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Front Row Weekly
Interviews with leading novelists, musicians, film directors, artists and more, from Radio 4's flagship arts show, presented by Kirsty Lang and John Wilson. Front Row is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 each weekday evening at 7.15 - 7.45pm
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FR: Brad Pitt, Jimmy Page, Boris Johnson
Kirsty Lang talks to John Kander, composer of the hit musicals Cabaret, Chicago and now The Scottsboro Boys; actor Michael Sheen discusses performing...
FR: Iggy Pop, Bob Geldof, Gillian Anderson
John Wilson talks to the godfather of punk, Iggy Pop, ahead of this year's BBC Music John Peel Lecture; Simon Schama reviews the National Gallery's ne...
FR: John Cleese, Tracey Emin, Genesis
John Cleese talks to John Wilson about his memoir; Tracey Emin makes it clear why she feels motherhood and a career as an artist are incompatible; Phi...
FR: Hilary Mantel; Lionel Shriver; Stephen Fry
Dame Hilary Mantel from the BBC Radio Theatre, as Front Row announces the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2014; Kristin Scott Thomas on p...
FR: Toby Jones, Ricky Tomlinson, Anselm Kiefer exhibition
British actor Toby Jones discusses his role in TV drama Marvellous; John Lahr on how he got inside the mind of Tennessee Williams for a new biography;...
FR: Denzel Washington; Joan Baez; Kate Mosse
Denzel Washington talks about being an avenging angel in his new film, The Equalizer; we get a new perspective on John Constable thanks to a new exhib...
FR: Rufus Wainwright, Joyce Didonato, Joyce DiDonato
Singer-songwriter and composer Rufus Wainwright on his Late Night Prom. Novelist James Ellroy pushes further back into the 1940s in Perfidia, his new...
FR: Smokey Robinson, Helen Mirren, Lang Lang
Helen Mirren on why she had to put on ze French accent in new film The Hundred Foot Journey. Booker nominated author David Mitchell explains the paral...
FR: Jon Hamm, Margaret Atwood & Johnny Marr
Kirsty Lang talks to Hollywood star Jessie Eisenberg on acting versus writing. Novelist Margaret Atwood discusses her new collection of short stories...
FR: George R R Martin, Lisa Dwan, Simon Pegg
John Wilson talks to actress Lisa Dwan about the physical and emotional stresses of performing Samuel Beckett’s monologue, Not I. Andy Bell and Vince...
FR: Christina Hendricks, Sinead O'Conner & Sir Neville Marriner
The singer Loudon Wainwright III, father of Rufus and Martha, discusses his latest album Haven't Got the Blues (Yet). Mad Men star Christina Hendricks...
FR: Johnny Greenwood, Adrian Dunbar & Sreetcar Named Desire
Adrian Dunbar known for playing a police chief is doing something completely different. Katie Paterson explains why she’s sending a meteorite back int...
FR: Lee Hall, Rebecca Hall, Philip Hensher
This week Rebecca Hall talks about working with her father Sir Peter Hall; Long Yu, conductor of the China Philharmonic on their historic Proms debut...
FR: Gilbert & George, Nigel Havers & Nadine Gordimer
Samira Ahmed talks to the self-proclaimed inventors of the selfie Gilbert and George. Laura Clouting and James Taylor discuss the newly refurbished Im...
FR: Maxine Peake, Peter Greenaway & Gina McKee
Peter Greenaway talks about his latest film about the 16th Century Dutch painter Goltzius and we take a journey to the National Maritime Museum Maxin...
FR: Mark Ruffalo, Pet Shop Boys, Caitlin Moran
The Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe talk about their world premiere at the BBC Proms. Caitlin Moran discusses her debut novel, How to Make...
FR: Metallica, Manic Street Preachers, Lesley Manville
Actress Lesley Manville and director Richard Eyre, bestselling American author James Patterson and a review Scottish Contemporary Art from the past 25...
FR: Placido Domingo, Carey Mulligan & Toni Morrison
John Wilson talks to one of the great voices of all time, Placido Domingo. Carey Mulligan discusses her return to the stage in David Hare’s Skylight....
FR: Dolly Parton, Helena Bonham Carter & Antonio Pappano
Damien Barr talks to Dolly Parton about her love for Harper Lee and how she sees writing as therapy, Kirsty Lang meets the very irreverent Helena Bonh...
FR: Lee Child, Terry Gilliam & Daria Klimentová
John Wilson is joined on stage at the Hay Festival by one of the biggest selling crime writers in the world – Lee Child and Cerys Matthews sings one o...
