Front Row
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
Front Row - 01/01/2008
Arts news and reviews. Kirsty Lang meets Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, whose films include Sense and Sensibility, Brokeback Mountain and the forthcoming Lust, Caution.
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Front Row - 01/01/2010
Kirsty Lang reports on a new generation of British playwrights, with guests including Lucy Prebble, Polly Stenham, Chloe Moss, Lucy Kirkwood, Ella Hickson and Alia Bano.
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Front Row - 01/02/2008
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including news of the long list for the Art Fund Prize for Museums and Galleries.
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Front Row - 01/02/2010
With Mark Lawson. Martin Amis discusses The Pregnant Widow, his first novel for six years.
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Front Row - 01/03/2007
With John Wilson, including an interview with director David Lynch, whose films include Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart. An exhibition of his visual art is about to open in Paris.
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Front Row - 01/03/2010
Mark Lawson reports on Hollywood's current appetite for apocalyptic visions. Plus an interview with novelist Joanna Trollope.
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Front Row - 01/04/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with writer Kate Summerscale, whose new book examines a true Victorian murder case.
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Front Row - 01/04/2009
Presented by John Wilson. Includes PJ Harvey and John Parish on their new album; the V&A Baroque show reviewed and a discussion on cable channel HBO's future.
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Front Row - 01/04/2010
Kirsty Lang talks to Joanne Harris and Sanjeev Bhaskar; Sarah Dunant reviews Tilda Swinton's new film.
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Front Row - 01/05/2007
Mark Lawson talks to writer Lionel Shriver, winner of the Orange Prize in 2005 for her novel We Need to Talk about Kevin.
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Front Row - 01/05/2008
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Matt Thorne reviews the TV drama series The Invisibles and Kirsty talks to director and playwright Neil LaBute.
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Front Row - 01/05/2009
With Mark Lawson. Jim Broadbent discusses his acting career, Andrew Logan talks about Alternative Miss World, and should you clap between movements of a symphony?
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Front Row - 01/06/2007
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report from the long-delayed press night of the RSC's new King Lear, with Ian McKellen in the title role.
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Front Row - 01/06/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. With the verdict on the fourth Terminator film, starring Christian Bale, and talking to Anne Michaels, author of Fugitive Pieces.
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Front Row - 01/07/2008
With Mark Lawson. Critic Bidisha gives her verdict Tom McCarthy's new film The Visitor.
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Front Row - 01/07/2009
John Wilson reports on Gay Icons, a National Portrait Gallery exhibition, with images selected by guest curators including Elton John, Ian McKellen and Billie Jean King.
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Front Row - 01/08/2008
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Boyd Hilton discusses why some Brits fronting US shows succeed while others fail.
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Front Row - 01/09/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Terry Pratchett talks about his new book Nation.
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Front Row - 01/09/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with Booker Prize-winning writer Margaret Atwood.
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Front Row - 01/10/2007
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including the verdict on Sally Potter's staging of Carmen for English National Opera.
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Front Row - 01/10/2008
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Craig Cash and Phil Mealey talk about their new sitcom, Sunshine, in which they play friends of the lead character, a gambling addict played by Steve Coogan.
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Front Row - 01/10/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with the leading bass-baritone Bryn Terfel.
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Front Row - 01/12/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Writer and comedian Alexei Sayle talks about his new novel Mister Roberts, a coming-of-age story set in a small village in Spain, where Sayle now lives.
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Front Row - 01/12/2009
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Featuring Florence and the Machine, and artists responding to climate change at the Royal Academy.
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Front Row - 02/01/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including interview with Vangelis.
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Front Row - 02/01/2009
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. In the wake of American screenwriters' strike, Kirsty reports on whether the film and TV industry now treats writers differently.
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Front Row - 02/02/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. American actress Glenn Close discusses her career with Mark and reflects on the appeal of playing fearsome women.
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Front Row - 02/02/2010
With Mark Lawson. Colin Firth on A Single Man, and Oscar hopefuls respond as the Academy reveals its nominations.
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Front Row - 02/03/2007
With Kirsty Lang, including a look at the Wellcome Collection building, opening in summer in London, and offering 1500 exhibits on the history of medicine and human identity.
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Front Row - 02/03/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Giles Waterfield discusses a new exhibition of Constable's lesser-known work.
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Front Row - 02/03/2010
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Lord Snowdon at 80; actor David Morrissey; a new posthumous studio album by Jimi Hendrix.
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Front Row - 02/04/2007
With Mark Lawson, including an interview with dramatist Joe Penhall, whose new play Landscape with Weapon focuses on the ethics of inventing new military technology.
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Front Row - 02/04/2009
With John Wilson. James Nesbitt and writer Guy Hibbert discuss their new TV drama, Natasha Khan talks about her new album and Bidisha reviews Polly Stenham's new play Tusk Tusk.
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Front Row - 02/04/2010
Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson talks to Brian Eno, guest artistic director of the 2010 Brighton Festival.
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Front Row - 02/06/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with actor Rupert Everett, whose latest project is a TV documentary about Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton.
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Front Row - 02/06/2009
Arts news and reviews. Simon Russell Beale talks to Mark Lawson about leading the British and American cast of two new plays, both directed by Sam Mendes.
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Front Row - 02/07/2008
With Mark Lawson. Author AS Byatt discusses the art and writings of Wyndham Lewis.
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Front Row - 02/07/2009
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. With Jo Brand, Vicki Pepperdine and Joanna Scanlan on devising their new TV comedy drama about nursing the elderly, Getting On.
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Front Row - 02/07/2010
An appreciation of the life and work of Beryl Bainbridge, a review of the BBC2 drama Dive, and a report on the latest play by Dean Stalham, who began writing in prison.
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Front Row - 02/08/2010
Mark Lawson reports from the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival, with guests including Karin Slaughter, Jeffery Deaver, Jeff Lindsay and Stuart MacBride.
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Front Row - 02/09/2008
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Guy Ritchie talks about his new film RocknRolla.
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Front Row - 02/09/2009
Mark Lawson talks to Joanna Lumley about her documentary on the history of the cat, Antonia Quirke reviews the new film District 9, and Julia McKenzie on becoming Miss Marple.
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Front Row - 02/10/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a report from Liverpool on a major exhibition dedicated to the work of the pioneering architect Le Corbusier.
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Front Row - 02/10/2009
Arts news and reviews. John Wilson talks to artist Damien Hirst as he paints at his easel, cooks in his kitchen, and visits the Wallace Collection in London.
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Front Row - 02/11/2009
The American writer James Ellroy discusses his new novel Blood's a Rover, a fusion of fact and fiction, set in the political turbulence of America in the late 1960s.
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Front Row - 02/12/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Sue Townsend, the creator of Adrian Mole, talks about the seventh collection of diaries by her most famous comic creation.
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Front Row - 02/12/2009
Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy on her collaboration with cartoonist Posy Simmonds, and former X Factor finalist Rhydian Roberts on working with Simon Cowell.
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Front Row - 03/01/2008
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Who talks to Heat Magazine TV Editor Boyd Hilton about ITV's Moving Wallpaper.
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Front Row - 03/02/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Singer-songwriter James Taylor talks to Mark about his latest album, Covers, and his recent performances in support of President Obama.
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Front Row - 03/02/2010
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela in new film Invictus, Corinne Bailey Rae and artist Gillian Ayres.
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Front Row - 03/03/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including the verdict on the superhero film Watchmen, based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.
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Front Row - 03/03/2010
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including the verdict on film Chloe and an interview with Jerry Dammers, co-founder of The Specials.
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Front Row - 03/04/2008
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, who examines how seances inspired Victorian and Edwardian writers.
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Front Row - 03/04/2009
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including an interview with writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, best known for her novel Half of a Yellow Sun. Also Billy Bragg on royalties.
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Front Row - 03/05/2007
Arts magazine with Kirsty Lang, who reports on the film Bridge to Terabithia, based on the book by Katherine Paterson.
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Front Row - 03/06/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with writer Michael Bond, who at the age of 82 is about to publish a new Paddington Bear book.
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Front Row - 03/06/2009
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including an interview with the Barcelona-born writer Carlos Ruiz Zafon, who won international fame with his novel The Shadow of the Wind.
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Front Row - 03/07/2007
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including an interview with John Squire, guitarist with The Stone Roses, who is about to exhibit a selection of his paintings.
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Front Row - 03/07/2008
With John Wilson, who reports from Liverpool on a new musical based on the city's Adelphi hotel.
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Front Row - 03/07/2009
Mark Lawson reports from the Manchester International Festival. Featuring a collaboration between theatre group Punchdrunk, documentary maker Adam Curtis and musician Damon Albarn.
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Front Row - 03/08/2009
Tim Lott on The Scent of Dried Roses becoming a Penguin Modern Classic; review of French gangster film Mesrine; and the BBC drama Spanish Flu.
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Front Row - 03/09/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Drummer Roger Taylor talks to about Queen's new line-up with singer Paul Rodgers and their latest album The Cosmos Rocks.
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Front Row - 03/10/2008
With Kirsty Lang. Joan Baez talks about her childhood experiences of Baghdad, years of chronic stage fright, and dealing with her voice as it changes with age.
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Front Row - 03/11/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with Ken Russell, as he prepares to direct a play in New York for the first time.
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Front Row - 03/11/2009
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Penny Woolcock on her controversial film, 1 Day, about Birmingham drug gangs, and musical prodigy Alexander Prior on life in Russia.
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Front Row - 03/12/2007
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who also reports on the playwrights who are currently reinventing the traditional pantomime.
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Front Row - 03/12/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who meets the Olivier Award-winning singer Maria Friedman.
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Front Row - 03/12/2009
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Including reviews of Tamzin Outhwaite in Sweet Charity and John Malkovich in Disgrace.
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Front Row - 04/01/2008
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Joined by Critic Bidisha to discuss new drama Mistresses
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Front Row - 04/01/2010
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. The Costa Book Awards; the latest Meryl Streep rom-com; author Walter Mosley.
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Front Row - 04/02/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a review of the film There Will Be Blood, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and nominated for eight Oscars.
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Front Row - 04/02/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with Tom Perrotta, who discusses his novel The Abstinence Teacher.
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Front Row - 04/02/2010
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Oscar nominee Colin Firth on A Single Man; Giacometti's Walking Man sculpture; crime writer David Hewson.
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Front Row - 04/03/2009
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Danny Robins explores a new trend in cinema-going: the secret film night.
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Front Row - 04/03/2010
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Kim Cattrall in Noel Coward's Private Lives; Abba's Benny and Bjorn on a one-night-only UK concert performance of their musical Kristina.
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Front Row - 04/04/2007
With Kirsty Lang, including news of the shortlist of contenders for the Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year.
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Front Row - 04/05/2007
Kirsty Lang with arts news, interviews and a report from this year's Brighton Festival.
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Front Row - 04/05/2009
Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson reports on the films, books, plays and TV programmes which, intentionally or by chance, achieve great topical resonance.
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Front Row - 04/06/2007
Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson talks to crime writer Peter James, whose new book features a murder suspect who seems to have been in two places at once.
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Front Row - 04/06/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Jenny McCartney gives her verdict on Ben Affleck's directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone.
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Front Row - 04/06/2009
Arts news and reviews. Peter Kemp gives his verdict on Jude Law as Hamlet and Eric Cantona talks to Mark Lawson about making the transfer from pitch to movie screen.
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Front Row - 04/07/2007
Arts news and reviews, with Mark Lawson reporting from the Manchester International Festival and talking to Johnny Vegas, star of a new play about a man trying to sell his house.
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Front Row - 04/07/2008
With John Wilson, including a report on the leading architects who have designed architectural jellies.
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Front Row - 04/08/2008
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including a report on a new exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum which charts the links between modern fashion and sportswear.
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Front Row - 04/08/2009
With John Wilson. Including Kwame Kwei Armah on his documentary, On Tour with the Queen. Plus Natalie Haynes reviews the film Adam.
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Front Row - 04/09/2008
In a special edition of the programme, Mark Lawson talks to director and actor Richard Attenborough about a life in the film industry.
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Front Row - 04/09/2009
Arts news, interviews and reviews with Kirsty Lang, who is joined by Bidisha to review Fish Tank, the new film by Andrea Arnold.
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Front Row - 04/10/2007
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Including an interview with Robert Harris, whose new novel is the tale of a ghost-writer taking on the memoirs of a former prime minister.
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Front Row - 04/11/2008
With Mark Lawson. Comedian Chris Addison talks about the difficult question of taste in comedy, writing versus performing, and his worst gig ever.
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Front Row - 04/11/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Bob Hoskins on taking on Dickens, and Sir Keith Park finally gets his plinth.
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Front Row - 04/11/2010
With Mark Lawson, including an interview with South African playwright Athol Fugard and a report on a new wave of innovative music videos.
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Front Row - 04/12/2008
With Kirsty Lang. British actress Sophie Okonedo talks about her role in The Secret Life of Bees, a coming-of-age story set in South Carolina against the turbulence of the civil rights movement.
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Front Row - 04/12/2009
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Green Wing's Julian Rhind-Tutt, and a review of TV drama Small Island.
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Front Row - 05/01/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including the announcement of the category winners in the Costa Book Awards.
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Front Row - 05/01/2010
With Mark Lawson, including a review of the film The Road, based on Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel, and starring Viggo Mortensen.
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Front Row - 05/02/2007
With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost about their comedy-horror police film Hot Fuzz.
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Front Row - 05/02/2008
Arts news with Mark Lawson, including a review of the Oscar-nominated film Juno.
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Front Row - 05/02/2009
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Including a review of Vicky Cristina Barcelona, the new film written and directed by Woody Allen.
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Front Row - 05/02/2010
Dominic West, Katie Jarvis and co-creator of The Wire Ed Burns feature in a special edition of Front Row exploring the trend for casting non-professional actors for the screen.
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Front Row - 05/03/2007
Kirsty Lang with arts news, interviews and the verdict on Steven Soderbergh's film The Good German, set in postwar Berlin and shot in the style of a 1940s movie.
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Front Row - 05/03/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Writer and journalist Dreda Say Mitchell asks if Tina Turner is still 'simply the best'.
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Front Row - 05/03/2010
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Oscars preview, short film nominee Juanita Wilson on filming in Chernobyl, and artist Jenny Holzer at Baltic Mill, Gateshead.
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Front Row - 05/04/2007
With Mark Lawson, including a report on a rare revival of Delius' opera Koanga, inspired by the music the composer heard in the American South when he lived there.
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Front Row - 05/04/2010
Arts news and reviews. John Wilson visits historic houses, including Chatsworth in Derbyshire and Dumfries House, Ayrshire, to see how they meet the challenges of the 21st century.
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Front Row - 05/05/2008
Kirsty Lang talks to top violinists, including Maxim Vengerov and Tasmin Little, about their early experiences of music and their desire to take the violin beyond the concert hall.
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Front Row - 05/05/2009
Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart discuss their roles in a new production of Waiting for Godot. Lord Puttnam reveals the shortlist for the Art Fund Prize for best museum or gallery.
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Front Row - 05/06/2007
Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson meets the Whitbread Award winning novelist Matthew Kneale.
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Front Row - 05/06/2008
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. John takes a tour of Dumfries House, the 250-year-old Ayrshire mansion that contains a unique set of Chippendale furniture
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Front Row - 05/06/2009
Rory Bremner discusses satire and politics today; Melvin Burgess talks about his latest controversial novel and looking at a Venezuelan music scheme transplanted to the UK.
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Front Row - 05/08/2008
Arts news and reviews. In a special programme, John Wilson talks to Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland about The Police reunion tour.
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Front Row - 05/08/2009
Arts news and reviews. A special programme from the Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, with John Banville, Reginald Hill, Val McDermid, Peter James and Laura Lippman.
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Front Row - 05/08/2010
Kirsty Lang reports on Earthquakes in London at the National Theatre, directed by Rupert Goold and performed by Headlong Theatre, creators of the smash hit play Enron.
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Front Row - 05/09/2007
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with crime writer Ian Rankin about his latest Inspector Rebus novel.
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Front Row - 05/09/2008
Arts news and reviews. Kirsty Lang talks to Egyptian novelist Alaa al Aswany, whose The Yacoubian Building was a literary sensation in the Middle East.
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Front Row - 05/10/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report on the new exhibition of work by the four artists competing to win the 2009 Turner Prize.
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Front Row - 05/11/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Scottish-born singer Lulu celebrates her 60th birthday, she reflects on 45 years in showbiz.
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Front Row - 05/11/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Ben Elton on his book Meltdown, Tom Paulin and John Eliot Gardner on the letters of TS Eliot and the journals of Benjamin Britten.
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Front Row - 05/12/2008
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Comedian Jack Dee talks about the inspiration behind the deadpan sitcom Lead Balloon.
