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Ricky Gervais, Tom Walker, Andre Previn remembered, Young adult literature
In his new series After Life, Ricky Gervais plays a local journalist who tries to find humour as he struggles in the wake of his wife’s death, with a dog as…
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Charlotte Rampling, Berlioz Anniversary, Leveret Perform Live
Charlotte Rampling discusses her new film Hannah, for which she won Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival playing a woman shunned by her family and society…
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Leaving Neverland, Jacob Collier, Dorothea Tanning at Tate Modern
How much should we separate art from the artist’s behaviour? With new sexual abuse allegations concerning Michael Jackson in the forthcoming documentary…
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The return of Fleabag, Nikki Sixx on Motley Crue biopic, Oscars analysis
The return of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s black comedy Fleabag: we preview the new series of BBC3's biggest success. The main character continues to battle with her…
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Phyllida Barlow, Jonathan Freedland, The decline of foreign language films
Award-winning journalist Jonathan Freedland talks about his alter ego, thriller writer Sam Bourne, and his new book To Kill The Truth. With the strap line…
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Odaline de la Martinez, War Photography, Flack Review, Peter Tork Remembered
The Cuban American conductor Odaline de la Martinez talks about this year's London Festival of American Music in which she showcases the music of women and…
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Felicity Jones, Alan Partridge, Marina Abramovic
Felicity Jones discusses her new film On the Basis of Sex, in which she plays Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the American Supreme Court Judge who rose to prominence as a…
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Chiwetel Ejiofor, Come From Away, Short story competitions, Karl Lagerfeld
The directorial debut of Oscar -winning actor, Chiwetel Ejiofor,is The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. Airing on Netflix, adapted from a bestselling novel of the…
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9 to 5 the musical, Bryony Kimmings, Representation of sex in the arts
9 to 5 is Dolly Parton’s stage musical based on the 1980 film, in which she starred, about three female office workers getting revenge on their misogynist…
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Gabriela Rodriguez, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Andrea Levy tribute
Roma, the black and white Mexican film about a young domestic worker in Mexico City in the 1970s, won Best Film at the Baftas on Sunday and is up for the same…
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Ardal O'Hanlon, Tessa Hadley, The Umbrella Academy
Irish comedian Ardal O’Hanlon is best-known for roles in Father Ted, My Hero and currently Death in Paradise, but he started out as a stand-up comic in 80s…
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Leïla Slimani, Joe Cornish, Diane Arbus, Berlin Film Festival
French-Moroccan novelist Leila Slimani caused a sensation in France with her novel Lullaby about a nanny who murders the two children in her care, which won…
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Anna Jordan, Terence Blanchard, Reappraising Horror
It was in Manchester in 2013 that Anna Jordan won the Bruntwood Prize, the UK’s biggest national competition for new plays. She’s now back in the city with her…
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Sara Pascoe, The hidden craft of casting directors, Who is Kacey Musgraves?
Comedian Sara Pascoe talks about her latest stand-up show Lads, Lads, Lads and its evolution from being about her relationship break-up to being happy a single…
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Spike Lee and Thelma Schoonmaker, and Albert Finney remembered
This weekend sees the announcement of the winners of this year's Baftas - the British Academy Film Awards - and Stig talks to two of the stars in London for…
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Broadway star Chita Rivera, Jeff Koons, Dan Mallory controversy
Broadway star Chita Rivera, who created the iconic roles of Anita in West Side Story and Velma in Chicago, talks to Samira about her seven decades on stage, as…
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Walls and Borders in Art
Front Row considers the artistic significance of walls and borders. John Lanchester, whose latest novel The Wall is about a massive fictional defensive…
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The Cutty Sark as Sculpture, Regina King and an Elegy for an Eyesore
The Cutty Sark was launched 150 years ago this year. The acme of sailing technology, now she floats not in the sea but in the air in Greenwich. People walk…
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Tiffany Haddish, Alice Clark-Platts, National Lottery Heritage Fund at 25
American comedian Tiffany Haddish joins the voice cast of the Lego Movie sequel as the shape-shifting Queen Whatever Wa'Nabi. She tells Front Row how comedy…
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Leonardo da Vinci, Green Book, Sian Edwards, New Music Curriculum
Painter, sculptor, architect and engineer- Leonardo da Vinci is regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time. To mark the 500th anniversary of his…
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Moon and Me creator Andrew Davenport, diversity in opera
Moon and Me is the new CBeebies programme by Andrew Davenport, creator of the award-winning shows Teletubbies and In the Night Garden. He discusses how his…
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Christian Dior exhibition, Costa Book Prize winner and book prize sponsorship
Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Germaine Greer
