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Front Row: Archive 2013 — 259 episodes
Binge TV Special
Adil Ray, Helen Lederer, Jackie Clune and Mark Billingham compete in the Front Row Quiz
New American Classics
Front Row Special on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
People of the Year 2013, part 2
People of the Year 2013, part 1
Julie Andrews; All Is Lost; Michael Palin; protecting art during war
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, David Morrissey, Cities of Culture that weren't, Text on screen
Coriolanus, Olivia Colman, Alex Ferguson's ghost writer, comedy DVDs
Mark Gatiss, American Hustle reviewed, Albums of 2013
Andrew Lloyd Webber; Christmas TV; Anchorman 2
Martin Freeman; American Psycho; Crime books round-up
Victoria Wood, Neon Artwork, Sam Smith, Moonfleet
Alan Bennett, Terry Pratchett, The Duck House, The Great Train Robbery
Christmas singles; new Stieg Larsson story; Drawing the Line
Derren Brown; Eimear McBride; MJ Delaney
Lenny Henry on Nelson Mandela; Lesley Manville; Beauty and the Beast
Kill Your Darlings, John Newman, Emil and the Detectives, Autobiographies
Jude Law in Henry V; Atiq Rahimi; Politicians and music; 28 Up South Africa
Nebraska; One-woman shows; John Pilger
Hilary Mantel; Spike Lee's Oldboy; Liberty and Bergdorf's
Coronation Street set; Chapman brothers; Jeune et Jolie
Ian Rankin; TV's The Bible reviewed
William Hill Sports Book of the Year; Shobana Jeyasingh; Marius and Fanny
Russell Brand; Costa Book Awards; Carrie
Saving Mr Banks; Paula Milne; Janine Jansen
Morecambe and Wise, Kate Tempest, Poets' Corner, the return of Blofeld
Peter Blake; Gaslight; Sarah Ruhl; Leviathan
Anjelica Huston; City of Culture 2017; Strangers on a Train; Turner
Blue Is the Warmest Colour; Mojo revival; Sally Wainwright
Catching Fire review; Evening Standard Theatre Awards; Michael Ignatieff; Alison Wilding
Adam Price; Jason Manford; Collider exhibition
Donna Tartt; Forest Whitaker
Paul Smith; The Counsellor; Johnny Cash
John Tavener; Poirot's Last Case; Don Jon review
Bryan Adams; Lang Lang; Kennedy films
Gary Barlow; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch; Georgians at the British Library
Jeeves and Wooster; Stanley Spencer; Frank Gehry
Zadie Smith; Actors and audio books; nut; Lady Gaga
Neil Gaiman; Seduced and Abandoned; Literary mistranslations
JJ Abrams; Hermione Lee on Penelope Fitzgerald; Time in TV
Tinie Tempah; Carlos Acosta; Gloria
David Beckham; Graham Nash; Dracula
Joan Collins, Castiglione, Ian Rankin on Rory Gallagher, Drinking Buddies
Susan Stroman; Short Term 12; Ross Noble
Sandra Bullock; Leonard Bernstein; The most-performed plays
25/10/2013
Earth, Wind and Fire; From Here to Eternity, Chinese paintings; Sir Anthony Caro
Judi Dench, Julian Barnes on Daumier, Ambassadors, Ibsen's Ghosts
From Derry-Londonderry, UK City of Culture 2013
Susan Hill; Pop art design; GF Newman; Fake movie trails
Morrissey autobiography; Clio Barnard; Glee's Cory Monteith tribute
Prince Avalanche reviewed; Masterpiece in a primary school; Theatre director Michael Blakemore
Paul McCartney; El Dorado; Sebastian Junger on Tim Hetherington
Rufus Norris; David Jason; Jeremy Deller
The Light Princess; Paul Klee; Enough Said
Penelope Lively; Julian Fellowes' Romeo and Juliet; Paddy McAloon
Tom Hanks; Alice Munro; Dana Schutz
Jennifer Saunders; The Commitments on stage; Elizabethan portraits
BBC National Short Story Award; Mark Lewisohn on The Beatles; The Fifth Estate
John Eliot Gardiner, Le Week-End, Breathless
Anoushka Shankar; TV drama Truckers; Frank Auerbach
Saoirse Ronan; Thatcher meets the Queen; Erotic art from Japan
David Tennant and Gregory Doran; Bill Bryson; Sex on film and TV
Sunshine on Leith; Adil Ray; Malcolm Mackay; Art Under Attack
Austenland, Stephen Poliakoff, Hannah Kent, Elmgreen and Dragset