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Front Row - 06/01/2009
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Danny Robins offers some tips for a cultural detox.
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Front Row - 06/01/2010
Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson interviews 'Nasty' Nigel Lythgoe and the American author Joyce Carol Oates.
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Front Row - 06/02/2009
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Film director Terry Gilliam explains how his name has become synonymous with disastrous film shoots and what he thinks of the film industry today.
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Front Row - 06/03/2009
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Stand-up comedian Stewart Lee discusses his return to television with Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle.
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Front Row - 06/04/2007
Mark Lawson investigates recent doubts cast over the authenticity of recordings released under the name of pianist Joyce Hatto and explores the consequences for the music industry.
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Front Row - 06/04/2009
With Kirsty Lang, including Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, William Boyd reviews Truffaut's The 400 Blows, Grayson Perry's latest audio diary and novelist Jed Mercurio on JFK.
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Front Row - 06/04/2010
Cream bassist and vocalist Jack Bruce looks back on a diverse career, and the verdict on Drew Barrymore's directorial debut Whip It.
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Front Row - 06/05/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report on the latest version of Star Trek to arrive in British cinemas. Critic Matt Thorne assesses its impact.
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Front Row - 06/06/2007
Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson talks to Alex James, who has written a memoir about his years as bass player with Blur.
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Front Row - 06/06/2008
Kirsty Lang with arts news, reviews. Including a drama focusing on the young Margaret Thatcher, Siri Hustvedt on her new novel and a collection of self-playing musical instruments.
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Front Row - 06/07/2009
With Mark Lawson. Including a report on the first volunteers to appear on the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, as part of Antony Gormley's work One & Other.
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Front Row - 06/08/2008
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including a report from the first night of the RSC's new production of Hamlet, with David Tennant in the title role.
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Front Row - 06/08/2009
Kirsty Lang talks to tenor Jose Carreras. He describes his childhood love of singing, life in Franco's Spain, The Three Tenors, recovering from leukaemia and his future plans.
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Front Row - 06/09/2007
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including news of the shortlist for this year's Man Booker Prize for fiction.
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Front Row - 06/10/2008
With Mark Lawson. Including an interview with Frank Skinner, who has written an account of his life on the road as a stand-up comedian.
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Front Row - 06/10/2009
Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson discusses the latest crop of major literary and political biographies with critic Peter Kemp, historian Tristram Hunt and biographer Hermione Lee.
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Front Row - 06/11/2008
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Including an interview with the Australian writer and director Stephan Elliot, best known for his film Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
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Front Row - 06/11/2009
Author Paul Auster discusses his latest book and how he creates music in his prose, Rachel Cooke reviews Cold Souls, and the story behind cartoon soundtrack creator Raymond Scott.
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Front Row - 07/01/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including the verdict on the film Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, a thriller directed by Sidney Lumet at the age of 83.
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Front Row - 07/01/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with architect Peter Clegg from the 2008 Stirling Prize-winning partnership Feilden Clegg Bradley.
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Front Row - 07/01/2010
Ian Dury biopic Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll, writer Jonathen Lethem and film makers Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson.
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Front Row - 07/03/2007
With Mark Lawson, including an interview with best-selling novelist Iain Banks, author of The Wasp Factory and The Crow Road.
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Front Row - 07/04/2009
Margaret Drabble discusses her latest book; a review of Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In; a visit to Handel's house and Barney Hoskyns on his biography of Tom Waits.
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Front Row - 07/04/2010
With Mark Lawson, including reviews of a play by Mark Haddon, Polar Bears, and The Infidel, a film written by David Baddiel about a Muslim man who discovers he's actually Jewish.
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Front Row - 07/05/2007
Mark Lawson follows singer Ian Bostridge as he prepares to perform the role of Aschenbach in Britten's Death in Venice for the first time, in a new production for ENO.
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Front Row - 07/05/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report on the proposals for a giant public art work in Ebbsfleet, Kent - the so-called 'Angel of the South'.
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Front Row - 07/05/2009
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including a report from the 2009 Brighton Festival, where artist Anish Kapoor is guest director.
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Front Row - 07/06/2007
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Including the verdict on John Boorman's film The Tiger's Tail, set in booming modern Ireland.
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Front Row - 07/07/2008
Arts news and reviews, with John Wilson. IIncluding an interview with Oscar winning actress Juliette Binoche.
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Front Row - 07/07/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Includes Emma Watson on ten years of playing Hermione Granger and a review of The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, directed by Rebecca Miller.
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Front Row - 07/08/2008
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including an interview with author Mark Billingham, whose new book is set amongst teenage gangs and career criminals in contemporary London.
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Front Row - 07/08/2009
Arts news and reviews. John Wilson meets the Oscar-winning composer Marvin Hamlisch and reports on David Byrne's transformation of a building into a gigantic musical instrument.
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Front Row - 07/09/2007
Arts news and reviews. In a special edition recorded with an audience, Germaine Greer talks to Mark Lawson about her new book on Shakespeare's marriage; and reflects on her career.
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Front Row - 07/09/2009
Colin Firth on his latest film, Dorian Gray, South African opera singer Pauline Malefane on the return of The Mysteries to the West End, and a review of television drama Trinity.
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Front Row - 07/10/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with Tom Jones.
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Front Row - 07/10/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Writer Clive James on his 70th birthday, David Hare's The Power of Yes reviewed, Pixar animation Up, and When Boris Met Dave.
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Front Row - 07/11/2007
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who talks to playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah.
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Front Row - 07/11/2008
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Including a rare interview with the American artist and film director Julian Schnabel.
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Front Row - 07/12/2007
With Kirsty Lang, including a report from the opening night of Noughts and Crosses, the RSC's stage adaptation of Malorie Blackman's acclaimed novel about a divided society.
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Front Row - 07/12/2009
The announcement of the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award; a season of silent films on TV is reviewed; Mark Lawson reports from New York on Race, David Mamet's new play.
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Front Row - 08/01/2008
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Tamsin Little talks two Kirsty Lang about two of the worlds finest Italian violins.
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Front Row - 08/01/2009
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Andrew Lloyd Webber talks about his search to find someone to represent the UK in the next Eurovision Song Contest.
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Front Row - 08/01/2010
Frank McGuinness on his latest play, a round-up of the must-see art exhibitions of the year and an interview with Warren Beatty's biographer.
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Front Row - 08/02/2007
With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with writer Rachel Seiffert, whose new novel includes a character still haunted by his military service in Northern Ireland.
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Front Row - 08/02/2010
A review of horror film The Wolfman; a new TV documentary about Muslim extremism; Neil MacGregor on the political row between the British Museum and Iran.
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Front Row - 08/03/2007
With Mark Lawson, including a report from the first night of The Entertainer, a new production of John Osborne's play starring Robert Lindsay as vaudeville performer Archie Rice.
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Front Row - 08/03/2010
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Martin Scorsese's film Shutter Island; Ian McEwan's book Solar; Don Warrington; Jimi Hendrix's producer Eddie Kramer.
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Front Row - 08/04/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with George Clooney, whose new film Leatherheads is set in the world of American football in the 1920s.
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Front Row - 08/04/2009
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Peter Taylor reviews Fifty Dead Men Walking, how huge stadium shows work, Goldie on a life in art and music and this year's Proms line-up.
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Front Row - 08/04/2010
Pierce Brosnan on playing a former Prime Minister in his new film The Ghost, Yvette Fielding on ghost hunting stateside and a review of a trio of new classical music CD releases.
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Front Row - 08/05/2007
With Mark Lawson. Including an interview with singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright and news of the shortlist for this year's Turner Prize for contemporary art.
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Front Row - 08/05/2009
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Rob Brydon discusses life after Uncle Bryn; a review of dark animation film Coraline and a chat with Welsh national poet Gillian Clarke.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Discussing TV's role in the portrayal of the Royal Family; David Edgar examines theatre's role in multiculturalism; plus singer Kiki Dee.
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Arts news and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. Including a review of Mamma Mia! The Movie.
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Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Includes Abba's Benny Andersson on his Swedish folk roots and artists Gilbert and George on turning their home into a museum when they die.
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Arts news and reviews. John Wilson reports on the breadth of current British folk music, including interviews with Eliza Carthy and members of the reformed supergroup Pentangle.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with American comic writer David Sedaris.
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Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including the Booker Prize shortlist, Nick Cave's new novel, the Beatles remastered and RJ Cutler's film, The September Issue.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who talks to actor Alan Alda.
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Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. He meets the Liverpool-born director Terence Davies, whose new film Of Time and the City focuses on the changing face of his hometown.
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Eoin Colfer on writing the latest Hitchhiker's Guide book, poet Paul Durcan discusses his new collection, and the story of Thomas Fraser, a Shetland fisherman who sang the blues.
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With Mark Lawson, including an interview with David Simon, creator of the acclaimed TV series The Wire, and his wife, crime writer Laura Lippman.
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Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Turner Prize winner Richard Wright; Where The Wild Things Are; the man behind Super Mario Brothers.
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Mark Lawson reports from the opening night of King Lear with Derek Jacobi. He also talks to Lenny Henry and discusses the singles contending for the number one slot at Christmas.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Sarah Dunant joins Mark Lawson to review of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Including a report from the East London health centre which is also home to a potter, a sculptress, a stained-glass artist and more.
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Arts and cultural with Kirsty Lang, including a report on the art of staging the Ramayana, the Indian epic which demands demons, gods, forests and monkeys.
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Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Andew Collins reflects on screen portrayals of the artist/agent relationship
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A review of the romantic comedy Valentine's Day, which boasts a star-studded cast; Helen Baxendale on producing her latest film; writer David Greig on his sequel to Macbeth.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Actor Richard Briers on his latest role on stage; Pete Waterman on his search for the UK's 2010 Eurovision entry.
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Mark Lawson talks to poet Tony Harrison, who is 70 this month. He reflects on his Leeds childhood, the art of making rhymes and the role of poetry in the modern world.
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With Mark Lawson. Includes Philip Glenister on the second series of Ashes to Ashes, David Babani on the success of the Menier Chocolate Factory, and Skellig and Red Dwarf reviewed.
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With Mark Lawson. Including a review of ITV's new version of the TV classic The Prisoner, playwright Laura Wade on putting posh boys on stage, and the sculptor David Nash.
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Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and a review of a new stage version of DBC Pierre's Booker Prize-winning novel Vernon God Little.
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With Mark Lawson. Including a review of Louis Leterrier's remake of The Incredible Hulk, a selection of non-football TV programmes and an interview with tenor Rolando Villazon.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with Derren Brown and a discussion on the art of writing history, with Margaret MacMillan and Lady Antonia Fraser.
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Mark Lawson meets singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen, as he unveils an exhibition of his art in Manchester.
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Arts news and reviews, with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with architect Frank Gehry.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Includes a review of TV drama Desperate Romantics, about the Pre-Raphaelites, and author MJ Hyland on crime and punishment.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including news of the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize and an interview with artist and film maker Steve McQueen.
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Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Includes a review of Meryl Streep in her latest role as TV cook Julia Childs and an interview with singer-songwriter Richard Hawley.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a review of Ratatouille, the latest film from Brad Bird, director of The Incredibles.
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With Kirsty Lang. Including an interview with TV anthropologist and adventurer Bruce Parry.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Val McDermid on TV police documentary The Force, and Diaghilev remembered.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, who investigates how pianists choose their instruments.
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Paul Gambaccini reviews Taking Woodstock, the new film from director Ang Lee; John Sergeant on his latest career move; the verdict on the return of Robbie Williams.
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With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who in 2009 becomes artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival.
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Michael Frayn discusses his travel writing; review of new play Red, about the life of artist Mark Rothko; Elvis Costello on the Black-E arts centre.
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With Kirsty Lang, including reports on new shows for Christmas at the Bristol Old Vic and the Liverpool Playhouse.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Kirsty Lang talks to Tom Hanks about his Golden Globe nominated role in Charlie Wilson's War
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Benicio Del Toro talks to Kirsty about the rise of Latin American actors in the Hollywood film industry and the difficulty of funding a film about a communist hero.
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Mark Lawson talks to Oscar-nominated actor Jeff Bridges, the RIBA Gold Medal-winning architect IM Pei, and JG Ballard's daughter, Fay, about an exhibition dedicated to the writer.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who looks at how Hollywood has depicted prehistory with the release of 10,000 BC, a new film about a young mammoth hunter.
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Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson meets writer and director Tony Gilroy whose new film, Duplicity, stars Julia Roberts and Clive Owen.
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A review of Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to The Phantom of The Opera, Dame Emma Kirkby reflects on her ground-breaking career, and the verdict on The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
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Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson talks to crime writer Donna Leon, whose books are set in and around Venice, where she has lived for more than two decades.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including an interview with the New Zealand writer Lloyd Jones, whose novel Mister Pip was nominated for the Man Booker Prize last year.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Alan Ayckbourn reflects on a career in which he has written 72 full length plays.
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Kirsty Lang reports on the film Goodbye Bafana, based on the relationship between Nelson Mandela and one of his prison guards.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a review of The Happening, the latest film from M Night Shyamalan, and an exploration of cricket as a literary metaphor.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. With writer Peter Bowker discussing TV drama Occupation and designer Thomas Heatherwick on an exhibition on Futurism.
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With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on a new recording of West Side Story - does it stand up to past versions?
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Arts news and reviews, with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with best Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie.
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Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson reports on the continuing success of celebrity memoirs, with guests including Julie Walters, Paul O'Grady, Michael Parkinson and Alan Carr.
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Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Tracy Chevalier on her latest novel, the verdict on award-winning Mexican film Sin Nombre and a discussion on the value of demo tracks.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including the first in a series of reports on major artworks in the expression of sex or sexuality. Part of Radio 4's Sex Lives of Us season.
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With Mark Lawson. As part of Big Bang Day, the programme includes a probe into how physics has been represented in the arts by Tom Stoppard, John Adams and others.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with Barry Humphries, as he prepares for live shows starring Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson.
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With Mark Lawson. Daytime television host, and one half of Richard and Judy, Richard Madeley talks to Mark about his troubled relationship with his father.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Dr Eleanor Robson reviews the Babylon exhibition at the British Museum.
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A review of new film The White Ribbon from director Michael Haneke, a report on illegal file sharing, and conductor Vladimir Jurowski on the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld talks about the animated film Bee Movie, which he has co-written as well as voicing the leading role.
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In an edition from Liverpool, John Wilson considers the city's year as European Capital of Culture - the highs, the lows and the legacy. Guests include Phil Redmond.
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Heidi Thomas on writing the BBC's Cranford; the best books for children over nine; the film-maker Sally Potter.
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With Kirsty Lang, including the verdict on Matilda, a new Royal Shakespeare Company musical, based on the book by Roald Dahl.
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Kirsty Lang discusses City of Vice with historian Lucy Moore and crime writer Dreda Say Mitchell.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Antonia Fraser discusses her memoir about life with Harold Pinter, which is also Radio 4's Book of the Week.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who talks to Tony Gilroy, Oscar-nominated writer and director of the film Michael Clayton.
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Arts news and reviews. John Wilson reviews Notorious, a new film about the life of rapper Biggie Smalls, who was shot dead at the age of 24.
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A review of My Name Is Khan, the Bollywood love story set in the US after 9/11; a progress report on Art Bin, the installation where unwanted works of art can be thrown away.
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Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, who reports on random, a new play from Olivier Award-winning dramatist debbie tucker green.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report on how comedy shows make the move from radio to television.
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Review of The Pacific, a new TV series from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks; interview with Phil Daniels on his varied career as a character actor.
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Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including the verdict on the Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others, which focuses on the role of the East German secret police in the 1980s.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including a look at the music of Mali-born kora player Toumani Diabate.
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Kirsty Lang with arts news, interviews and the verdict on the National Theatre's staging of the Powell-Pressburger film A Matter of Life and Death.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with writer Edna O'Brien, whose play Haunted receives its world premiere in Manchester.
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Mark Lawson with arts news, reviews and an interview with the new Children's Laureate.
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With Mark Lawson. Including a review of Michael Frayn's new play Afterlife, a report from the Folkestone Triennial festival, and Jeff Park selects the best of recent crime fiction.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. She talks to Oscar-nominated writer and director Guillermo del Toro, who has co-written a novel featuring a fearsome virus and vampires.
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Arts news and reviews, with Mark Lawson. GP Sarah Jarvis reviews ITV1's new medical drama Harley Street.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including an interview with the veteran Hollywood screenwriter Budd Schulberg, who won an Oscar for On the Waterfront.
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Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Actor Corin Redgrave and author Michael Freedland discuss how political paranoia in the 1940s and 50s shaped Hollywood cinema.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including an interview with author and screenwriter Lynda La Plante.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report on a new museum in Portugal dedicated to the work of painter Paula Rego.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who meets the singer and composer Enya, Ireland's biggest-selling solo artist.
