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Duran Duran and the glamour v grit music wars of the 80s
Ahead of tonight’s BBC4 Duran Duran night.. There is one rather interesting section of my interview with John Taylor and Roger Taylor we couldn’t quite get into the final Front Row edit on Monday night.  So here’s the transcript. … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, culture, Duran Duran, front row, james bond, music, pop videos
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Adjust your privacy settings now, fool! Reading The Woman In White in the instagram age
(Warning contains some partial but not big spoilers!) “Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Culture
Tagged front row, instagram, the woman in white, twitter, Victorians, wilkie collins
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The future sound and vision of Liverpool: Biennial special preview
Tonight’s BBC Front Row is a special programme mostly recorded on location in Liverpool previewing this year’s Biennial of Contemporary Art that runs till October. I particularly enjoyed talking to Mark Leckey about his dreamscape film about his visual memory … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Environment, Media, Radio
Tagged BBC, betty woodman, front row, liverpool, liverpool biennial, mark leckey, marvin gaye chetwynd, radio 4
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Up the Wellington Arch with Beatrice the Angel of Peace
English Heritage are doing a cleanup on the largest bronze sculpture in Europe – the quadriga of the Angel of Peace by Adrian Jones. Note the war booty in that chariot and the mixed message of the olive branch in … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Design, History, Radio, War
Tagged adrian john, front row, hyde park corner, London, quadriga, wellington arch
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The man who knew infinity: Difficult history & dreaming spires on film
How do we re-visit history? Watching the continuation of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign at Oxford I went to see The Man Who Saw Infinity with a greater consciousness of how our institutions choose to tell their own versions of … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Film, History
Tagged BIG ISSUE, Cambridge, dev patel, front row, janaki ramanujan, jeremy irons, oxbridge, ramanujan, the man who knew infinity
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I can’t believe he did that: David Guetta on Serge Gainsbourg
Super producer and DJ David Guetta came onto Front Row for last night’s show. Having grown up in the 70 and 80s in France he listened to American soul, funk and British synth and electronica, quoting Ultravox lyrics through our … Continue reading
Posted in France, Media, Music, Radio, TV
Tagged david guetta, France, front row, serge gainsbourg, tv
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