Front Row
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Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Reviewing Ella McCay plus the film's Oscar-winning writer and director James L. Brooks
Film producer Jason Solomons and literary journalist Suzi Feay join Tom Sutcliffe to discuss the contemporary thriller Lurker which shows what happens...
96-year-old actress June Squibb on her lead role in Scarlett Johansson's Eleanor the Great
Actress June Squibb on her lead role in Scarlett Johansson's debut feature Eleanor the Great, in which a woman in her 90s moves back from Florida to M...
2025 Turner Prize winner; remembering Martin Parr; Bradford’s year as the UK City of Culture
Tonight, the winner of the 2025 Turner Prize will be announced in Bradford, this year’s City of Culture. Joining Nick to discuss the runners and rider...
Kate Winslet on Goodbye June
Kate Winslet speaks to Samira Ahmed about her directorial debut, Goodbye June. With a screenplay written by her son Joe Anders, the film portrays comp...
Reviewing Paddington The Musical, Jafar Panahi's latest film, and Russell Tovey meets the Sea Devils
Tom and guests Arifa Akbar and Nick Hilton consider Paddington The Musical. It's the latest step for a beloved British institution... How does he work...
Composer Sir John Rutter
John Rutter on his first purely orchestral album in almost 60 years, which also marks the composer and conductor's 80th birthday.
Novelist Sean...
Updating A Christmas Carol; new sculpture exhibition by blind artists and curators; 2025’s funniest novel
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens has been transformed into a piece of hip hop dance at London’s Sadler's Wells East, and a Bollywood infused song...
Front Row remembers Tom Stoppard
A celebration of the life and work of one of Britain’s greatest modern playwrights, Sir Tom Stoppard, who died at the weekend. He was 88.
We he...
Review Show: Blue Moon film plus Turner and Constable at Tate Britain
Nancy Durrant and Michael Donkor join Tom Sutcliffe to review Richard Linklater’s Broadway break up film Blue Moon, starring Ethan Hawke as Lorenz Har...
The lead writer of Grand Theft Auto, Dan Houser on his debut novel, about a video game which goes horribly wrong.
Dan Houser, lead writer of Grand Theft Auto, on his debut dystopian novel A Better Paradise, about a video game which goes wrong.
Renowned dir...
Sydney Sweeney and Pasolini
Actor Sydney Sweeney on her role in the boxing biopic Christie.
Olivia Laing, author of The Silver Book, and Adrian Wootton discuss Italian fil...
Stranger Things creators The Duffer Brothers on the show's final season
Show creators Matt and Ross Duffer talk to Samira Ahmed about the final season of Stranger Things.
So how much of the success of a Booker winner...
Review Show: The Death of Bunny Munro; TV adaptation of Nick Cave's novel
Louisa Buck and Robbie Collin join Tom Sutcliffe to review the TV adaptation of Nick Cave’s novel The Death of Bunny Munro with Matt Smith playing a c...
Actor Joel Edgerton on his new film Train Dreams
Actor Joel Edgerton on his role as an itinerant lumberjack in 1900s Idaho, in Clint Bentley's Train Dreams, an adaptation of a novel by Denis Johnson...
Vince Gilligan on creating Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and Pluribus
Screenwriter Vince Gilligan is the creative mind behind the multi-awardwinning television dramas Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. His latest offeri...
Actors Bryan Cranston and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Also, director Jon M Chu
Actors Bryan Cranston and Marianne Jean-Baptiste discuss their production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons.
Director Jon M Chu reveals the influe...
We review The Hunger Games on stage, Nuremberg on film and Wild Cherry on TV
Tom and guests review The Hunger Games... now a stage play at a brand new theatre in London's Canary Wharf.
The new film Nuremberg, starring Rus...
Actor Fiona Shaw on her new film Park Avenue
Actor Fiona Shaw discusses her latest film Park Avenue, director Gaby Dellal's 'tense and witty drama about mother-daughter relationships set in New Y...
Edgar Wright on The Running Man
Do Vermeer's paintings contain hidden religious symbolism? Art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon argues that the enigmatic painter's membership of a radic...
