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) Review: The Stranger and Jim Jarmusch's Father Mother Sister Brother
On the review show this week: critics Muriel Zagha and Tahmima Anam review Francois Ozon's film The Stranger., based on the Albert Camus novel which has often been described as unfilmable.Amitav Ghosh...Show More
4) W1A writer John Morton on his new series Twenty Twenty Six
Writer and director John Morton, one of the team behind 2012 and W1A, on the new comedy Twenty Twenty Six, set in the run up to this year's football World Cup.Artist Lachlan Goudie's new book The Secr...Show More
5) A darker side of a royal marriage
Writer Daisy Goodwin on Victoria: A Queen Unbound. Was the marriage between Victoria and Albert as idyllic as it has been portrayed? Her new play explores the idea that Prince Albert exerted coercive ...Show More
6) The Birth of Television: A Forgotten History
100 years ago, inventor John Logie Baird demonstrated his new 'televisor' to the public for the first time. In this special edition of Front Row, Samira Ahmed and guests explore the origins of televis...Show More
7) Review: The Drama starring Robert Pattinson and Zendaya
Tom Sutcliffe is joined by critics Tim Robey and Nancy Durrant to review:Robert Pattinson and Zendaya's new film The Drama about a young couple in the lead up to their wedding.Life of Pi author Yann M...Show More
8) SNL UK Cast, plus Trash Cinema Icon Mink Stole
In venues around the UK and here on BBC Radio 4 and on BBC Sounds, it’s Live Comedy Day today – a celebration of live comedy and grassroots clubs. We’re joined by two of the cast of the new Saturday ...Show More
9) Robert MacFarlane on the revelations to be found underground
Writer Robert MacFarlane on the world underground as a new documentary, Underland, inspired by his award-winning book of the same name is released in cinemas.Dancer and choreographer Meryl Tankard on ...Show More
10) Lesley Manville, and what do astronauts listen to in space?
Lesley Manville, on appearing in Les Liaisons Dangereuses at London's National TheatreArt In Space: As Nasa prepares to send people back to the Moon, former astronauts Helen Sharman and Cady Coleman t...Show More