Front Row
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Front Row
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Review: Steven Spielberg's alien film Disclosure Day
Film producer Jason Solomons and Guardian columnist Zoe Williams join Tom Sutcliffe to discuss Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day – a film which looks...
Scotland's National Poet Peter Mackay honours the country's football team
Scotland's Makar Peter Mackay on his poems honouring Scotland's football team as they head to the FIFA World Cup - one, his own work, the other curate...
Barry Manilow brings the Manilow magic to Front Row
Barry Manilow on maintaining his musical curiosity as he releases his 33rd studio album, What A Time, and what it's like to have one of his biggest hi...
Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter, Pan African art and John Taverner's opera Krishna
Samira Ahmed talks to Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter about their new album Mirage
Ekow Eshun, writer and broadcaster, and Polly Savage, Lecturer i...
Review: High Society and film Savage House
Tom Sutcliffe is joined by writer Alexander Larman and critic Arifa Akbar to discuss:
A new production of High Society, Cole Porter's musical sh...
Live from the Belfast Book Festival
As the Belfast Book Festival opens Kirsty Wark is joined by a range of guests at the Crescent Arts Centre.
She'll be discussing reading and fre...
Rivals writer Sophie Goodhart on new TV series Alice and Steve; depictions of dogs in art
Award winning jazz saxophonist and broadcaster Soweto Kinch and writer and director of new film Köln 75, Ido Fluk, join Tom to explore the importance...
Marilyn Monroe at 100
On what would have been her 100th birthday, we look at the enduring popularity of Marilyn Monroe, with film journalist and fan Kim Morgan and reviewer...
The Review Show: Russell T Davies' new TV drama Tip Toe
Rachel Lloyd, Deputy Culture Editor of The Economist, and writer Lawrence Norfolk join Tom to discuss Channel 4's new queer drama Tip Toe, which is th...
Author Ann Patchett on her latest novel, Whistler
Nashville-based novelist Ann Patchett tells us about her tenth novel, Whistler, in which a chance encounter between a woman and her stepfather after m...
Jazz legend Miles Davis at 100
Writer and broadcaster Kevin Le Gendre, and trumpeter and composer Yazz Ahmed on 100 years of Miles Davis - the musician regarded as the Picasso of ja...
Live from Hay with Jack Thorne and Val McDermid
Live from Hay, celebrating reading and writing in many different forms, Samira is joined on stage by Jack Thorne - multi-award-winning screenwriter of...
21/05/2026
Samira Ahmed is joined by writer Matt Cain and critic Suzi Feay to review:
Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart's new nov...
Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid
Canadian author Rachel Reid talks to us about the the phenomenon which has followed the publication of her books about the romantic relationship betwe...
Winston Churchill: The Painter, and Smoggie Queens creator and star Phil Dunning
The paintings of Winston Churchill are being exhibited at the Wallace Collection in London. Xavier Bray, Director of the Wallace Collection, and Katha...
White Lotus and Bridget Jones star Leo Woodall on his new film
Leo Woodall stars in the film Tuner, about a young piano prodigy who turns to crime, in cinemas on the 29th May.
The classical music world has b...
Reviews of the second series of Rivals and the film The Christophers starring Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel
Observer Theatre critic Susannah Clapp and Heat's Entertainment Director Boyd Hilton join Samira to discuss The Christophers - Steven Soderbergh’s fil...
Director Mark Cousins on his 16-hour epic The Story of Documentary Film
From landmark releases to hidden treasures, director Mark Cousins on his 16-hour epic The Story of Documentary Film, which is screening at the Cannes...
Celebrating Sir John Vanbrugh, rock star architect of the Baroque age
This year marks the tercentenary of polymath Sir John Vanbrugh, regarded as the rockstar architect of the Baroque era. Art historian Sir Charles Saume...
Highs, lows and Jet-Skis at the Venice Biennale
Critics Ben Luke and Aviva Dautch bring us all the news from The Venice Biennale.
Following the death of the great Shakespearean actor M...