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Mark Lawson visits the new Nottingham Contemporary arts venue and interviews director Steven Soderbergh about his new film, The Informant!
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With Kirsty Lang, including a review of a new staging of Twelfth Night, with Derek Jacobi as Malvolio.
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Harry Hill on his hit Saturday night show TV Burp; Alexander Hanson on the new Broadway production of A Little Night Music.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Composer Orlando Gough talks about his latest project
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Arts news and reviews. Meatloaf on being a reality TV judge, and Mark Lawson reviews George Clooney's latest film, Up in the Air.
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John Wilson reports from the opening night of England People Very Nice, a new comic play by Richard Bean, inspired by four centuries of immigration into Bethnal Green.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. With a review of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Sebastian Barry on his new play, musician Seasick Steve and the Athol Fugard Theatre.
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With Mark Lawson, including an interview with artist Andy Goldsworthy as he prepares for a major exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, using materials from the natural world.
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TV drama Blood And Oil reviewed; how can today's authors best promote their books?; playwright Alan Harris on A Good Night Out In The Valleys, National Theatre of Wales' first play.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including news of the writers in contention for the 2007 Man Booker International prize.
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Tina Fey and Steve Carell discuss their new movie Date Night; a review of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's film Cemetery Junction; Holby City celebrates its 500th episode.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing, whose new book reflects on the lives of her parents and her childhood in Rhodesia.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Includes an interview with John Tavener; a review of TV drama Lie to Me; Trevanian remembered; and are there physical limits to performance?
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At a time when many new buildings are blamed for creating environmental damage, Mark Lawson investigates whether green architecture is possible.
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Coldplay singer Chris Martin and drummer Will Champion talk to John Wilson, and there is a review of the stage version of the hit 60s and 70s TV series The Likely Lads.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. With a review of Helen Mirren's performance as Phedre and the League Of Gentleman's Steve Pemberton and Reese Shearsmith on their TV series.
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With Kirsty Lang, including the first-night verdict on a new National Theatre production of Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, starring Anne-Marie Duff.
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In a special programme, Mark Lawson meets 82-year-old actress Elaine Stritch, who reflects on a 60-year career including battles with alcohol and stage-fright.
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Arts news and reviews. Writers of history and historical fiction join Mark Lawson to explore the best ways of writing about the past.
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Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson meets screenwriter Jimmy McGovern, who has written a stage musical about the 19th-century cotton trade.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including an interview with Will Self, who is about to publish a collection of stories all inspired by the human liver.
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Presented by Kirsty Lang, who is joined by author and journalist Anne Karpf to discuss Channel 4's new drama The Relief of Belsen.
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With Mark Lawson. John Irving on his new novel, Last Night in Twisted River, a review of Tate Modern's 10th annual commission, and the director of a 45-pound zombie movie.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Phil Redmond and actor Todd Carty look back at Grange Hill.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Maureen Lipman talks about grief, poetry and a German sausage.
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With John Wilson. Roland Emmerich's new apocalyptic film 2012 is reviewed; Norah Jones talks about her new CD; Philip Kerr discusses his novel If The Dead Rise Not.
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Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including an interview with Dustin Hoffman, who plays a toy-shop owner in the film Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium.
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Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Writer Graham Linehan and actor Chris O'Dowd discuss the latest series of the Channel 4 comedy The IT Crowd.
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Arts news and reviews. John Inverdale reviews The Wrestler starring Micky Rourke as a professional wrestler struggling to accept that his career is coming to an end.
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Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and the verdict on a major retrospective exhibition of the art of Gilbert and George at Tate Modern.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who talks to actor and singer John Barrowman about his recently published autobiography.
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Mark Lawson reports on the rise of the celebrity memoir, with guests including Julie Walters, Paul O'Grady, Richard Madeley, Michael Parkinson, Maureen Lipman and Alan Carr.
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With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on two new biopics. Sienna Miller plays Edie Sedgwick in Factory Girl and Nicole Kidman stars as photographer Diane Arbus in Fur.
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Arts news and reviews, featuring jazz saxophonist Lester Young, who died 50 years ago.
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To mark his 70th birthday, poet and Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney discusses his inspirations with Mark Lawson and reflects on how a stroke in 2006 affected his work.
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Warwick Davis, whose credits include Return of the Jedi and the Harry Potter films, talks to John Wilson about the pressures of being one of world's leading short actors.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including news of the shortlist for this year's Turner Prize for visual art, announced today.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. With Beth Ditto on her role as a feminist icon and asking if reality TV cheats. Also, what costs can performers claim?
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Mark Lawson with arts news and an interview with Eoin McNamee, whose new novel depicts conspiracies and plots leading to the death of Princess Diana in August 1997.
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Kirsty Lang talks to Noel Clarke, the actor who played Billie Piper's boyfriend Mickey Smith in Doctor Who.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Includes an interview with Jimmy McGovern on his BAFTA-winning drama The Street and a review of Oscar-nominated film Frozen River.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with Julian Clary about his debut novel Murder Most Fab.
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Comedy, drama and debate. Kirsty Lang reports from the Edinburgh fringe festival, in a programme recorded in front of an audience at the Pleasance.
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Arts news with John Wilson. Including an interview with the entrepreneur behind Woodstock, the concert that for many sums up the spirit of the 60s, as it marks its 40th anniversary.
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John Wilson is joined by Philippa Gregory to discuss her new historical novel about Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with historian David Starkey, who has just published the first part of a biography of Henry VIII.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who reviews Terry Gilliam's film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which features the late Heath Ledger.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Hugh Dennis and Claire Skinner discuss the fine art of acting with children.
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Director Mira Nair on her new film about aviator Amelia Earhart; children's author Francesca Simon reviews a new TV drama about Enid Blyton; report on the Durham festival of light.
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Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and a round-up of the best recent crime fiction.
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With Kirsty Lang, including the pick of new fiction for teenagers, for anyone planning a seasonal trip to the bookshop.
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With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on No Country for Old Men, the new film from the Coen brothers.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Writer Martin Amis talks about an exhibition of photographs from the private collection of his former fiancee Angela Gorgas.
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Review of Legally Blonde, The Musical; review of the Ray Winstone gangster film, 44 Inch Chest; former film censor Paul Hoffman on his acclaimed fantasy novel, The Left Hand Of God.
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Arts news and reviews. As part of the Uncovering Pakistan season, John Wilson reports on fiction, television and a growing interest in heavy rock music in today's Pakistan.
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John Wilson reports from China as the British Museum prepares to bring some of the famous Terracotta Army to London for an exhibition later this year.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including the verdict on the new stage musical Zorro, which features original music by the Gipsy Kings.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report on a new exhibition about the art of the book, as created by artists ranging from Henri Matisse to Damien Hirst.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. With writers Martin Amis and Jay McInerney, Armando Iannucci's In the Loop reviewed, film director Stephen Parsons and Maureen Lipman.
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Singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading discusses her new album; plus a review of Jude Law and Forest Whitaker in new film Repo Men.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including the verdict on David Fincher's film Zodiac, based on the true story of a San Francisco serial killer in the late 60s and early 70s.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Rock legend Rick Wakeman on his book of zany anecdotes and Muriel Zagha reviews the rom-com French Film.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a review of Nic Roeg's latest film Puffball.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Includes a review of Bret Easton Ellis's screen adaptation of his own novel The Informers, starring Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger.
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Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including an interview with Mercury Prize nominated singer Natasha Khan, also known as Bat for Lashes.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, who meets the conductor, pianist and writer Daniel Barenboim.
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Arts news and reviews. Kirsty Lang talks to author AL Kennedy about short stories, stand-up comedy and the strangeness of domestic life.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with actor David Thewlis, who has just published a novel set in the art world.
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Cliff Richard and Hank Marvin on recording their first album together in more than 30 years; and TS Eliot revealed in letters and diaries. With Mark Lawson.
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With Mark Lawson. Including an interview with the artist and film-maker Steve McQueen, whose film Hunger is based on the last weeks in the life of Bobby Sands.
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Ray Connolly on a National Portrait Gallery exhibition celebrating the 1960s, John Harris on 'rock follies', the One and Other Fourth Plinth project, Black British Theatre Archive.
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Arts news and reviews. In a rare interview, Seamus Heaney discusses the inspiration for his poetry, and how a stroke in 2006 affected his ability to write.
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Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law on playing Sherlock Holmes and Watson in Guy Ritchie's latest film, and a review of the 3D epic Avatar.
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With John Wilson, including an interview with comedian Russell Howard, and a re-assessment of the American illustrator Norman Rockwell.
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With Kirsty Lang, who reports on how some directors have decided that less means more when adding music to their films.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Authors Tim Lott and Lisa Gee review the revival of the Lionel Bart musical Oliver! starring Rowan Atkinson.
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Michael Samuels on his television drama about Winnie Mandela; spy spoof OSS117, France's answer to Austin Powers; tenor Ian Bostridge on the music of Hans Werner Henze.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including the verdict on film The Lovely Bones, directed by Peter Jackson.
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Mark Lawson interviews screenwriter and producer Alan Ball, whose credits include True Blood, Six Feet Under and American Beauty.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with Martin Gore, who reflects on three decades with the band Depeche Mode.
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Arts news, interviews and reviews with Mark Lawson, including the verdict on the British premiere of a new acclaimed Broadway production of the musical Hair.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with the renowned American singer Bobby McFerrin.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including a report on the many appearances of Chopin's melodies in popular culture as Radio 3 prepares to broadcast every note of his music.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including an interview with renowned tenor José Carreras.
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Arts news and reviews. With Sue Perkins and Giles Coren on culinary surprises from the past, the latest research on the Parthenon Marbles and David Hepworth's verdict on Telstar.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with screenwriter Simon Beaufoy, whose latest work is Burn Up, a 2-part thriller about the politics of climate change.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a discussion on television in the recession, a review of two new moon-related cultural events and Jez Butterworth's new play.
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Mark Lawson reports on the various Edinburgh festivals in a special programme recorded in front of an audience at the Pleasance, with guests including actor Jamie Bell.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including a report on a collection of previously unpublished letters by the actor and writer Dirk Bogarde.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Studio guest is crime writer Ian Rankin, whose new book revolves around plans to rob the National Gallery of Scotland.
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Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson meets guitarist and former Dire Straits front man Mark Knopfler.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a review of the film Rendition, a story about the US policy of extraordinary rendition with Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal.
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With Mark Lawson. Photographer Jillian Edelstein and critic Ann Leslie review the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life 1990-2005.
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Peter Hook, co-founder of Joy Division, on the legacy of the Hacienda club; a new production of Trevor Griffiths's Comedians reviewed; John Baldessari on his artistic inspirations.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Jeff Park makes his selection of his favourite crime novels of the year.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a jukebox jury who give their verdict on the hits and misses among the 2009 sack of Christmas releases.
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With Mark Lawson, including an interview with violinist Thomas Zehetmair, whose recent discs include a prize-winning recording of Elgar's Violin Concerto.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Mark Lawson talks to Sir John Mortimer, the creator of Rumpole of the Bailey, in an excerpt from an interview recorded in 2005.
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With Kirsty Lang, who talks to members of the band Kaiser Chiefs about creating their second album – always a difficult task, according to rock legend.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with Clint Eastwood, who discusses his changing political views and his new film, Gran Torino.
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Front Row - 16/02/2010
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Vanessa Redgrave, and a review of The Last Station starring Helen Mirren.
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Front Row - 16/03/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Actors Mathew Horne and James Corden discuss their TV comedy, including Gavin and Stacey, and their new film Lesbian Vampire Killers.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with actor Jeremy Irons, as he returns to the Royal Shakespeare Company in a new play by Dennis Kelly.
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Arts news, interviews and features with Mark Lawson, including the verdict on the film Reign Over Me, starring Adam Sandler as a man who lost his family in the 9/11 attacks.
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Front Row - 16/04/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who reports from a major exhibition dedicated to Ian Fleming and his most famous creation, James Bond.
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Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Irish musician Christy Moore on his new album; author Philipp Meyer on his novel American Rust; Sarah Dunant on new film Good.
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Kiefer Sutherland interviewed; Morrissey and Paul Weller remember their favourite record shops; a new exhibition of young Iraqi artists.
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Front Row - 16/06/2008
With Mark Lawson. Including an interview with actress Keira Knightley, who plays one of the two women in Dylan Thomas' life in the movie The Edge of Love.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a report from The Wedgwood Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, shortlisted for the 2009 Art Fund Prize for museums and galleries.
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Front Row - 16/07/2008
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including the verdict on the new musical Zorro, featuring an original score by the Gipsy Kings.
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Arts news and reviews. Lucy Prebble discusses her play about the Enron scandal, David Storey looks back on a career of playwriting and rugby, and Diane Roberts reviews True Blood.
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Front Row - 16/08/2007
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with director Paul Greengrass, whose films include The Bourne Ultimatum and United 93.
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Front Row - 16/09/2008
With Mark Lawson. Rapper Mike Skinner, better known as The Streets, discusses his new album.
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Including advice on facing the judges from former Strictly winner Mark Ramprakash; novelists Julian Barnes, William Boyd and Jane Gardam discuss points of view in fiction.
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Front Row - 16/10/2007
Presented by Kirsty Lang. Includes Sir Ben Kingsley discussing his latest role in Roman action-adventure film The Last Legion.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Including an interview with actor Roger Moore, and a chat with Anthony Hopkins about his love of music.
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Kirsty Lang speaks to the director of a documentary which exposes the Japanese dolphin trade; reviews of two new albums from Whitney Houston and Alexandra Burke.
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Front Row - 16/11/2007
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, who reviews a new musical based on the music of Blondie.
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Front Row - 16/11/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including the verdict on the film Glorious 39, written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff and set on the eve of the Second World War.
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Front Row - 16/12/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with Garrison Keillor, who is about to publish Liberty, a new novel set in his fictional small town Lake Wobegon.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. The Cat In The Hat on stage, St Trinian's 2, Crime books for Christmas, Countertenors.
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Front Row - 16/12/2010
Mark Lawson looks at the work of pioneering video artist Nam June Paik, and David Walliams and Matt Lucas talk about their new TV series Come Fly with Me.
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Front Row - 17/02/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with Peter Flannery, whose writing credits range from Our Friends in the North to a new work for the National Theatre.
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Front Row - 17/02/2010
David Mitchell on his new comedy show The Bubble, designer Ron Arad talks on the eve of his first major UK exhibition, Paul Nash at Dulwich Gallery and Michael Jackson's This Is It.
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Front Row - 17/03/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with musician Mike Oldfield, whose new release is billed as a classical album.
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Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson interviews veteran American actor Robert Wagner, who is publishing a memoir.
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Arts news and reviews. Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti on the follow-up to her controversial play Behzti, and the art of TV titles.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who reports on the film The Reaping, in which the ten biblical plagues appear to afflict a small American town.
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Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, who meets members of the band Portishead, back with their first new recording after a gap of a decade.
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With Kirsty Lang. Jarvis Cocker on International Independent Record Store Day and Omid Djalili on his TV comedy series and playing Fagin.
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Front Row - 17/05/2007
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including the first of four reports on the contenders for this year's Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a report on a major retrospective exhibition of work by the 80-year-old American painter Cy Twombly.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a report on the Ruthin Craft Centre, Denbighshire, a contender for the 2009 Art Fund Prize for museums and galleries.
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John Wilson with arts news, reviews and an interview with the artist Howard Hodgkin, who celebrates his 75th birthday next month.
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With John Wilson. Natalie Haynes reviews the latest Disney-Pixar collaboration WALL-E.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Includes pianist Stephen Hough on his vision of Tchaikovsky's life and works and Ella Hickson on her interactive theatre show, Eight.
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Front Row - 17/08/2007
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, who meets superstar violinist Maxim Vengerov on the eve of his Proms appearance in the unfamiliar roles of jazz player and tango dancer.
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Front Row - 17/08/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Includes Victoria Wood on playwriting and talent competitions, and a review of the new Quentin Tarantino film starring Brad Pitt.
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Front Row - 17/09/2007
With Mark Lawson. Including the verdict on the film A Mighty Heart, the story of the search for the kidnapped journalist Daniel Pearl, starring Dan Futterman and Angelina Jolie.
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With John Wilson. Robert Downey Jr talks about his latest film, Tropic Thunder, in which he plays an Australian method actor who, cast as an African-American,
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Richard Eyre, ex director of the National Theatre, on his book of interviews with actors including John Gielgud and Judi Dench. Also the Arts Awards scheme for 11 to 25 year olds.
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Front Row - 17/10/2007
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, featuring writer Michael Dobbs talking about his controversial new novel The Lord's Day.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Including an interview with the celebrated Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, who is about to celebrate his eightieth birthday.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Andrew Collins considers the argument for the one-location shoot.
