Front Row

Kay Mellor remembered

Television screenwriter Kay Mellor, the woman behind popular series like Band of Gold, Fat...

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Top Gun Maverick, Joseph Wright of Derby Painting, Kingsway Tram Subway, Louise Erdrich

36 years after playing pilot Pete Mitchell in the first Top Gun film, Tom Cruise returns to the...

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• 2 days

Oklahoma! on stage and Conversations with Friends on TV reviewed; The Bob Dylan Centre; The Florence Nightingale...

On today's Front Row review, we discuss directors taking a new look at much loved works: Daniel...

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• 6 days

The directors of Everything Everywhere All At Once

Film directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, otherwise known as ‘the Daniels’,...

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• 7 days

Eurovision; BookTok and young adult publishing; Waldemar Januszczak on art in Ukraine

Eurovision decided to ban Russian participation this year on the grounds that it might bring the...

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• 8 days

09/05/2022

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

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• 9 days

PJ Harvey, Radical Landscapes exhibition and TV show The Terror-Infamy reviewed

Singer songwriter PJ Harvey tells us about Orlam, her narrative poem set in a magic realist...

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• 13 days

Deesha Philyaw, Tristan Sharps, County Durham bid for City of Culture

This year’s Brighton Festival has two guest directors for the first time in its history....

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• 14 days

Nathaniel Price, Alex Heffes, Actors and AI

Nathaniel Price discusses his drama First Touch, opening at the Nottingham Playhouse, about an...

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• 15 days

Caryl Lewis, Gwenno, Anthony and Kel Matsena

Huw Stephens, familiar to listeners to Radio Cymru and Radio Wales presents a multilingual,...

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• 16 days

The Corn is Green play and Walter Sickert exhibition reviewed, Cherylee Houston

Observer theatre critic Susannah Clapp and broadcaster and Editor of the Wales Art Review Gary...

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• 20 days

Raphael exhibition; The Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist; poet Valzhyna Mort

Dr Matthias Wivel, co-curator of the Raphael exhibition at the National Gallery, discusses the...

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• 21 days

Tim Foley, Heartstopper, The Proms, Lawrence Power performs

Emerging playwright Tim Foley is in the distinctive position of having won a prize for every play...

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• 22 days

Punchdrunk's The Burnt City, John Morton on Ten Percent, musician Jack Savoretti

The Burnt City is the biggest production to date from the pioneering immersive theatre company...

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• 23 days

Atlantis and The Young Pretender reviewed, Martin Green, Venice Biennale

Atlantis (2019) was the Ukrainian entry for that year's Oscars. It now seems incredibly prescient...

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• 27 days

Sarah Solemani on TV's Chivalry; male soprano Samuel Marino performs; Bradford's bid for UK City of Culture

Chivalry, the new Channel 4 comedy which looks at the making of a Hollywood movie in a post MeToo...

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• 28 days

19/04/2022

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

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• 29 days

Abdulrazak Gurnah and the Big Jubilee Read from the Library of Birmingham

The Big Jubilee Read is a reading for pleasure campaign by the Reading Agency and the BBC...

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• 30 days

Benedetta film and Let the Song Hold Us exhibition reviewed; Slung Low Theatre

Our Thursday review critics, Dr. Kirsty Fairclough and poet Joelle Taylor, give their assessment...

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Jude Owusu, Operation Mincemeat, Wrexham's bid for UK City of Culture 2025

Tom Robinson is the black man wrongly accused of raping a white girl in To Kill a Mocking Bird....

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