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Front Row

BSO Resound at the Proms, Edinburgh Comedy Awards shortlist, Creativity and the brain, Melissa Harrison

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

James Rose, founder of the BSO's Resound, on their Proms debut, the Edinburgh Comedy Awards shortlist, Paul Howard Jones on the brain, and Melissa Harrison on her new novel. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Stephen Armstrong
Interviewed Guest:
Paul Howard-Jones
Interviewed Guest:
Melissa Harrison

Front Row

Hugh Bonneville; Mary J Blige; Remember Me

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Hugh Bonneville on his role in the Paddington film; Mary J Blige on her new album, The London Sessions; Remember Me starring Michael Palin, reviewed. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Hugh Bonneville
Interviewed Guest:
Chris Dunkley
Interviewed Guest:
Mary J Blige
Interviewed Guest:
Adam Smith

True North

Series 13

The Dementia-Friendly Barber

Duration: 29 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One Northern IrelandLatest broadcast: on BBC One Northern Ireland HD

Is dementia the end? Or can life still be worth living? Bangor barber Lenny White cuts the hair of men with dementia and offers them his unique form of therapy. Show more

Contributors

Producer:
Johnny Muir
Director:
Johnny Muir
Executive Producer:
Mary McKeagney
Assistant Producer:
Rebecca Armstrong

Front Row

Black Work, Robert Wilson, Mayas Exhibition, Manda Scott

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Arts news, including TV drama Black Work, Robert Wilson on Krapp's Last Tape, the Mayas Exhibition in Liverpool, and Manda Scott on her latest novel featuring Joan of Arc. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Denise Mina
Interviewed Guest:
Robert Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Amy Fuller
Interviewed Guest:
Manda Scott

Front Row

Dan Pearson, multi-director films, Alabama Shakes, Not Safe for Work

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Arts news, including garden designer Dan Pearson, Alabama Shakes on their new album, films with multiple directors and a review of Not Safe for Work. John Wilson presents. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Dan Pearson
Interviewed Guest:
Hannah McGill
Interviewed Guest:
Alabama Shakes
Interviewed Guest:
Bim Adewunmi

Front Row

Nicholas Hytner, Peep Show, Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize, Waste review

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Arts news with Kirsty Lang, including director Nicholas Hytner on The Lady in the Van, David Mitchell and Robert Webb on Peep Show and the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2015. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Nicholas Hytner
Interviewed Guest:
Sam Marlowe
Interviewed Guest:
Michael Rosen
Interviewed Guest:
David Mitchell
Interviewed Guest:
Robert Webb

Front Row

Cate Blanchett, Enya, Bruntwood Prize winner

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Arts news with Kirsty Lang, including Cate Blanchett on her new film Carol, Enya on her new album Dark Sky Island and Katherine Soper, Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting winner. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Cate Blanchett
Interviewed Guest:
Enya
Interviewed Guest:
Katherine Soper

Front Row

The announcement of the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Shortlisted authors Tahmima Anam, Claire-Louise Bennett, Lavinia Greenlaw, Hilary Mantel and K J Orr find out which of them has won the 2016 BBC National Short Story Award. Show more

Front Row

Stephen Fry, Tony Benn documentary, Kei Miller, Gothic exhibition

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

With Kirsty Lang. Stephen Fry discusses his latest book, Polly Toynbee reviews the new Tony Benn documentary, and Tim Pye shows Kirsty the gothic exhibition at the British Library. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Stephen Fry
Interviewed Guest:
Polly Toynbee
Interviewed Guest:
Kei Miller
Interviewed Guest:
Tim Pye

Front Row

Diverse casting in historical dramas, Roots returns, Beyonce's pregnancy portrait, John Burnside

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Arts news, interviews and reviews. Front Row addresses the issue of diverse casting in TV, film and theatre. Ekow Eshun discusses the remake of Roots, 40 years on. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Julian Fellowes
Interviewed Guest:
Gail Babb
Interviewed Guest:
Ekow Eshun
Interviewed Guest:
Laura Freeman
Interviewed Guest:
John Burnside

Front Row

David Tennant, second novels, Brits and Oscars - who are they for?

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

David Tennant on the final series of Broadchurch. Plus finding the nation's favourite second novel and at Brits and Oscars time, we ask who cares about awards? Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
David Tennant
Interviewed Guest:
Alex Clark
Interviewed Guest:
Jacqueline Springer

Front Row

Gareth Malone and Adrian Sutton, Neil Bartlett, In the Club

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Gareth Malone and Adrian Sutton's WW1 Prom, Neil Bartlett's novel The Disappearance Boy, Bel Mooney reviews In the Club and Michael Symmons Roberts's summer poetry choice. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Gareth Malone
Interviewed Guest:
Adrian Sutton
Interviewed Guest:
Bel Mooney
Interviewed Guest:
Michael Symmons Roberts
Interviewed Guest:
Neil Bartlett

Front Row

Nadine Gordimer remembered, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Utopia

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Paul Theroux, Albie Sachs and Justin Cartwright on Nadine Gordimer; Matt Reeves, director of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes; Dennis Kelly, writer and creator of TV drama Utopia. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Paul Theroux
Interviewed Guest:
Albie Sachs
Interviewed Guest:
Justin Cartwright
Interviewed Guest:
Dennis Kelly
Interviewed Guest:
Matt Reeves

Front Row

Man Booker Prize Shortlist; James Ellroy; Joyce DiDonato; the Wallace Collection

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

A look at the Man Booker Prize shortlist; James Ellroy on his new novel; Joyce DiDonato on her latest CD; re-opening of the Great Gallery at the Wallace Collection. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Cathy Rentzenbrink
Interviewed Guest:
James Ellroy
Interviewed Guest:
Joyce DiDonato
Interviewed Guest:
Lucy Davis
Interviewed Guest:
John J O'Connell

Front Row

Phyllida Lloyd, The Sensory War, Robert Wilson, Super Thursday

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Phyllida Lloyd talks to Samira Ahmed about her all-female Henry IV, The Sensory War exhibition is reviewed, and war artist Robert Wilson discusses his photography from Afghanistan. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Phyllida Lloyd
Interviewed Guest:
Griselda Pollock
Interviewed Guest:
Robert Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Tim Walker
Interviewed Guest:
Lisa Milton
Interviewed Guest:
John Mullan

Front Row

Steven Knight - writer of Taboo, CGI resurrections, the Bard's medical knowledge, Alice Oswald

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Should film resurrect actors using CGI? Steven Knight on his new BBC1 drama, Taboo; Shakespeare's knowedge of nature's medicines; Alice Oswald, winner of the Costa Poetry category. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Steven Knight
Interviewed Guest:
Anna Maerker
Interviewed Guest:
Alice Oswald
Presenter:
Samira Ahmed

Front Row

Jackie, The Transports, TS Eliot Prize, 'Yellowface' row

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Sarah Crompton reviews Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy, a new production of The Transports, the winner of the TS Eliot Prize, and should non-Asian actors play Asian roles? Show more

Front Row

Marlon James, Stephen Frears's The Program, Fiona Banner

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Arts news with John Wilson, including Marlon James on his Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel and a look at Stephen Frears's Lance Armstrong film The Program. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Marlon James
Interviewed Guest:
James Daunt
Interviewed Guest:
Michael Carlson
Interviewed Guest:
Fiona Banner

Front Row

Stories of 2015 - Part Two

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

John WIlson continues his look at those who have made the headlines in the arts in 2015, from Anthony Hopkins to Glenda Jackson, Marlon James to Benjamine Clementine. Show more