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Front Row Season 4 Episodes

  • 2017-2020
  • 7 Seasons
  • Music, News, Talk & Interview
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As the cultural behemoth that is BBC Radio 4's daily, flagship, arts and culture review show prepares to celebrate its 20th birthday it expands across the airwaves onto television. Each week a presenter will be joined in the studio by guests to cast a critical eye over the week in the arts world and by musical guests performing live in the studio. Each edition of the show will feature a rich mix of interviews, reviews, previews, news, features and performances from across a broad spectrum of art-forms.

Season 4 Episode Guide

Season 4

6 Episodes 2019 - 2019

Episode 1

Episode #4.1

39 mins

Mary Beard and her guests discuss the posthumous reputations of writers, musicians and artists, and ask whether we should honour or override their wishes when they die.

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Episode 2

Episode #4.2

39 mins

As a new exhibition of work by Victorian artist and critic John Ruskin opens in London, Mary and her guests discuss whether we can ever agree on the meaning of beauty.

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Episode 3

Episode #4.3

39 mins

Mary Beard and her panel of guests discuss whether size matters in our culture. Is monumental art how we make our mark on the world? Or is there something even more sublime in art on a smaller scale?

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Episode 4

Episode #4.4

39 mins

Ahead of the 30th anniversary of the fatwa issued against Salman Rushdie following the publication of The Satanic Verses, Mary Beard and her guests discuss censorship.

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Episode 5

Episode #4.5

40 mins

Mary Beard is in conversation with the acclaimed and bestselling writer of the His Dark Materials trilogy of books, Philip Pullman.

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Episode 6

Hay Festival 2019

41 mins

Mary Beard and guests discuss what is "unsayable" in today's society. What does today's comedy say about our changing taboos? Has social media enhanced debate or debased it?

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