Front Row: Archive 2014 Podcast
1) People of the Year - Part Two
In the second programme celebrating the arts highlights from 2014, John Wilson hears from Benedict Cumberbatch, Timothy Spall, Keira Knightley and Eddie Redmayne as they discuss the challenges of play...Show More
2) People of the Year 2014 - Part 1
John Wilson talks to the people who have had exceptional years in the worlds of the arts, culture and entertainment in 2014, in the first of two special programmes. Carey Mulligan discusses making he...Show More
3) The rise and rise of Event Cinema
Kirsty Lang investigates the flourishing phenomenon of so-called event cinema. Plays, musicals and operas in major cities have become available throughout the country on the big - and sometimes small ...Show More
4) The Art of Book Cover Design
John Wilson explores the art of book cover design and meets artist Suzanne Dean, who has been responsible for more Booker-winning covers than any other designer. Writers Ian McEwan, Tom McCarthy and A...Show More
5) Sir Alan Ayckbourn
In conversation with Kirsty Lang, Sir Alan Ayckbourn discusses his long and prolific career that has seen him, at the age of 75, premiere his 78th play - Roundelay. Sir Alan is one of this country's ...Show More
6) John Kander on Cabaret, The Scottsboro Boys and Chicago
Kirsty Lang talks to John Kander, composer of Cabaret, New York New York and Chicago and one half of Broadway partnership Kander and Ebb. 87 year old John Kander discusses The Scottsboro Boys, his fi...Show More
7) Unbroken, Young Fathers, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Miranda Richardson
Unbroken is Angelina Jolie's second film as director. Starring British actor Jack O'Connell it tells the story of US Olympian Louis Zamperini who was captured during WW2 and sent to a Japanese prisone...Show More
8) Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones; Renee Fleming; Billie Whitelaw remembered
Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones talk to John Wilson about their new film The Theory of Everything about the physicist Stephen Hawking; soprano Renée Fleming on her new album Christmas in New York; B...Show More
Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones; Renee Fleming; Billie Whitelaw remembered
28:33 | Dec 22nd, 2014
9) Miranda Hart, John Rutter, Seamus Heaney
Miranda Hart tells Razia Iqbal about the emotional filming of the final episodes of her sitcom Miranda. The latest instalment of the Night of the Museum franchise, starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilso...Show More
10) Esio Trot, Robert Olen Butler, The Thompson Family, The Interview controversy
Two well-loved children's books have been adapted for television - Roald Dahl's Esio Trot and The Boy in the Dress by comedian and author David Walliams. Children's book editor Julia Eccleshare discus...Show More
Esio Trot, Robert Olen Butler, The Thompson Family, The Interview controversy
28:26 | Dec 18th, 2014