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:
Tom Hardy in This Means War; Ian Rankin chooses his New Elizabethan; Paula Milne; and Shalom Auslander on his controversial new novel, based on Anne Frank.
Mark Lawson with the verdict on a new staging of John Adams' opera The Death of Klinghoffer; comedian Sarah Millican discusses her new TV show; Jennifer Aniston in Wanderlust; and as Radio 4 invites nominations for New Elizabethans - people who have made an impact on the UK from 1952 to today- playwright Mark Ravenhill nominates his cultural choice.
With Naomi Alderman, who asks why video games haven't received the cultural recognition of other art forms, even though it's the biggest entertainment industry in the world
Including an interview with Peter Ackroyd, a review of new play In Basildon, the new Fourth Plinth installation in Trafalgar Square, and 21st Century Water Music for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
Actress Olivia Colman discusses her breakthrough year which saw her starring on stage and screen, a discussion about the likelihood of the UK getting an e-book chart and Dreda Say Mitchell reviews Rampart starring Woody Harrelson.
With Mark Lawson, including best-selling novelist Sue Townsend, playwright Charlotte Keatley, and a review of Black Gold, starring Antonio Banderas and Freida Pinto.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel reviewed, with Judi Dench and Bill Nighy as British retirees in India; artist Jeremy Deller; the Brit nominees inspired by literature.
Crime writer Walter Mosley, documentary-maker Phil Agland revisits the Baka tribe of Cameroon, rock star Rory Gallagher, and Australian film Red Dog
Alan Gilbert, Music Director of the New York Philharmonic; Josie Rourke, the new artistic director of the Donmar theatre; art critic Richard Cork on famous artistic friendships; actor Michael Simkins on why actors should steer away from politics.
A S Byatt reviews Picasso and Modern British Art, Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo, French film Hadewijch, and the periodic table in pop
John Wilson interviews actor Jon Hamm who plays anti-hero Don Draper in Mad Men; the secrets of successful stage rain; the history of cotton retold in an exhibition at Manchester's Whitworth Gallery and Sarah Beeny on her exhibition looking at 250 years of the everyday British home.
Actor Daniel Radcliffe on life after Harry Potter and his new film The Woman in Black; on the eve of Valentine's Day, conductor Jeremy Summerly offers an alternative classical music playlist for the ups and downs of love; and the makers of Big Fat Gypsy Weddings discuss the second series.
Paul McCartney discusses the art of classic song writing; the life and death of Pre-Raphaelite supermodel Lizzie Siddal and the latest Euro-crime drama Inspector Montalbano.
With John Wilson. Don McLean on winning a Radio 2 Folk Awards Lifetime Achievement and on his classic album, American Pie. Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama on her Tate Modern exhibtion
Lionel Shriver reviews a major exhibition of portraits by Lucian Freud, Stephen Daldry discusses shooting a film about 9/11 in New York and architect Herman Hertzberger on winning the RIBA Gold Medal.
