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:
With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Clive James about his new collection of poetry, and reviews of Joss Whedon's film The Cabin in the Woods, Ricky Gervais's Derek and US import Smash. Madani Younis discusses his plans as artistic director of the Bush Theatre.
Mark Lawson talks to leading theatre producers, including Cameron Mackintosh, Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Bill Kenwright and Sonia Friedman, about the art of creating a hit show.
John Wilson talks to four leading veteran photographers who shot to fame in the 1960s - David Bailey, Don McCullin, Terry O'Neill and Harry Benson
John Wilson talks to Blur guitarist Graham Coxon, historian Tom Holland, reviews Snow White adaptation Mirror, Mirror and a new stage version of Wonderful Town. Plus Paul Weller pays tribute to Jim Marshall, creator of the Marshall amp.
Mark Lawson reviews TV drama Game Change, starring Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin and Ed Harris as John McCain and interviews singer Richard Hawley and author Sven Lindqvist .
Labrinth interviewed. Headhunters reviewed. Cocteau's London murals restored. The makers of The Undateables discuss the thinking behind their controversial dating show
Mark Lawson reports on a major Damien Hirst retrospective exhibition at Tate Modern; the verdict on This Must Be The Place, starring Sean Penn; Michael Grade on British television
Kirsty Lang reports from New York, with Thomas Campbell, British director of the vast Metropolitan Museum, and trumpeter Nicholas Payton on why he dislikes the word jazz.
Mark Lawson visits the new attraction The Making of Harry Potter,reports on unfilmed screenplays on the eve of a reading of Orson Welles' script of Heart of Darkness and pays tribute to American Poet Adrienne Rich, with writer Jeanette Winterson.
New Orleans-born singer, songwriter and pianist Dr John; Tim Lott on sibling rivalry; Janet Street Porter discusses British Design 1948-2012; stage performances on screen.
Sir John Eliot Gardiner on tackling Verdi's Rigoletto; Brendan O'Carroll, creator and star of TV comedy Mrs Brown's Boys; and a review of Gillian Wearing's new retrospective.
Mark Lawson reviews Aardman Animations' latest film The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists; novelist Jodi Picoult; the verdict on Madonna's new CD; poetry from Ben Okri.
The Syndicate reviewed. Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood collaborates with composer Krzysztof Penderecki. A new exhibition about the brain. And the curse of films about Mars.
Greg Doran on his new appointment as Artistic Director of the RSC. Molly Dineen on Herzog. Sarah Churchwell reviews The Master And Margarita. Esperanza Spalding discusses the joy of listening to songs on the radio.
Writer Neil Cross discusses Luther, the character played by Idris Elba in the BBC TV series and the protagonist of his latest novel, choreographers George Williamson and Mark Baldwin discuss their new responses to the Ballets Russes, Naomi Alderman reviews the highly-anticipated video game Journey and journalist David Hepworth explores what happens when writers get their musical references wrong.
