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Front Row Hogmanay live from Glasgow
Kirsty Wark hosts a Hogmanay edition live from Glasgow. Featuring performances by The Bluebells and piper Malin Lewis. Plus Alan Cumming; Scotland's new Makar…
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Bradford UK City of Culture 2025
As Bradford limbers up for its year as UK City of Culture, in a special edition of Front Row, Nick Ahad meets:Steven Frayne, the award-winning Bradford-born…
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Review: Better Man, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and How to make Millions before Grandma Dies
Boyd Hilton and Arifa Akbar join Tom to review: Better Man, the Robbie Williams biopic with a twist – he’s depicted as a Monkey. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the…
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Chris McCausland, Lauren Mayberry and Barry Jenkins
Fresh from his success as the winner of Strictly Come Dancing, comedian and actor Chris McCausland joins us to talk about his new TV film Bad Tidings, his…
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Simon Russell Beale, Rufus Wainwright and Kate Garner
The actor Simon Russell Beale speaks about playing the poet and scholar A. E. Housman in Tom Stoppard's play 'The Invention of Love', as well as discussing his…
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Call The Midwife creator Heidi Thomas, Nick Park on new Wallace & Gromit film, Organs discussion
Call The Midwife creator Heidi Thomas talks to Front Row about writing the drama's Christmas special, Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham discuss co-directing the…
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Review: The Devil Wears Prada, 100 Years of Solitude, The Universal Theory
Samira is joined by novelist Linda Grant and critic Jason Solomons to review the musical version of The Devil Wears Prada with music by Elton John. We also…
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Jesus and Mary Chain, The politics of pantomime & Video games of the year
Brothers William and Jim Reid of The Jesus and Mary Chain talk to Kirsty Wark about the ups and downs of their career in music.Plus a discussion on the…
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Daniel Craig and Luca Guadagnino, Public Service Broadcasting perform live
Daniel Craig and Luca Guadagnino talk about their new film Queer, which is based on the William S. Burroughs novella about a love affair between an aging…
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Kelsey Mann on Inside Out 2, Humphrey Bogart documentary, Susan Chardy
Disney's hit Inside Out 2 film explored youthful emotions to incredible success as the film is not only the highest grossing film of 2024 but it's also the…
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Review: Rumours, The Importance of Being Earnest, Grand Theft Hamlet
Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Naomi Alderman and Mark Ravenhill to review a new production of The Importance of Being Earnest at the National Theatre, starring…
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New Makar, future of musical theatre, arts funding in Scotland
Scotland's new Makar (National Poet) Peter Mackay, whose appointment was announced this week, talks about how he intends to shape the role over the next three…
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Richard Curtis's new film, Purple Heart Warriors audio drama, Turner Prize announcement
Tom Sutcliffe hears from the Love Actually writer and director Richard Curtis about how much he's obsessed by Christmas - and how he's now moved into animation…
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Reopening of Notre-Dame, Jacob Collier, Marshall Brickman, King Winter's Birthday
In 2019 fire destroyed the much of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. As the restoration is completed, Agnes Poirier describes the work of skilled artisans…
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Review: Beatles 64, Electric Dreams @ Tate Modern, The Agency
Samira Ahmed's joined by this week's critics - Louisa Buck and Matt Everitt - to review Beatles '64, documenting the fab four's first trip to America with…
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Donny Osmond, Orhan Pamuk, Puccini's centenary
Nobel Prize winning Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk talks about the publication of his illustrated journals, Memories of Distant Mountains. As he takes on the role…
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Edward Berger on Conclave, Ganavya performs, Tim Robey on film flops
Director Edward Berger joins Tom Sutcliffe to talk about his thriller Conclave, staring Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci, which focuses on the election of a new…
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Sigourney Weaver & Selina Cadell, Art forgery on the rise? Nitin Sawhney
Friends for fifty years, Sigourney Weaver and Selina Cadell discuss acting together in the Jamie Lloyd Company's new production of Shakespeare's The Tempest…
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Review: Wicked, Cher's memoir, Maddaddam ballet
Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Natalie Jamieson and Matt Cain to review:Cher, The Memoir, Part one - the pop icon and Oscar winning actor tells the story of her…
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Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream, Celebrity Children's Books and the Art and Writing of Maud Sulter
Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream speaks about Come Ahead, the band's first new album in eight years. We discuss how the publication of books for children by…
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Kathryn Tickell, Liverpool's carbon neutral gigs, drag queen romance film Layla
Kathryn Tickell talks about her new album Return to Kielderside, which reinterprets and updates the tunes and themes of her debut album, On Kielderside, which…
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Malala Yousafzai, The art of writing recipes, Rebecca Hall
Malala Yousafzai talks to Front Row about her new film Bread & Roses, which documents the fight for women’s rights in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover…
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Paul Mescal on Gladiator II, Murakami's latest novel, Test Tube baby drama Joy
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Paul Mescal about slipping into Russell Crowe’s sandals in Gladiator 2 – as well as reviewing the film itself with classically-trained…
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American guitarist Pat Metheny, Tribute to actor Timothy West, and Does Glasgow look after its built heritage?
