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:
Stephen Mangan and Matthew Macfadyen discuss their roles as Jeeves and Wooster. Stanley Spencer's war paintings move from Hampshire to London; Melissa Silverstein explains The Bechdel Test in cinema; Frank Gehry on the influence of fish on his architecture
Zadie Smith on her new story The Embassy of Cambodia, actors and audiobooks, a review of nut by debbie tucker green, and new albums by Lady Gaga and Lorde
Neil Gaiman on his new Doctor Who short story; movie-industry documentary Seduced and Abandoned; literary mistranslations; fictional jokes about real people; and singer Angel Blue
Hermione Lee discusses her new biography of the late writer Penelope Fitzgerald, J J Abrams describes his unorthodox new novel S, looted Nazi art, and John Yorke on chronology in TV series
Tinie Tempah on his new album. Ballet star Carlos Acosta on his new novel. Rosie Boycott reviews the film Gloria. And Matthew Sweet on Dennis Wheatley.
David Beckham on being a photographic muse; singer-songwriter Graham Nash on his memoirs; Queen's Brian May on a Victorian 3D craze; a review of Jonathan Rhys Meyers' Dracula
Joan Collins on age and husbands, the art of Castiglione, Ian Rankin is inspired by the music of Rory Gallagher, and Drinking Buddies reviewed
With Mark Lawson, who interviews the American director and choreographer Susan Stroman, reviews the film Short Term 12, and speaks to comedian Ross Noble.
Sandra Bullock on her film Gravity. Nicholas Kenyon on the letters of Leonard Bernstein. The most revived modern plays. And artists who come out of retirement.
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love discusses her latest novel; Paul Potts biopic One Chance reviewed; news of the new tastemakers in the global art market; Robert Webb and Tamzin Outhwaite star in new play Raving.
Earth Wind And Fire, From Here To Eternity - The Musical, Chinese paintings, and Sir Anthony Caro remembered
Dame Judi Dench discusses her role in the film Philomena, Julian Barnes reviews a new Honoré Daumier exhibition, the verdict on TV series Ambassadors, and Ibsen's Ghosts on stage.
A report on the 2013 Turner Prize on show in Derry~Londonderry; an interview with the composer Gerald Barry; writer Jennifer Johnston and news of the inaugural City of Derry International Choral Festival.
Writer Susan Hill on her new novel Black Sheep; the relationship between pop art and design; dramatist G F Newman on his radio series; trails for fake movies.
Philip Hoare on Morrissey's Autobiography; film director Clio Barnard on The Selfish Giant; Glee's tribute to Cory Monteith; Nelson, Navy, Nation at the National Maritime Museum
