Front Row Daily
Summary: Interviews with leading novelists, musicians, film directors, artists and more, from Radio 4's flagship arts show, presented by Mark Lawson, Kirsty Lang and John Wilson. Front Row is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 each weekday evening at 7.15 - 7.45pm. New editions will be available each night following the live broadcast.
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Podcasts:
Emma Watson in Sofia Coppola's film The Bling Ring reviewed, actress Anna Chancellor in Private Lives, Clarke Peters selects his Cultural Exchange, and actors playing themselves
Wallander author Henning Mankell, the verdict on Now You See Me, African art at Tate Modern and Julia Donaldson picks Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad as her Cultural Exchange.
Amy Winehouse exhibition; Alex Gibney on his Wikileaks documentary; Amanda Levete's Cultural Exchange choice: Casa Malaparte; Sarah Polley's film Stories We Tell reviewed
Liz Lochhead on a Mary Queen of Scots exhibition; Mike Figgis on his new film; Marianne Jean-Baptiste's Cultural Exchange choice: Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue; tribute to Mark Fisher
The new stage musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory reviewed, Lee Hall's Cultural Exchange, a lawyer on "one off" concerts and three cultural commentators on which arts organisations they would stop funding.
Michael Berkeley on the portrayal of music in Vermeer's paintings; advice for writers from TV producers; tennis champions in new films; Cultural Exchange - pianist Mitsuko Uchida.
The Tate Britain's new LS Lowry exhibition reviewed, Jonathan Dee on his new novel, apocalypse comedy This is the End, Brian Aldiss shares his Cultural Exchange and Andrew Collins on 1980s indie bands.
Record producer Giorgio Moroder, artist Richard Wilson on site-specific art when it changes site, Calendar Girls writer Tim Firth, and Francine Stock's Cultural Exchange.
Errol Flynn's adventures in Northampton. David Edgar imagines what will happen to the coalition in 2014. Glenn Patterson's Cultural Exchange and two new series on airport and airlines reviewed
John Wilson talks to Lenny Henry as he returns to the stage in Fences. Joan Bakewell offers her choice for Cultural Exchange. Foghorns become musical instruments in a new requiem. And Levi Pinfold, winner of the CILIP Kate Greenaway medal for children's illustration.
Before Midnight reviewed by Antonia Quirke, The Duckworth Lewis Method on cricket and pop, Rachel Whiteread's Cultural Exchange and Conor McPherson on The Weir and The Night Alive
Daniel Radcliffe on stage in The Cripple of Inishmaan, the verdict on World War Z, Neil Gaiman picks The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke as his Cultural Exchange.
Director Tina Gharavi on her film, I Am Nasrine; The White Queen reviewed; Paul Weller picks The Zombies' album, Odessey And Oracle, as his Cultural Exchange choice
Mark Lawson reviews Kim Cattrall in Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams and talks to artist Cornelia Parker, novelist Brian Aldiss & for Cultural Exchange, poet Gwyneth Lewis
Mark Lawson with a new staging of James Baldwin's The Amen Corner, Joss Whedon's film of Much Ado About Nothing, crime writer Peter James and Stephen Hough's Cultural Exchange