American guitarist Pat Metheny on how the discovery of a particular Argentinian guitar string took his latest album Moondial in a new direction. As a school by…
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Winner of the 2024 Booker Prize announced live from the ceremony
Samira Ahmed is live from the Booker Prize 2024 ceremony. As well as hearing from the six shortlisted authors, Samira speaks to judges novelist Sara Collins…
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Booker Shortlisted Authors
Ahead of tonight's Booker Prize ceremony, Front Row hears from all of the shortlisted authors: Percival Everett, Samantha Harvey, Rachel Kushner, Anne…
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Ronnie Wood, the rise and fall of boybands, Mishka Momen
Rolling Stones guitarist, Ronnie Wood discusses his parallel career as an artist. As a new exhibition of his work opens at the Andrew Martin showroom in…
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Review: The Piano Lesson, Florence 1504, Jonathan Coe's The Proof of My Innocence
Nancy Durrant and Nii Ayikwei Parkes join Tom Sutcliffe to review The Piano Lesson, the latest August Wilson play to be adapted for the screen by the family of…
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Pauline Black, Waters Rising at Perth Museum, and Posthumously Completing a Loved One's Creative Work
As a documentary about her life reaches cinemas, musician and activist Pauline Black, the lead singer in 2-tone hit band The Selecter, talks about her career…
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Christopher Reeve documentary, Booker author Samantha Harvey on Orbital, Art auction news
Directors Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui talk about their new documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, which uses never-seen-before family archive…
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Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch, political satire in US elections, how to write a book
Actors Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch on their modern day remake of The Day of the Jackal. Political satire in the US Elections: Helen Lewis of the Atlantic…
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Review: film: Anora; theatre: Dr. Strangelove; book: Ali Smith's Gliff
Arifa Akbar and Peter Bradshaw join Tom Sutcliffe to review the film Anora which was written and directed by Sean Baker. Set in contemporary New York the…
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Billy Crystal, Marina Diamandis, Nordic Music Festival
Actor Billy Crystal talks about his role as a child psychiatrist in Before, the new thriller series from Apple TV. Marina Diamandis on pivoting from…
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Hugh Grant on Heretic, Yael van der Wouden's The Safekeep, future of housing design
Hugh Grant talks about his new psychological thriller Heretic, where he plays a man who lures two young female missionaries into his home for an intense debate…
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Sir Steve McQueen on Blitz, Italian Renaissance drawings, Rachel Kushner on Creation Lake
Steve McQueen talks about his new film Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan and set in London during the Second World War. Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael are among…
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Tim Burton on his exhibition at Design Museum, Review: films Emilia Perez and Dahomey
Critic and film producer Jason Solomons and BBC New New Generation Thinker Jade Cuttle join Tom Sutcliffe to review Emilia Pérez. The musical thriller follows…
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Musician and novelist Malachy Tallack, Cities of Literature and Textile Art
Musician and novelist Malachy Tallack talks about his new novel That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz, and performs live from the accompanying album. To mark 20 years…
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Artist William Kentridge, British film industry expansion, Playing Brian Epstein
William Kentridge is one of the major figures in the contemporary art world with an award-winning body of work that includes drawings, films, theatre and opera…
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Pedro Almodovar, Vanessa Bell, Richard Bean
The acclaimed Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovor talks about this new film The Room Next Door, which won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival the Golden Lion…
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Review: TV The Franchise; Film The Crime is Mine; Book Juice by Tim Winton
Mel Giedroyc and Sarah Crompton join Samira to review The Franchise, the new comedy series from Armando Iannucci offering a behind the scenes look at the…
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Rupert Everett, Scotland's Female Bands, artist Everlyn Nicodemus
Actor Rupert Everett on his debut collection of stories, The American No. Carla J Easton talks about her music documentary Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of…
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Jodie Whittaker, Japanese food art, Booker writer Anne Michaels
