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Front Row: Archive 2014 — 259 episodes
People of the Year - Part Two
People of the Year 2014 - Part 1
The rise and rise of Event Cinema
The Art of Book Cover Design
Sir Alan Ayckbourn
John Kander on Cabaret, The Scottsboro Boys and Chicago
Unbroken, Young Fathers, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Miranda Richardson
Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones; Renee Fleming; Billie Whitelaw remembered
Miranda Hart, John Rutter, Seamus Heaney
Esio Trot, Robert Olen Butler, The Thompson Family, The Interview controversy
Christoph Waltz, Treasure Island, Mozart in the Jungle, Unread e-Books
Ridley Scott's Exodus, Serial, The Shoemaker's Holiday, Annie
Willy Russell switches on the Front Row neon artwork, Kon-Tiki review, Dementia-friendly theatre
Paul McCartney, The Merchant of Venice, Frames at the National Gallery
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Trevor Nunn on Cats; Churchill's paintings; Jeff Kinney; Dolls' houses
Marco Polo; Behind the scenes at Nutcracker; Manakamana; The Christmas Truce in art
Christopher Jefferies Drama, Golden Age of Panto, Burrell Collection, Ghostwriting
Sarah Waters; Racial Diversity in the Arts; Mike Scott of the Waterboys; Museums on Film
Jim Broadbent; Young Adult Fiction; Tena Stivicic; Comedy DVDs
Harrison Birtwistle; The Grandmaster; Christmas boxset recommendations; Wonder Woman's historical significance
Peter Jackson; Philip Pullman on William Blake; Memoirs of the Year
Sondheim's Assassins, Albums of the year, Jeremy Deller, Royal Photographic Society
St Vincent; Mark Thomas; Evening Standard Theatre Awards
Annie Lennox; James Franco; Philippe Sands; How to Win an Oscar
PD James Remembered; William Hill Sports Book of the Year; Maggi Hambling
Idris Elba; Howard Hodgkin; V&A's Italian Courts
Barry Manilow; Diana Souhami; War photography; Jewish comedy
Jude Law; David Guetta; Post Pop at the Saatchi Gallery
Peter Firmin on The Clangers; The forgotten Bronte; Winter Sleep
Dr John; David Hare pays tribute to Mike Nichols; Composer John Adams
Hugh Bonneville; Mary J Blige; Remember Me
Costa Book Awards shortlist announced; Meera Syal; The Hunger Games review; Peter Bazalgette
The Homesman reviewed; Dave Grohl
The Drop; Jan Garbarek; Quentin Blake; Assaf Gavron
Richard Ford; William Orbit; Kate Hewitt; Dylan Thomas's notebook
Aaron Sorkin; Leighton House; Goldsmiths Prize; Dreda Say Mitchell
Chadwick Boseman on James Brown; Allen Jones
Bryan Ferry; The Fall; Peder Balke; Revolutionary Theatre
Benedict Cumberbatch; Sumia Sukkar; The looting of Syrian Art; Pink Floyd Review
Made In Dagenham; Elif Shafak; Gold at Buckingham Palace
Ben Elton, Queen Coal, Transmitting Andy Warhol, Leviathan, Birds in Literature
Babylon; Wendy Cope; border crossing theatre; North Korean art
Interstellar, Nick Hornby, John Harle, Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes
Michael Bond on Paddington, Lloyd Newson, Edward Snowden documentary
Elijah Wood, Angela Hewitt, Crowd-funding your novel, The Overnighters
Keira Knightley; Nick Drake; A Real Birmingham Family; Mercury Prize hopefuls
Nightcrawler; Laura Mvula; Bastille
Daniel Radcliffe in Horns; Edwyn Collins
