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:
Mark Lawson speaks to Reece Shearsmith, reviews the new David Hockney exhibition and looks at the decline of graffiti. Plus Anita Elberse on the theory of blockbusters.
Mark Lawson talks to Angela Lansbury. Artist Richard Deacon. And director Anton Corbijn remembers Philip Seymour Hoffman.
The stars of The Bridge, Jonathan Lethem, true life stories and the curious incident of R.S. Thomas and the crisp packet.
Ralph Fiennes on directing and acting in The Invisible Woman; US author E L Doctorow discusses his new novel Andrew's Brain; and Adam Hills and Josh Widdicombe on The Last Leg
Matthew McConaughey on his lead role in the new film Dallas Buyers Club; Costa Prize winner Nathan Filer; singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter; David Edgar on writers who act.
Juliet Stevenson in Beckett's Happy Days, documentary The Armstrong Lie reviewed, American writer Willy Vlautin and poets in residence - in zoology.
Kirsty Lang talks to Annie Proulx about Brokeback Mountain, the opera; Martin Creed walks around his retrospective at the Hayward; we review Lone Survivor; and historian Miranda Carter tells us about her debut novel.
Martin Bailey and Kirsty visit The National Gallery to see two of Van Gogh's Sunflowers; Chris Riddell on writing gothic fiction for children; Justin Bieber and celebrity mug-shots
Mark Lawson talks to Kenneth Branagh, the poet Michael Symmons Roberts, and reviews Sensing Spaces at the Royal Academy.
Mark Lawson talks to Simon Russell Beale about playing King Lear. Plus Costa biography prize winner Lucy Hughes-Hallett. And the secrecy surrounding certain film scripts.
Julie Hesmondhalgh on saying goodbye to her Coronation Street character and her new stage role, Josie Rourke on directing The Weir, Nathan Filer on winning the first novel category of the Costa Book Awards and Tasmin Little on why violinists don't ski.
Simon Rattle remembers the conductor Claudio Abbado; Kate Atkinson on winning the novel category of the Costa Book Awards; Hugh Dennis and Tyger Drew-Honey on series five of Outnumbered and August: Osage County reviewed.
Joyce Carol Oates on a half-century of writing; the enduring appeal of The Three Musketeers; Gravity's special effects; and photography by Warhol, Burroughs and Lynch.
In an Oscars special edition, Mark Lawson talks to nominees including Steve Coogan, Sally Hawkins and David O. Russell
Cellists Julian and Jiaxin Lloyd Webber; Dominic Dromgoole on the Globe's new Jacobean theatre, and a report on the power of photography to inspire other artforms
