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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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Review: The Stranger and Jim Jarmusch's Father Mother Sister Brother
W1A creator John Morton on Twenty Twenty Six
Was Queen Victoria coercively controlled by Prince Albert?
The Birth of Television: A Forgotten History
Review: The Drama starring Robert Pattinson and Zendaya
SNL UK Cast, plus Trash Cinema Icon Mink Stole
Robert MacFarlane on the revelations to be found underground
Lesley Manville, and what do astronauts listen to in space?
Review: Riz Ahmed comedy Bait, Schiaparelli at the V&A
Actor Forbes Masson on the stage production of cult sitcom The High Life
Noah Wyle on hit hospital drama The Pitt
Saturday Night Live arrives in the UK
Review: La Grazia, the latest film from The Great Beauty director Paolo Sorrentino
Sylvia Plath's final year, and Hue and Cry perform Labour of Love
Gentleman Jack ballet, BTS reunited, Irish myths - a feminist retelling, Len Deighton remembered
The Oscars, Ryan Gosling, Self Esteem performs
Review: David Hockney in Normandy, and Asako Yuzuki's new novel
James McAvoy on his directorial debut, California Schemin'
Howard Jacobson's new book, Howl
Cillian Murphy on Peaky Blinders, plus Timothee Chalamet's opera backlash
Review: The Bride! Maggie Gyllenhaal's film about the bride of Frankenstein
Will Self on The Quantity Theory of Morality
Author Julia Quinn on Bridgerton
Pixar at 40
Review: Tracey Emin: A Second Life at Tate Modern
Arthur Sze, the poet laureate of the United States, and award-winning director Felipe Bustos Sierra
Ukraine Unbroken - New Plays Responding to the War
Neve Campbell on being Hollywood's Scream Queen, and BAFTAs lowdown
Review: Cynthia Erivo in Dracula, Charli XCX mockumentary, The Secret Agent
Amanda Seyfried and Mona Fastvold on their film The Testament of Ann Lee
Playwright Jim Cartwright on his groundbreaking debut play Road
Baz Luhrman on Elvis in concert, and 75 Years of The Archers
Review: Wuthering Heights film and Jack Thorne's Lord of the Flies
Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee on her new series
Yes Minister creator Jonathan Lynn on revisiting the characters in his new play
Kristen Stewart on her directorial debut, The Chronology of Water
Review: Mark Haddon's memoir - Leaving Home, Twinless film, Mackenzie Crook's Small Prophets
Musician Martin Carthy on retiring from performing live
Jared Bush, head of Walt Disney Animation Studios, on his record-breaking film Zootropolis 2
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - on stage
Reviewing Is This Thing On? Guess How Much I Love You? and George Saunders
John Carter Cash on his musical production The Ballad of Johnny & June
Michael Sheen, Laurel & Hardy, writer Patrick Charnley
Richard Linklater on Nouvelle Vague
Review of films No Other Choice, The History of Sound and Julian Barnes' final novel
Actor Claire Foy on her role in H Is For Hawk
Comedian John Bishop on his life story inspiring a Hollywood movie
Beryl Cook at 100
Reviewing Heated Rivalry, novel Jackson Alone, and the British Museum's Hawai'i exhibition
Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Wayne McGregor and Emmylou Harris
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