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Mark Lawson interviews Alan Bennett, who reflects on his career and discusses his new stage play, which centres on an imagined meeting between WH Auden and Benjamin Britten.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including the verdict on I'm Not There, a film in which six different actors portray aspects of Bob Dylan.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, the creators of the popular BBC 2 series QI.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Catherine Tate; Rope on screen and stage; artist Conrad Shawcross; audio books.
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Front Row - 18/01/2008
With John Wilson, including an interview with Ringo Starr, who has written the official song for Liverpool in its year as European Capital of Culture.
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Front Row - 18/01/2010
Clive Owen as a bereaved father in The Boys Are Back; American composer Nico Muhly who created the score for The Reader; why is Don't Stop Believin' in the charts twice?
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a review of the film Be Kind Rewind, starring Jack Black as a man whose electrified brain causes havoc in a video shop.
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Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. British singer-songwriter Morrissey, as his 50th birthday approaches, discusses his new album, Years of Refusal.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Bollywood star Anil Kapoor; Anthony Sher in Ibsen; A Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including news of the winner of the David Cohen Prize for Literature, awarded for a lifetime of achievement and worth over 50,000 pounds.
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Arts news and reviews. John Wilson reports from the US on the largest unsolved art heist ever, which took place 20 years ago to the day.
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Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including the first-night verdict on Tony Harrison's new play Fram, based on the life of Norwegian polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen.
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Arts news and reviews. Includes a review of Night at the Museum 2 and discussion of this year's Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts.
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Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including an interview with film-maker Sydney Pollack, who has directed a documentary about architect Frank Gehry.
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With Mark Lawson. With Mark Lawson. Including a reflection on the Hayward Gallery's 40th anniversary.
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Front Row - 18/06/2009
Lord Puttnam announces this year's Art Fund Prize winner, music from The Proclaimers, Janet Street Porter on two new art exhibitions and a review of WWII film Katyn.
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With Mark Lawson, including the first-night verdict on the new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph, with TV contest winner Lee Mead in the title role.
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As playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz's work debuts on the National Theatre's biggest stage, Mark Lawson asks whether female dramatists are now finding their place in the spotlight.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with comic actor Steve Carell, whose credits include The 40-Year-Old Virgin and the American version of The Office.
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Dialect coach Penny Dyer gives Mark Lawson a masterclass. Three Glasgow crime writers on writing about the same hometown. Liz Lochhead reviews The Enlightenments in Edinburgh.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including the first-night verdict on Kenneth Branagh in the title role of Chekhov's Ivanov in a new version by Tom Stoppard.
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Front Row - 18/10/2007
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Includes a report from Tate Liverpool as this year's Turner Prize exhibition is unveiled, featuring the four artists competing for the award.
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Front Row - 18/11/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Jools Holland sits down at the grand piano to discuss his new CD, The Informer.
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Front Row - 18/11/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a report on a newly-published novel by Vladimir Nabokov, which was left unfinished when he died in 1977.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a review of a new St Trinian's film starring Rupert Everett and Colin Firth.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park reaches into his bag to give us a guided tour of the little plasticine models.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Keira Knightley in The Misanthrope and an interview with John Hurt.
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Front Row - 19/01/2009
With John Wilson, including an interview with singer Lily Allen, who is about to release her second album.
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Front Row - 19/01/2010
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. AS Byatt reviews a major new Van Gogh exhibition, and the actor Jonathan Pryce on Harold Pinter.
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With Mark Lawson, including an interview with singer Art Garfunkel, whose partnership with Paul Simon began over 50 years ago.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a review of a major exhibition of work by experimental artists Duchamp, Man Ray and Picabia.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a report from Leeds on the opening night of a new production of Othello, with Lenny Henry in the title role.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Kyle MacLachlan on 20 years since Twin Peaks, Hot Chip on their new album One Life Stand, and a TV drama on the MPs' expenses scandal.
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Front Row - 19/03/2007
With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on Hollywood's latest classical epic 300, based on the Battle of Thermopylae of 480BC in which 300 Spartans faced a vast Persian army.
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Front Row - 19/03/2008
Presented by John Wilson. Kit Davis discusses the musical Jersey Boys, the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Plus a tribute to science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, who reports on the opening night of the play Madame de Sade, starring Rosamund Pike and Judi Dench.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Vadim Jean on his film about two men's 37 years in solitary confinement, and Julian Joseph tries his hand at a 'fluid piano'.
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Front Row - 19/05/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report from one of the contenders for the Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year.
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Front Row - 19/05/2009
Actress Annette Crosbie discusses her new TV series Hope Springs and Adam Mars-Jones reviews US dramatist Wallace Shawn's new play about sex and cats.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with singer Andy Williams, who celebrates his 80th birthday this year.
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John Wilson gets a rare backstage pass to interview The Police on the final leg of their world tour.
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Front Row - 19/06/2009
Kirsty Lang's guest is Neil Sedaka. She also debates sexual iconography in films used by the likes of Hitchcock, saxophones on the street and the trouble with British dance.
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Front Row - 19/07/2010
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Earth, Wind and Fire reflect on their career which now spans four decades, plus a report from Milton Keynes International Festival.
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Front Row - 19/08/2008
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Including a review of Somers Town, the new film from BAFTA award-winning British director Shane Meadows.
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Mark Lawson presents a special edition from the Edinburgh Festival, including an interview with impressionist Alistair McGowan, who is returning to the Fringe after 10 years.
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Animated feature The Illusionist; news of the artists shortlisted for the latest Fourth Plinth commission; Educating Rita and its themes; John Harris on Pink Floyd covers.
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Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, who reports from Liverpool on the city's visual art Biennial.
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Front Row - 19/10/2009
Mark Lawson reviews Jane Horrocks in Annie Get Your Gun; an interview with Lyle Lovett; Fawlty Towers re-assessed by a panel of students who have never seen the show.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Quentin Wilson and David Butcher discuss how reality shows are reacting to the power of the public vote.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Ian Rankin on writing a graphic novel; Irish rock band Ash's A to Z of touring.
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Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including the verdict on a new staging of Much Ado About Nothing starring Zoe Wanamaker and Simon Russell Beale.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Adam Smith reflects on those unforgettable bicycle moments on film.
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Front Row - 20/01/2009
With Kirsty Lang, including a report from the opening night of Complicit, a new play by Joe Sutton, which stars Richard Dreyfuss and is directed by Kevin Spacey.
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Only Fools and Horses writer John Sullivan on his new prequel to the much loved sitcom and a review of A Prophet.
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With Kirsty Lang, including the verdict on the film Letters from Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood's account of the 1945 battle from the Japanese perspective.
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Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. British jazz musician Courtney Pine discusses his album Transition in Tradition
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With Mark Lawson, including a report on the art of camouflage as revealed in a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with dramatist Howard Brenton, whose new play is based on the life of Harold Macmillan.
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Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including an interview with the singer and songwriter VV Brown.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Max Hastings reviews State of Play; The Sun's online radio station; Afghanistan on stage and remembering JG Ballard.
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Front Row - 20/04/2010
Italian Renaissance Drawings at the British Museum; an interview with actor Toby Stephens; crime writer Dreda Say Mitchell on new drama about the murder of five women in Ipswich.
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Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including an interview with songwriter Eg White, who has written hits with Will Young, Adele and Duffy.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including the first-night verdict on the musical Lord of the Rings.
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With Kirsty Lang. Actor James McAvoy talks about his latest Hollywood action role.
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Front Row - 20/07/2007
Saxophonist John Dankworth, who is 80 this year, and singer Cleo Laine reflect on their life in jazz, and look ahead to their appearance next month at the BBC Proms.
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Front Row - 20/07/2009
Presented by Kirsty Lang, including an interview with Charlotte Gainsbourg, who stars in Lars von Trier's graphic new film Antichrist, which divided critics at Cannes.
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Front Row - 20/08/2007
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including the verdict on the film Knocked Up, a hit American comedy about pregnancy.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. David Soul, the former Starsky and Hutch star talks about how has now learned to conduct for the BBC's Maestro programme.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Director Kathryn Bigelow discusses The Hurt Locker, her film about a US bomb disposal squad serving in Iraq.
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Front Row - 20/09/2007
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, who reports on a major exhibition by American artist Matthew Barney, whose work includes a collaboration on film with his partner Bjork.
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Front Row - 20/10/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with actor Tony Curtis, who is publishing a memoir.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with architect David Chipperfield.
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Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Paul McCartney discusses the freedom of recording as The Fireman and the possible release of the improvised Beatles track, Carnival of Light.
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Director Richard Linklater discusses his latest film, Me and Orson Welles, and the verdict on TV's search for the new Damien Hirst - School of Saatchi.
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Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including a report from the Norwegian city of Stavanger, a European Capital of Culture in 2008 along with Liverpool.
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Front Row - 21/01/2009
With Mark Lawson. Film director Bryan Singer discusses his latest film, Valkyrie.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Tamsin Greig in the new play The Little Dog Laughed, Blur on film, and conductor Robin Ticciati.
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With Mark Lawson, including a report on a major exhibition of landscape paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a reflection on the career of the late film maker and artist Derek Jarman as a new exhibition devoted to his work opens.
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Front Row - 21/03/2008
Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson examines why the life and works of William Shakespeare continue to inspire so many books, including historical studies and best-selling fiction.
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Front Row - 21/04/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a review of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, a new Hollywood comedy with a cast which includes British comedian Russell Brand.
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Manic Street Preachers talk about using the lyrics of their late guitarist Richey Edwards for their album and photographer Nadav Kander discusses his portraits of President Obama.
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Front Row - 21/04/2010
The writer Lynn Nottage on Ruined, her Pulitzer prize-winning play about women who work in a brothel in Congo. Plus the verdict on Gurinder Chadha's It's a Wonderful Afterlife.
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Front Row - 21/05/2007
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report from Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, one of the contenders for the Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report from the opening night of Marguerite, a new musical from French composer Michel Legrand and the writers of Les Miserables.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including Richard Eyre at the National, country singer Gretchen Peters and Bodyspacemotionthings at the Tate.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report from the newly-refurbished Leeds City Art Gallery.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including the verdict on the new Batman film The Dark Knight, with the late Heath Ledger taking the role of The Joker.
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Arts news and reviews. Includes Tony Scott on his latest film, The Taking of Pelham 123 and Simon Frith, Chair of the Mercury Prize judges, on 2009's shortlist for Best Album.
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Front Row - 21/08/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with Hollywood songwriter Randy Newman, whose hits include Short People and You Can Leave Your Hat On.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. With singer-songwriter Imogen Heap; a review of TV drama Gunrush; and asking will Avatar, James Cameron's 3D film, change cinema forever?
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Front Row - 21/09/2007
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who chairs a discussion on whether the freedom to write about or depict sex more explicitly has helped or hindered creativity.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a review of Joe Wright's film The Soloist, starring Jamie Foxx as a gifted musician confronting homelessness and mental illness.
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Front Row - 21/10/2008
With Mark Lawson. Including a report on Byzantium, a major exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts.
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Michael Jackson's choreographer and director Kenny Ortega; Jane Campion on her new film, which focuses on the life of John Keats; the re-opening of the Ulster Museum.
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Front Row - 21/11/2008
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. David Tennant talks to Kirsty Lang about getting to grips with the role of astrophysicist Arthur Eddington in a new BBC drama Einstein and Eddington.
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Front Row - 21/12/2007
Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson presents a selection of highlights from the past year and talks to the names behind the headlines, including artist Damien Hirst.
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Kenneth Branagh on Wallander, a review of the film Nowhere Boy, and John Wilson and guests discuss the last decade's cultural highlights.
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Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including an interview with the Oscar-nominated actress Anne Hathaway.
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Front Row - 22/01/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including news of the Oscar nominations which are announced today.
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Front Row - 22/01/2009
With Mark Lawson, including news of the nominations for this year's Oscars.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Julie Walters as Mo Mowlam in a new TV drama, and artist Dexter Dalwood.
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Arts news and reviews. Graffiti artist Banksy's new film, plans for the Arts under the Conservatives and writer Don DeLillo.
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Front Row - 22/03/2010
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including a review of Emma Thompson's return to the role of Nanny McPhee in a sequel to her 2005 film.
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Front Row - 22/04/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with architect Richard Rogers on the eve of a major retrospective exhibition at the Design Museum, London.
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Front Row - 22/04/2009
Natalie Haynes reviews a revival of the TV comedy Reggie Perrin starring Martin Clunes and writer James Patterson discusses his new literacy initiative.
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Classicist Tom Holland reviews two films with a Classical setting: Agora and Centurion; Roger Wright, Proms Director and Controller of Radio 3, brings news of 2010's BBC Proms.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report from Weston Park Museum, Sheffield, a contender for the Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year.
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Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including news of the winner of the Art Fund Prize for Museums and Galleries, and an interview with Australian novelist Tim Winton.
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Arts news and reviews. Writer John le Carre talks to Mark Lawson about the creation of his most famous character, intelligence officer George Smiley.
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Front Row - 22/06/2009
Comedian Rich Hall on his new collection of short stories; Jack Black's new film Year One; artists explore the inner workings of the mind; John Wilson attends a life drawing class.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with writer Trevor Griffiths, author of a two-part drama about Tom Paine for Radio 4.
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With Mark Lawson, including a report from the opening night of a new stage version of Hanif Kureishi's 1995 novel The Black Album.
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Front Row - 22/08/2008
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Nigerian writer and Jesuit priest Uwem Akpan discusses his first collection of short stories.
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Front Row - 22/09/2009
Louis de Bernières on his latest book which draws on childhood memories, the verdict on Anish Kapoor's retrospective at the Royal Academy, and Tracy Chevalier reviews Creation.
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Front Row - 22/10/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with Gary Lightbody from the band Snow Patrol.
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Front Row - 22/10/2009
Actor Richard Wilson on playing Malvolio in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and composer Michael Nyman on his latest collaboration with soul singer David McAlmont.
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Front Row - 22/12/2008
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Damon Albarn reveals how he and guitarist Graham Coxon renewed their friendship and decided to reform their band Blur over an Eccles cake.
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Front Row - 22/12/2009
Eddie Izzard on 2012 and his political ambitions; TV versions of the RSC's Hamlet and Turn Of The Screw reviewed; a round-up of the best radio programmes over the festive season.
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Front Row - 22/12/2010
With John Wilson, including an interview with 89-year-old designer Bill Gold, who created posters for films including Casablanca, The Sting, and more than 30 Clint Eastwood movies.
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Front Row - 23/01/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a reassessment of the life and work of Herbert von Karajan as the centenary of the maestro's birth approaches.
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Front Row - 23/01/2009
Arts news, interviews and reviews with With Kirsty Lang. Plus a review of Bruce Springsteen's new album, Working On A Dream.
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Front Row - 23/02/2007
With Mark Lawson, including a report on how the city of Liverpool has influenced a range of visual artists over the past 50 years, and an interview with crime writer Reginald Hill.
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Front Row - 23/02/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including the verdict on The International, a film starring Clive Owen as an agent investigating a global bank.
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Front Row - 23/02/2010
Thomas Heatherwick on Henry Moore; Lady Antonia Fraser on Delaroche; Joan Bakewell reviews Everybody's Fine; Michael Winner on his new TV show.
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Front Row - 23/03/2007
With Kirsty Lang, including a report on veteran keyboard player Joe Zawinul, renowned for his work with Miles Davis and Weather Report, who is 75 this year.
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Front Row - 23/03/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who gives his verdict on The Damned United, a film based on David Peace's novel about Brian Clough's 44 days in charge of Leeds United.
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Front Row - 23/03/2010
A review of The Blind Side, which won Sandra Bullock an Oscar; John Wilson meets Clem Cattini, the drummer who's played with everyone - from Abba to The Wombles.
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Front Row - 23/04/2007
Mark Lawson visits Hoglands, home of sculptor Henry Moore for more than 50 years, which opens as a museum in June.
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Front Row - 23/04/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who reports from the opening night of the new musical version of Gone with the Wind, directed by Trevor Nunn.
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Front Row - 23/04/2009
A review of TV drama 'Best - His Mother's Son', about George Best; rock stars remember unsavoury digs; Barbara Broccoli on her father Cubby; and a review of British film Shifty.
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Front Row - 23/04/2010
With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with the playwright Jonathan Harvey, whose new play Canary charts a gay relationship from 1960s to the present day.
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Front Row - 23/05/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with American novelist and essayist Gore Vidal.
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Front Row - 23/06/2008
With Mark Lawson, including an interview with dramatist Alan Ayckbourn, who has written his first new play since suffering a stroke in 2006.
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Front Row - 23/06/2009
With Kirsty Lang. Shappi Khorsandi discusses her new memoir; Sir Tim Rice reveals his enthusiasm for JW Waterhouse; Jilly Cooper and Fay Weldon on why women on TV come in fours.
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Front Row - 23/07/2007
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including the verdict on The Simpsons Movie as TV’s favourite cartoon family reaches the big screen.
