Tag Archives: front row

Duran Duran and the glamour v grit music wars of the 80s

Posted on June 29, 2018 by Samira Ahmed

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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Adjust your privacy settings now, fool! Reading The Woman In White in the instagram age

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Samira Ahmed

  (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 →

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The future sound and vision of Liverpool: Biennial special preview

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Samira Ahmed

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 →

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Up the Wellington Arch with Beatrice the Angel of Peace

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Samira Ahmed

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 →

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The man who knew infinity: Difficult history & dreaming spires on film

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Samira Ahmed

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 →

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I can’t believe he did that: David Guetta on Serge Gainsbourg

Posted on November 25, 2014 by Samira Ahmed

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 →

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Big Girls Don’t Cry: What Made In Dagenham reveals about women who make a fuss

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Samira Ahmed

Made In Dagenham – the Musical opened in the West End last night. It was an honour to meet four of the original Ford machinsts who launched the strike that resulted in the Equal Pay Act. They enjoyed the show … Continue reading →

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