Front Row, Front Row, Paul Hartnoll of Orbital on the band's Brown album, and a new biography of Muriel Spark.

Front Row

Front Row

Paul Hartnoll of Orbital on the band's Brown album, and a new biography of Muriel Spark.

May 28, 2025

42 minutes

Available for over a year

Paul Hartnoll of electronic music duo Orbital talks about the reissue of the band's Brown album which was originally released in 1993, with the addition of 23 extra tracks of rarities and previously unreleased material and about the intersection between dance music and politics.

Frances Wilson, who has previously published acclaimed biographies of D H Lawrence and Thomas De Quincy tells us about her latest book Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark, about the great Scottish writer, poet and essayist.

And the creator of Netflix's new detective series Dept. Q, Scott Frank, who previously wrote and directed The Queen's Gambit and has written the scripts for Hollywood movies from Minority Report to Marley & Me, talks to us about adapting bestselling Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen's books for the screen and why he's transposed the setting for the series from Copenhagen to Edinburgh.

Presenter: Kate Molleson

Producer: Mark Crossan