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Front Row - 23/07/2008
Arts news and reviews. In a special programme from the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival, Mark Lawson talks to leading writers including Robert Crais, Simon Kernick and Chelsea Cain.
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Front Row - 23/07/2009
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Includes a review of Rupert Everett's TV documentary on Byron and playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz on her version of Ibsen's Ghosts.
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Front Row - 23/08/2007
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. She talks to writer Andrey Kurkov, whose new novel satirises political life in the old Soviet Union and in the independent Ukraine.
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Front Row - 23/08/2010
With Mark Lawson. Includes a review of the film The Girl Who Played With Fire, an adaptation of the second novel in Stieg Larsson's best-selling Millennium Trilogy.
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Front Row - 23/09/2008
With Mark Lawson, including an interview with singer and songwriter Ray Davies, formerly of The Kinks, who has written a musical set in an Ilford dance-hall in 1959.
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Front Row - 23/09/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a report on Moctezuma, a major British Museum exhibition examining Aztec civilisation and culture.
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Front Row - 23/10/2008
With Kirsty Lang. Writer Andrew Davies talks about his adaptation of Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit
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Front Row - 23/10/2009
It's 25 years since Frankie Goes to Hollywood had their massive hits Relax, Two Tribes and The Power of Love. We look back on the creation of the band and its distinctive sound.
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Front Row - 23/11/2009
Dave Eggers on Where The Wild Things Are; Susan Boyle's debut album; a report from the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
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Front Row - 23/12/2009
Mark Lawson talks to some of 2009's key cultural figures, including Joanna Lumley, Antony Gormley, Carol Ann Duffy and Dizzee Rascal.
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Front Row - 24/02/2009
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, who meets all four members of U2 in their Dublin rehearsal studio to discuss music, politics and their home city.
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Front Row - 24/02/2010
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including interviews with actor Harrison Ford and artist Richard Hamilton.
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Front Row - 24/03/2008
Mark Lawson talks to leading actors including Daniel Radcliffe, Joanna Lumley, Simon Russell Beale, Robert Redford and Timothy Spall about choosing a role, type-casting and ageing.
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Front Row - 24/03/2009
Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson reports from the opening night of the stage musical Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, starring Jason Donovan and based on the hit Australian film.
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Front Row - 24/03/2010
Mark Lawson talks to Peter Greenaway, whose new film Night Watching is inspired by Rembrandt's famous painting The Night Watch and stars Martin Freeman as the Dutch artist.
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Front Row - 24/04/2007
With Mark Lawson. Includes the verdict on the film The Painted Veil, based on Somerset Maugham's novel about adultery amongst the British in China in the 1920s.
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Front Row - 24/04/2008
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including an interview with actor Ewan McGregor, who plays an accountant accused of serious crimes in his new film Deception.
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Front Row - 24/04/2009
Gillian Slovo reviews political thriller Endgame, Brian Eno discusses the afterlife; director Gavin Hood talks about Wolverine, and Liz Forgan on the arts during recession.
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Front Row - 24/05/2007
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including news of the winner of this year's Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year.
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Front Row - 24/06/2008
With Mark Lawson, who talks to Michael Palin about his enthusiasm for the work of the 19th century Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershoi, now receiving a first major British exhibition.
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Front Row - 24/06/2009
Roger McGough discusses his new collection; John Wilson charts the journey of Blur, from break-up to comeback; film critic Jason Solomons reviews the new Mexican film Rudo y Cursi.
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Front Row - 24/07/2008
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including an interview with Alex Holmes, writer and director of a TV drama about Saddam Hussein's inner circle.
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Front Row - 24/07/2009
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Includes singer Buffy Sainte-Marie on 60s protest songs, the four-mile moving sculpture and a look at the reputedly awful movie, The Room.
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Front Row - 24/08/2007
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who reports from the new International Slavery Museum in Liverpool.
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Front Row - 24/08/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. John Carey discusses his biography of William Golding, Judd Apatow on his film Funny People and the verdict on the return of Shooting Stars.
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Front Row - 24/09/2007
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who reports on a major new Millais exhibition at Tate Britain.
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Front Row - 24/09/2008
With Mark Lawson. Composer of Annie and Bye Bye Birdie, Charles Strouse, discusses his memoirs about a lifetime in showbusiness.
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Front Row - 24/09/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including interviews with Matt Lucas and Dizzee Rascal.
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Front Row - 24/10/2007
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Paul Merton talks about his book Silent Comedy, revealing his passion for the films of Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and other pioneers.
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Front Row - 24/10/2008
With John Wilson. British artist Sam Taylor-Wood discusses her new exhibition at the White Cube Gallery in London
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Front Row - 24/11/2008
With Mark Lawson. Including an interview with actor Robert De Niro and producer Art Linson, whose film What Just Happened? is the tale about the perils of Hollywood movie making.
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Front Row - 24/11/2009
James Earl Jones on Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and playing Darth Vadar. Plus Front Row announces the Costa Book Awards 2009 shortlist.
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Front Row - 24/12/2007
Mark Lawson presents a selection of highlights from 2007 and talks to the names behind the headlines, including novelist Ian Rankin, whose Inspector Rebus retired this year.
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Front Row - 24/12/2009
Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson talks to the names behind the year's cultural headlines, in the second of two programmes examining the major arts stories of 2009.
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Front Row - 25/01/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who is joined by Scottish novelist Andrew O'Hagan to discuss the writings of Robert Burns.
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Front Row - 25/01/2010
The verdict on the film Precious, a report on the art of Chris Ofili, and an interview with TV producer Stephen Garrett, as he begins a series of Oxford University lectures.
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Front Row - 25/02/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who reports on the film Margot at the Wedding, written and directed by Noah Baumbach.
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Front Row - 25/02/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. He meets director Laurent Cantet, whose film about an inner city French school won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Festival last year.
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Front Row - 25/02/2010
Tim Burton on Alice in Wonderland. Martina Cole on stage. Pianist Joanna MacGregor on performing the tango in Buenos Aires. The artist who makes birds play guitars.
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Front Row - 25/03/2008
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including an interview with writer William Boyd, who has just published a new collection of short stories.
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Front Row - 25/03/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with the children's writer and illustrator Shirley Hughes.
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Front Row - 25/03/2010
David Byrne on his song cycle about Imelda Marcos; Irish comedy crime thriller Perrier's Bounty reviewed; Enchanted Palace exhibition at Kensington Palace reviewed.
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Front Row - 25/05/2009
Arts news and reviews. Chris Blackwell, who founded Island Records 50 years ago in Kingston, Jamaica, talks to John Wilson about the history of the label.
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Front Row - 25/06/2007
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including the verdict on the third instalment of Shrek.
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Front Row - 25/06/2008
With Mark Lawson. Includina an interview with Hollywood screenwriter and novelist David Benioff.
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Front Row - 25/06/2009
With Kirsty Lang. Including a review of Taking The Flak, a TV comedy about foreign correspondents, and Mark Johnson and Grandpa Elliott on their musical project, Playing For Change.
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Front Row - 25/06/2010
Mark Lawson with a review of new TV drama series on identity theft, the hidden truth about art works at the National Gallery, remembering Alan Plater, and writer Catherine O'Flynn.
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Front Row - 25/07/2007
Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson reports from the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival, with guests including best-selling authors Lee Child and Frederick Forsyth.
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Front Row - 25/07/2008
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including an interview with singer and songwriter kd lang.
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Front Row - 25/08/2008
Mark Lawson discusses the current state of documentary with leading film makers.
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Front Row - 25/08/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Includes a review of film Broken Embraces, playwright Lee Hall on The Pitman Painters and the verdict on JM Coetzee's Summertime.
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Front Row - 25/09/2007
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who talks to Jennifer Saunders and Dr Tanya Byron, co-writers of sitcom The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle.
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Front Row - 25/09/2008
With Kirsty Lang. Irish actor Liam Neeson makes a departure from his usual gentler film roles by playing an all-action hero in the new film Taken.
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Front Row - 25/09/2009
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including an interview with the virtuoso violinist Sarah Chang.
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Front Row - 25/11/2008
Arts news, interviews and reviews with John Wilson. Including an interview with award-winning British R&B singer Estelle
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Front Row - 25/11/2009
Arts news and reviews. John Wilson debates arts policy with culture secretary Ben Bradshaw, his Conservative shadow Jeremy Hunt and Liberal Democrat Don Foster.
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Front Row - 25/12/2009
Mark Lawson in conversation with Alan Bennett in a special edition of Front Row.
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Front Row - 26/01/2009
With Kirsty Lang. Including a review of the film Revolutionary Road, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Front Row - 26/01/2010
David Dimbleby on the story of Britain as revealed through art; Mark Billingham reviews Edge of Darkness; Tom Paulin on his version of Medea for Northern Broadsides.
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Front Row - 26/02/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who meets the acclaimed Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz.
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Front Row - 26/02/2009
Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson is joined by Lord Puttnam to announce the long-list for the Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year.
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Front Row - 26/02/2010
Colin Farrell on his return to Ireland for his latest film, and the verdicts on the new Gorillaz album and Michael Moore's new film Capitalism: A Love Story.
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Front Row - 26/03/2007
With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Javier De Frutos, artistic director of Phoenix Dance Theatre and choreographer of the recent revival of Cabaret.
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Front Row - 26/03/2008
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, who reports from the opening night of The God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza, best known for her long-running play Art.
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Front Row - 26/03/2009
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Film director James Toback discusses his documentary on Mike Tyson.
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Front Row - 26/03/2010
James Shapiro investigates who the real Shakespeare was; a report on how music is used to help adults with physical and mental disabilities.
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Front Row - 26/04/2007
With Kirsty Lang. Includes an interview with Steven Isserlis, who has just recorded Bach's Cello Suites, and has a theory about the hidden religious message they contain.
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Front Row - 26/05/2008
Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson talks to Leonard Cohen about the art of songwriting, his paintings and his retreat from the world in the 1990s.
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Front Row - 26/05/2009
Tracey Emin discusses her new exhibition; Lebanese Canadian writer Rawi Hage talks about his new novel and Horatio Clare reviews the film Sleep Furiously.
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Front Row - 26/06/2008
Kirsty Lang with arts news, interviews and a review of a new production of Leonard Bernstein's operetta Candide at English National Opera.
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Front Row - 26/06/2009
With Mark Lawson. Including an interview with artist Jeff Koons, a report on the National Theatre's Phedre on the cinema screen and tributes to Michael Jackson.
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Front Row - 26/08/2008
With Mark Lawson. Prof John Sutherland discusses the art of finishing off someone else's book.
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Front Row - 26/08/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including Armando Iannucci on the madness of modern day living.
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Front Row - 26/10/2007
Arts news and reviews. Kirsty Lang talks to Richard Sherman, co-writer of songs for many Disney films including Mary Poppins and The Jungle Book.
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Front Row - 26/10/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including Paul Theroux on his latest thriller, A Dead Hand; two projects bringing together art and music; review of new film An Education.
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Front Row - 26/11/2008
With Mark Lawson, who meets dramatist Tracy Letts, writer of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, which receives its British premiere.
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Front Row - 26/11/2009
Samantha Bond, Diana Quick, Susan Jameson and Barbara Flynn discuss playing the Queen in a TV drama-doc series; a review of a stage version of Terry Pratchett's book, Nation.
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Front Row - 26/12/2007
Arts news and reviews. Kirsty Lang presents a special programme about songs written for Disney films and how they have been re-interpreted.
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Front Row - 27/01/2009
With Mark Lawson. Including an interview with actor Eddie Marsan, who plays a driving instructor in Mike Leigh's film Happy-Go-Lucky.
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Front Row - 27/01/2010
Arts news and reviews Mark Lawson. Including interviews with Costa-winning poet Christopher Reid and leading composer George Benjamin.
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Front Row - 27/02/2009
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including an interview with the Neil Tennant and Chris Low from the Pet Shop Boys.
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Front Row - 27/03/2007
In a special report from Beijing, John Wilson visits the 2008 Olympic Stadium, Norman Foster's vast new airport and the television tower designed by Rem Koolhaas.
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Front Row - 27/03/2009
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Including an interview with Alastair Campbell on public speaking.
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Front Row - 27/04/2009
Kitty McGeever on being the first blind actress cast in a British soap; Chris Strompolos and Eric Zala on their version of Raiders of the Lost Ark; and author KM Peyton.
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Front Row - 27/05/2008
Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and the verdict on the big screen version of the hit TV series Sex and the City.
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Front Row - 27/05/2009
Arts news and reviews. Featuring colour at Tate Liverpool, Sandra Bernhard and Sarah Hall on the stones of Cumbria.
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Front Row - 27/06/2007
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with American law professor and novelist Stephen L Carter.
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Front Row - 27/06/2008
With Kirsty Lang. Former Wimbledon tennis champion Martina Navratilova discusses her art.
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Front Row - 27/07/2009
Arts news and reviews. Includes writer Martin Stannard on his biography of novelist Muriel Spark and reflections on the life of the choreographer Merce Cunningham.
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Front Row - 27/08/2007
John Wilson uncovers the history of China's famous terracotta warriors and charts their journey from their home in Xian to the British Museum for a forthcoming exhibition.
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Front Row - 27/08/2008
With Mark Lawson. Andrew Collins reflects on the many made-up bands, some with intriguing names, which have featured in cinematic history.
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Front Row - 27/08/2009
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Includes an interview with actor Alan Cumming as he starts a stand-up tour, a review of ITV's Wuthering Heights and guitarist Johnny Marr.
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Front Row - 27/09/2007
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, who meets singer and songwriter P J Harvey.
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Front Row - 27/10/2008
With Kirsty Lang. Do songs that have been re-mastered really sound any different to before? And what is mastering anyway? Music writer, Ben Wardle attempts to shed some ‘audio’ light on the subject.
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Front Row - 27/10/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with Michael Caine and reviews of novelist Philip Roth's latest work and a Churchill TV drama.
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Front Row - 27/11/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Actor David Morrissey discusses his TV, film and theatre career and his current role in a new play by Neil Labute, In a Dark Dark House.
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Front Row - 27/11/2009
Robert Englund on Freddy Krueger and cult status; TV sitcom Big Top reviewed; Will Young and Tom Sutcliffe announce the five contenders for the BBC National Short Story Award.
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Front Row - 27/12/2007
Mark Lawson reports on how some of the year's most successful sculpture has been found in the open air. Guests include Antony Gormley, Anthony Caro and Andy Goldsworthy.
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Front Row - 28/01/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a review of the film Cloverfield, in which a monster attacks New York City.
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Front Row - 28/01/2009
With Mark Lawson. Including a review of Mrs Affleck, a new play by Samuel Adamson, inspired by Ibsen and starring Claire Skinner.
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Front Row - 28/01/2010
With Kirsty Lang. Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson on new thriller play Ghost Stories; Disney's new black cartoon princess; Portuguese Fado singer Mariza.
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Front Row - 28/02/2007
With Mark Lawson, including the first night verdict on Daniel Radcliffe's West End stage debut in Peter Shaffer's play Equus.
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Front Row - 28/03/2007
With John Wilson, including an interview with Danny Boyle about his science-fiction film Sunshine, and the results of Front Row's recent 100-word story competition.
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Front Row - 28/04/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with Oscar-winning actress Jodie Foster, who plays a reclusive author in her new film Nim's Island.
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Front Row - 28/04/2009
Art critic Rachel Campbell-Johnston discusses the Turner Prize 2009 shortlist and Antonia Quirke looks at extremes of the film critic's lot.
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Front Row - 28/05/2007
Arts news and reviews. John Wilson meets artist Peter Blake, a pioneer of pop art in the 1960s who celebrates his 75th birthday next month with a major exhibition at Tate Liverpool.
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Front Row - 28/05/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report from Liverpool on a major exhibition dedicated to the work of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt.
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Front Row - 28/05/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Hugh Laurie discusses his role in US drama House and Ian Rankin reviews mathematical crime thriller Fermat's Room.
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Front Row - 28/06/2007
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including a first-night report on English National Opera's new production of the Broadway musical Kismet, starring Michael Ball.
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Front Row - 28/07/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including the verdict on Catherine Tate's return to the stage in David Eldridge's play Under the Blue Sky.
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Front Row - 28/07/2009
Arts news and reviews. Judges Jim Naughtie and Lucasta Miller discuss the 2009 Booker Prize longlist. Plus Sir John Eliot Gardiner on Bach and Harry Patterson on writing thrillers.
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Front Row - 28/08/2007
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including the verdict on the film 1408, based on a Stephen King story about a sinister hotel room and its fatal effects on its guests.
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Front Row - 28/08/2008
With Kirsty Lang. Hollywood screenwriter Richard Price talks about his new novel Lush Life, set on the tough and gritty streets of Lower East Side, New York.
