Front Row

BBC Radio 4

Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music

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Front Row

Episodes (1000)

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Front Row

Feb 12, 2026
42½ minutes
39 MB

Anne Brontë biographer Samantha Ellis and writer Stephanie Merritt join Tom to discuss Emerald Fennell's racy adaptation of Wuthering Heights starring Margot Robbie. They also review Adolescence co-writer Jack Thorne's BBC adaptation of William Golding's Lord of the Flies. After a 35 year campaign, the South Bank Centre has secured Grade II listing. Former Artistic Director Jude Kelly and architecture historian Barnabas Calder talk about whether we're learning to love Brutalism. Finally, Samantha, Stephanie and Tom have read James Meek's book Your Life Without Me, which is concerned with the competing claims of the o...

Front Row

Review: Wuthering Heights film and Jack Thorne's Lord of the Flies

BBC Radio 4

00:00 -42:29