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Front Row

Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music

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Episodes (2394 available)

News imageFront Row, Musician Nitin Sawhney and writer Samantha Harvey's Orbiting Orbital collaboration

Michael Gambon's biography and the Design Museum's exhibition The Nue Black Aesthetic.

3 Nov 2026

42 mins

News imageFront Row, Grandmaster Flash, one of the founding fathers of hip-hop, talks about his life in music.

Plus the Hindu epic Ramayana and we pay tribute to Patrick Stewart and John Leeson.

2 Nov 2026

42 mins

News imageFront Row, Reviewing the RSC's 6-hour Middlemarch adaptation, an Agatha Christie exhibition and Gentle Monster film

RSC's 6-hour Middlemarch adaptation, an Agatha Christie exhibition and Gentle Monster film

29 Oct 2026

42 mins

News imageFront Row, Reinventing fairy tales for the 21st century

Comedian and author Daniel Foxx and the author of a new cultural history of Cinderella.

28 Oct 2026

42 mins

News imageFront Row, John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell on Martin McDonagh's new film Wild Horse Nine

Plus Marlon James on his Booker Prize-shortlisted novel The Disappearers.

27 Oct 2026

42 mins

News imageFront Row, Audrey Niffenegger on the sequel to her hugely successful novel The Time Traveller's Wife

Plus actor Kyle MacLachlan on his memoir, and the evolution of vampires in literature.

26 Oct 2026

42 mins

News imageFront Row, Reviewing Fatherland, Possible Love and Martin Guerre

Reviewing films Fatherland and Possible Love, and Martin Guerre, the musical.

22 Oct 2026

43 mins

News imageFront Row, Director Sofia Coppola on Making Marie Antoinette

Director Sofia Coppola on Making Marie Antoinette; novelist Hernan Diaz.

21 Oct 2026

42 mins

News imageFront Row, Winne-the-Pooh at 100, and Renoir in Love review

Celebrating Winnie-the-Pooh, reviewing Renoir, Douglas Dunn tribute, and Luke Kennard.

20 Oct 2026

42 mins

News imageFront Row, Taika Waititi on adapting Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Klara and the Sun for the big screen

Plus Tony award winning Broadway actor Jonathan Groff takes on Shakespeare.

19 Oct 2026

42 mins

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