Timothy Spall, Picasso Museum, Maria João Pires, Memphis
Boris on Churchill; Serena reviewed
Michael Sheen, Egon Schiele, Daniel Kehlmann, classic hip-hop album Illmatic explored
John Kander; Jimmy Page; The Babadook reviewed; René Burri remembered
Brad Pitt; Moroni; Anthony Horowitz
Robert Downey Jr, David Cronenberg, The Knick Reviewed
Gillian Anderson; Michael Frayn; Jimi Hendrix Biopic; Buying Art in the Internet Age
Cat Stevens, Northern Soul, William Morris, Ken Burns
Rembrandt, Bob Geldof, Here Lies Love
The Great Fire; Rachel Joyce; Richard Tuttle Review; Ayub Khan Din
Iggy Pop; The Lion King; Marcel Duchamp
Sheila Hancock, Gerhard Richter, '71, Nobel Prize Winner, Tony Allen
Phyllida Lloyd, The Sensory War, Robert Wilson, Super Thursday
John Cleese, Ed Sheeran, Tracey Emin
Clive James, Effie Gray, Selfie, Niven Govinden
Genesis interview; Speed-the-Plow review; Fun Palaces; Victoria Hislop
Rosamund Pike, The Girl of the Golden West, Young Poet Laureate Aisling Fahey, Grantchester
Stephen Fry, Tony Benn documentary, Kei Miller, Gothic exhibition
BBC National Short Story Award 2014
Kristin Scott Thomas; Mackenzie Crook; Turner Prize shortlist; Dannie Abse tribute
Ai Weiwei at Blenheim Palace, Eimear McBride, Roy Williams, New Prince Albums
What We Did on Our Holiday reviewed; Bernard Sumner; Lionel Shriver; Activism on Stage
Zadie Smith, Ryan Adams, Exhibit B, The Art of the Brick
Ricky Tomlinson; The Driver; Francesca Rhydderch; Anselm Kiefer
Toby Jones; Maps to the Stars review; Rose Tremain; John Lahr on Tennessee Williams
Zach Braff, Tessa Hadley, Charles Aznavour
Denzel Washington; Howard Brenton; Leonard Cohen; Riccardo Chailly
Joan Baez, BBC National Short Story award shortlist, Hamlet
Magic in the Moonlight; Constable at the V&A; Ballyturk
The Riot Club; Ming at the British Museum; percussionist Colin Currie
Kate Mosse; Stellan Skarsgård; Glue reviewed; Sir Donald Sinden
Cilla; Will and Kate on stage; Tudor portraits; Ted Hughes' animal poems
Rufus Wainwright, The Leftovers, Anthony Caro, Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra
Man Booker Prize Shortlist; James Ellroy; Joyce DiDonato; the Wallace Collection
A Most Wanted Man, Eliasson and Turner at Tate, Breeders
Pride; Horst; Tyrant; Rachel Cusk
Will Self; Little Revolution; Tony Bennett
Dan Stevens; Pat Barker; Matthew Thomas
Helen Mirren; Lang Lang; David Mitchell
Smokey Robinson; Lenny Henry; Before I Go to Sleep; Secrets
Alan Ayckbourn, Omid Djalili, Venice Film Festival
Margaret Atwood, Paco Peña, Obvious Child, Folkestone Triennial
Jesse Eisenberg, Kate Bush, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Our Zoo
Johnny Marr; Frank Auerbach at Tate; Alex Gibney on Fela Kuti
Richard Bean
Jon Hamm, Crimes of Passion, Ed Stoppard
Two Days, One Night; Timothy West on being Barbirolli; Alan Warner; Ilan Volkov
Sin City 2, Tom Conti on Abraham Lincoln, Erasure
Lisa Dwan; Lucy; Mark Ravenhill on Alan Turing; Richard Osman on TV quiz formats
Howard Jacobson; Helen Lederer; Bob and Roberta Smith
New Doctor Who Reviewed; Simon Pegg
Edinburgh Special
Phill Jupitus, Sara Pascoe, Jonathan Glazer on Lauren Bacall, Chef
George RR Martin; Alison Jackson; The Congress
Dylan Moran and Igor Meerson; Jung Chang; Todd Miller; Referendum theatre
