A history of 2 Tone, Booker-shortlisted author Chetna Maroo, Lyonesse
Daniel Rachel’s book Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story is a new history of the iconic...
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A history of 2 Tone, Booker-shortlisted author Chetna Maroo, Lyonesse
Daniel Rachel’s book Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story is a new history of the iconic...
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Patrick Stewart, Steven Isserlis, The art of skateboard design
Sir Patrick Stewart's memoir Making It So looks back over his long and eclectic acting career...
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Aviva Studios, a reportedly £240 million pound arts complex, has opened in Manchester with Free...
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The Rolling Stones; Foe; television food consultant; Doctors axed
Film critic Ryan Gilbey and music and club culture writer Kate Hutchinson deliver their verdict...
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Bonnie Langford performs Sondheim, film director Maysoon Pachachi, the portrayal of nuns in culture
Musical theatre legend Bonnie Langford performs Stephen Sondheim's I'm Still Here from the...
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Front Row from Belfast with writer Paul Lynch and singer Cara Dillon
Two adaptations of Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco open this month, one in Belfast and a Welsh...
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Martin Scorsese film, John le Carré’s legacy, Madonna on Tour
Madonna is still in the spotlight 45 years after bursting onto the pop scene in the 1980s,...
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Front Row reviews the Frasier reboot and performance from folk musician Martin Hayes
Samira Ahmed is joined by critics Anne Joseph and Nancy Durrant to review some of this week’s...
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Lubaina Himid, Richard Armitage, David Pountney’s new opera
Actor Richard Armitage – who starred in North and South and the Hobbit - joins Nick to discuss...
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Nigel Kennedy, art gallery labels, how do museums recover stolen art?
Nigel Kennedy remains the best selling violinist of all time with a repertoire that spans jazz,...
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Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening’s new album, Cloud Horizons, fuses synthesizers with a bone...
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Front Row reviews Philip Guston at the Tate Modern and new film Golda
The winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature is Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, who is best...
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The Streets, the British Textile Biennial, Kate Prince on her mentor
Mike Skinner helped define an era with The Streets' album Original Pirate Material in 2002. Now...
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Patsy Ferran, Rubens & Women, the portrayal of black men in British film
The actor Patsy Ferran talks to Samira about her transformation from flower girl (with some...
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Claudette Johnson, ghosts in literature, the Dutch Golden Age
The portraits in the National Gallery’s new retrospective of the artist Frans Hals capture his...
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Víkingur Ólafsson on Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Ken Loach’s The Old Oak
Víkingur Ólafsson on Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Ken Loach’s The Old Oak
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James Graham on Boys from the Blackstuff, and are maestros behaving badly?
Alan Bleasdale’s Boys From The Blackstuff is widely regarded as television drama at its best with...
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Front Row hosts the BBC National Short Story Award Ceremony
The announcement of the winners of the BBC National Short Story Award and the BBC Young Writers’...
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Philip Barantini on Boiling Point, The Archers cast on Lark Rise to Ambridge
As the cast of the Archers star in a new adaptation of Flora Thompson's Lark Rise to Candleford,...
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Live from the Contains Strong Language festival
Front Row opens this year’s Contain’s Strong Language festival live in Leeds. Nick Ahad talks to...
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