Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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05/11/2026
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music.
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04/11/2026
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music.
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03/11/2026
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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02/11/2026
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music.
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29/10/2026
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music.
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28/10/2026
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music.
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27/10/2026
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music.
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26/10/2026
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music.
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22/10/2026
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music.
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Director Sofia Coppola on Making Marie Antoinette
Director Sofia Coppola on Making Marie Antoinette; novelist Hernan Diaz.
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Winne-the-Pooh at 100, and Renoir in Love review
Celebrating Winnie-the-Pooh, reviewing Renoir, Douglas Dunn tribute, and Luke Kennard.
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Taika Waititi on adapting Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Klara and the Sun for the big screen
Plus Tony award winning Broadway actor Jonathan Groff takes on Shakespeare.
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Review Show: Kristin Scott Thomas in Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard
Plus survival thriller Whalefall and Elif Shafak's novel about Gustave Flaubert.
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Comedian Leo Reich on his Channel 4 sitcom It Gets Worse
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music.
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Anne-Marie Duff, M John Harrison, Bayreuth 150th anniversary
Samira talks to Anne-Marie Duff and M John Harrison, the 150th anniversary of Bayreuth.
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Christine Baranski and Richard E Grant on Hay Fever
Also Douglas Stuart, London Film Festival and AI writing prize-winning books.
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Review Show: The Social Reckoning, The 90s at Tate Britain and reaction to Nobel Prize winner Anne Carson
Plus Barbara Kingsolver's new novel Partita.
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Does the discovery of a 'talkie' made in 1926 change cinema history?
News of a film made in 1926 which pioneered the use of new sound and audio technology.
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Johnny Marr on his new album
Monet's letters and Booker shortlisted author Rebecca Perry.
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SNL, Paul Greengrass, The Bayeux Tapestry and Sarah Hall
Saturday Night Live, film director Paul Greengrass, Booker-nominated novelist Sarah Hall
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Review Show: Tom Cruise in the film Digger
Sienna Miller and Dominic West in Sky legal drama War and The Standard of Living play.
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Actors David Harewood and Sir Simon Russell Beale
Simon Russell Beale on playing Liberace on stage and David Harewood on his new legal drama
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BBC National Short Story Award and Young Writers Award 2026
The winners of both prizes are announced live from BBC Broadcasting House.
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Es Devlin retrospective, Sebastian Faulks, Turner Prize, Apple Music Hall
Stage designer Es Devlin, novelist Sebastian Faulks, the Turner Prize and Apple Music Hall
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Front Row at the Contains Strong Language festival
A special edition of Front Row from the BBC's Contains Strong Language festival
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Review Show: Exit Party by Emily St John Mandel, South Korean alien invasion thriller Hope and an adaptation of 1984.
Our critics review three new dystopian thrillers - in novel form, on screen and on stage.
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Comedian Russell Kane on playing an older Romeo
John Coltrane's centenary and the Booker Prize shortlist 2026.
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Roger Taylor, drummer from the super band Queen, on his latest album
Plus the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, and ex-politicans under pressure in The Wargame.
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Review Show: Rose Tremain’s The Housekeeper, inspired by Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca
Plus film Queen at Sea starring Juliette Binoche and Thelma & Louise the musical.
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The Proclaimers on their new album, You May Offend
Novelist Kate Atkinson on her new novel, Our Noble Selves.