The 2 Best Front Row Podcast Episodes
1) Crafts in lockdown, Víkingur Ólafsson performs Glass, Netflix series Hollywood and Lionel Shriver novel reviewed
Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson, Front Row’s Lockdown Artist in Residence, continues his weekly live performances from the empty Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik. Tonight he plays an energetic piec...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) Scorsese - The Irishman, Risk Season continues, Naum Gabo exhibition
Martin Scorsese has the most Oscar nominations of any living director though he has only won once, for his 2006 film The Departed. Nominated again this year for The Irishman, he talks about the film’s...Show More
Scorsese - The Irishman, Risk Season continues, Naum Gabo exhibition
28:27 | Jan 27th, 2020
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AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.3) Reviewing Heated Rivalry, novel Jackson Alone, and the British Museum's Hawai'i exhibition
In the Front Row review programme, author Emily Itami and critic Tim Robey assess the steamy Canadian drama Heated Rivalry, which has caused a sensation in North America. Also, The British Museum's ne...Show More
4) Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Wayne McGregor and Emmylou Harris
Sir Ian McKellen talks about performing Laurie Slade's one-man play Equinox - about an older man wrestling with his past and conflicting desires - at the inaugural Out in the Hills LGBTI+ culture fest...Show More
5) Blue celebrate 25 years in pop and perform in the studio
The boyband Blue perform one of the biggest early hits - One Love - and talk to Tom Sutcliffe about celebrating 25 years together with new album Reflections and a major tour. Marty Supreme director Jo...Show More
6) Screenwriter Eric Roth on his play High Noon
Screenwriter Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, Benjamin Button, Dune) on his West End stage adaptation of High Noon 50 years since her death, we ask whether Agatha Christie is still the preeminent crime writer...Show More
7) Jessie Buckley on her starring role in the film Hamnet
Jessie Buckley talks to Tom Sutcliffe about her role in the historical drama Hamnet, adapted from Maggie O'Farrell's book which explores the origins of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Journalist Bidisha Mamata ...Show More
8) American Ira Sach on his latest film Peter Hujar's Day
French pianist RIOPY first taught himself to play piano while growing up in a cult. After running away he was able to pursue a career in music, culminating in an album that topped the classical charts...Show More
9) Innovations in book clubs, sitcoms by women and a new BBC One prison drama
We hear from award-winning writer Dennis Kelly, the man behind Matilda the Musical and comedy show Pulling. In his new BBC One series Waiting for the Out he goes behind bars to tell the story of a man...Show More
10) How is David Bowie remembered?
As the tenth anniversary of David Bowie’s death approaches, Alexander Larman - author of Lazarus: The Second Coming of David Bowie – and Jonathan Stiasny – director of the documentary Bowie: The Final...Show More