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@josalw
on landing the lead in Ang Lee's
@billylynnmovie
before he'd even left drama school.
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🎹 Tonight: genre-bending Japanese musician
@YoshikiOfficial
is at the piano in the Front Row studio 🎹
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We can reveal that
#wearehere
was created by Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller. Exclusive interview 7.15pm
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Arts freelancers – have you been able to work at all during the coronavirus shutdown? Do you need more support?
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Tonight on
#FrontRowLate
@RogerLaw_Artist
exclusively reveals that Spitting Image is returning to TV... in America!
@wmarybeard
discusses puppets, politics and all things satire with Roger from 11.05 PM on
@BBCTwo
after
@BBCNewsnight
.
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Tune in to
@BBCRadio4
tonight at 7.15pm to hear more of
@twhiddleston
on what
#Betrayal
means to him.
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“We encourage all the young people out there to come whether it’s the 1st time or the 15th time” Andrew Scott invites you to the theatre.
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Five risks taken for art, from Jeremy Deller, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Richard Armitage, Kerry Hudson and Jasmine Lee-Jones.
@SharLovegrove
@jeremydeller
@ThatKerryHudson
@RCArmitage
#FrontRowRisk
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💰 Bling bling! Crazy Rich Asians opens today! Actor
@ConstanceWu
talks about the expectation around the first big budget US movie with an all-Asian cast
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"He was one of the funniest people I've ever met"
@davidwalliams
remembers his friend Dale Winton
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“We looked at Bowie and thought, THAT'S how you sustain a long career.”
John and Roger Taylor on 40 years of
@duranduran
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Tonight!
@TheRealLukevans
! Gilbert and George! And beards! Front Row comes to
@BBCTwo
at 7.30...
#luketeers
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Listen:
@rickygervais
on why comedians should NOT be frightened of causing offence (and much more >>> )
#AfterLife
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We are delighted to announce that Sarah Hall is the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2020! She's the first writer to win the prize twice and you can hear her story, The Grotesques here:
#BBCNSSA
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‘Books could take me to another world.’
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says books transformed her life while she was detained in Iran. She was a special guest at the
#BookerPrize2023
ceremony, hosted by
@samiraahmeduk
live on Front Row
@bbcradio4
📻Listen on
@bbcsounds
now 🎧 ⬇️
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Benedict Cumberbatch, David Tennant, Andrew Scott and now Tom Hiddleston. Why can't we get enough of Hamlet?
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Two years on from winning
@BBCYoungMus
, 18-year-old cellist
@ShekuKM
will today play for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
#RoyalWedding
. Hear him talk about his inspirations from Shostakovich to Bob Marley:
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@lauramvula
and
@bastilledan
on composing a new score for the film
#Drive
commissioned by
@BBCR1
's
@zanelowe
:
http://t.co/c78GpBZAdH
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🎧 the sonic art behind
@edgarwright
's
#BabyDriver
🏎️
"Even the cappuccino machine and the taps of the coffee grinders are working in sync with the music."
Julian Slater, the BAFTA nominated sound designer on Baby Driver, explains his craft.
More from The Film Programme:
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Our exclusive podcast extra today is a piano performance from the remarkable Japanese film composer
@ryuichisakamoto
Download and subscribe here! 👉 🎧 🎹
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Neil Gaimam
@neilhimself
on his latest drama adaptation for Radio 4, The Sleeper and the Spindle, a Christmas-time fairy tale broadcasting on Radio 4 on Boxing Day
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On air
@BBCRadio4
📻:
@JohnWilson14
talks to
@JKCorden
about Trump,
@latelateshow
📺 and returning to the British stage 🎭, a poem for
#SummerSolstice2018
from
@RaymondAntrobus
☀ and arts minister
@Michael_Ellis1
on a new £20m Cultural Development Fund
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The return of
#HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy
but 40 years on does Arthur Dent still have his towel? We find out tonight
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‘My writing has saved me.’
