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:
A review of new Superman film Man of Steel, tenor Rolando Villazón, and AL Kennedy's Cultural Exchange.
Author and illustrator Judith Kerr at 90, Elaine Showalter reviews university comedy Admission, Bel Mooney on Channel 4's new series Dates and author Mark Haddon shares his Cultural Exchange.
The art of Marc Chagall at Tate Liverpool; singer-songwriter Laura Marling; writer Frank Cottrell Boyce on his ambitious show for Derry/Londonderry; Colm Tóibín's Cultural Exchange
Miranda Hart discusses her book Is It Just Me?, Martin Amis on his new novel Lionel Asbo: State of England, and Kwame Kwei-Armah's Cultural Exchange
Anne-Marie Duff on Eugene O'Neill's play Strange Interlude, the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, and Sarah Hall on Blade Runner
John Wilson has news of the winner of the £100 000 Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year, as he presents the programme live from the ceremony at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Julian Clary reviews Liberace biopic Behind The Candelabra, Philip Glass discusses Disney, PD James offers her choice for The Cultural Exchange, Denise Mina gives her verdict on French zombie drama The Returned
Kirsty Lang reassesses the art of Alfred Munnings, as a new film focuses on his early life.
Artist Jeremy Deller's journey to the Venice Biennale, creating new work for the British Pavilion, charted by presenter John Wilson
Dancer and Choreographer Akram Khan on his interpretation of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, Chris Mullin and Richard Ottaway review new documentary The Iraq War and Antonia Fraser shares her Cultural Exchange.
Mark Lawson reviews Neil Jordan's vampire film Byzantium; Lucy Kirkwood and Lyndsey Turner on her play Chimerica; Audrey Niffenegger works with the Royal Ballet; Nicholas Hytner's Cultural Exchange - the Marriage of Figaro.
TV and film producer Tony Garnett, whose credits include Cathy Come Home, Kes, Cardiac Arrest and This Life, reflects on his career, in conversation with Mark Lawson.
Paul Morley discusses his new book The North: (And Almost Everything In It); Angela Gheorghiu nominates her Cultural Exchange; Jason Solomons reports on the latest news from Cannes and musicians describe the anguish they feel when their musical instruments go missing, plus what can be done to get them back.
Fashion photographer Erwin Blumenfeld, Lydia Davis, winner of the Man Booker International Prize, Nigel Kennedy's Cultural Exchange is Black and Blue by Louis Armstrong, and Tate acquires a Constable
The Kite Runner novelist Khaled Hosseini, A.S. Byatt's Cultural Exchange, Michael Landy's kinetic sculptures and Andrew Collins' top 10 of DJs in film
