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:
Kirsty Lang and Opera star Bryn Terfel discuss Welshness. Three composers discuss writing new scores for Hitchcock's silent films. Reviews of The Shard and a new TV Sinbad .
Julian Barnes reviews The Players, Jean Dujardin's first project since The Artist; Nick Hewer from The Apprentice on his new TV series The Farm Fixer; Anthony Horowitz on a new James Bond exhibition
Artist Richard Wilson recreates the finale of The Italian Job in Bexhill on Sea; novelist Monique Roffey; Mark Damazer on The Newsroom.
Christopher Eccleston in new TV thriller Blackout; the Chariots of Fire running track on stage; over-80s table tennis players in new film Ping Pong; the National Football Museum
Bobby Womack talks about surviving serious illness and working with Damon Albarn, Jake Arnott on his ambitious new novel, and controversial thriller Killer Joe is reviewed
Mark Lawson talks composer Michael Berkeley and writer Adam Mars-Jones about replicating music in prose; Stephanie Flanders reviews the British Museum's new gallery dedicated to money; culture minister Ed Vaizey on the future of libraries; singer-songwriter Macy Gray talks about her latest album, Covered.
Mark Lawson reviews The Amazing Spider-Man with comedian Natalie Haynes. Playwright Joe Penhall on his startling new take on parenthood, Birthday, and Nora Ephron remembered.
With Kirsty Lang. Reviews of the film Friends With Kids, and a new Edvard Munch exhibition; Simon Armitage on The Poetry Parnassus: poets from every country in the Olympics.
With Mark Lawson, who meets Terry Pratchett and his new co-writer Stephen Baxter; TV writer Jed Mercurio on The Line of Duty and a review of new film Your Sister’s Sister.
Kirsty Lang reviews Crow, new show by makers of war Horse puppets,and TV series Gordon(Ramsay)Behind Bars,talks to Turner prize artist Mark Wallinger and classical guitarist Milos.Stephen Armstrong reflects on the changing fortunes of wealthy comedians.
Prunella Scales on the eve of her 80th birthday. Jenny Saville on Painting female nudes. Boyd Hilton on New TV shows from Steve Coogan and Armando Iannucci.
Julie Walters returns to the stage in The Last of the Haussmans; Ed Stoppard on codebreaker Alan Turing; Adrian Lester answers questions from young actors.
Sam Mendes on his series of TV Shakespeares; Elaine Showalter reviews the film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Chris Smith announces the winnner of the Art Fund Prize for Museums and Galleries
Kirsty Lang reports on a major exhibition of art by Yoko Ono; reviews the film Lay the Favourite, starring Bruce Willis and Rebecca Hall; speaks to members of The British Paraorchestra, founded by conductor Charles Hazlewood to showcase disabled musicians, and interviews Pia Juul, a leading Danish literary author who explains why her new book The Murder of Halland can't be described as a crime novel.
With Kirsty Lang. Denise Lewis reviews Fast Girls; plus a report on Royal Albert Memorial Museum And Art Gallery, Exeter, shortlisted for the 2012 Art Fund Prize for museums
