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Front Row Episodes

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    Joyce DiDonato, European Capital of Culture, Puppets in theatre

    Soprano Joyce DiDonato on tackling the vocal pyrotechnics of Rossini.

  2. Benjamin Clementine performs live

    Benjamin Clementine, Oscar Wilde's Women, and David LaChapelle.

  3. Inua Ellams on Barber Shop Chronicles, Battle of the Sexes, Charles Causley, Godless

    Inua Ellams on his play Barber Shop Chronicles. Plus a review of TV drama Godless.

  4. James Bolam on Rodney Bewes, Gilbert & George, Marnie the opera

    Actor James Bolam talks about his Likely Lads co-star, Rodney Bewes, who died yesterday.

  5. Modigliani, Costa Book Awards shortlists, John Lithgow

    The announcement of the Costa Book Awards shortlists and Modigliani reviewed.

  6. Cate Blanchett, Priscilla Presley, Arts Manifestos

    Priscilla Presley on forty years of looking after Elvis's legacy, plus Cate Blanchett.

  7. Fenella Fielding, Gluck, Mona Arshi, Call of Duty

    Fenella Fielding, 90, recalls her famous, steamy Carry On moment, and playing Hedda Gabler

  8. Noel Gallagher, Poets in Zimbabwe, Surrealism in Egypt

    Noel Gallagher discusses his new album.

  9. Robert Pattinson, Ian McMillan, the voice behind the puppet, Goldsmiths Prize winner

    Robert Pattinson, Ian McMillan, the voices behind the puppets, Goldsmith Prize winner.

  10. Dee Rees, Pussy Riot, Theatre governance

    Dee Rees on her film, Mudbound, which explores the racial divide in 1940s Mississippi.

  11. Annette Bening, Music managers, Drama podcast review

    Annette Bening discusses Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, co-starring Jamie Bell.

  12. Sheridan Smith, Fred D'Aguiar, Maxine Peake play, UNESCO Creative Cities

    Sheridan Smith on her first solo album.

  13. Christian Slater and Sam Yates, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, Ivor Wood

    Christian Slater and Sam Yates on Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, Animator Ivor Wood's legacy

  14. Hugh Grant, Stephen Fry, Hollywood and homosexuality

    Hugh Grant on how his early stage career equipped him to play the villain in Paddington 2.

  15. Toby Jones, Mackenzie Crook, Film director Yorgos Lanthimos, The Louvre in Abu Dhabi

    Toby Jones, Mackenzie Crook, the Louvre in Abu Dhabi, plus film director Yorgos Lanthimos.

  16. Kenneth Lonergan on Howards End, The Florida Project, Artists as curators

    Kenneth Lonergan on his adaptation of EM Forster's Howards End.

  17. Modern fairytales with Joanne Harris and Jonathan Coe; Call Me by Your Name; Catalonian culture

    Writers Joanne Harris and Jonathan Coe on their latest work; Film director Luca Guadagnino

  18. Kenneth Branagh, Keeping TV secrets, Josie Lawrence, Parents in film

    Kenneth Branagh is Poirot; Josie Lawrence is Mother Courage; Keeping TV secrets.

  19. Tracey Emin, Minette Walters, Gauguin biopic

    Artist Tracey Emin, author Minette Walters, and a film about French painter Paul Gauguin.

  20. Lisette Oropesa, Richard Flanagan, Kate MccGwire

    Opera singer Lisette Oropesa, novelist Richard Flanagan, artist Kate MccGwire.

  21. Bill Bailey, Philip Pullman, Alias Grace

    Bill Bailey tries out the Front Row keyboard. Shahidha Bari talks to Philip Pullman.

  22. Annie Leibovitz, Andy Serkis, David Bomberg

    Annie Leibovitz on her photographs of a turbulent decade.

  23. Stranger Things 2, Richard Bean on Young Marx, The Essay

    Richard Bean on his new play Young Marx, and Stranger Things 2 reviewed.

  24. Women and Sexism in the Arts

    Have the Harvey Weinstein revelations created a watershed moment?

  25. Taika Waititi on Thor, Art in the Age of Terror, David Adjaye, Eisenstein's October

    Taika Waititi takes on the Marvel universe in his new film, Thor: Ragnarok.

  26. Armistead Maupin, Viviana Durante on Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Mining Art Gallery

    Armistead Maupin's memoir, Logical Family; choreographer Sir Kenneth MacMillan's legacy.

  27. Harry Hill, Liza Tarbuck, Yoshiki

    Harry Hill's new children's novel, Liza Tarbuck on narrating television shows, and Yoshiki

  28. Daniel Radcliffe, I Am Not a Witch, Wim Wenders, Taj Mahal

    Daniel Radcliffe on filming in the jungle.

  29. Beth Ditto, Jackie Kay, Domestic Noir

    Beth Ditto on her debut solo album; poet Jackie Kay, Scotland's makar, performs new work.

  30. St Vincent, Andrew Michael Hurley, The Tin Drum, Daljit Nagra

    St Vincent on her new album Masseduction, and novelist Andrew Michael Hurley.

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