Congratulations to
@paullynchwriter
the winner of the
#BookerPrize2023
for his dystopian novel Prophet Song. 🎉
His win was announced live on Front Row on
@BBCRadio4
presented by
@samiraahmeduk
. Listen to
@thebookerprizes
ceremony on
@bbcsounds
🎧📻
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"People are coming after my family" -
@NoelGallagher
talks social media abuse and why you’ve seen the last of Oasis
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The winner of the
@CostaBookAwards
Children's Book is
@kdbrundell
for The Explorer - four children must struggle for survival in the Amazon rainforest. Hear her interviewed on Front Row tomorrow.
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Imagine a world without Macbeth, Twelfth Night, The Tempest - we only have them in Shakespeare's First Folio. We mark its 400th year on Monday.
@tds153
talks to
@OldFortunatus
,
@DrCLaoutaris
&
@ProfFarahKC
& visits
@GuildhallLib
with Greg Doran of
@TheRSC
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We'll be remembering Benjamin Zephaniah tonight, join Tom Sutcliffe
@tds153
from 7.15pm on
@BBCRadio4
and
@BBCSounds
📻🎧 Plus we review the week's releases and discuss the art of the Christmas ad.
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What else did Tom Hiddleston have to say about his starring role in Harold Pinter's Betrayal?
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James Bay (
@JamesBayMusic
) will perform his hit single ‘Hold Back the River’ and share his top tips for guitar beginners live on tonight’s Front Row! Join us from 1915:
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We are delighted to announce that the WINNER of the 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction is Douglas Stuart for his novel Shuggie Bain.
Congratulations!
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Bono, Edge, Adam & Larry of
@U2
talked to
@JohnWilson14
in Dublin '09 for a FR special edition
#U240
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From Harry Potter to working in a pub - after former EastEnders actress Katie Jarvis gets "job-shamed" for working as a security guard, we speak to
@ChrisRankin
, who played Percy Weasley, about the reality of working when you're not performing.
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We talk to
@antoniobanderas
about playing Pedro Almodóvar in Pain and Glory 🎥 Almodóvar's film based on his own life.
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We talk about the art of children's fiction with
@davidwalliams
as
#GangstaGranny
hits the West End
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On
@BBCRadio4
now: Art historian Professor Griselda Pollock on challenging the patriarchal, the racist, the homophobic and the Eurocentric in art and culture.
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Love in Colour is a new collection of fresh and romantic takes on myths from around the world written by Bolu Babalola (
@BeeBabs
). We talk to Bolu about decolonising traditional tales and why the power of love can be such an effective muse.
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📻On air now📻 Debbie Harry on the new
@BlondieOfficial
EP;
@marina__parker
on her new film
#Reclaiming
Amy
@BBCTwo
;
@nataliewilliams
and
@Troy__Miller
reassess Amy Winehouse's musical legacy
#amywinehouse
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Ahead of his new film Early Man, here's multiple Oscar winner Nick Park dishing the secrets to making animation
@aardman
@earlymanmovie
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Lost cities found beneath the waves. We take a look at
#SunkenCities
at the
@britishmuseum
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On Front Row at 1915: Jamie Dornan, star of The Fall and 50 Shades of Grey, on going home to Northern Ireland to film BBC2 series Death and Nightingales, about an illicit love affair across the religious divide
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On air:
#GameofThrones
Kit Harington talks to
@stigabell
about
#Gunpowder
@BBCOne
, & the plotters in his family tree
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We are delighted to announce this year's
#BBCNSSA
shortlist!
Caleb Azumah Nelson - Pray
Jan Carson - In the Car With the Rain Coming Down
Sarah Hall - The Grotesques
Jack Houston - Come Down Heavy
Eley Williams - Scrimshaw
Find out more here:
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Lighting candles, steady walks on the flat and making bargains with yourself. All top tips from
@MarianKeyes
on how to get writing everyday
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Literary legend
@PhilipPullman
hits your screens TONIGHT!🤩
In conversation with
@wmarybeard
23:05
@BBCTwo
#FrontRowLate
✨📺
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‘The success of Come Away with Me was bananas.’