Atlantis; Michael Morpurgo; Hannah Arendt; BBC National Short Story Award
Johnny Vegas, William Boyd, BBC Short Story Award
Fourth Plinth art; Stephen King reviewed; Alfred and Adrian Brendel; BBC Short Story Award
Hugh Jackman; The Wrong Mans; BBC National Short Story Award 2013
BBC Short Story Award; Jack Vettriano retrospective; poet John Cooper Clarke
Woody Allen interview, with Sally Hawkins and Mike Leigh
David Walliams and Sheridan Smith; poet Dannie Abse at 90; Booker Prize changes
Sting; Australian art at the Royal Academy
Derek Jacobi; Naomi Watts on Diana; Orphan Black
Mark Rylance; prisons on television; actors on songs
Francis Bacon meets Henry Moore; Manic Street Preachers; Jason Byrne; In a World
Mercury Music Prize, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Dennis Kelly
Lee Evans, White House Down, Man Booker shortlist
Rush; Ian Hislop and Nick Newman; Thomas Pynchon's new novel
Cillian Murphy, Mira Nair, revenge songs, Million Second Quiz
Alan Cumming; Marlowe's Edward II; new feminist comedians
Actress Tamsin Greig; novelist Jonathan Coe; Martin Bailey on Van Gogh's Sunflowers
Stephen Fry; Liz Lochhead on The Great Tapestry of Scotland; The Great Beauty
About Time reviewed; UB40 interview; school documentaries
Seamus Heaney tribute
Simon Schama, Big Data art, Night of the Demon
Conductor Marin Alsop, Philip French, Jean Seberg, returning TV series
One Direction film; John Byrne; director Nic Roeg; the comedy 'straight man'
Harrogate Crime Writing Festival
We're the Millers; Terry Gilliam; Franz Ferdinand; Bob Dylan portraits
Fran Healey from Travis; Simon Bird and Jonny Sweet on Chickens; Identity theft in crime fiction
Vince Gilligan, What Maisie Knew, Nadifa Mohamed
Naughty Boy; Lovelace; Elmore Leonard
Tom Stoppard, Elysium review, Charlaine Harris
Cultural Exchange Finale
Edinburgh Special with Reginald D Hunter, David Peace, Julie Madly Deeply
Peter Doig exhibition; Chris Brookmyre; Riz Ahmed's Cultural Exchange
John Agard; David Walliams in Big School; CJ Sansom on Doctor Who
The Clash
Ruth Rendell, 2 Guns, Michael Grandage, working Britain docs
Roddy Doyle; Josie Rourke; Liola reviewed; Why modern Westerns don't work
The art and craft of translating fiction
The Lone Ranger; Conrad Shawcross; Gemma Chan; Edinburgh Fringe report
Foxfire, Cornelia Parker, Nick Payne
Louis de Bernieres, Doctor Who, Cerys Matthews, John Burningham
Andrey Kurkov, workplace TV, Australian circus, Jeffrey Archer
The Heat, Catherine O'Flynn, Milton Jones, Philip Pullman
Only God Forgives; Nicola Benedetti; Walter De Maria; Mass Observation
Tony Grisoni, Richard Rogers, Imperial War Museum
Birmingham's new library; Naturally 7; killer whale film Blackfish
Kevin McNally; new Fourth Plinth art; Terry Jones on Under Milk Wood
Steve Coogan, Ruth Rendell's Cultural Exchange, Peter Bazalgette
The Wolverine, Ian Dury's art, Man Booker longlist, James Blake
Burton and Taylor; Denise Mina; Noah Baumbach; Mark Ravenhill's Cultural Exchange
Wadjda, Philipp Meyer, Alison Balsom, Paul Franklin
Punchdrunk; Conran on Paolozzi; Laura Mvula; Riba Stirling Prize
Clive James on Dante, A Season in the Congo, Paula Milne's Cultural Exchange
Family Tree, Cush Jumbo, Easy Money, Conrad Shawcross
The World's End; The Color Purple musical; David Sedaris; Badults
Architect Richard Rogers, Gospel Prom, Ian Rankin
Sergei Polunin, David Baddiel, Rankin
Top of the Lake; Rachel Joyce; Pat Barker
Murray Gold on Doctor Who; Olivia Colman in Run; Maggi Hambling
Kenneth Branagh's Macbeth; The xx; Monsters University
Manchester International Festival
Michael Simkins on acting, A Field in England, Brian Sewell's Cultural Exchange
Elton John in conversation
Emma Watson in The Bling Ring, Anna Chancellor, Clarke Peters' Cultural Exchange
Now You See Me; Henning Mankell; African art at Tate Modern
Amy Winehouse; Alex Gibney on Wikileaks.
