Front Row

Original version

BBC Radio 4 FM

BBC Radio 4 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced BBC Home Service.

BBC Radio 4

Radio 4

Radio 4 (FM)

Magazines & Reviews

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

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

BBC Radio 4 LW

Front Row: Alison Balsom, Fez, Robert MacFarlane

Alison Balsom, Fez, Robert MacFarlane

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Alison Balsom, Fez, Robert MacFarlane

Alison Balsom talks about her new Baroque trumpet album Royal Fireworks.

Alison Balsom talks about her new Baroque trumpet album Royal Fireworks. Plus the prize winning music producer who had to write and record a song in 45 minutes.

Alison Balsom, Britain's leading trumpet soloist, talks about her new album Royal Fireworks, a collection of Baroque pieces by Bach, Telemann, Handel and Purcell, played on the "natural" trumpet, a baroque instrument without any valves, which means that each note is made by the shape of the lips. 

The inaugural Drake YolanDa British Producer and Songwriter Prize has been won by the jazz musician Fez, who had to compete against other producers to write and record a new song in front of the judges in 45 minutes!   

Writer Robert Macfarlane and artist Stanley Donwood talk about their new work Ness, which is part novella, part prose poem and part mystery play, about the land reclaiming a place which once threatened its very existence, an atomic weapons test centre. 

Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Timothy Prosser

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Front Row

Alison Balsom, Fez, Robert MacFarlane

Genres

Brand

BBC Radio 4 FM

About BBC Radio 4