The Booker Prize will showcase its shortlisted authors with appearances via “Front Row”, social media and Guardian Live alongside readings from the Old Vic on the big night. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-16 04:23:16 UTC ]
Last week The Stage magazine reported that UK theatre stood on a precipice, without government help or a reopening plan; on the BBC’s “Front Row”, the conductor Sir Simon Rattle said that without support to make a bridge to the new world, many organisations, principally venues and performing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-09 14:18:59 UTC ]
Katharine Viner congratulates ‘wonderful’ arts writer who is already a vital contributor to the paperArifa Akbar has been appointed as the Guardian’s chief theatre critic. Akbar, who will take up the role in the new year, said she was “honoured, utterly thrilled and immensely excited” by the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-11-08 10:52:21 UTC ]
BBC Radio 4 series "Front Row" has announced Booker Prize-shortlisted authors will meet its listeners as part of new plans to cover the award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-09 07:33:32 UTC ]
The BBC will expand its Radio 4 show "Front Row" brand this autumn into television with a new series on BBC Two. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
BBC Radio 4’s arts and culture programme "Front Row" is to launch a Saturday "highlights" edition which will see the show extended to six days a week. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former Little, Brown chief executive Ursula Mackenzie, Front Row’s Samira Ahmed, television presenter June Sarpong and past Publishers Association c.e.o. Simon Juden are among the judges for the British Book Awards 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jonathan Buckley has won the £15,000 BBC National Short Story Award for ‘Briar Road’. This evening (6th October) he was presented with the prize of £15,000 by this year’s Chair of Judges Allan Little at a ceremony held in the BBC’s Radio Theatre in London. The news was announced live on BBC... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ali Smith and Helen Macdonald are among the winners of this year’s Costa Book Awards, adding to the existing trophy haul for their books. The awards, announced this evening (5th January) on BBC Radio 4’s “Front Row”, also saw wins for Kate Saunders, Jonathan Edwards, and Emma Healey. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publication Date: Mon, 12/09/2011 - 08:45 Stories from Jon McGregor and M J Hyland have been shortlisted for the sixth BBC National Short Story Award, announced on Friday evening (9th September) on BBC Radio 4's "Front Row". read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]