Mary, Queen of Scots; Mike Figgis; Marianne Jean-Baptiste on Miles Davis
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Lee Hall; Arts Funding
Vermeer exhibition; tennis on film; pianist Mitsuko Uchida
This Is the End; Jonathan Dee; Lowry; Brian Aldiss
Giorgio Moroder, site-specific art, Tim Firth, Cultural Exchange
David Edgar, Errol Flynn, Airport Live, Glenn Patterson
Lenny Henry, Joan Bakewell, Foghorn Requiem and the Kate Greenaway prize winner
Before Midnight, Conor McPherson, The Duckworth Lewis Method, Rachel Whiteread
Daniel Radcliffe; World War Z; Neil Gaiman's Cultural Exchange
I Am Nasrine; The White Queen; Paul Weller
Kim Cattrall on stage. Cornelia Parker. Brian Aldiss. Gwyneth Lewis
The Amen Corner; Much Ado About Nothing; Peter James; Stephen Hough
Man of Steel; AL Kennedy; Rolando Villazón
Judith Kerr; Admission; Mark Haddon
Marc Chagall, Laura Marling, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Colm Tóibín
Miranda Hart, Martin Amis, Kwame Kwei-Armah's Cultural Exchange
Anne-Marie Duff, Women's Prize for Fiction, RA Summer Exhibition, Sarah Hall
Museum of the Year 2013
Philip Glass; Michael Douglas plays Liberace; P D James on Philip Larkin
Sir Alfred Munnings
Jeremy Deller - the journey to the Venice Biennale
Akram Khan; the Iraq War documentaries; Antonia Fraser's Cultural Exchange
Byzantium; Lucy Kirkwood; Audrey Niffenegger; Nicholas Hytner's Cultural Exchange
Cathy Come Home and This Life producer Tony Garnett
Paul Morley on the north; lost instruments; Cannes report; Angela Gheorghiu's Cultural Exchange
Erwin Blumenfeld, Lydia Davis, Nigel Kennedy's Cultural Exchange
Khaled Hosseini; Michael Landy; DJs in film; Cultural Exchange with AS Byatt
Dan Brown; Wagner at 200; Eddie Braben remembered; Mary Beard's Cultural Exchange
The Big Wedding; James Salter; Enough Tudors Already; David Walliams
Richard Branson on Tubular Bells, Alison Balsom, Cannes
Rankin, Daft Punk, Brilliant Adventures, Terence Stamp's Cultural Exchange
Andrew Lloyd Webber; playing yourself in TV dramas; Will Self's Cultural Exchange
The Great Gatsby; Eurovision; Anne Tyler's Cultural Exchange
Cultural Exchange - Archbishop of Canterbury; Food on stage; The Fall on TV
Karl Hyde; Harold Pinter's The Hothouse; Kate Clanchy; Jodi Picoult
Angela Gheorghiu; The Reluctant Fundamentalist; Cultural Exchange - Peter Bazalgette
Mud reviewed; Howard Jacobson's Cultural Exchange; MD Villiers
Star Trek reviewed; Cultural Exchange with Germaine Greer; new show at Buckingham Palace
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Agnetha Fältskog; Hannibal reviewed; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Zoe Wanamaker; Cultural Exchange - Suggs; Arne Dahl
Geoffrey Rush; artist Ellen Gallagher; Cultural Exchange - Melvyn Bragg
I'm So Excited; Tony Garnett
Lucy Moore on Nijinsky, Bernardo Bertolucci's Cultural Exchange, Dead Man Down
The Eagles, Diana Athill's Cultural Exchange, pubs on stage
New Le Carré reviewed; The Politician's Husband; In the Fog
Nick Park on his Thrill-o-Matic; Othello; Cultural Exchange - Mohsin Hamid
Iron Man 3; Cultural Exchange with Tamara Rojo; Rene Burri
Cultural Exchange with Tracey Emin; end of TV's Broadchurch
The Job Lot and The Wright Way; Deep Purple
Matt Damon's Promised Land, Kacey Musgraves, BBC Proms 2013
Howard Brenton; William McIlvanney; Bernardo Bertolucci's latest film reviewed
Thriller writer David Baldacci; director Michael Winterbottom; Saloua Raouda Choucair
Olympus Has Fallen; Granta Best of Young British Novelists
Oliver Stone; First Position; The Sunken Garden opera
Royal Court's Dominic Cooke; Rachel Whiteread and Elisabeth Frink
Maya Angelou
Sebastião Salgado, Sarah Brightman, The Gatekeepers
Tamara Rojo; James Blake; The Place Beyond the Pines