As she turns 80, Germaine Greer reflects on her career as a Shakespeare academic, public intellectual, feminist and provocateur.Germaine Greer discusses her…
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The Mule, Anne Griffin, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Brexit Arts Funding
Clint Eastwood is the director and star of The Mule, about a cantankerous 90 year-old horticulturist who decides to become a drug mule. Mark Eccleston reviews…
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Watercooler TV, Bill Viola/Michelangelo, Art Fund Volunteers, Diana Athill remembered
Karen Krizanovich explains the appeal of three of the biggest recent hit TV releases still provoking discussion: Bird Box and Sex Education on Netflix, and…
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Oscar Nominations 2019
The nominations for the 91st Academy Awards were announced earlier today with Roma and The Favourite leading the list, with Black Panther the first superhero…
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Nicole Kidman, Fanny Hill, Women artists
Nicole Kidman discusses her first lead role for some time as she plays a tortured detective in the grimy LA-set thriller, Destroyer.John Cleland’s 18th century…
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Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright MP, Radio Breakfast Shows, Chigozie Obioma
The Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright MP, who today gave his ‘Value of Culture’ speech, in which he set out the government’s plans for a multi-million-pound…
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Brexit and the arts, Diane Setterfield, Charlie Luxton on beautiful buildings, composer Du Yun
The impact of Brexit on the creative industries. Today a letter from the Business for People’s Vote Campaign, was published in the Times, signed by names…
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Film director M Night Shyamalan, DH Lawrence as dramatist, New work by Bridget Riley
M. Night Shyamalan discusses his new film, Glass, the third in his comic book trilogy with Unbreakable and Split. It stars Samuel L Jackson, Bruce Willis and…
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Steve Carell, Brian Tyler, London Borough of Culture
Academy Award nominee Steve Carell continues his pursuit of more serious roles with his latest film Beautiful Boy. The true story is based on the parallel…
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Octavian, The Killing creator Soren Sveistrup, TS Eliot Prize-winner
Octavian, the winner of BBC Music’s Sound of 2019 announced on Friday, is a true rags-to-riches story. The French-born rapper discusses how, after a turbulent…
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Steve Coogan and John C Reilly, Costa First Novel winner Stuart Turton
The immortal comedy duo of Laurel and Hardy have been given a second life on screen by John C. Riley and Steve Coogan in the new film Stan & Ollie. The actors…
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Hugh Jackman on The Front Runner, Costa Biography Award winner Bart van Es, Da Vinci loan refusal
Hugh Jackman on his film The Front Runner, in which he plays Democratic contender Gary Hart, who in 1987 was ahead in the polls before an alleged affair shot…
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Comedian Nish Kumar, Acoustics in architecture, 2018 Costa Children’s Book Award winner Hilary McKay
The comedian Nish Kumar on why his latest stand up tour is his most political yet, and the challenge of keeping his satirical topical news television show, The…
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Keira Knightley, Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney, Costa Poetry Winner
Keira Knightley discusses her new film about the celebrated French Belle Epoque author Colette, whose bestselling Claudine novels explored teenage sexuality…
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Charlie Brooker on Bandersnatch, Sophie Raworth reveals the Costa Book Award Winners
Charlie Brooker discusses his ground-breaking interactive film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, where the viewer chooses multiple storylines. As Netflix's first…
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Robert Zemeckis, Poet Laureate, The Victorian House of Arts and Crafts
Forrest Gump, Back to the Future and Castaway director Robert Zemeckis returns with new film Welcome to Marwen. Based on real-life events and starring Academy…
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Brexit: The Uncivil War, JD Salinger Centenary, Tracy-Ann Oberman
Brexit: The Uncivil War stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Rory Kinnear as the leaders of the Leave and Remain campaigns. Written by James Graham, the one-off…
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Olivia Colman, Luther, Surgery and embroidery
Olivia Colman is winning major awards for her portrayal of Queen Anne in The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos’ film about a scandalous love triangle between the…
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Keeley Hawes
Actress Keeley Hawes has long been a household name and seems to have an uncanny ability to pick parts that place her in the most talked about TV shows of…
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Cultural Quiz of the Year
How much were you paying attention to arts and culture in 2018? Critics Boyd Hilton, Katie Puckrik and Sarah Crompton, Raifa Rafiq from the Mostly Lit podcast…
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An appreciation of the late Amos Oz the Israeli novelist who died today
Journalist and novelist Jonathan Freedland remembers the Israeli author Amos Oz who died today.Tim Robey, Susannah Clapp and Laura Barton - film, theatre and…
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As a generation of choreographers pass, we hear from the new generation rising
Front Row marks the deaths of three great choreographers.
