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: Mark Haddon's memoir - Leaving Home, Twinless film, Mackenzie Crook's Small Prophets
Tom is joined by reviewers Tristram Fane Saunders and Natalie Jamieson to discuss... Mark (The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-time) Haddon's autobiography Leaving Home. The dark comedy film ...Show More
4) Musician Martin Carthy on retiring from performing live
Folk musician Martin Carthy speaks about his long career and about his recent decision to retire from live performance following a diagnosis of late-onset Alzheimer's Disease; As a major retrospectiv...Show More
5) Jared Bush, head of Walt Disney Animation Studios, on his record-breaking film Zootropolis 2
Jared Bush, head of Walt Disney Animation Studios, on his record-breaking film Zootropolis 2.Alex Tadros, owner of Mars Tapes, the last cassette shop in the UK, and culture writer Sian Pattenden on th...Show More
6) The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - on stage
Author Rachel Rachel Joyce and musician Passenger discuss the new musical based on Rachel's hit book The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.Eric Schlosser’s book Fast Food Nation has been republished a...Show More
7) Reviewing Is This Thing On? Guess How Much I Love You? and George Saunders
Tom Sutcliffe and guests Viv Groskop and Dorian Lynskey, review Bradley Cooper's film Is This Thing On? - about a marriage in crisis and a comedian on the rise. Guess How Much I Love You? is the new ...Show More
8) John Carter Cash on his musical production The Ballad of Johnny & June
John Carter Cash on how the lives of his famous parents - Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash - have inspired a stage musical which tells the story of the couple's long love story but also tackles addict...Show More
9) Michael Sheen on Welsh National Theatre's debut show, Our Town
Michael Sheen on the first production of his newly-formed Welsh National Theatre, Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play Our Town seen through a Welsh lens. Film critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh reacts to the Bafta no...Show More
10) Richard Linklater on Nouvelle Vague
Richard Linklater speaks to Samira Ahmed about his new film Nouvelle Vague.Robbie Williams has beaten the Beatles' record for the most UK album chart number ones - we ask former Spotify exec Will Page...Show More