@NorahJones
talks to
@NickAhad
about writing one of the most successful albums of all time and her brand new album Visions. Catch up with the interview and her live performance for Front Row on
@bbcsounds
now 🎧
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Listen to our full interview with Noughts + Crosses director Koby Adom (
@DirectedByKoby
) on
@BBCSounds
.
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The winner of the
@CostaBookAwards
First Novel is
@GailHoneyman
for Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, about how an act of kindness disrupts the protagonist’s simple life. Hear her interviewed on Front Row on Monday
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Black cats at a 60s Hollywood casting. We'll be talking talent spotting on tonight's show.
#blackcatappreciationday
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‘Suddenly we were respectable musicians.’
@duranduran
’s Simon Le Bon and John Taylor spoke to
@samiraahmeduk
about how they’ve managed to outlive other 80s bands to make their 16th studio album Danse Macabre.
Hear the full interview now on
@bbcradio4
and
@bbcsounds
🎧 📻 ⬇️
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Catch up with
@BBCFrontRow
:
@russellhoward
discusses his show, The Russell Howard Hour, and the relationship between comedy and political engagement.
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On now:
@U2
World Tour set design, highlights from the Cannes Festival & Barbara Hepworth in Yorkshire
@BBCRadio4
http://t.co/6pCuIaG4kd
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As
@TheSimpsons
' made-up word "embiggen" enters the dictionary, what words do you use that have come from TV and film? Countdown's dictionary queen
@susie_dent
joins us tonight!
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It's
#childrensbookweek
this week - what are your must read children's classics?
#IHaveNeverRead
#LovetoRead
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‘They were absolutely unknowns when we cast them.’
Masters of the Air creator John Orloff reveals how they landed a cast full of Hollywood’s hottest new stars, from Austin Butler to Barry Keoghan and Doctor Who’s Ncuti Gatwa.
Hear the full interview on
@bbcsounds
now 🎧
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Why is the girl crying in her latte? You can find out along with all the details of Cate Blanchett’s electrifying performance in that music video when
@Sparksofficial
talk to
@SamiraAhmedUK
on
@BBCFrontRow
, on
@BBCRadio4
this evening at 7.15 and on
@BBCSounds
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Tomorrow, Benedict Cumberbatch on his new
@BBCOne
drama
#TheChildInTime
but... what's your favourite Cumberbatch gif? Here's ours:
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'Art and culture is central to rebuilding this country.'
@UKLabour
leader
@Keir_Starmer
tells
@SamiraAhmedUK
about his party's new strategy for culture.
Listen to the full interview on BBC Sounds now 🎧
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‘Originally he was going to have his trousers around his ankles.’
Can't wait till the Ghosts Christmas finale
@bbciplayer
tomorrow? Listen to
@simonfarnaby
tell
@samiraahmeduk
about the origins of trouserless MP Julian Fawcett and more on
@bbcsounds
to get you in the mood 🎄🎧
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Tonight on Front Row
@DUALIPA
will be revealing her lockdown reading list and what box sets she's been watching. Tune in to
@BBCRadio4
at 7.15pm.
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On air: “I suppose love is the thing that drives him” Andrew Scott delves into his Hamlet with
@bbckirstylang
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On
@BBCRadio4
now 📻 Tonight's Front Row is devoted to the work, life and continuing inspiration of poet Seamus Heaney.
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To celebrate what would have been Seamus Heaney's 80th birthday
@bbckirstylang
considers the work, life and legacy of the great poet.
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Paul Weller at The Jam exhibition
@SomersetHouse
with sister
@weller_nicky
+
@JohnWilson14
. Listen
@BBCRadio4
7.15pm
http://t.co/mHHsH0fV2a
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David Tennant and
@michaelsheen
are the winning duo at the heart of the long-awaited Amazon/BBC adaptation of Terry Pratchett and
@neilhimself
's fantasy novel
#GoodOmens
📕. They talk to
@SamiraAhmedUK
about heaven, hell and cosmic bureaucracies.
