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:
Tamsin Greig on comedy and tragedy. Jonathan Coe on his latest novel, Expo 58. Martin Bailey on Van Gogh's 4th Sunflower painting. David Hepworth on which bands have most albums.
Italian film The Great Beauty reviewed; Stephen Fry on Verdi, Wagner and his forthcoming Broadway production; Liz Lochhead on The Great Tapestry Of Scotland.
Richard Curtis's time travel romance About Time reviewed, British reggae band UB40, Baroness Estelle Morris and Toby Young on two new documentaries set in schools and David Quantick on actors in songs.
Edna O'Brien, Colm Toibin, Michael Longley and Hermione Lee discuss the life and work of Seamus Heaney
Historian and presenter Simon Schama on The Story of The Jews; the artists who find inspiration in big data; the most famous monster in British cinema history.
Marin Alsop, conductor of the Last Night of the Proms; Philip French on retirement; the late actress Jean Seberg, and returning TV series
Morgan Spurlock's One Direction film reviewed; playwright and artist John Byrne; Nic Roeg the director of Walkabout and Don't Look Now; Steve Punt on the 'straight man' in comedy.
Mark Lawson reports from the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival, with writers including Kate Atkinson on Jackson Brodie, Ruth Rendell and Jeanette Winterson on their relationship, and Val McDermid.
Terry Gilliam discusses his classic film Time Bandits; new Jennifer Aniston film We're the Millers reviewed; Franz Ferdinand on the mystery hidden in their new album; Bob Dylan's portraits at the National Portrait Gallery.
Fran Healey, lead singer of the band Travis, discusses their first new album for six years. Mark talks to the writers Michael Robotham, Lottie Moggach and Colette McBeth at the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival about how new technology makes it more difficult for characters to disappear without trace. And Simon Bird (of The Inbetweeners) and Jonny Sweet discuss their WWI TV comedy series Chickens which they co-wrote with Joe Thomas.
Vince Gilligan on creating the hit US TV series Breaking Bad, author Nadifa Mohamed on her new novel, Meg Rosoff reviews What Maisie Knew and Michael Simkins on how theatres cope when they can't afford understudies.
Music producer Shahid Khan aka Naughty Boy on his debut album, Zoe Williams reviews Lovelace, Alyn Shipton on his biography of the musician Nilsson and an interview with the great American crime writer Elmore Leonard, whose death was announced today.
Tom Stoppard on his radio drama inspired by Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon; Elysium film review; and Charlaine Harris on ending the Sookie Stackhouse series which inspired the True Blood TV series.
John Wilson brings the Cultural Exchange project to a close, with Armando Iannucci giving his choice of a favourite film. John also looks back at the 75 selections made over the past four months, and identifies trends and surprises.
Mark Lawson reports from Edinburgh and speaks to comedian Reginald D. Hunter and writer David Peace, whose new book is about Liverpool manager Bill Shankly. There's a discussion about the different approaches to tackling politics on stage at this year's Fringe. Plus cabaret performers Sarah-Louise Young and Michael Roulston with an extract from their homage to Julie Andrews, Julie Madly Deeply.