Reviewing The Sheep Detectives, Elizabeth Strout and Henry Moore at Kew
Tom Sutcliffe is joined by journalist and podcaster Nick Hilton and writer and historian Catherine McCormack to review a selection of cultural items f...
Author Siri Hustvedt on her memoir, Ghost Stories
Acclaimed author Siri Hustvedt on Ghost Stories, her memoir of her marriage to novelist, poet and filmmaker Paul Auster and her grief following his de...
Antony Gormley in 2D
Antony Gormley joins Samira Ahmed. The sculptor and artist is best known for landmarks such as Angel of the North or the beach figures of Another Plac...
Celebrating the art of Illustration, with Sir Quentin Blake and Posy Simmonds
As the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration prepares to open in London, we find out how illustrators are adapting to a changing world.
Starting...
Review: Spanish master Zurbarán at the National Gallery
Tom Sutcliffe is joined by playwright Mark Ravenhill and academic and critic Maria Delgado to review:
The first major UK exhibition of Spanish m...
Paul Weller on his musical evolution
From the rebellious spirit of The Jam in the 1970s to the soulful sound of The Style Council and mellow ballads as a solo artist, singer-songwriter Pa...
Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce on the new Children's Booker Prize
Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce launches the Children's Booker Prize and discusses some of the themes of his forthcoming Waterstones Children...
The Devil Wears Prada 2, with director David Frankel
The Devil Wears Prada 2 director David Frankel on why it was time to bring the old gang back together again.
David Haig's new play "Magic" imagi...
Reviewing Richard Gadd’s follow up to his hit Baby Reindeer
Critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Ludovic Hunter-Tilney join Tom to review Half Man, Richard Gadd’s follow up to his hit Baby Reindeer.
They also...
Antoine Fuqua's controversial biopic of Michael Jackson
A new biopic chronicles one of the 20th century’s biggest and most controversial music icons, but appears not to paint the whole picture about his lif...
Vivaldi film, author Ben Lerner and V+A East's Music Is Black exhibition
Primavera, a new film about Vivaldi tells the story of his composing for pupils of an institution for abandoned girls. We speak to the film's director...
Echoes of Shakespeare in a Scottish gangster drama
Director Charlotte Regan on her new BBC thriller, Mint
Have heterosexual male novelists stopped writing sex scenes? We discuss with writer Luke...
Reviewing Lena Dunham's memoir, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Big Mistakes
Tom Sutcliffe is joined by reviewers Dreda Say Mitchell and Viv Groskop to consider Lena Dunham's controversial memoir - Famesick. A new adaptation of...
Dancer and choreographer Gene Kelly's wife and biographer Patricia Ward Kelly on Starstruck
Scottish Ballet's Starstruck honours Gene Kelly's creative legacy and his passion for creating "dance for the common man". His wife Patricia Ward Kell...
Jack Savoretti sings live, plus Turner Prize winner Veronica Ryan
Jack Savoretti sings a song from his latest album We Will Always Be The Way We Were, which is leading the race to top the charts this week.
Dav...
Mark Gatiss at the RSC and novelist Margaret Drabble
Mark Gatiss takes on the role he's always wanted to play, the lead in Brecht's Hitler satire The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.
As the Governmen...
Reviewing new work from Francois Ozon, Amitav Ghosh and Jim Jarmusch
On the review show this week: critics Muriel Zagha and Tahmima Anam review Francois Ozon's film The Stranger., based on the Albert Camus novel which h...
W1A writer John Morton on his new series Twenty Twenty Six
Writer and director John Morton, one of the team behind 2012 and W1A, on the new comedy Twenty Twenty Six, set in the run up to this year's football W...
A darker side of a royal marriage
Writer Daisy Goodwin on Victoria: A Queen Unbound. Was the marriage between Victoria and Albert as idyllic as it has been portrayed? Her new play expl...
The Birth of Television: A Forgotten History
100 years ago, inventor John Logie Baird demonstrated his new 'televisor' to the public for the first time. In this special edition of Front Row, Sami...