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Front Row - 28/08/2009
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Singer Marc Almond discusses his tribute to Gypsy folk singer Vadim Kozin and Natalie Haynes reviews a new rom-com, (500) Days of Summer.
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Front Row - 28/09/2009
Ricky Gervais discusses his Hollywood directorial debut, The Invention of Lying.
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Front Row - 28/10/2008
With Kirsty Lang. Sex and the City columnist Candace Bushnell talks about her new book One Fifth Avenue, a modern-day story of old and new money, sexual politics and real estate theft.
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Front Row - 28/10/2009
Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson reports on why vampires continue to inspire best-selling books, new films and TV series, with Dacre Stoker, great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker.
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Front Row - 28/11/2007
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report from a major exhibition reflecting on the mysteries of sleep.
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Front Row - 28/11/2008
Arts news, interviews and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Biographer Andrew Lycett tells Kirsty about The Art Of Conversation, a newly-discovered play by Dylan Thomas.
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Front Row - 28/12/2007
Arts news and reviews. John Wilson meets architect Norman Foster, who discusses some of his most celebrated designs.
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Front Row - 28/12/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. The lives of Somerset Maugham, Muriel Spark and William Golding in a biography special.
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Front Row - 29/01/2007
With Mark Lawson, including an interview with screenwriter Troy Kennedy Martin, whose credits include the film The Italian Job and the TV series Edge of Darkness.
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Front Row - 29/01/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with Oscar-winning film-maker John Lasseter, director of Toy Story.
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Front Row - 29/01/2010
Andrea Levy on her latest novel The Long Song; Julien Temple on his documentary about 1970s band Dr Feelgood; Boyd Hilton on the final ever edition of Celebrity Big Brother.
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Front Row - 29/03/2010
Roger Daltrey on Quadrophenia, Avatar star Sam Worthington on new film Clash of the Titans, and Bernard Hill and Saskia Reeves on making the TV drama Canoe Man.
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Front Row - 29/04/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with David Lodge, whose new novel Deaf Sentence focuses on a professor trying to come to terms with his hearing loss.
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Front Row - 29/04/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Poet Wendy Cope and composer Roxanna Panufnik discuss their collaboration of words and music and cricketer Michael Vaughan discusses his art.
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Front Row - 29/05/2007
Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson reports on Dali and Film, a major exhibition which focuses on the relationship between the controversial surrealist and the cinema.
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Front Row - 29/05/2009
Kirsty Lang and Stephen Armstrong review two new comedy series - Krod Mandoon and The Flaming Sword of Fire, and Mumbai Calling. Plus why more females are playing computer games.
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Front Row - 29/06/2007
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including the verdict on Damon Albarn's opera Monkey: Journey to the West.
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Front Row - 29/06/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies, as the spin-off series Torchwood returns to TV and radio.
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Front Row - 29/07/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Michael Portillo announces the books for this year's Man Booker prize.
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Front Row - 29/07/2009
Arts news and reviews. Including a review of Rachel Weisz in the Donmar Warehouse's production of A Streetcar Named Desire and Damned United author David Peace on his latest novel.
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Front Row - 29/08/2008
With Kirsty Lang. Anne McElvoy reviews the TV drama Fiona's Story, which follows a woman's fight to hold her family together after her husband is accused of downloading indecent images of children.
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Front Row - 29/09/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with Little Britain star David Walliams, who is currently on the London stage in Harold Pinter's No Man's Land.
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Front Row - 29/09/2009
Jacqueline Wilson on her first historical story; Pop Life at Tate Modern reviewed; Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona argue about football and relationships.
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Front Row - 29/10/2008
With John Wilson. Singer Tony Christie talks about the resurrection of his career and returning to his South Yorkshire roots for his new album, Made in Sheffield.
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Front Row - 29/10/2009
A report on the re-opening of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, after a multi-million pound redevelopment; the two students who retold 75 great works of literature through Twitter.
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Front Row - 29/12/2008
Mark Lawson reports on the art of sustaining interest in a long-running TV drama series, with guests including Trevor Eve, Alun Armstrong, Blythe Duff and June Brown.
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Front Row - 29/12/2009
Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson reports on rumours of the death of the book.
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Front Row - 30/01/2009
Arts news and reviews. John Wilson reports from Iran as British Museum director Neil MacGregor visits the country to negotiate loans for a major exhibition.
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Front Row - 30/03/2007
Mark Lawson reports from New York on major theatre openings, including Vanessa Redgrave in The Year of Magical Thinking and new shows from the makers of Les Miserables and Cabaret.
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Front Row - 30/03/2009
Mark Lawson and music writer Alex Petridis deliver their verdict on the new Richard Curtis film about a 1960s pirate radio station, The Boat That Rocked.
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Front Row - 30/03/2010
Steven Moffat on writing the new Doctor Who, a review of the film Kick-Ass and Mark Lawson reveals the winner of the National Poetry Prize.
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Front Row - 30/04/2007
The latest arts news and interviews with Mark Lawson, including the verdict on Spider-Man 3, starring Tobey Maguire.
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Front Row - 30/04/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who reports from the opening night of Martin Crimp's play The City, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and is directed by Katie Mitchell.
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Front Row - 30/04/2009
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including a review of Rookery Nook, the classic farce by Ben Travers, and Graham Coxon discussing the Blur reunion.
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Front Row - 30/05/2007
Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson meets the renowned minimalist composer Philip Glass, whose work this year includes a Oscar-nominated soundtrack for the film Notes on a Scandal.
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Front Row - 30/05/2008
Arts news and reviews. Sheila Hancock talks to Mark Lawson about her career, including her early days in rep with a young Harold Pinter, and reflects on her marriage to John Thaw.
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Front Row - 30/06/2008
With Mark Lawson, including a report from Tate Britain on an unusual new commission from the Turner Prize-winning artist Martin Creed.
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Front Row - 30/06/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Johnny Depp discusses his role in the film Public Enemies. Plus, conductor John Wilson on reconstructing the lost sound of MGM musicals.
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Front Row - 30/07/2007
With John Wilson, including an interview with writer Sarah Hall, whose novel The Electric Michelangelo made the Booker Prize shortlist in 2004.
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Front Row - 30/07/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including interviews with veteran American actress Elaine Stritch and Chris Carter, director of a new film based on TV series The X-Files.
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Front Row - 30/07/2009
Arts news and reviews. Includes a review of the film Coco Before Chanel, starring Audrey Tautou, and an exhibition putting disabled children in the picture.
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Front Row - 30/08/2007
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including an interview with the acclaimed South African novelist Andre Brink.
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Front Row - 30/09/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with the American composer John Adams, who has just published a memoir.
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Front Row - 30/09/2009
The artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company on his plans for 2010, singer-songwriter Mika on his new album, and a review of the new production of Breakfast at Tiffany's.
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Front Row - 30/10/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with Alastair Campbell about his novel which is about to be published.
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Front Row - 30/10/2009
John Wilson presents a special edition live from the BBC's Maida Vale studios, reporting on their 75-year history of recording and broadcasting.
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Front Row - 30/11/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. New Cameron Diaz film, The Box; the National Short Story Award; new Medieval and Renaissance galleries at the V and A.
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Front Row - 30/12/2008
Mark Lawson talks to leading comedians about their moves beyond stand-up, and whether comedy needs boundaries. With Alexei Sayle, Chris Addison, Lenny Henry and Al Murray.
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Front Row - 30/12/2009
John Wilson reports on the new generation of British female singers and songwriters, talking to Florence and the Machine, Lily Allen and Mercury Prize winner Speech Debelle.
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Front Row - 31/03/2008
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a review of Michael Haneke's scene-by-scene American remake of his controversial 1997 film Funny Games.
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Front Row - 31/03/2009
With Mark Lawson. Including Jonathan Miller on madness and art at the Wellcome Collection, novelist Wilbur Smith on his tales of Africa and Cristina Odone on the film Religulous.
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Front Row - 31/03/2010
Jenny Agutter on 40 years of The Railway Children and Rufus Wainwright discusses his new album. With John Wilson.
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Front Row - 31/07/2007
With Kirsty Lang, including a report on The Changing Face of Childhood, a new exhibition which focuses on portraits of children painted in the 18th Century.
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Front Row - 31/07/2008
With Kirsty Lang. Bridget Kendall reviews ...some trace of her, science writer Richard Dawkins discusses his new TV series and Lucy Ash on the clandestine Belarus Free Theatre.
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Front Row - 31/07/2009
Arts news and reviews. Includes an interview with publisher George Weidenfeld, thoughts on the new Sondheim CD and a look at the exhibition Exquisite Bodies.
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Front Row - 31/08/2009
Mark Lawson talks to William Trevor in a special edition of Front Row where the writer reflects on his career as a novelist, short story writer and sculptor.
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Front Row - 31/08/2010
With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche and a review of the tv drama A Bouquet of Barbed Wire.
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Front Row - 31/10/2007
With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the actor Timothy Spall, who is about to appear in a new TV version of EM Forster's A Room with a View.
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Front Row - 31/12/2007
Mark Lawson talks to actors including Daniel Radcliffe, Joanna Lumley, Warren Mitchell, Robert Redford and Timothy Spall about training, choosing a role, type-casting and ageing.
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Front Row - 31/12/2008
John Wilson reports on how leading musicians respond to working in the shadow of past success. With Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Damon Albarn, Paul Weller, Coldplay and The Police.
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Front Row - 31/12/2009
Mark Lawson talks to leading actors about their choices of work and the power of directors, with guests including Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins and Clint Eastwood.
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Front Row - A Front Row Special with Michael Frayn
Playwright and novelist Michael Frayn talks to Mark Lawson about his childhood and career, in the light of a newly-published memoir about his father.
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Front Row - Aaron Sorkin, Nobel Prize for Literature, Rory Kinnear.
With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Aaron Sorkin, creator of The West Wing. Plus Rory Kinnear on playing Hamlet and news of the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.
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Front Row - Academy Award Nominations
Mark Lawson reports on the 2011 Academy Award nominations.
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Front Row - Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Guests are Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg, the team behind musicals such as Les Miserables and Miss Saigon.
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Front Row - Alan Bennett - Mastermind; Tony Curtis
Mark Lawson puts Alan Bennett in the Mastermind chair - specialist subject: TV plays of Alan Bennett. Also, marking the death of Tony Curtis with a Front Row interview from 2008.
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Front Row - Alan Bleasdale and The Next Three Days
With Mark Lawson, including Alan Bleasdale on his new TV drama The Sinking of the Laconia, Russell Crowe in The Next Three Days, and violinist Thomas Zehetmair.
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Front Row - Alan Sugar, Don Bachardy on Christopher Isherwood
Mark Lawson talks to Alan Sugar, and painter Don Bachardy remembers his partner the writer Christopher Isherwood and meetings with Beckett, Brando and Bacon.
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Front Row - Alex Ross, Richard Eyre, Angela de la Cruz
With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Alex Ross, author of The Rest Is Noise, an award-winning book about music in the 20th century and Richard Eyre on directing farce.
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Front Row - Angelina Jolie stars in the espionage thriller Salt
Reviewing Angelina Jolie's role as a renegade CIA agent in Salt. John Wilson interviews his namesake, conductor John Wilson, about recreating the sound of Rodgers and Hammerstein.
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Front Row - Anjelica Huston and David Bailey
Kirsty Lang interviews Anjelica Huston, reviews Please Give and meets photographer David Bailey.
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Front Row - Armstrong and Miller, Nina Raine
With Mark Lawson. Comedians Armstrong and Miller discuss putting their TV characters on stage and into a book. Reviews of the US drama The Event and Thomas Lawrence's portraits.
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Front Row - Aspects of Love, Shackleton's Antarctic expedition and the 10 Rules of Rock n Roll
John Wilson with arts news, including the verdict on the London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Aspects of Love, directed by Trevor Nunn. Plus Robert Forster on his new book.
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Front Row - Author C J Sansom, The Switch and Dinner for Schmucks
Novelist C J Sansom discusses his Tudor mysteries, Natalie Haynes reviews new films The Switch and Dinner for Schmucks, and the schools who produce Mercury nominees.
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Front Row - Ballet star Carlos Acosta
Ballet star Carlos Acosta, stand-up comedian John Bishop and the graffitti artist whose work has just been given as a gift from Cameron to Obama.
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Front Row - Barack Obama biographer David Remnick
With Mark Lawson. Including an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick, who is publishing a biography of Barack Obama; comic art from the 1600s to the present day.
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Front Row - Bardem in Biutiful, and Winter's Bone director
A review of Javier Bardem in the Mexican film Biutiful; Winter's Bone director Debra Granik discusses her Oscar-nominated film; and Indian politics in children's fiction.
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Front Row - Barry Humphries and John Simm
Actor John Simm prepares to take on the role of Hamlet in Sheffield, and Barry Humphries discusses his intimate relationship with Dame Edna Everage.
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Front Row - BBC National Short Story Award; Secretariat reviewed
Arts news with Mark Lawson. News of the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award, a review of new film Secretariat, and Michael Gambon and Anya Reiss pick up theatre gongs.
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Front Row - Big Fat Gypsy Weddings and news of the Fourth Plinth
Comedy performer and writer Richard Herring; Linda Grant discusses her new novel We Had It So Good; news of the Fourth Plinth; and a review of Big Fat Gypsy Weddings.
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Front Row - Bill Bailey and Spooks actor Peter Firth
With Mark Lawson, including comedian Bill Bailey, the ENO's new staging of Don Giovanni, Peter Firth, who plays Harry in Spooks, and a review of My Afternoons with Marguerite.
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Front Row - Bjork on the Moomins, and revamping Scarborough
Bjork on her love of the Moomins, created by Finnish writer Tove Jansson; historian Ian Mortimer on his first novel as James Forrester; a report on regenerating Scarborough.
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Front Row - Black Swan; Crime fiction round up; Art you can touch
With Mark Lawson, who explores the issues raised by art you can touch, selects new crime fiction and reviews the film Black Swan.
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Front Row - Boy George TV biopic, Art Fund Prize shortlist, video game music
A TV drama about Boy George, the Art Fund Prize shortlist revealed, the art of composing music for video games and the director who set a film almost entirely inside a tank.
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Front Row - Brenda Blethyn in new film London River
With Kirsty Lang. Brenda Blethyn stars in London River, a film set in the wake of the London bombings on 7th July 2005; Christine Tobin recreates Carole King's record Tapestry.
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Front Row - Bret Easton Ellis and Camille Silvy
Mark Lawson talks to Bret Easton Ellis about his new sequel to his 1985 debut novel Less Than Zero. Plus the photographs of Camille Silvy and the premiere of Durham Miners' Hymns.
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Front Row - Bruce Forsyth at home and Toy Story
Mark Lawson talks to Broadway actress Mercedes Ruehl, reviews Toy Story 3 and Bruce Forsyth in a documentary about his life with his wife called Living with Brucie.
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Front Row - Bryan Ferry and novelist Anne Enright
Arts news. Bryan Ferry discusses his new album, Olympia, Anne Enright considers the importance of Irish short stories, and a report on the Royal Opera House's latest project.
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Front Row - Burke and Hare review and Jac Holzman
Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis star in the black comedy film Burke and Hare, Dame Liz Forgan on Arts Council England spending cuts, The Glasgow Boys, and Scottish painting 1880-1900.
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Front Row - Catherine Tate returns to the National Theatre
With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on Somewhere, Sofia Coppola's new film about a Hollywood actor and his 11-year-old daughter, and an interview with Catherine Tate.
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Front Row - Cecilia Bartoli; Simon Amstell, Dexter Dalwood
Kirsty Lang talks to mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli and comedian Simon Amstell.
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Front Row - Celebrity photographer Albert Watson
With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with photographer Albert Watson, whose subjects range from film stars to the Royal family; and why is rap taking over the British Library?
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Front Row - Christopher Eccleston as John Lennon
Christopher Eccleston plays John Lennon in BBC Four's drama Lennon Naked and Russell Brand revives his badly-behaved rock star Aldous Snow in Get Him to the Greek.
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Front Row - Christopher Nolan on his latest film, Inception
With Mark Lawson. Including an interview with Christopher Nolan, director of The Dark Knight, whose new film Inception is an unconventional spy thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Front Row - Christopher Plummer; Ed Smith on Out of the Ashes
Actor Christopher Plummer whose film career includes The Sound of Music and an Oscar nomination in 2010 for The Last Station. And Ed Smith reviews cricket film Out of the Ashes.
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Front Row - City of Culture 2013 winner; Plan B interview
John Wilson has news of the winner of the UK City of Culture 2013, an interview with singer Plan B and the verdict on The Concert, a film about an act of orchestral impersonation.
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Front Row - Coco and Igor reviewed, James Nesbitt and Minnie Driver in The Deep
With Kirsty Lang. James Nesbitt and Minnie Driver star in a new TV drama The Deep, and Hastings features in the first of four reports on regenerating British seaside towns.