Ben Whishaw; Margaret Kennedy
Guy Pearce; Joseph O'Neill; Edinburgh Comedy
Sir Neville Marriner; The Inbetweeners 2; My Night With Reg
Christina Hendricks; Sinead O'Connor; Spectra
Welcome to New York; DBC Pierre, The Tallis Scholars
Loudon Wainwright III, Guardians of the Galaxy, Japanese fiction
Jonny Greenwood, Deon Meyer, Streaming books, Summer films
Adrian Dunbar, Tasmin Little, Mood Indigo, Katie Paterson
A Streetcar Named Desire Review; Daniel Hope and Gabriel Prokofiev; Crime Writing; Summer Pop
Gareth Malone and Adrian Sutton, Neil Bartlett, In the Club
Julian Lloyd Webber; Andrew Graham-Dixon; The Galapagos Affair
Porgy and Bess; Liverpool giant puppets; Gerald Seymour
Man Booker Prize, Lee Hall's Shakespeare in Love, Dom Flemons and Martin Simpson
Judith Weir; Eamonn Holmes reviews Believe
Joe; David Eldridge; Clavichord; Disobedient Objects
Rebecca Hall, Medea at the National Theatre, Long Yu, Commonwealth Games Festival
Gilbert and George, Jonathan Harvey, Chichester Festival Theatre
WWI Galleries at the Imperial War Museum, Linda Grant, John Fay, Grand Central
Nigel Havers; Malevich at Tate Modern; Michael Rosen; Caine Prize for African Writing
Nadine Gordimer remembered, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Utopia
Graham Swift; How To Train Your Dragon; Glasgow Girls
Peter Greenaway; Longitude; Robert Crawford
Morrissey's new album reviewed; Gina McKee; Portraits of Virginia Woolf
Halle Berry in Extant; International Museums; A Hard Day's Night
Andrew Lloyd Webber; Boyhood reviewed; A Man Called Ove
Maxine Peake, David Nobbs, Graham Watson, Fields of Vision
Caitlin Moran, Maureen Lipman and Harry Shearer, Chelsea Handler
Mark Ruffalo, Monty Python Reunion, Yael Farber, one-handed pianist Nicholas McCarthy
Pet Shop Boys, Ian Hislop on Great Britain, Romesh Gunesekera, ENO cuts
Jimmy McGovern, Tony Hatch, South American art
Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie; Arcade Fire; Richard Wilson
Metallica, Scottish Art, Dr Zhivago, Beggar's Opera
Lesley Manville and Richard Eyre, James Patterson, Nicholas Hytner, Ming
Seve reviewed; Dennis Hopper's photographs; composer David Arnold
Manic Street Preachers; Chef reviewed; Carnegie winner Kevin Brooks
The Fault in Our Stars; Peter Brook; Bret Anthony Johnston
19/06/2014
Toni Morrison special
Carey Mulligan; Colour at the National Gallery; the artistic legacy of the miners' strike 30 years on
Placido Domingo, JK Rowling's new novel, Jersey Boys, Ten Pieces
Roger Graef, Belle reviewed; The art of Dazzle Ships
Helena Bonham-Carter; The Human Factor
Dolly Parton; Fathers and Sons; Wolfgang Tillmans
Antonio Pappano; playwright Anne Washburn; Banksy retrospective
Rik Mayall; Folk Art; TV soaps; Prince Buthelezi on Zulu; John Tusa
Marina Abramovic; Hotel; Emma Healey; Crowd Out
Robert Lindsay; Orange is the New Black; Toumani and Sidiki Diabate; Rake's Progress at the Foundling Museum
Cornelia Parker at the RA Summer Exhibition; News of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction; Daria Klimentova
22 Jump Street; Bernard Haitink; Roisin Murphy; The Roof
Terry Gilliam and Edward Gardner, Joshua Ferris, Clean Bandit
Front Row at the Hay Festival