Winner of the 2025 Booker Prize announced live from the ceremony
Samira Ahmed presents live from Old Billingsgate in London, where the announcement of the winner of the 2025 Booker Prize is taking place.
The n...
All the authors shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025
The six authors shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize discuss their novels ahead of tonight's ceremony, which is broadcast live on Radio 4 at 9.30p...
Daniel Day Lewis on his return to the big screen
On this week's Front Row review, we discuss a new production of Othello with David Harewood as the Moor and Toby Jones as Iago.
Tom speaks wit...
Benedict Cumberbatch on The Thing with Feathers
Benedict Cumberbatch speaks to Kate Molleson about the new film adaptation of Max Porter's Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, an exploration of loss an...
Sarah Snook, Riz Ahmed and return of Play for Today
Riz Ahmed is one of his generation’s great British actors. He starred alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler, before landing roles in big budget fi...
Zadie Smith and Brenda Blethyn live in studio
Zadie Smith talks about the art of the essay, as she publishes a non-fiction collection, Dead and Alive.
Brenda Blethyn discusses her new film...
Review Show: Bugonia, Salman Rushdie stories, The Line of Beauty
Tahmima Anam and Tristram Fane Saunders join Tom Sutcliffe to review The Eleventh Hour, a collection of five short stories from Salman Rushdie in his...
Live from Derry: two of the stars of police drama Blue Lights
Live from Derry.
As the climax of the current series approaches, actors Dearbháile McKinney and Martin McCann, two of the cast of hit police se...
Prunella Scales, Palestine 36 film, Making Documentaries with World Leaders
In tribute to Prunella Scales, whose death was announced today, Front Row rebroadcasts an interview with the Fawlty Towers star from 2012, recorded on...
Reese Witherspoon on her novel and Colin Farrell on his new film
Actor Reese Witherspoon on why she's teamed up with thriller writer Harlan Coben to write a novel called Gone Before Goodbye, about a struck-off army...
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere - Tom and guests deliver their verdict
Tom Sutcliffe and guests review the Bruce Springsteen film, Deliver Me From Nowhere, which tells the story of his recording of the album Nebraska
John Grisham on his new thriller, The Widow
Bestselling thriller writer John Grisham on his latest book, The Widow, in which a smalltown lawyer from Virginia finds himself accused of a serious c...
Steve Martin and Alison Brown talk bluegrass and banjos
Comedy giant Steve Martin on making new bluegrass music with pioneering banjo player Alison Brown with their new album, Safe, Sensible, and Sane.
Cathy Tyson on Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Cathy Tyson stars in the Leicester Curve Theatre production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee. She talks about the demanding, drunken...
Guillermo Del Toro discusses his new Frankenstein film
Guillermo Del Toro talks about his new Frankenstein film and our critics deliver their verdict.
Julia Roberts plays a college professor whose c...
Richard Ashcroft on his new album
Singer songwriter Richard Ashcroft - former frontman of The Verve - talks about the material on his new album Lovin You, and about supporting Oasis on...
Sam Ryder performs live
Sam Ryder talks to Samira about his career, gaining Eurovision success with Space Man and he performs the song Armour live, a track from his forthcomi...
Lang Lang plays in studio
Pianist Lang Lang's 2019 album Piano Book was one of the best selling classical albums that year, with over a billion streams and counting. He’s now f...
Review Show: I Swear film and The Poems of Seamus Heaney
Alexander Larman and Susannah Clapp join Tom to discuss I Swear, a film which tells the life story of John Davidson MBE who was diagnosed with Tourett...
Tamsin Greig on her role in Sally Wainwright's Riot Women
Actor Tamsin Greig discusses her role in Sally Wainwright's latest drama series, Riot Women, in which a group of middle-aged women in Hebden Bridge, W...
Marina Abramović on her dream creation - Balkan Erotic Epic
Artist Marina Abramović on the world premiere of her largest-scale performance artwork - Balkan Erotic Epic - at Aviva Studios in Manchester.
B...