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:
John Wilson talks to Brazilian photographer Sebastio Salgado and to singer and trainee astronaut Sarah Brightman. Gordon Corera reviews The Gatekeepers
Tamara Rojo discusses the whereabouts of her friend the dancer Sergei Polunin and her new season at the English National Ballet; musician James Blake on navigating the music industry with his second album Overgrown; The Place Beyond the Pines reviewed; a report from the MIPTV Festival in Cannes.
The re-opening of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, following a 10 year transformation; a review of the film Spring Breakers; Colin Newman, lead singer of Wire, on their new album
Playwright Richard Bean on a revival of his play Smack Family Robinson, actress Olga Kurylenko on starring with Tom Cruise in sci-fi thriller Oblivion and new Danish crime drama Arne Dahl reviewed.
Julian Barnes, in conversation with Mark Lawson, discusses his latest book Levels of Life which combines history, fiction and personal memoir.
Mark Lawson announces contenders for the Art Fund Museum of the Year prize, talks to playwright Richard Bean, reviews the film A Late Quartet and reflects on audience reaction to stars on the Broadway stage.
British musicals, architecture and music are making an impact on the previously closed cultural world in China. Kirsty Lang discusses the implications for the UK, and China.
In a very rare interview, recorded at her home in Baltimore, the writer Anne Tyler talks to Mark Lawson about her work. The author of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Digging to America and The Accidental Tourist discusses her childhood, her influences and her next book
Film-maker Penny Woolcock talks about her latest documentary, One Mile Away, about gangs in Birmingham; singer Michael Bolton; and a preview of tomorrow night's special with Anne Tyler
John Yorke on the secrets of story-telling; Michael Simkins on dealing with award rejection; The Great British Sewing Bee and The Intern reviewed; novelist Glenn Patterson discusses Good Vibrations
John Logan discusses his new play Peter and Alice starring Judi Dench and Ben Whishaw; Suggs reflects on his autobiographical one man show and Rachel Cooke reviews In the House starring Kristin Scott Thomas.
Danny Boyle's film Trance reviewed, choreographer Gillian Lynne on a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Oliviers, BBC TV series The NHS in a Day and delaying the release of films
John Wilson visits London Zoo's new tiger enclosure, reviews the Broadway hit The Book Of Mormon as it opens in the UK, meets comedian Lee Mack, and pays tribute to Chinua Achebe
John Wilson and violinist Nigel Kennedy on Fats Waller and Bach. A century of English village life in TV drama, The Village. Writer Esther Wilson on dramatising homelessness
Alan Bennett reflects on his recent work for the National Theatre, the inspiration of his parents, and why he doesn't want to be labelled a national treasure.