Jimmy's Hall; Leonard Cohen biography
Maya Angelou remembered; Simon Russell Beale; Maleficent reviewed; the art of MF Husain
Venus in Fur; Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti; The Normal Heart; Michael Cunningham
Margaret Atwood on her first opera, Neel Mukherjee and Quirke
Chrissie Hynde; Mondrian season; Miss Saigon
Kathleen Turner and Ian McDiarmid; new Bill Viola installation at St Paul's Cathedral; St Vincent
Fading Gigolo, Fatboy Slim, Julian Opie, Cannes festival
Edmund de Waal; Winner of Young Musician; Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
Dawn French, Coldplay album reviewed, Ben Miles on Thomas Cromwell
Gary Kemp; Mr Turner; Kenneth Clark's legacy
Louise Welsh on Penny Dreadful, Oscar Isaac, Nick Payne, and Will Gregory Moog Ensemble
Godzilla reviewed; Ailyn Perez and Stephen Costello in La Traviata
James McAvoy; Gillian Clarke on Dylan Thomas; Natalie Merchant
Hofesh Shechter at the Brighton Festival; Michael Jackson's Xscape; South African theatre; Advanced Style
Yinka Shonibare, Water Babies, Akhil Sharma, women film directors
Antony Gormley & Simon Starling; Alice Hoffman; David Henry Hwang
Irvine Welsh; The Wind Rises review; Rachel De-lahay
Michael Nyman at 70
Fiona Shaw, Edward St Aubyn, Under Milk Wood
Jon Ronson; Julian Anderson; 24; Comics Unmasked
The Black Keys; Neil Jordan on Bob Hoskins; Joel Dicker
Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott; Bad Neighbours; sculptor Phillip King; and Sally Wainwright
David Haig; Ziggy Marley; Prey
Hinterland; Alain de Botton; Tracks; Bryony Lavery
Damon Albarn, Art Fund Prize shortlist, Sophie Hannah, Proms line-up
Artist Richard Wilson; playwright Mike Bartlett; Generation War; Exhibition
Transcendence Review; James Graham and Josie Rourke on Privacy; Michael Nyman at 70
Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil on Miss Saigon and Les Miserables
The Biblical Epic
17/04/2014
The Sea; Keith Huff; Patience Agbabi; Banksy art
Milos Karadaglic, Jamaica Inn; Rachel Kushner
Matisse; Locke; Val McDermid
Mark Strong and Ivo van Hove; Harlan Coben; Bernadette Peters; Lunchbox
Emma Thompson and Celia Imrie, Chris Wheeldon, Birdland, Sam West
Chiwetel Ejiofor; Ben Watt; South Korean literature; Advice for the new culture secretary
Jean Paul Gaultier; Christy Moore; The Raid 2
Brendan Gleeson; Let the Right One In; Baileys Prize shortlist; Georgians at Buckingham Palace
Rory Bremner, Jacqueline Wilson, Anish Kapoor
Richard Ayoade; The Crimson Field; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Kate Winslet; The Trip to Italy; Timur Vermes; Lord of the Flies
Chris Chibnall, Viktoria Mullova; Honour; Pangaea
Noah; Rachel Seiffert; Royal Opera House season launch; Phyllida Barlow
Ricky Wilson; Muppets Most Wanted; Sebastian Barry; Cush Jumbo
Jane Horrocks, 20 Feet From Stardom, US war vets, Tim Barrow
Anne Hathaway, David Threlfall, Believe, Lorna Simpson
Ian McKellen, Nan Goldin, The Past, New Worlds
Tom Hollander, Emma Donoghue, Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Kristin Davis; Errol Morris; Mammon; Kate Bush
Kings of the Dance; John Banville; Yves Saint Laurent biopic
Kylie Minogue; V&A: William Kent; Jack O'Connell on Starred Up
Veronese at the National Gallery; John Morton on W1A; Labor Day reviewed
