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EPISODE · Aug 30, 2013 · 1H 3M

FR: Marin Alsop, Simon Schama, Franz Ferdinand

from Front Row Weekly · host BBC Radio 4

Mark Lawson talks to Marin Alsop, the first woman to conduct the Last Night of the Proms; writers Ruth Rendell and Jeanette Winterson discuss their friendship at the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival; Philip French puts away his pen after being The Observer's film critic for 50 years; Scottish playwright and artist John Byrne talks about his new mural for the King's Theatre in Edinburgh; film director Nic Roeg looks back at his career, sex scenes and more in the light of his newly-published memoir; historian Simon Schama discusses the challenge of bringing his latest project The Story of the Jews to television; and Scottish band Franz Ferdinand are back with a new album, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action.

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