Rijksmuseum reopens; Spring Breakers
Richard Bean; Olga Kurylenko; Arne Dahl
Julian Barnes
Museum of the Year shortlist, A Late Quartet, Greg Bellow
British cultural exports to China, from Mamma Mia! to architecture
Anne Tyler in conversation with Mark Lawson
Documentary-maker Penny Woolcock; singer Michael Bolton
Glenn Patterson, John Yorke on narrative, TV formats
John Logan; Suggs; In the House reviewed
Danny Boyle's Trance, Gillian Lynne, The NHS in a Day
The Book of Mormon; Lee Mack; London Zoo Tiger House
Nigel Kennedy; TV drama The Village; writer Esther Wilson
Alan Bennett interview
Kay Mellor on The Syndicate; Compliance; new takes on Scandinavian drama
Sir John Eliot Gardiner; Jack the Giant Slayer review
Our Queen documentary; John Ashbery; Beyond the Hills review
Conductor Gustavo Dudamel
Pompeii at the British Museum; maths in music; new literature prize
Edmund de Waal; The Paperboy; the art of George Bellows
Twilight creator Stephenie Meyer; Steve Carrell in Burt Wonderstone; Simon Starling's Phantom Ride
William Boyd's first play; Hilary Mantel; Seven Deadly Sins
David Bowie - the Return
Mark Strong: comedy duo Anna and Katy; Tash Aw
Side Effects; Lara Croft's comeback
Oz the Great and Powerful; Julia O'Faolain; Written on Skin
Yinka Shonibare; playing prime ministers on stage; film classification
Best-selling British solo artist Robbie Williams
Edith Pearlman; Trelawny of the Wells review; crime TV
Claire Foy, Dinos Chapman and The Bay
Sue Perkins, Brett Anderson, and Arbitrage reviewed
Damien Hirst; To the Wonder
Jacksons interview; Banksy auction
A Chorus Line: Song for Marion; new play about football pioneer Walter Tull
Nicole Kidman, Margaret Forster, Cloud Atlas
Paul Abbott; the art of Roy Lichtenstein; tribute to Richard Briers
Simon Beaufoy; Rokia Traore and Salif Keita; novelist John Green
Skyfall title sequence; Picasso show; Nairobi crime fiction
Duchamp, Mark Ravenhill goes running, and actor David Oyelowo
Mea Maxima Culpa, Ray Cooney, Marianne Elliott
Ben Affleck, Jonathan Miller and Barrie Rutter, This Is 40
Tracey Thorn; Gael García Bernal; Warm Bodies; Show tunes
David Morrissey, Jake Bugg, Glam! at Tate Liverpool
Comedian Harry Hill and Hollywood actor John C Reilly
Hopkins as Hitchcock, Ice Age, Antony Sher
Terry and Bill Jones, Chiwetel Ejiofor, I Give It a Year
Charles Dance, author John Green, French cinema's forgotten man
Lesley Garrett, British Sea Power and House of Cards
Rowan Atkinson on stage, Costa winner Hilary Mantel, and Samuel West
Light Show; the life of Benjamin Britten; Port reviewed
Kristin Scott Thomas and Lia Williams; Kurt Schwitters exhibition
Wilko Johnson; William Scott; The Turn of the Screw
Alexei Sayle on his return to stand-up; Vanessa-Mae; 500 word plays
Lincoln, Hilary Mantel, Lesley Joseph and Brian Conley
Denzel Washington, AS Byatt on Edouard Manet
Jessica Chastain; Michael Winner remembered
Ruthie Henshall; Call the Midwife; artists on the election trail
Poet Kathleen Jamie; John Bramwell from I Am Kloot; ENO's financial losses
Actor Brian Cox, video artist Tony Oursler, and Vikings in Scotland
The Sessions, Kennedy doc Ethel, Polly Stenham and Francesca Segal
Django Unchained, John Sessions, and Jonathan Lynn, writer of Yes, Prime Minister
My Mad Fat Diary; cellist Matthew Barley
Oscar Nominations 2013
Tom Odell, Moby Dick, Utopia reviewed
Les Miserables; Ben Miller; Mo Yan's new novel
Ryan Gosling and Sean Penn in Gangster Squad; author Sally Gardner
Haim, Mr Selfridge, The Imposter, theatre ticket pricing
Comedian Jack Whitehall, Michael Dobbs on Borgen, and writer Stuart Neville
Costa Book Awards category winners announced; look ahead to 2013
Andy Serkis and Neil Young on the impact of technology in the arts