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:
Sally Potter's tale of love, jazz, politics and shrink-to-fit jeans, Ginger & Rosa is reviewed. Ralph Steadman talks birds; Patrick Woodroffe on lighting The Rolling Stones on tour
Rod Stewart talks to Kirsty about his passion for art, how his less than perfect harmonica playing opened doors for him, and his only regret. Also a review of The Lost Prince, an exhibition about the Prince who was destined to become King Henry IX, but died at the age of 18 and new sit-com Hebburn reviewed.
Hollywood Costume at the V&A; new documentaries on BB King, Status Quo and Freddie Mercury; Damien Hirst's vast statue in Ilfracombe; Man Booker Prize-winner Hilary Mantel; Barack Obama's half-brother's life on stage.
Graham Norton talks chat; Peter Hook discusses Joy Division; Beasts Of The Southern Wild reviewed
Tim Burton's new animated film Frankenweenie, David Walliams on his memoir Camp David, and a review of US TV series Girls.
Kirsty Lang talks to supermodel Agyness Deyn about her first major film role; the Green Day stage musical American Idiot is reviewed, as is the film of Kerouac's On The Road
Mark Lawson talks to comedian David Mitchell about his autobiography; the Nobel Prize for Literature; the art of accents; and a review of Bertie Carvel in Damned by Despair.
Poet Paul Farley reflects on the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour; actress Anne-Marie Duff discusses her latest stage performance; artist David Shrigley reveals why he wants to help us cope with "an increasingly crazy and poorly signposted world" and Andy Stott of The Royal Northern College of Music on why he's launching a degree in popular music performance.
Mark Lawson reviews This House, a new play about the hung parliamnet of 1974, interviews the best-selling Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbø and discusses Prince with his biographer, Matt Thorne
Musician Pete Townshend reflects on the highs and lows of a career which spans almost half a century, in conversation with John Wilson.
Mark Lawson reviews the film Ruby Sparks, from the directors of Little Miss Sunshine; playwright Roy Williams adapts an Alan Sillitoe classic; TV documentary The Plane Crash. The photographer and film maker William Klein, now 84, reflects on his career in Photography
American artist Alex Katz and German writer Bernhard Schlink interviewed. Homeland's second series and Caryl Churchill's new play reviewed.
The playwright Howard Barker shares his uncompromising views on collaboration, accessibility, and art as an ordeal; new BBC series Welcome to India reviewed; John Berry of the English National Opera on attracting new audiences; David Quantick considers whether supergroups can ever be more than the sum of their parts.
John Wilson reports live from the BBC International Short Story Award ceremony, with news of the winner, and also interviews members of the band Mumford and Sons.
Emma Watson in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 2012 Turner Prize exhibition, TV drama Hunted, and the 20th anniversary of theatre company Northern Broadsides
