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The Rolling Stones; Foe; television food consultant; Doctors axed

Film critic Ryan Gilbey and music and club culture writer Kate Hutchinson deliver their verdict...

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Bonnie Langford performs Sondheim, film director Maysoon Pachachi, the portrayal of nuns in culture

Musical theatre legend Bonnie Langford performs Stephen Sondheim's I'm Still Here from the...

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Front Row from Belfast with writer Paul Lynch and singer Cara Dillon

Two adaptations of Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco open this month, one in Belfast and a Welsh...

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Martin Scorsese film, John le Carré’s legacy, Madonna on Tour

Madonna is still in the spotlight 45 years after bursting onto the pop scene in the 1980s,...

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Front Row reviews the Frasier reboot and performance from folk musician Martin Hayes

Samira Ahmed is joined by critics Anne Joseph and Nancy Durrant to review some of this week’s...

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Lubaina Himid, Richard Armitage, David Pountney’s new opera

Actor Richard Armitage – who starred in North and South and the Hobbit - joins Nick to discuss...

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Nigel Kennedy, art gallery labels, how do museums recover stolen art?

Nigel Kennedy remains the best selling violinist of all time with a repertoire that spans jazz,...

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Piper Kathryn Tickell performs, film director Terence Davies remembered, author Jhumpa Lahiri, £200 million for...

Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening’s new album, Cloud Horizons, fuses synthesizers with a bone...

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Front Row reviews Philip Guston at the Tate Modern and new film Golda

The winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature is Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, who is best...

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The Streets, the British Textile Biennial, Kate Prince on her mentor

Mike Skinner helped define an era with The Streets' album Original Pirate Material in 2002. Now...

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Patsy Ferran, Rubens & Women, the portrayal of black men in British film

The actor Patsy Ferran talks to Samira about her transformation from flower girl (with some...

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Claudette Johnson, ghosts in literature, the Dutch Golden Age

The portraits in the National Gallery’s new retrospective of the artist Frans Hals capture his...

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Víkingur Ólafsson on Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Ken Loach’s The Old Oak

Víkingur Ólafsson on Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Ken Loach’s The Old Oak

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James Graham on Boys from the Blackstuff, and are maestros behaving badly?

Alan Bleasdale’s Boys From The Blackstuff is widely regarded as television drama at its best with...

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Front Row hosts the BBC National Short Story Award Ceremony

The announcement of the winners of the BBC National Short Story Award and the BBC Young Writers’...

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Philip Barantini on Boiling Point, The Archers cast on Lark Rise to Ambridge

As the cast of the Archers star in a new adaptation of Flora Thompson's Lark Rise to Candleford,...

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Live from the Contains Strong Language festival

Front Row opens this year’s Contain’s Strong Language festival live in Leeds. Nick Ahad talks to...

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Marina Abramovic and The Long Shadow reviewed, Dmitry Glukhovsky's The White Factory

Writer Joan Smith and art historian Katy Hessell review a retrospective exhibition of the...

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Carlos Acosta on the Black Sabbath ballet; Birmingham arts funding; the business of British fashion

Birmingham Royal Ballet is celebrating the city’s pioneering heavy metal band in a new...

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Jane Austen fashion, poet Daljit Nagra, musician Alice Phoebe Lou performs live

From the enduring legacy of Colin Firth’s wet shirt to the colourful extravagance of Bridgerton,...

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