FR: Sir Tim Rice, Gupreet Kaur Bhatti & Lee Childs
John Wilson talks to award winning lyricist, Sir Tim Rice about working with Andrew Lloyd Webber and Elton John. Playwright, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, ha...
FR: Dawn French, Chrissie Hynde, Kathleen Turner
Dawn French gives listeners exclusive access to plans for her new one woman show, 35 years after the first Pretenders album, Chrissie Hynde on her ver...
FR: James McAvoy, Oscar Issac & Natalie Merchant.
John Wilson speaks to singer songwriter Natalie Merchant about her first new album of original material for 13 years and to husband and wife operatic...
FR: Michael Nyman, Yinka Shonibare, Fiona Shaw
Kirsty Lang talks to Michael Nyman, one of Britain's most commercially successful classical composers. Yinka Shonibare on his new work The British Lib...
FR: Jon Ronson, Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott & The Black Keys
John Wilson talks to sculptor Philip King about rewriting the rules of sculpture and to American rock band The Black Keys about their new album, Turn...
FR: Damon Albarn, Michael Nyman, Sophie Hannah
John Wilson speaks to Damon Albarn about his autobiographical solo album and Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, the co-writers of two of the b...
FR: Martin Freeman, Paolo Nutini, Patience Agbabi
John Wilson speaks to actor Martin Freeman about acting in sub-zero temperatures while filming the television version of cult Coen brothers film Fargo...
FR: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jean Paul Gaultier, Emma Thompson
John Wilson talks to Chiwetel Ejiofor on how life has changed since being Oscar nominated, Emma Thompson and Celia Imrie on why big screen roles are h...
FR: Kate Winslet, Richard Ayoade, Ricky Wilson
Ricky Wilson talks about the Kaiser Chief’s new album and what it’s really like being a judge on The Voice. Kate Winslet discusses her latest film, D...
FR: Anne Hathaway, Kristin Davis, Nan Goldin
Kirsty Lang talks to Hollywood A-lister Anne Hathaway, Tom Hollander discusses his return to the role as vicar Adam Smallbone in Rev and actress Krist...
FR: Kylie Minogue, Harry Hill & Kings of Dance
John Wilson meets Kylie Minogue to discuss her new album and Harry Hill and Sean Foley, creators of the new 'X Factor' musical. He talks to writer Jo...
FR: Jeff Beck, Alexander McCall Smith, Siri Hustvedt
In Oxford, John views works by Cezanne, Manet, Degas and Van Gogh – part of a great private collection that has left America for the first time. Rock...
FR: Guy Garvey, Johnny Cash, Carol Ann Duffy
Guy Garvey of Elbow talks to John Wilson about writing songs of love and loss. A trio of poets laureate examine the question of national verse. John h...
FR: Peter Gabriel, Stewart Lee, Helen Oyeyemi
Comedian Stewart Lee tells John Wilson why he’s still so grumpy on stage. We review the film adaptation of bestselling novel The Book Thief plus an ex...
FR: Martin Scorsese, Lynda La Plante, Joanne M Harris
John Wilson talks to Martin Scorsese and film maker Thelma Schoonmaker about commemorating the work of Michael Powell and Emerik Pressburger. Lynda La...
FR: Norman Foster & Richard Rogers, Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey
John Wilson talks to Barkhad Abdi, the debutante actor who took Tom Hanks hostage in Captain Philips. Author Armistead Maupin tells John why his lates...
FR: Angela Lansbury, Hanif Kureishi, Isabella Rossellini
Dame Angela Lansbury on returning to London theatre, Swedish actress Sofia Helin and Danish actor Kim Bodnia from TV show The Bridge; sculptor Richard...
FR: Ralph Fiennes, Matthew McConaughey, Juliet Stevenson, Annie Proulx
Kirsty Lang talks to Annie Proulx about the opera of her novel Brokeback Mountain and artist Martin Creed about his retrospective at the Hayward Galle...
FR: Sir Kenneth Branagh, Simon Russell Beale, Julie Hesmondhalgh
Simon Russell Beale on King Lear and Julie Hesmondhalgh on her controversial exit from Coronation Street; Sir Kenneth Branagh discusses the transition...
FR: Colin Firth, Christos Tsiolkas, Coen Brothers
This week - writer Christios Tsiolkas on following his global bestseller The Slap and violinist Maxim Vengerov on the benefits of selective hearing; c...