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

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Podcast: [Front Row](https://stenobird.com/podcast/front-row-944015)
Published: 2026-06-08T19:16:00+00:00
Episode link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002xg81
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## Resource

Samira Ahmed talks to Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter about their new album Mirage Ekow 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 Planet Front Row introduces its AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker for 2026, Genevieve Robyn Arkle, who is a Lecturer in Music History at King's College London And Opera director David Pountney on John Taverner's last opera Krishna, performed as a world premiere at Grange Park Opera Producer: Eliane Glaser

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