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Front Row - Colin Firth and Costa Book Category Winners revealed
Mark Lawson announces the Costa Book Award category winners. Colin Firth and director Tom Hooper on portraying royalty in The King's Speech. And Pete Postlethwaite remembered.
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Front Row - Costa Book Awards, Keith Coventry
Mark Lawson reveals the contenders for the Costa Book Awards and talks to artist Keith Coventry.
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Front Row - Country star Glen Campbell on playing with Elvis
Country star Glen Campbell on playing with Elvis, the first CD of Walton's cello piece for Prince Charles, historical maps at the British Library, and Nicola Barker's new novel.
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Front Row - Craig Phillips and 'Nasty' Nick on the end of Big Brother
With Mark Lawson, including Craig Phillips and 'Nasty' Nick on the legacy of Big Brother and an interview with Dame Beryl Grey, president of the English National Ballet.
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Front Row - Crime writer Peter James and World Cup jukebox jury
With Mark Lawson, who meets crime writer Peter James, visits the opening of five new galleries at the Museum of London and presides over Front Row's World Cup jukebox jury.
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Front Row - Damien Hirst and the British Art Show 2010
With John Wilson, who talks to Damien Hirst and takes the temperature of new visual art in the UK, as the British Art Show, which is held every five years, opens in Nottingham.
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Front Row - Damon Albarn on returning to Glastonbury
Damon Albarn on returning to Glastonbury; Joan Bakewell reviews Moira Buffini's new play; a radical reassessment of Mahler.
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Front Row - David Grossman; supermarket films; and Eddie Kadi
Kirsty Lang talks to Israeli writer David Grossman. Plus, she reports on new films made to go straight onto the supermarket shelves, and meets comedian Eddie Kadi.
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Front Row - David Hyde Pierce on his British stage debut
Mark Lawson reviews The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, and interviews the actor and Frasier star David Hyde Pierce and author Piers Paul Read.
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Front Row - David Jason: The Show Must Go On! reviewed
With John Wilson. Including a review of David Jason: The Show Must Go On! and Barney Platts-Mills on Bronco Bullfrog.
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Front Row - David Yates on directing Harry Potter; BBC Short Story shortlist
With Mark Lawson, including news of the five writers on the shortlist for the BBC National Short Story Award. The stories will be broadcast next week on Radio 4.
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Front Row - Dawn French, Cleo Laine, Any Human Heart reviewed
Mark Lawson talks to Dawn French about marriage and writing and to jazz singer Cleo Laine and watches Jim Broadbent in a TV version of William Boyd's novel Any Human Heart.
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Front Row - Deathtrap and Michael Sheen completes his Blair trilogy
Mark Lawson reviews Simon Russell Beale in Ira Levin's thriller Deathtrap, and Michael Sheen completes his Blair trilogy Peter Morgan's TV drama The Special Relationship.
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Front Row - Donald Sturrock on Roald Dahl; Tim Robbins sings.
With John Wilson, who talks to actor Tim Robbins about his musical childhood and his new band and album, which draws on American folk traditions.
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Front Row - Eddie Izzard and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest
Mark Lawson interviews comedian Eddie Izzard, Jeff Park reviews The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's' Nest, artist Philippe Parreno's solo show and James Last on six decades on stage.
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Front Row - Edward Albee
With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the 78-year-old American dramatist Edward Albee, whose play The Lady from Dubuque is about to receive a major new London production.
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Front Row - Elle Macpherson and a Tap Dogs lesson
The winner of this year's Art Fund Prize for Museums announced, and Elle Macpherson on Britain's Next Top Model.
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Front Row - Elvis Costello; Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan
John Wilson talks to songwriter Elvis Costello, as he releases his new album National Ransom, and interviews comedians Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan about their new TV comedy series.
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Front Row - Fela! review, Michael Dobbs on playing Mrs Thatcher
Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson reviews Fela! at the National Theatre and talks to jazz musician John Hendricks. Author Michael Dobbs assesses actors playing Mrs Thatcher.
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Front Row - Film director James Mangold; Dawn French & Alfred Molina's new TV comedy
Director James Mangold on how to get the best from Hollywood A-list stars; BBC Two's Roger And Val Have Just Got In reviewed; has the Big Society anything new to offer the arts?
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Front Row - Films 'based on a true story'
Kirsty Lang on why the phrase 'Based on a True Story' is so appealing to film-makers and TV producers, and interviews with Peter Weir, Peter Morgan and Hilary Swank.
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Front Row - Fiona Banner and Shrek reviewed
Mark Lawson asks Fiona Banner why she's placed two fighter jets in Tate Britain, Shrek Forever After is reviewed, and a report from Coventry's Herbert Museum and Art Gallery.
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Front Row - Four Lions reviewed; Turner Prize shortlist; Valerie Grove on Kaye Webb
A review of Chris Morris's debut film Four Lions, this year's Turner Prize shortlist revealed and does site-specific theatre really work?
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Front Row - Fourth Plinth; Noel Clarke's new film; mysteries of Henry VIII
Yinka Shonibare discusses his Fourth Plinth sculpture of Nelson's Ship in a Bottle; a review of Noel Clarke's new film 4.3.2.1; why is Shakespeare's Henry VIII rarely performed?
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Front Row - Frederick Forsyth discusses new novel Cobra
With Mark Lawson. Frederick Forsyth talks about his new novel The Cobra; a documentary about piano-tuning for the virtuoso concert pianist; and time-jumps on film and stage.
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Front Row - Front Row Quiz
Mark Lawson turns question master for the night, as he hosts the Front Row Quiz, with two teams facing a test of their arts knowledge of 2010 and beyond.
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Front Row - Gauguin, Nick Hornby and Terry O'Neill
With John Wilson, who talks to novelist Nick Hornby and musician Ben Folds about their songwriting partnership. A major new Gauguin retrospective. And photographer Terry O'Neill.
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Front Row - Harold Pinter
Special edition in tribute to the Nobel prizewinning playwright Harold Pinter. In this programme, first broadcast in 2005, Pinter gave a rare full-length interview about his work.
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Front Row - Harry Hill and Launch of the Cultural Olympiad 2012
Mark Lawson talks to Cultural Olympiad Director Ruth Mackenzie, comedian Harry Hill discusses celebrity memoirs and Richard Cork reviews novels set in the art world.
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Front Row - Herb Alpert; John Pawson; The Town film review
Trumpeter Herb Alpert reflects on his long career; John Pawson discusses designing a minimalist monastery; and there's a review of The Town, starring Ben Affleck.
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Front Row - Highlights from the Edinburgh Fringe
Highlights from Edinburgh 2010, including Tim Vine on the power of corny jokes, pianist Rainer Hersch on Victor Borge and actress Mercy Ojelade on a play about sex trafficking.
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Front Row - Hiliary Swank interview; School of Comedy
Kirsty Lang talks to Hilary Swank about her new film Conviction, reports on an after-school comedy club which spawned a Channel 4 series and to the Dulwich Picture Gallery director.
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Front Row - Hitchcock's Women, with Tippi Hedren and Jean Marsh
Mark Lawson focuses on how director Alfred Hitchcock worked with his female stars, including interviews with Tippi Hedren, star of The Birds and Marnie, and Jean Marsh.
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Front Row - Howard Brenton on his new play Anne Boleyn
Howard Brenton on his new play, Anne Boleyn. Barry Norman and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh on Woody Allen and Francis Ford Coppola. Novelist Benjamin Markovits on life as a basketball pro.
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Front Row - Howard Jacobson, Zaha Hadid, Colin Firth, Mumford and Sons, Benedict Cumberpatch, Christian Marclay
Mark Lawson unwraps interviews with the names behind the arts headlines of the year, including artist Christian Marclay, creator of the video The Clock, which lasts for 24 hours.
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Front Row - I am Kloot and Andrew Graham-Dixon on Caravaggio
Kirsty Lang talks to Andrew Graham-Dixon about artist Caravaggio, to singer John Bramwell from I Am Kloot, and why red is the colour for London buses, pillar boxes and phone boxes.
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Front Row - Ian McEwan and Fay Weldon on creative writing courses
Mark Lawson reports on whether teaching creative writing has led to a better class of fiction, with novelists including Ian McEwan and Fay Weldon.
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Front Row - In Belfast with Paul Muldoon and Colin Bateman
With Mark Lawson in Belfast, including an interview with writer Colin Bateman, whose first play focuses on an attempt to write a national anthem for Northern Ireland.
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Front Row - Jack Nicholson in How Do You Know
Jack Nicholson stars in romantic comedy How Do You Know, reviewed with Clint Eastwood's Hereafter. Plus, poet Jo Shapcott on winning the Costa Book Prize, and Sir Nicholas Hytner.
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Front Row - Jean Michel Jarre and Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Jean Michel Jarre talks to Mark Lawson about his career since Oxygene in 1976. Sir John Eliot Gardiner discusses his Monteverdi Vespers. And the world's most expensive books.
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Front Row - John le Carré
Mark Lawson meets the writer John le Carre, who reflects on his childhood, the experience of espionage and his most recent fiction, which focuses on extraordinary rendition.
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Front Row - John Updike
Mark Lawson talks to writer John Updike about his new novel, which revisits the three main characters from his 1984 book The Witches of Eastwick - now the Widows of Eastwick.
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Front Row - John Wilson talks to Christopher Hitchens about his memoir
With John Wilson, who interviews the writer Christopher Hitchens as he publishes a memoir. John also begins a series of four reports on the contenders for UK City of Culture 2013.
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Front Row - John Wilson talks to Michael Morpurgo and Al Green
John Wilson talks to Al Green about gospel and soul music, reviews a new film from 88-year-old director Alain Resnais, and author Michael Morpurgo discusses war and libraries.
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Front Row - Johnny Marr and Jo Whiley discuss if guitar bands are dead
Mark Lawson discusses the death of guitar bands with Johnny Marr, Jo Whiley and Peter Robinson and goes into the boxing ring with playwright Roy Williams.
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Front Row - Julia Roberts; Mark Ronson; Diaghilev's legacy
With Mark Lawson. Julia Roberts on her new film Eat Pray Love and British choreographers discuss Diaghilev as the Victoria and Albert open an exhibition on the Ballets Russes.
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Front Row - Julian Fellowes, Hugh Bonneville and Colm Toibin
Julian Fellowes and Hugh Bonneville discuss the ITV period drama Downton Abbey and Kirsty Lang interviews writer Colm Toibin about his short story collection The Empty Family.
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Front Row - Julian Schnabel, artist Ben Johnson
John Wilson talks to Julian Schnabel about directing films; artist Ben Johnson in his studio; Barack Obama's children's book.
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Front Row - Julianne Moore and Annette Benning in latest film
Julianne Moore and Annette Benning in The Kids Are All Right, Bill Tarmey on playing Jack Duckworth, Lloyd Cole on tour and Fay Weldon on a new TV drama with a scary mother in law.
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Front Row - Julie Andrews reviewed, Junior Apprentice and Tippi Hedren
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Julie Andrews reviewed, Junior Apprentice, and an interview with Tippi Hedren.
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Front Row - Kim Cattrall, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, I Am Slave
Kirsty Lang talks to actress Kim Cattrall; Jeremy Brock discusses his film I Am Slave; Mark Eccleston reviews the new film Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
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Front Row - Kirsty Lang meets Terry Gilliam
Kirsty Lang meets film-maker Terry Gilliam, whose credits range from Monty Python to the dystopian Brazil, along with ill-fated unfinished projects and next year a move into opera.
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Front Row - Kirsty Lang talks to LL Cool J; and Picasso's grandson
Kirsty Lang talks to Picasso's grandson Bernard Ruiz-Picasso; rapper turned actor LL Cool J; and John Wilson reports on Norwich's bid to become UK City of Culture.
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Front Row - Klaxons; Comedy Awards; Jo Nesbo; long running TV series
News of the contenders for the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards; Klaxons on their latest album; Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbo.
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Front Row - Larkin Tour of Hull
Mark Lawson reports from Hull to mark the 25th anniversary of Philip Larkin's death, and director Don Boyd discusses his transition from film to books with his debut novel.
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Front Row - Luther; David Greig; Giorgio Moroder
Includes playwright David Greig on creating a new version of Peter Pan, and the verdict on TV crime thriller Luther, starring Idris Elba.
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Front Row - M Night Shyamalan; Booker longlist; Gainsbourg biopic
With Mark Lawson. Film-maker and screenwriter M Night Shyamalan; Andrew Motion announces the Booker longlist; biopic Gainsbourg reviewed; an exhibition at Harewood House.
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Front Row - Made in Dagenham and KT Tunstall
With Mark Lawson, who reviews the film Made in Dagenham, based on the 1968 Ford factory strike. Plus singer KT Tunstall performs and there's a look into two new TV detective shows.
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Front Row - Margaret Atwood
Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson talks to Margaret Atwood about fiction, feminism, the RSC's staging of her novel The Penelopiad, and her early experience as a puppeteer.
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Front Row - Marilyn Monroe remembered; Africa United
With Kirsty Lang; Marilyn Monroe's hand-written notes; a report on the film Africa United; artist Christian Marclay's video The Clock; Michelle Paver's Arctic ghost story.
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Front Row - Mark Knopfler, Psycho, Iron Man, Sir Mark Elder
With Mark Lawson, including a report on Robert Downey Jr's return to the role of Iron Man; 25 years since Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms; and Janet Leigh's body double in Psycho.
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Front Row - Martin Creed, Sloane Crosley, Black Dynamite
With John Wilson. Including a review of Black Dynamite, a spoof of 70s Blaxploitation films. Plus, Turner Prize winning artist Martin Creed on his Edinburgh exhibition.
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Front Row - Martin Gayford on Lucian Freud; the Booker shortlist
Andrew Motion discusses the Man Booker Prize shortlist; Martin Gayford on sitting for Lucian Freud; we look ahead to the Mercury Prize ceremony and comedy film Cyrus reviewed.
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Front Row - Martin Shaw; Iraq on film; big band Loose Tubes
With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with actor Martin Shaw and First Lieutenant Mike Scotti, creator of the film This is War.
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Front Row - Michael Gambon and Robert Wyatt
Michael Gambon discusses his return to the stage, and singer and musician Robert Wyatt talks about his new disc, stage fright and the impact his accident had on his music.
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Front Row - Miranda Hart on her comic persona
With Kirsty Lang, including comedian Miranda Hart, and a review of the Thai film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year.
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Front Row - Monty Python's Eric Idle; pianist Louis Lortie; Bad Lieutenant
With John Wilson, including interviews with Monty Python's Eric Idle as his musical Spamalot begins a national tour, and pianist Louis Lortie on the art of playing Chopin.
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Front Row - Morning Glory; Neil Jordan; Film SFX
With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on Harrison Ford as a reluctant US morning show anchor; and The Crying Game screenwriter Neil Jordan. (Including Brief Encounters).
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Front Row - Morte D'Arthur at the RSC and artist Cornelia Parker
With Kirsty Lang. Including King Arthur's adventures on stage at the RSC, artist Cornelia Parker on squashing brass band instruments to make art, and why 4D is the coming thing.
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Front Row - Must be the Music, Candia McWilliam, Arvo Part
Kirsty Lang reviews Must be the Music, the new TV talent show that aims to be a more credible X Factor. Plus writer Candia McWilliam on her emotional recovery from blindness.
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Front Row - NEDS & Nina Raine's Tiger Country reviewed
John Wilson reviews Peter Mullan's film NEDS, about Glasgow gangs in the 1970s, and Nina Raine's new play Tiger Country, which looks at the pressures of working in a hospital.
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Front Row - New sitcom Rev; Francis Drake's musicians
Mark Lawson with a review of new urban vicarage sitcom Rev. Orlando Gough and viol consort Fretwork imagine the music performed during Francis Drake's 1577 voyage around the world.
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Front Row - News from Cannes; China Mieville; Exile on Main St reviewed; Tyler Perry
With Kirsty Lang, including the Rolling Stones back with Exile on Main St, American film star Tyler Perry, China Mieville on his novel Kraken and the latest news from Cannes.
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Front Row - Nicolas Roeg on Canaletto; London Palladium at 100
Don't Look Now director Nicolas Roeg on visions of Venice, as painted by Canaletto and his rivals. Lord Lloyd Webber, Elaine Paige and Bruce Forsyth on the London Palladium at 100.
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Front Row - Nicole Kidman; Steven Isserlis
Mark Lawson talks to Nicole Kidman about her Oscar-nominated performance in Rabbit Hole, and to cellist Steven Isserlis and composer Anne Dudley about their new work for children.
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Front Row - Nigel Kennedy; Marc Quinn; Oxford Professor of Poetry nominees
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with Nigel Kennedy, who discusses his forthcoming Polish Weekend at London's Southbank. Plus the sculptor Marc Quinn.
