Front Row

Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter, Pan African art and John Taverner's opera Krishna

June 8, 2026·42 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

Samira Ahmed talks to Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter about their new album MirageEkow Eshun, writer and broadcaster, and Polly Savage, Lecturer in the Art History of Africa at SOAS, University of London, discuss an exhibition of Pan African art at the Barbican, Project a Black PlanetFront Row introduces its AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker for 2026, Genevieve Robyn Arkle, who is a Lecturer in Music History at King's College LondonAnd Opera director David Pountney on John Taverner's last opera Krishna, performed as a world premiere at Grange Park OperaProducer: Eliane Glaser

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