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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Fri, 17 May 13
Duration:
29 mins
With John Wilson: Richard Branson on Tubular Bells; Alison Balsom's Cultural Exchange choice, St Matthew Passion; a report on the hits and misses so far at the Cannes Film Festival
Thu, 16 May 13
Duration:
29 mins
The photographer Rankin is known for his cutting-edge fashion and advertising images, and his celebrity portraits.He talks to John Wilson about his experience of photographing people as they face the prospect of death for his new show ALIVE: In The Face Of Death. Actor Terence Stamp chooses the film The Razor's Edge (1946) for Cultural Exchange. Brilliant Adventures is a new play by Alistair McDowall which won the Judges' Award in the 2011 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. Set on a Middlesbrough council estate, the play focuses on the relationship between two brothers, one of whom has built a time machine. Writer Charlotte Keatley reviews. The new Daft Punk album, Random Access Memories, is the French duo's fourth long-player after a seven year silence. Dance music pioneers Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo are joined on this album by other luminaries of the music world including Nile Rodgers and Giorgio Moroder. Writer and DJ Dave Haslam gives his verdict.
Wed, 15 May 13
Duration:
29 mins
Andrew Lloyd Webber on the restoration of the Theatre Royal in London; the perils of playing yourself in a TV drama; Will Self chooses his Cultural Exchange
Tue, 14 May 13
Duration:
29 mins
The new film of The Great Gatsby; the Eurovision Song Contest contenders 2013; plans for a French "culture tax" and Cultural Exchange: Anne Tyler on a 19th century photograph.
Mon, 13 May 13
Duration:
29 mins
Writer Allan Cubitt on his new crime drama The Fall; Food on Stage and creating the pie for Titus Andronicus; Cultural Exchange: the Archbishop of Canterbury on his passion for Britten.
Fri, 10 May 13
Duration:
29 mins
Harold Pinter's The Hothouse in a revival; Karl Hyde of Underworld; Poet Kate Clanchy on writing her first novel; and Jodi Picoult's Cultural Exchange.
Thu, 9 May 13
Duration:
29 mins
Soprano Angela Gheorghiu, a review of the film adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and Peter Bazalgette makes his selection for the Cultural Exchange
Wed, 8 May 13
Duration:
29 mins
Matthew McConaughey stars as a fugitive befriended by two children in Mud, Ryan Gilbey reviews the film; crime writer M D Villiers discusses her new novel City of Blood; Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson reveals his Cultural Exchange choice and further allegations about abuse in Britain's specialist music schools emerged this week - a teacher and a former pupil discuss whether methods of teaching should change.
Tue, 7 May 13
Duration:
29 mins
Star Trek Into Darkness reviewed by Naomi Alderman; Germaine Greer reveals her favourite cultural item; James Hamilton Paterson discusses his new novel and a new exhibition at Buckingham Palace is reviewed by A.N. Wilson
Mon, 6 May 13
Duration:
29 mins
Mark Lawson talks to Kwame Kwei-Armah, the Artistic Director of the Center Stage Theatre in Baltimore. They discuss his new play, the theatre and race relations in the US and UK.
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