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:
Ian Rankin on the new investigation by his much-loved detective, John Rebus; a review of the TV dramatisation of the Bible; recording engineer Ken Scott on working with the Beatles
Mark Lawson announces the winner of the 2013 William Hill Sports Book of the Year. An interview with choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh. And a review of the french films Marius and Fanny.
Comedian Russell Brand on his new tour The Messiah Complex, Front Row announces the shortlists for the Costa Book Awards 2013 and a review of the re-make of the classic 1970s horror film Carrie.
Sarah Crompton reviews Saving Mr. Banks; Paula Milne discusses her Cold War thriller Legacy; and violinist Janine Jansen talks about her new album Bach Concertos.
Morecambe and Wise remembered, performance poet and rapper Kate Tempest, the CS Lewis memorial in Poets' Corner, and the return of Blofeld
Peter Blake on Under Milk Wood, Sarah Ruhl discusses The Vibrator Play, Iain Sinclair reflects on Gaslight and Molly Dineen reviews the documentary Leviathan
Actress Anjelica Huston on her memoir, UK City of Culture 2017, Strangers on a Train on stage, Turner and the Sea at the National Maritime Museum
Including a review of the Palm d'Or-winning film Blue is the Warmest Colour; an interview with screenwriter Sally Wainwright about the return of Last Tango in Halifax; news of a sequel to the classic film It's a Wonderful Life and Ian Rickson and Jez Butterworth discuss their revival of Mojo.
Hunger Games : Catching Fire reviewed, a report from the Evening Standard Theatre Awards; author Michael Ignatieff; artist Alison Wilding and a tribute to Doris Lessing.
Adam Price, the writer and creator of Danish TV drama Borgen; comedian Jason Manford; a first look inside the Science Museum's exhibition on the Hadron Collider and the verdict on Dom Hemmingway, a film starring Jude Law as an East End gangster.
American writer Donna Tartt on The Goldfinch, her first new novel in over a decade; Forest Whitaker on The Butler, inspired by the real-life story of a black White House butler
With John Wilson, including fashion designer Paul Smith, Johnny Cash biographer Robert Hilburn, Natalie Haynes on the film The Counsellor and Tom Morris and Lorne Campbell discuss live theatre screenings.
Mark Lawson discusses the music of Sir John Tavener, the final Poirot episode and the first Georges Simenon's Maigret novel; Bel Mooney reviews the film Don Jon; and TV producer Mal Young explores the tricks of dramatic family planning.
Mark Lawson interviews musician and photographer Bryan Adams, the Chinese pianist Lang Lang, and reviews two films about the Kennedy assassination.
John Wilson talks singer-songwriter and X Factor judge Gary Barlow, to cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, a survivor of Auschwitz, and reviews a new exhibition about the Georgians.
