaze, The Witcher showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich
Robert De Niro discusses reuniting with Martin Scorsese after nearly 25 years for The Irishman, the big-budget epic Netflix saga about organised crime over…
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Saoirse Ronan, The Book People goes into administration, How to paint babies
Saoirse Ronan stars as Jo March in Greta Gerwig’s new film adaptation of Little Women. The Irish actress, who’s tipped for an Oscar for the role, discusses how…
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Taron Egerton, A Christmas Carol, Joe Stilgoe
Taron Egerton, whose performance as Elton John in the film Rocketman has already earned him Golden Globe and SAG nominations for Best Actor, talks about…
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Mark Gatiss, Kate Rusby, Creating New Traditions
Stories from Mark Gatiss will dominate the small screen once again this festive season. Gatiss joins Kirsty to talk about his new adaptation of Dracula, in 3…
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Jonathan Pryce, Survival literature, Fictional politicians
The Two Popes is a based on true events, the resignation of Pope Benedict and the election of his successor, Francis. It's also a double act by two great Welsh…
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Francesca Hayward on Cats and Romeo and Juliet, Joker composer Hildur Guðnadóttir
Ballet star Francesca Hayward on the Royal Ballet's Romeo and Juliet: Beyond Words, filmed on location, and her lead role as Victoria The White Cat in the new…
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Mike Bartlett, staging of art exhibitions, Any One Thing
The work of the playwright and screenwriter Mike Bartlett has become a staple of the theatre and television landscape with his plays, such as Bull, winning…
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Teenage Dick, Traces review, Olga Neuwirth, Nobel Prize for Literature controversy
Controversy surrounds this year's Nobel Prize for Literature; unusually there are two winners, Polish Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian Peter Handke. Handke has been…
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Gender Imbalance in Art Collections, Whitechapel Bell Foundry, Three Sisters Rewired
Last month Baltimore Museum of Art announced that in 2020 it would only collect works of art by women, because in the last decade just 2% of global art auction…
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Inua Ellams on Three Sisters, Noah Baumbach on Marriage Story, Art goes Bananas
Inua Ellams, writer of the hit play Barber Shop Chronicles, has transposed Chekhov's Three Sisters to 1960s Nigeria, on the brink of the Biafran Civil War. His…
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Front Row at BBC Music Introducing Live
Sarah Gosling is joined by Ferris & Sylvester, music director Kojo Samuel and composer Tom Foskett-Barnes, in a show recorded at the recent BBC Music…
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Lesley Manville, Turner Prize, Bat for Lashes
Lesley Manville, who was nominated for an Oscar for her last screen role in Phantom Thread, talks about her new film, Ordinary Love, which co-stars Liam Neeson…
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Difficult comedy audiences, Netflix v cinema?, Honey Boy, Romesh Gunesekera
Stand up comedian Nish Kumar was booed off stage at a charity gig for The Lord's Taverners. How do comedians cope when the audience disagrees with their…
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Edward Norton, Elizabeth is Missing, artist Luke Jerram
Edward Norton on his new film Motherless Brooklyn, which he wrote, directed, produced and stars in, as a lonely private detective with Tourette Syndrome in…
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The Boy in the Dress, Turner Prize Shortlisted Artists, The First Nowell
The Boy in the Dress is a major new musical at the RSC in Stratford based on the book by David Walliams, with songs by Robbie Williams and Guy Chambers, a…
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Atlantics, Scheherazade and 1001 Nights, Political parties' arts manifestos
Atlantics is a Senegalese supernatural romantic drama directed by Mati Diop. She made history when the film premiered at Cannes, becoming the first black woman…
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Tributes to Clive James and Sir Jonathan Miller
The deaths of two giants of the arts were announced today. The Australian poet, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and essayist, Clive James, and the…
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Costa Book Prize shortlist, Rian Johnson on Knives Out, art theft
We exclusively reveal and analyse the 2019 Costa Book Prize shortlist. Critics Alex Clark and Sarah Shaffi discuss the books chosen in the five categories…
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Rapper Wretch 32, Hamlet on the Faroe Islands, Blue Story controversy
Rapper Wretch 32 discusses his new memoir, Rapthology. Part autobiography, part guide to creativity and part cultural history, Rapthology unpacks the songs…
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Coldplay and Leonard Cohen albums, Norman Cornish, Roy Chubby Brown controversy
Coldplay's new album Everyday Life is released today after a performance at sunrise in Jordan this morning. Also out is Leonard Cohen's posthumous album Thanks…
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Harriet, Les Misérables and social realist films, risk in publishing, street art
The story of the slave abolitionist Harriet Tubman has finally made it to the big screen where she is played by Cynthia Erivo. Gaylene Gould reviews.After…
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Frozen's Idina Menzel, Dora Maar, power in publishing
Idina Menzel, famous for singing Let It Go from the film Frozen, provides the voice once more of Elsa, now Queen of Arendelle and still with magical powers, in…
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Taylor Swift rights row, RJ Palacio, Nan Goldin and Judy Chicago reviewed, Le Mans '66 reviewed, Amazon's impact on publishing
RJ Palacio’s first novel Wonder has been published in 45 languages, sold 5 million copies worldwide and been made into a film starring Julia Roberts. We speak…
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Dear Evan Hansen, Emmanuel Jal, How to Make a Living as a Writer
Dear Evan Hansen is the Tony award winning musical about a socially anxious teenager who, via a web of lies, gets caught up in social media adulation following…
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Northern Ballet at 50, Art B&B, Iced Bodies
As Northern Ballet reaches its half century, the company's Artistic Director David Nixon discusses his love of telling stories through Dance.Ever fancied…
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Floods and art, Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries, Tom Rosenthal
With Italy set to declare a state of national emergency in Venice after the Unesco world heritage site was engulfed by a 6ft 'acqua alta', flooding its…
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Tobias Menzies plays Prince Philip; Six, a musical about the wives of Henry VIII; and Rapman
This edition of Front Row has a regal air. As the third series of The Crown airs next week, with Olivia Coleman taking over the role of Queen Elizabeth from…