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Slow radio: Land artist Chris Drury's Morecambe Bay project
Internationally-acclaimed land artist Chris Drury's latest project is a dry stone chamber at the end of a remote peninsular overlooking Morecambe Bay in…
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Choirs - a celebration of singing together
It's estimated that almost three million people in the UK now belong to a choir. Kirsty Lang explores why this might be, and looks at the evidence that singing…
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Les Misérables discussed by Andrew Davies, adapter of a new TV version
Andrew Davies is renowned for turning literary classics into prime-time television drama, from Pride and Prejudice and Bleak House to War and Peace. He talks…
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Ben Elton on Shakespeare, Call to Action Art, Vanessa Kisuule
Ben Elton, creator of the iconic Elizabethan sitcom Blackadder II, talks about his fascination with Shakespeare, as Upstart Crow returns to BBC Two for a…
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Lin-Manuel Miranda in Mary Poppins Returns, Hip Hop Musicals, Richard Sherman
Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the phenomenally successful stage musical Hamilton, is starring in Mary Poppins Returns, a sequel to Disney’s 1964 classic. He…
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Eileen Atkins, Penny Marshall remembered, The Shining, Sister Bliss
Eileen Atkins, grande dame of the stage, looks back over her career. The actress famous for her roles in The Crown and Gosford Park, talks about playing…
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John Malkovich on playing Poirot, Why we cry at films, True crime podcasts
Actor and director John Malkovich discusses foreign accents and facial hair with Kirsty as he explains what drew him to taking on the role of famed Belgian…
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The Archers' Canterbury Tales, Watership Down, Gremlins - alternative Christmas film, Putin and Rap
As the Archers prepares for its Canterbury Tales Christmas special, Carole Boyd - who plays the doyenne of Ambridge theatricals Lynda Snell - is joined by…
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Rita Ora, Writing About Sex, Die Hard at 30
Rita Ora on her six year journey to release her second album Phoenix, following a legal dispute with her record label. The musician, who has also acted in the…
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Lee Mack, Magic Mike on stage, Prose poetry
Not Going Out is the UK’s longest-running sitcom on TV and will this year bring a live edition to our screens for Christmas. The show’s star and creator Lee…
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Aquaman, Mike Bartlett
Two new films with comic book superheroes at the centre - Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse and Aquaman - have just been released. Aquaman is DC’s follow-up to…
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Mortal Engines, Tenancy, Ren Hang, Martin Jenkinson
Mortal Engines is a new sci-fi fantasy film co-written and produced by Peter Jackson, based on the first in a series of young adult steampunk novels by Philip…
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Tamara Lawrance, The 1975's Matty Healy, Meet Vermeer
Tamara Lawrance stars in new BBC One drama The Long Song, an adaption of the Andrea Levy novel set on a sugar plantation during the final days of slavery in…
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Springsteen on Broadway, Disfigured Villains, Beautiful Books for Christmas
As Bruce Springsteen nears the end of his 236-show run in New York, Kate Mossman reviews Springsteen on Broadway, the new Netflix film of his stage show based…
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Jimmy McGovern, Tania Bruguera, Arts and insomnia
Screenwriter Jimmy McGovern talks about his new BBC One drama Care, starring Sheridan Smith, Alison Steadman and Sinead Keenan, which looks at the personal…
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Maggi Hambling, Ellie Kendrick, Beastie Boys
Maggi Hambling discusses her new exhibition The Quick and the Dead at Jerwood Gallery in Hastings, which centres on paintings and drawings made over the past…