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Front Row is a society podcast hosted by BBC Radio 4. It has 1,000 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.

Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music

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1

Review: The Stranger and Jim Jarmusch's Father Mother Sister Brother

2

W1A creator John Morton on Twenty Twenty Six

3

Was Queen Victoria coercively controlled by Prince Albert?

4

The Birth of Television: A Forgotten History

5

Review: The Drama starring Robert Pattinson and Zendaya

6

SNL UK Cast, plus Trash Cinema Icon Mink Stole

7

Robert MacFarlane on the revelations to be found underground

8

Lesley Manville, and what do astronauts listen to in space?

9

Review: Riz Ahmed comedy Bait, Schiaparelli at the V&A

10

Actor Forbes Masson on the stage production of cult sitcom The High Life

11

Noah Wyle on hit hospital drama The Pitt

12

Saturday Night Live arrives in the UK

13

Review: La Grazia, the latest film from The Great Beauty director Paolo Sorrentino

14

Sylvia Plath's final year, and Hue and Cry perform Labour of Love

15

Gentleman Jack ballet, BTS reunited, Irish myths - a feminist retelling, Len Deighton remembered

16

The Oscars, Ryan Gosling, Self Esteem performs

17

Review: David Hockney in Normandy, and Asako Yuzuki's new novel

18

James McAvoy on his directorial debut, California Schemin'

19

Howard Jacobson's new book, Howl

20

Cillian Murphy on Peaky Blinders, plus Timothee Chalamet's opera backlash

21

Review: The Bride! Maggie Gyllenhaal's film about the bride of Frankenstein

22

Will Self on The Quantity Theory of Morality

23

Author Julia Quinn on Bridgerton

24

Pixar at 40

25

Review: Tracey Emin: A Second Life at Tate Modern

26

Arthur Sze, the poet laureate of the United States, and award-winning director Felipe Bustos Sierra

27

Ukraine Unbroken - New Plays Responding to the War

28

Neve Campbell on being Hollywood's Scream Queen, and BAFTAs lowdown

29

Review: Cynthia Erivo in Dracula, Charli XCX mockumentary, The Secret Agent

30

Amanda Seyfried and Mona Fastvold on their film The Testament of Ann Lee

31

Playwright Jim Cartwright on his groundbreaking debut play Road

32

Baz Luhrman on Elvis in concert, and 75 Years of The Archers

33

Review: Wuthering Heights film and Jack Thorne's Lord of the Flies

34

Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee on her new series

35

Yes Minister creator Jonathan Lynn on revisiting the characters in his new play

36

Kristen Stewart on her directorial debut, The Chronology of Water

37

Review: Mark Haddon's memoir - Leaving Home, Twinless film, Mackenzie Crook's Small Prophets

38

Musician Martin Carthy on retiring from performing live

39

Jared Bush, head of Walt Disney Animation Studios, on his record-breaking film Zootropolis 2

40

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - on stage

41

Reviewing Is This Thing On? Guess How Much I Love You? and George Saunders

42

John Carter Cash on his musical production The Ballad of Johnny & June

43

Michael Sheen, Laurel & Hardy, writer Patrick Charnley

44

Richard Linklater on Nouvelle Vague

45

Review of films No Other Choice, The History of Sound and Julian Barnes' final novel

46

Actor Claire Foy on her role in H Is For Hawk

47

Comedian John Bishop on his life story inspiring a Hollywood movie

48

Beryl Cook at 100

49

Reviewing Heated Rivalry, novel Jackson Alone, and the British Museum's Hawai'i exhibition

50

Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Wayne McGregor and Emmylou Harris

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