Jodie Whittaker talks to Tom Sutcliffe about returning to the stage for the first time in over a decade to star in an updated version of John Webster's…
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Bronski Beat Age of Consent 40th Anniversary, Percival Everett, Horror on stage
Forty years ago Bronski Beat released Age of Consent, a record so loud and proud that it become an era-defining moment of gay liberation. We look back at the…
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Review: Film - Timestalker, Theatre - The Other Place, TV - Disclaimer
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests journalist Stephen Bush and theatre critic Kate Maltby review the latest cultural releases. These include Apple TV's thriller…
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Booker author Charlotte Wood, Surrealism discussion & playwright Tim Price on Odyssey '84
Booker Prize-shortlisted author Charlotte Wood talks about her novel Stone Yard Devotional. In the month that marks 100 years since the publication of poet…
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Rick Astley, The West Wing at 25, Barbara Walker
Rick Astley on his new autobiography, Never, which reflects on hitting the big time twice courtesy of his debut hit single, Never Gonna Give You Up.The West…
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Alison Moyet, Leigh Bowery exhibition, Adrian Sutton
Alison Moyet joins us in the studio to talk about her career, from Yazoo to going solo and a new album.Fashion renegades of the 1980s via Leigh Bowery, Taboo…
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Review: Film: Joker Folie a Deux; Book: Alan Hollinghurst's Our Evenings
This week's big cinema release Joker: Folie a Deux is under scrutiny from Tom Sutcliffe's reviewers, broadcaster Ayesha Hazarika and film critic Tim Robey…
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Paula Hawkins, Photojournalism, Tape Letters Archive project
Bestselling writer Paula Hawkins, whose book The Girl on the Train was a publishing phenomenon back in 2015, discusses her latest novel, The Blue Hour, a…
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The BBC National Short Story Award 2024 with Cambridge University
Tom presents live from The Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House the BBC National Short Story Award and the Young Writers' Award, now in it's tenth year.Chair of…
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David Oyelowo, Regulating the entertainment industry, Ralph Steadman
David Oyelowo talks about playing Coriolanus in the National Theatre's new production. He explains why it's the role he's always wanted to take on -…
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Review: art - Monet; book: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney; Joe Lycett's art book
Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Charlotte Mullins and Ryan Gilbey to review Sally Rooney's novel Intermezzo about two grieving brothers and the people they love…
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David Mitchell on Ludwig, poet Kathleen Jamie and the world premiere of Helen Grime's Folk
Poet Kathleen Jamie, whose tenure as Scotland's Makar, or National Poet, recently came to an end, talks about her new collection of poems written in Scots, The…
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Chilly Gonzales performs, Dickens adaptations, Horror films
Classically trained pianist and rapper Chilly Gonzales performs from his new album Gonzo, ahead of his Royal Albert Hall gig, As Hard Times kicks off Radio 4's…
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John Boorman, Anya Gallaccio, The Halfway Kid performs
John Boorman talks to Samira about his 1974 science-fiction, fantasy film Zardoz as it is screened on its fiftieth anniversary at the BFI and his novel on…
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Review: film The Substance, Art Michael Craig-Martin, Book The Empusium
Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Bidisha Mamata and Ben Luke who will be offering their verdicts on body horror film The Substance staring Demi Moore, a major new…
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A Very Royal Scandal, Glasgow Cathedral Festival & crime writer Peter May.
Screenwriter Jeremy Brock discusses Amazon's A Very Royal Scandal, the second dramatisation this year of Emily Maitlis' 2019 Newsnight interview with Prince…
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David Peace, new plays crisis, Booker Prize 2024 shortlist
David Peace on his new novel, Munichs, about the plane crash that transformed Manchester United. Katie Posner, Co-Artistic Director of Paines Plough theatre…
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Edward Enninful, Lady Blackbird performs, Booker prize shortlist
Edward Enninful, Vogue Global Creative and Cultural advisor has just made a documentary series, In Vogue: The 90s. He discusses the decade that changed fashion…
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REVIEW: Film: The Critic, Exhibition: Van Gogh, Book: Garth Greenwell's Small Rain
Tom Sutcliffe is joined by David Benedict and Catherine McCormack to review Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers, the first exhibition the National Gallery has dedicated…