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Front Row - Norman Mailer
Mark Lawson meets the American writer Norman Mailer. Now aged 84, Mailer is about to publish a new novel which focuses on the childhood of Adolf Hitler.
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Front Row - Novelist David Mitchell; Keane; and a review of Money
With Mark Lawson. David Mitchell discusses his new novel, set in Japan at the turn of the nineteenth century; and a review of the television adaptation of Martin Amis' Money.
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Front Row - Oliver Stone reviewed; crime writer RJ Ellory
Mark Lawson has the verdict on Oliver Stone's new political documentary and interviews RJ Ellory, who has just won the Crime Novel of the Year award.
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Front Row - Oscar-winning film and stage director Danny Boyle in conversation with Mark Lawson.
Danny Boyle, Oscar-winning director of Slumdog Millionaire, discusses his forthcoming work for the cinema, theatre and the 2012 Olympics, in conversation with Mark Lawson.
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Front Row - Paul O'Grady, Gary Hume and the Liverpool Art Biennial
Mark Lawson talks to Paul O'Grady and reports from the Liverpool Art Biennial where Gary Hume reveals the winner of this year's John Moores Painting Prize.
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Front Row - PD James, Mike Leigh's film Another Year reviewed
With Mark Lawson, who talks to PD James as her only book about a true crime, The Maul and the Pear Tree, is republished. Also a review of Mike Leigh's film Another Year.
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Front Row - People of the Year - Part 1
Mark Lawson introduces a selection of highlights from the past year and talks to some of the people who have made the headlines in the arts, including Kenneth Branagh.
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Front Row - People of the Year - Part 2
Mark Lawson talks to the names behind the arts headlines of the year, including Phyllida Lloyd and Catherine Johnson, director and writer of the hit musical and film Mamma Mia!
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Front Row - Peter Kay reviewed; Ian Rankin at 50
The verdict on Peter Kay's return to stand-up comedy after seven years away; Ian Rankin celebrates his 50th birthday; Birmingham MAC re-opens after a 15 million pound refurbishment.
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Front Row - Philip Roth
Arts news and reviews. In a rare interview, Philip Roth, regarded by many as America's finest living novelist, talks to Mark Lawson about his books.
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Front Row - Photographer Steve McCurry; spy handovers
Magnum photographer Steve McCurry on his Afghanistan images, the latest offerings from new female singers, the spy handover in film and literature, and film director Ralph Ziman.
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Front Row - Picasso in Liverpool, Tosca in London and Tracey Thorn
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including the Picasso exhibition in Liverpool, Tosca in London, singer Tracey Thorn and the novelist Rana Dasgupta.
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Front Row - Plan B and Tinie Tempah
Arts news and reviews. John Wilson talks to two of the year's musical successes, Tinie Tempah and Plan B.
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Front Row - Poet Jackie Kay and Hattie Jacques TV drama
An interview with poet Jackie Kay; Graham McCann reviews a new TV drama about Hattie Jacques; and Stella Duffy reviews the film Blue Valentine.
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Front Row - Prequels and Sequels, with Bret Easton Ellis and Scott Turow
Mark Lawson reports on the temptations of the pre-quel and the sequel, including interviews with writers Bret Easton Ellis, Armistead Maupin, John Sullivan and Scott Turow.
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Front Row - Ray Davies; Robert Lindsay plays Onassis
With John Wilson, including the first-night verdict on Robert Lindsay's portrayal of the tycoon Aristotle Onassis in a new play by Martin Sherman.
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Front Row - Rebecca Hall in Twelfth Night, Penelope Curtis on British Sculpture, Sharon Watson Phoenix Dance Director
With Mark Lawson, including a review of Peter Hall's new production of Twelfth Night - his daughter Rebecca Hall plays Viola. And curator Penelope Curtis on British Sculpture.
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Front Row - Record producer William Orbit; Romantics at Tate Britain
John Wilson meets composer and producer William Orbit, a report from a military range in Brecon taken over by the National Theatre Wales, and Romantics at Tate Britain.
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Front Row - Red reviewed; Peter Asher on Apple Records, Tutankhamen
John Wilson reviews Bruce Willis in the film Red; Peter Asher remembers Apple Records. Plus Booker shortlisted novelist Lloyd Jones.
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Front Row - Restrepo; Cornelia Funke; and photographer Martin Parr
Kirsty Lang talks to British photographer Martin Parr; best-selling children's novelist Cornelia Funke; author and film-maker Sebastian Junger on his film Restrepo.
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Front Row - Reviews of Bedlam and The Young Ones
Reviews of new play Bedlam and TV series The Young Ones; and an interview with dancer and choreographer Akram Khan.
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Front Row - Ricky Gervais; Megamind; and the William Hill Sports Book of the Year
Mark Lawson talks to writer and comedian Ricky Gervais; plus the winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year; and the animated superhero comedy Megamind is reviewed.
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Front Row - Robert Plant, Bryan Ferry and Phil Collins reviewed
With Mark Lawson. A review of the crime caper The Other Guys, starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, and the curator of Pre-Raphaelites at the Ashmolean Museum on his discovery.
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Front Row - Roger Lloyd Pack; cuts in arts budgets
Mark Lawson looks at what impact 40% cuts would have on the arts; interview with actor Roger Lloyd Pack.
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Front Row - Ronnie Wood, a tribute to Joan Sutherland.
With Mark Lawson. Ronnie Wood on his new solo album; Chinese artist Ai Weiwei on why he decided to fill the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern with porcelain sunflower seeds.
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Front Row - Russell Brand and Jo Brand; Wall Street review.
Mark Lawson meets a pair of unrelated comedy Brands - Russell and Jo. Plus a review of Michael Douglas in the sequel to the 1987 film Wall Street, directed by Oliver Stone.
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Front Row - Russell Crowe, Ashes to Ashes and the Archbishop of Canterbury
With Mark Lawson. Including an interview with Russell Crowe about Robin Hood, the Archbishop of Canterbury on the library of Lambeth Palace, and the writers of Ashes to Ashes.
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Front Row - Scissor Sisters and writer Neil Gaiman
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, featuring an interview with The Scissor Sisters, a report from the Art Fund shortlisted Ulster Museum, and the winner of the Carnegie Medal.
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Front Row - Scissor Sisters on Mapplethorpe, Jeremy Dyson on Dahl
With Kirsty Lang, including Jeremy Dyson on staging Roald Dahl's short stories for adults and the Scissor Sisters on photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. (Including Brief Encounters).
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Front Row - Scott Turow; Antonio Pappano and review of Prince of Persia
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. He meets legal thriller writer Scott Turow, who is about to publish a sequel to his best-selling debut, Presumed Innocent.
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Front Row - Screenwriter Jimmy McGovern on TV Drama Accused
With Mark Lawson, including an interview with screenwriter Jimmy McGovern, whose new TV drama series Accused focuses on an individual in the dock, facing judge and jury.
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Front Row - Sean Connery at 80; Inspector Morse on stage
Sean Connery at 80; Inspector Morse on stage, starring Colin Baker; conductor Osmo Vanska; the verdict on Scott Pilgrim vs The World, a new film from Edgar Wright.
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Front Row - Sex and the City 2; Ian McEwan; Chang-rae Lee
With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the acclaimed Korean-American writer Chang-rae Lee; and the verdict on the latest Sex and the City film, starring Sarah Jessica Parker.
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Front Row - Sherlock Holmes in the 21st century on TV
Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman star in modern day TV films of Sherlock Holmes & Pianist Paul Lewis on playing all five Beethoven concerti in this year's Proms concerts.
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Front Row - Simon Callow on his theatrical life
With Mark Lawson. Simon Callow on his life in theatre, Jeanette Winterson 25 years after Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, and an interview with members of the band Mumford and Sons.
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Front Row - Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran
John Wilson talks to Simon Le Bon, front man of Duran Duran; Trevor Eve plays an international hostage negotiator in TV drama; Hugh Dennis on his new improvisation show.
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Front Row - Simon Pegg; Kim Cattrall as Cleopatra
Comedian and screenwriter Simon Pegg; Kim Cattrall takes on Antony and Cleopatra; a new film about Carlos the Jackal; and Tate Modern rope off their new Turbine Hall exhibit.
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Front Row - Singer Tom Jones
Tom Jones discusses his new album, John Lee Hooker, Elvis and hair care for the older gentleman; and photographic innovations that have changed the way we see the world.
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Front Row - Sir David Attenborough and his love of fossils
With Kirsty Lang. Sir David Attenborough on his quest for the origins of life in the new TV series, First Life. Tony Palmer remembers composer Henryk Gorecki who has died.
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Front Row - Sir Michael Caine
In conversation with Mark Lawson, Sir Michael Caine reflects on his journey from south London to Hollywood, and a career which includes over 100 film roles and two Oscars.
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Front Row - Sir Peter Hall Theatre Director
Mark Lawson interviews the theatre director Sir Peter Hall, who is about to celebrate his 80th birthday, and continues to create new productions.
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Front Row - Spending Review and Clio Barnard on Andrea Dunbar
Mark Lawson talks to Culture Minister Ed Vaizey and a panel of arts professionals about the Spending Review and to film-maker Clio Barnard about writer Andrea Dunbar.
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Front Row - Stephen Fry and Blood and Gifts
With Mark Lawson, including Stephen Fry on his new volume of autobiography and John Simpson reviewing JT Rogers' play Blood and Gifts which is set in Afghanistan.
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Front Row - Stephen Mangan, Pianists Barry Douglas and Leslie Howard
Kirsty Lang talks to actor Stephen Mangan about his new comedy Episodes and appearing on Celebrity Mastermind. Pianists Barry Douglas and Leslie Howard compare notes on Liszt.
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Front Row - Stephen Sondheim
Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, 80 this year, reflects on his career, in conversation with Mark Lawson, in a programme recorded at the Cheltenham Literature Festival.
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Front Row - Stephen Sondheim at 80
Mark Lawson discusses the songs and shows of Stephen Sondheim, who celebrated his 80th birthday earlier this year, and whose work is performed in a BBC Prom this Saturday.
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Front Row - Steve Winwood and Jo Shapcott interviewed
With John Wilson. Including a report on the Ashmolean Museum, which is one of the contenders for the Art Fund Prize for Museums and Galleries, and poet Jo Shapcott reading live.
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Front Row - Stewart Lee; Impressionist Gardens; The A-Team; Beat Generation
Remakes of The Karate Kid and The A-Team reviewed; Stewart Lee analyses his stand-up act; photographer Harold Chapman on the Beat generation; Impressionist Gardens reviewed.
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Front Row - Suede and Let Me In
With John Wilson, including an interview with Brett Anderson and Mat Osman from the re-formed band Suede.
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Front Row - Suzanne Vega and Orange Prize 2010
Mark Lawson talks to American singer Suzanne Vega, visits the 242nd Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, reviews Rattigan's After the Dance and reveals the 2010 Orange Prize winner.
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Front Row - Tamara Drewe review and Richard Thomas talks shoes.
With Kirsty Lang, including a review of new film Tamara Drewe, based on Posy Simmonds' graphic novel, and a re-assessment of pioneering Victorian photographer Eadweard Muybridge.
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Front Row - Tangled, and TV documentary on teenage deaths
With Kirsty Lang. Disney's new version of Rapunzel, Tangled; TV documentary Scenes from a Teenage Killing; and the first performance of lost Vivaldi concerto Il Gran Mogol.
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Front Row - Ten Years of Tate Modern
As Tate Modern approaches its 10th birthday, John Wilson reports on how the gallery has attracted 45 million visitors, and asks whether it has changed our attitudes to modern art.
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Front Row - The American; Seth MacFarlane; and Judy Garland feature
The American, with George Clooney, reviewed; Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane; the re-developed Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford; and Rufus Wainwright on Judy Garland.
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Front Row - The Expendables; Corrie the play; crime writer MC Beaton
The Expendables is reviewed; Jonathan Harvey talks about his new play Corrie!; crime writer MC Beaton; and Julian Fellowes on the usefulness of professional advice.
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Front Row - The Green Hornet reviewed; Chain Story continues
Mark Lawson reviews Seth Rogen in The Green Hornet, the latest film based on a comic-book superhero, and interviews novelist Paul Bailey.
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Front Row - The Inbetweeners; Simon Stephens on his play Punk Rock
Mark Lawson talks to Damon Beesley, co-creator of the Inbetweeners, and Simon Stephens, writer of the hit play Punk Rock, about the embarrassments of teenage life.
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Front Row - The Joneses; Shelagh Stephenson; Mark Twain
With Mark Lawson, including a review of the film The Joneses, starring Demi Moore and David Duchovny as perfect neighbours who aren't quite what they seem.
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Front Row - The Secret in Their Eyes; Tom McCarthy; Khyam Allami
With Kirsty Lang, including interviews with oud player Khyam Allami and Booker longlisted novelist Tom McCarthy. Plus the Argentinian crime thriller The Secret in their Eyes.
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Front Row - The Wonders of Weston-super-Mare
Kirsty Lang meets Karl Marlantes, whose Vietnam war novel is based on his own experiences in the US Marine Corps. Arcade Fire's new album reviewed.
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Front Row - Tinie Tempah; Chinese film Aftershock
John Wilson talks to rapper Tinie Tempah, whose recent hits include Frisky and Pass Out.
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Front Row - Tom Stoppard
In a special programme to coincide with a season of his plays on BBC Radio, Mark Lawson profiles the dramatist Tom Stoppard.
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Front Row - Tony Parsons; Richard Alston; Exposed at Tate Modern
With Mark Lawson. Interview with writer Tony Parsons, choreographer Richard Alston celebrates 40 years of The Place, and how to end a successful TV drama series.
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Front Row - Tony Warren, Aaron Sorkin, John Eliot Gardiner, Christopher Nolan, Bill Tarmey, Belinda Bauer, Julian Fellowes
Mark Lawson unwraps a further selection of interviews with the names behind the year's arts headlines, including Julian Fellowes, Aaron Sorkin, John Eliot Gardiner and Tony Warren.
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Front Row - Tracey Emin, Kevin Whately and Per Wastberg
Mark Lawson travels to Margate to meet Tracey Emin as she unveils a new work; actor Kevin Whately discusses his return to the role of Lewis; Nobel chairman Per Wastberg interviewed.
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Front Row - Tracy Chevalier and Audrey Niffenegger take John Wilson on a tour of Highgate Cemetery
Tracy Chevalier and Audrey Niffenegger tour Highgate Cemetery Reviews of new British film Kicks. Plus Doctor Who: The Adventure Game and Derry's bid to be UK City of Culture 2013.
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Front Row - Trumpeter Hugh Masekela; author Jane Smiley; One Night in Turin
With Mark Lawson, including an interview with South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela, plus a review of One Night in Turin, a documentary about England's 1990 World Cup campaign.
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Front Row - Turner Prize 2010 contenders; Gary Shteyngart
Kirsty Lang reports on the Turner Prize 2010 Show. She talks to US author Gary Shteyngart and director Neil Bartlett and the puppeteers behind War Horse discuss their new play.
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Front Row - U Be Dead, Clybourne Park, The Boy Who Bit Picasso
U Be Dead: TV drama about stalking reviewed. Avatar & Metropolis have been re-released with additional material - does the extra footage improve the films?
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Front Row - Upstairs Downstairs, Jeff Kinney, The Otolith Group
Arts news with Kirsty Lang, including a review of the remake of Upstairs Downstairs, and an interview with Jeff Kinney, creator of the best-selling Diary of a Wimpy Kid books.
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Front Row - Vast Anish Kapoor sculpture; Richard Thompson
Guitarist Richard Thompson on curating the Meltdown Festival, Anish Kapoor unveils his new giant sculpture Temenos, and Sean Bean risks the plague in the film Black Death.
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Front Row - Wildlife presenter Steve Backshall and Dennis Hopper art sale
With John Wilson, including a report on the latest exhibition from the long-standing double-act Gilbert and George.
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Front Row - Willy Russell
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with playwright Willy Russell.
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Front Row - Wonder Woman Lynda Carter and director Anthony Page
Mark Lawson interviews Lynda Carter about playing Wonder Woman and making music. Plus film and stage director Anthony Page, and Roger Michell on the end of the UK Film Council.
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Front Row - Yes Prime Minister on stage; live report from Cannes
Henry Goodman and David Haig play Sir Humphrey and Jim Hacker in a stage version of Yes Prime Minister; Abi Morgan's new Royal Wedding TV drama; news from the Cannes Film Festival.
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Front Row - Zoe Wanamaker and David Suchet star in Arthur Miller's All My Sons
Maxine Peake plays 19th-century lesbian Anne Lister in a new TV drama; Star of the Sea author Joseph O'Connor on his new novel; Zoe Wanamaker and David Suchet star in All My Sons.
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