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:
Johnny Vegas looks behind his now infamous persona, William Boyd as he is set to publish a new James Bond novel, and the BBC National Short Story Award
Pianist Alfred Brendel and his son the cellist Adrian Brendel; Fourth Plinth art; Stephen King’s new novel reviewed and the BBC Short Story Award.
Hugh Jackman on his latest film Prisoners; Netflix chief Ted Sarandos; The Wrong Mans reviewed; BBC Short Story competition.
John Wilson reveals the shortlist for the BBC National Short Story Award 2013; reviews a major Jack Vettriano exhibition in Glasgow; and interviews punk poet John Cooper Clarke.
Mark Lawson talks to writer and director Woody Allen, whose new film Blue Jasmine stars Cate Blanchett and Sally Hawkins. Sally Hawkins and Mike Leigh also share their thoughts.
Mark Lawson with David Walliams and Sheridan Smith - who co-star in A Midsummer Night's Dream, poet Dannie Abse who is 90 this month and Ion Trewin who reveals Booker prize changes
Sting on his new album The Last Ship and on writing a Broadway musical; the Royal Academy's exhibition of Australian art; the winner of Gramophone magazine's Recording Of The Year
Sir Derek Jacobi reflects on his life and career, Naomi Watts discusses playing Princess Diana on film, and the verdict on the TV drama Orphan Black, which focuses on human cloning.
Kirsty Lang talks to Mark Rylance and reports on the state of prisons in TV and film. David Quantick ruminates on actors who have lent their dulcet tones to pop records.
Francis Bacon and Henry Moore paired in a new exhibition, Nicky Wire from Manic Street Preachers, the film In a World reviewed, and comedian Jason Bryne on his new sit-com.
News of the shortlist for the Mercury Prize for album of the year, the long-awaited final book in Patrick Leigh Fermor's travel trilogy and Dennis Kelly on his debut play for the Royal Court Theatre in London, The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas.
Lee Evans on Barking in Essex, White House Down, the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize for fiction 2013
Rush, the film about Formula 1 rivalry in the 1970s; Ian Hislop and Nick Newman on their First World War tv drama The Wipers Times; US author Thomas Pynchon's new novel; and a literary first, a novel published simultaneously in Scots Gaelic and English.
Cillian Murphy, star of TV drama Peaky Blinders; director Mira Nair on her film The Reluctant Fundamentalist; musicians who take revenge in song; the quiz with TV's biggest prize.
Alan Cumming on his new film, Any Day Now; the verdict on a new staging of Marlowe's Edward II which includes phones and skinny jeans; how female comics make feminism funny.
