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BBC National Short Story Award
Join John Wilson for a celebration of the power and possibilities of the short story as Chair of Judges Joanna Trollope announces the winner of the 2017 BBC…
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Matt Lucas on his memoir, Tamsin Greig and Martin Freeman on Labour of Love
Matt Lucas talks to Stig Abell about his autobiography 'Little Me: My life from A-Z', in which he writes about the challenges of his childhood, his start on…
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A Front Row special from Hull's Contains Strong Language festival
A Front Row special from Hull which is hosting the BBC's new poetry and spoken word festival - Contains Strong Language. John Wilson talks to James Phillips…
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Benny Andersson, Sophie Wu, National Poetry Day
Benny Andersson, the musical mastermind behind all those Abba hits and the musical Chess, talks to Kirsty about his new album on which he presents solo piano…
Front RowCarlos Acosta, Opera at the V&A, Michael Winterbottom
Since he retired last year, the international ballet Star Carlos Acosta has set up a dance company in his native Cuba, Acosta Danza. The company will debut in…
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Susheela Raman sings Eastern Christian music; Liz Dawn and Tony Booth remembered; the campus in culture; Kwame Kwei Armah
On Saturday at the Barbican 18 musicians from several countries will play in a concert of Christian music from the East - Greece, Syria and India. Three of…
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Nancy Meyers, Jenny Erpenbeck, Literary modern classics, Turner Prize show
Nancy Meyers has made her career making hugely popular romantic comedies such as The Holiday, It's Complicated and What Women Want. As her latest venture, Home…
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Gerald Scarfe, Novelist Maja Lunde, The Judas Passion
The political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe discusses Stage and Screen, a new exhibition at House of Illustration of his designs for theatre, rock, opera, ballet…
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Juliet Stevenson, Basquiat, Tony Blackburn, NSSA shortlisted Jenni Fagan
Last time they worked together director Natalie Abrahami buried Juliet Stevenson up to her neck in Samuel Beckett's play Happy Days. In their new…
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Benedict Cumberbatch, Giles Coren, Borg vs McEnroe, Will Eaves
Benedict Cumberbatch on bringing Ian McEwan's novel The Child in Time to BBC1, playing a children's writer whose marriage breaks down following the…
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Bill Murray and Jan Vogler; Oslo reviewed; Poet Yrsa Daley-Ward; Helen Oyeyemi, BBC National Short Story Award nominee
The Hollywood actor and cellist Jan Vogler discuss their new classical album.