Harry Hill on I Can't Sing; George Michael's Symphonica album; A Long Way Down
David Hare, Sixto Rodriguez, Stage Kiss, Hamlet in N Korea
Terry Gilliam; Siri Hustvedt; Michael Craig-Martin at Chatworth House
Veronica Mars; Kickstarter; Vivienne Franzmann; Andres Neuman; Fake bands
Under the Skin; Publicising books; Shetland; Karen Joy Fowler
Folio Prize winner, Cézanne at the Ashmolean, Jeff Beck
Alexander McCall Smith; The Walshes review; Stella Feehily
Elizabeth McGovern; Jamie Lloyd; Poets Laureate
Guy Garvey; Sir David Frost's memorial; 300 - Rise of an Empire
Vikings at British Museum; John Carter Cash; 37 Days
The Grand Budapest Hotel, Marie Darrieussecq; Alan Ayckbourn
Damon Albarn on going solo; Maxine Peake; Jonathan Yeo; Suranne Jones; Kiran Leonard
Marc Almond and John Harle; Willy Russell on Liverpool's Everyman Theatre; Gary Shteyngart
Peter Gabriel; Paco Peña; Helen Oyeyemi; Great War in art; Mark Thomas
Stewart Lee, Jonathan Creek, Versailles
The Book Thief; Joseph Rykwert; Isy Suttie; Monologues for black actors
Emily Mortimer and Dolly Wells; Stalingrad; David Grossman
Nymphomaniac; Joanne M Harris; Robert Cohan
Andrew Sachs; Martin Carthy; Awards speeches
Lynda La Plante; Jon Hopkins; The Smoke
Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker; Lesley Sharp; Only Lovers Left Alive
Kevin Spacey, The Lego Movie, Glenn Patterson, film Q&As
Richard Rogers and Norman Foster; Simon Parkes on Brixton Academy; artist George Condo
Line of Duty; Tom Rob Smith; Oh, What a Lovely War!
Richard Hamilton; The Monuments Men; Enrique Iglesias; Tennessee Williams's hotel plays
Armistead Maupin; Folio Prize shortlist; Her; Raphael Wallfisch
Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey; Barkhad Abdi; Salamander
Babylon; The Mistress Contract
David Bailey; Hanif Kureishi; Isabella Rossellini
Reece Shearsmith; David Hockney prints; Blockbusters
Angela Lansbury, Richard Deacon, Philip Seymour Hoffman
The Bridge stars, Jonathan Lethem, RS Thomas
Ralph Fiennes, EL Doctorow, The Last Leg
Matthew McConaughey; Mary Chapin Carpenter; Nathan Filer
Juliet Stevenson; The Armstrong Lie
Annie Proulx; Martin Creed; Miranda Carter; Lone Survivor reviewed
Sunflowers; Chris Riddell
Sir Kenneth Branagh; Michael Symmons Roberts; Sensing Spaces
Simon Russell Beale; Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Josie Rourke, Nathan Filer, Julie Hesmondhalgh
Kate Atkinson; Outnumbered; August Osage County
Joyce Carol Oates; Special effects on screen; The Musketeers
Oscars special
Julian and Jiaxin Lloyd Webber; The Globe's Dominic Dromgoole; photographic culture
Christos Tsiolkas, Tim's Vermeer, Maxim Vengerov, new US TV cop dramas
The Coen Brothers; The Wolf of Wall Street; TS Eliot Prize winner; John Donnelly
Colin Firth; Hostages
Istanbul Special: Orhan Pamuk; Magnificent Century; Baba Zula
Bletchley Circle creator Guy Burt; author Donal Ryan; the rise of Nollywood
Delivery Man; Graeme Simsion; comedy in Indonesia
Costa Book Awards; 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen; Mexico's cultural leaders
Naomie Harris; Nigella Lawson in The Taste; Mahan Esfahani; 2014 in books and art
Last Vegas; Jarvis Cocker and Martin Wallace; Tom Price