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The winner of the
@CostaBookAwards
Novel is
@jon_mcgregor
for Reservoir 13, about a village dealing with the disappearance of a teenage girl. Hear him interviewed on Front Row now
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📣 And the winner of the
#BookerPrize2023
is… Paul Lynch for his novel Prophet Song 👏
Hear the ceremony on
@bbcradio4
@bbcsounds
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Marianela Núñez (
@MNunezOfficial
), Principal Ballerina
@TheRoyalBallet
, talks about her role in iconic ballet The Sleeping Beauty at the Royal Opera House.
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Did you miss our Jamie Dornan interview? The star of The Fall and 50 Shades of Grey talks about Death and Nightingales, his new film about an illicit love affair across the religious divide.
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‘It was refreshing to have a gay lead character who was a bit of a dweeb.’
@jackrooke
spoke to
@samiraahmeduk
about the unlikely duo at the heart of his Bafta-nominated comedy Big Boys, inspired by his own uni days and back for series two on
@channel4
. Catch up
@bbcsounds
🎧
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Sheridan Smith previews a song from Rufus Wainwright’s new musical
@openingnightuk
just for us! ⬇️
Hear the full live performance of Magic on Monday's Front Row, when
@sheridansmith1
and
@Rufuswainwright
chat to
@samiraahmeduk
.
Join us! Monday 7.15pm
@bbcradio4
@bbcsounds
🎧
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‘Along with Suggs and Paul Weller, I just don’t think there was a more relatable singer for working class kids of that generation.’
@petepaphides
remembers Terry Hall of
#TheSpecials
on
#BBCFrontRow
@BBCRadio4
with
@SamiraAhmedUK
. Listen again
@BBCSounds
:
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Is it possible to decolonise museums and long would it take? We unpick how UK museums should display their colonial era collections
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"I found out the story of what we were telling as we were shooting it": producer of
@TheAcademy
-nominated movie Roma, Gabriela Rodriguez, reveals how director
@alfonsocuaron
only showed her the script once the film wrapped - 14 years after he conceived it.
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On air now
@BBCRadio4
: 📻 🎧
@bastille
perform live in the studio from their new album
#BringMeTheFuture
🎤 We ask: what’s the future of independent book shops? 📚 and we have the first interview with the winner of the
@CostaBookAwards
📖
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On air now: Lucy Prebble (
@lucyprebblish
) on her hugely succesful writing career, from award-winning plays such as Enron and A Very Expensive Poison, to sharply distinctive television including Secret Diary of a Call Girl and HBO’s hit series Succession.
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Tonight at 7.15 📻 : the one and only
@RealSirTomJones
and the glorious
@IAMJHUD
talk to
@bbckirstylang
about
@thevoiceuk
🎤 🎶
@itv
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"My excitement about giving notes will get me into trouble" Tom Stoppard on rehearsing
#RosencrantzAndGuildenstern
with Daniel Radcliffe
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Do your New Year’s resolutions include reading more?
@YouTube
’s ‘resident librarian’
@Jackbenedwards
reads more than 100 books a year and shared his tips with Front Row.
Wondering what to read next? Why not catch up with our coverage of
@thebookerprizes
on
@bbcsounds
? 🎧
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A little taster of what's to come...
Catch the show tonight, 23:05
@BBCTwo
#FrontRowLate
@PhilipPullman
@wmarybeard
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43 years and 23 albums on,
@sparksofficial
- aka Ron and Russell - are still hard at the day job.
#Hippopotamus
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On now
@BBCRadio4
: NEW series of
#Fleabag
reviewed 📺
@NikkiSixx
from
@MotleyCrue
discusses the
@netflix
rock-drama about the band
#TheDirt
🎥
@Larushka_iz
picks through last night's
@TheAcademy
awards 🎭
#oscars2019
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"They were pain relief"
@MarianKeyes
on how books helped her recover from her breakdown. Tonight
@StigAbell
investigates how reading can help in times of personal crisis
#WorldMentalHealthDay
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Can British theatre survive the coronavirus crisis?
@TheRSC
's Catherine Mallyon, Actors’ Touring Company's Matthew Xia, and Indhu Rubasingham of London's Kiln Theatre explain the threat they're facing.
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