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Jim Bowen on Bullseye and mother-in-law jokes; the youngest stand-up comedian at the Edinburgh Fringe; conductor Daniel Barenboim on music and politics; Nigel Floyd reviews Hellboy II and why Danny Robins has been tempted back to Edinburgh this year.

Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett discuss their opera, Monkey; Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers of The Police on reforming and fighting; and David Tennant's leap from timelord to mad prince.

James Frey discusses his new novel Bright Shiny Morning, KD Lang on Watershed, her first album of original material in eight years, Alistair McGowan and Connie Fisher talk about their roles in Neil Simon’s musical They’re Playing Our Song and Chris Carter on the new X Files movie I Want To Believe

Mark Lawson presents a Front Row Special Report from the Theakston's Old Peculier Harrogate Crime Writing Festival. The writers taking part include Robert Crais, Simon Kernick, Zoe Sharp, Chelsea Cain, Val McDermid, Mark Billingham, Stuart MacBride, Claire Seeber, Johan Theorin and Peter Lovesy.

Director Gurinder Chadha talks about Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, Bob Baer and Kevin Toolis discuss their new documentary Car Bomb, Ben Burtt on creating Darth Vader's breathing and Wall-E and screenwriter Simon Beaufoy talks about his latest project Burn Up

Salman Rushdie on winning the Best of the Booker prize; Juliette Binoche discusses her two new films; the big-screen version of the Abba musical Mamma Mia!; and dramatist Joanna Murray Smith argues that her new play isn't about Germaine Greer.

Phil Redmond comments on the half way mark of Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture programme; Natalie Haynes reviews Kung Fu Panda satrring Jack Black; Roy Mitchell and Alun Armstrong discuss cop drama New Tricks; and the Front Row relay team (made up of Mark Lawson, Stephen Deuchar, Rachel Campbell-Johnston and the artist Martin Creed) run around the Tate Britain

James McAvoy discusses his new film Wanted; a review of Will Smith in Hancock; Carly Simon, who is still recording at 62; and Michael Palin on Vilhelm Hammershoi.

Keira Knightley on her new film The Edge Of Love, the Police talk to John Wilson from separate dressing rooms, Amanda Ross on being the most powerful woman in publishing and floating on the Hayward gallery in London.

Chris Martin and Will Champion talk about Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends, David Aaronovitch reviews Oscar winning documentary Taxi to the Dark Side, Rolando Villazon on his decision to pursue a career in opera rather than the priesthood and a review of The Happening, the latest mystery thriller from M Night Shyamalan

Shiela Hancock talks to Mark Lawson about acting, writing and bereavement. Paddington Bear's creator, Michael Bond talks about writing the first new Paddington novel for 30 years. Tracey Emin took time out from curating a room at the Royal Academy to discuss the moment she first realised she saw things as an artist. John Wilson takes a tour of Dumfries House, the 250-year-old Ayrshire mansion that contains a unique set of Chippendale furniture.

Gore Vidal on US politics and culture; Sebastian Faulks's continuation of the James Bond novels; the big-screen version of Sex and the City and writer David Hare remembers Sydney Pollack.

Mark Lawson visits Michel Legrand, Herbert Kretzmer, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg to talk about Marguerite. Anne McElvoy reviews Filth - a new TV dramatisation about Mary Whitehouse. Kirsty Lang talks to father Karl from the choir of Cistercian monks featured on new CD Chant.

Doris Lessing on why she regrets winning the Nobel Prize for Literature; Jane Horrocks returns to the stage in The Good Soul of Szechuan; and playwright Simon Gray on nthe latest volume of his diaries and revivals of two of his plays.

John Wilson looks at An Infinite Line - a new exhibition about light at the Brighton Festival. Interviews with Grand Design's Kevin McCloud and crime writer Sue Grafton. A review of Speed Racer from the makers of the Matrix trilogy,

Jodie Foster on her first children's film since she was a child-star; David Lodge on why his latest book was a test of his writer's ear; Dara O'Brien, Susan Murray and Andy Parsons discuss taking jokes on the road and David Mitchell explains the one thing he refuses to do on TV.

Actor Ewan McGregor talks about his new film Deception; one of the world’s most successful architects, Richard Rogers; the American writer Joan Dideon explores grief and bereavement; and singer Marc Almond on how a near fatal motorcycle accident affected his music

Trevor Eve discusses Waking The Dead, Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky reviewed, Russian violinist Maxim Vengerov and for your ears only, our verdict an exhibition devoted to James Bond.

Daniel Craig on a new role very unlike 007, Sir Tom Stoppard and Yang Lian discuss freedom of speech, Lloyd Jones, author of award-winning Mister Pip and the mystery of why a prestigious BBC drama was never screened.

Dame Julie Andrews discusses her memoirs; after remaining on stage through public marital humiliation comedian Les Dennis discusses why he no longer believes that the show must go on and Middlesex cricket captain Ed Smith explains why stories from sport may make you better in your job or relationship.

William Boyd discusses the art of the short story, new Director of the National Gallery Nicholas Penny, best selling crime writer Lee Child and Jean Moorcroft Wilson on war poet Isaac Rosenberg

Sir David Frost on the return of The Frost Report, Juliet Stevenson and Walter Murch remember Anthony Minghella, Howard Brenton discusses his new play and Dr Phil Hammond on TV medical dramas.

James Corden and Ruth Jones, creators of the TV comedy series 'Gavin and Stacey'; Clive James and Pete Atkin on their songwriting partnership; John Wilson reports from Liverpool; Alan Pollock on his play about Churchill and the bombing of Coventry.

Simon Russell Beale explains how he deals with wetness in Shakespeare and windiness in Shaw, Anne Enright on her first book since winning the Man Booker Prize and Julian Barnes on why for the first time he typed 'The End' when completing his latest book.

John Wilson discusses the latest adventures of Precious Ramotswe with Alexander McCall Smith and travels to Heathrow Terminal 5 to see the Langlands and Bell commission. Mark Lawson talks to Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson about The Other Boleyn Girl and is joined by Clive Anderson, Josie Lawrence and John Sessions to relive the early days of Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Mark Lawson talks to Ronald Harwood about An English Tragedy and to Edward Fox about his career. Artist Brad Lochore and critic Louisa Buck look round Duchamp, Man Ray and Picabia and John Wilson talks to musician Nick Cave

Mark Lawson talks to actor John Barrowman and Hollywood producer Scott Rudin and John Wilson interviews author Mohsin Hamid

Sir David Attenborough on his latest epic TV series, Oscar nominated film Juno reviewed, Tony Parsons discusses his new novel and why the name Sebastian has become a cultural free pass.

Willy Russell on Stags and Hens - The Remix, Ian Rankin on the sequel to Life on Mars, June Brown on the edition of EastEnders in which only Dot Cotton speaks and American writer JL Carrell on her attempt to do for Shakespeare what Dan Brown did for Da Vinci

AL Kennedy on winning the Costa Book Award, artist Marc Quinn unveils giant marble foetuses, Ronald Harwood on being nominated for the Best Screenplay Oscar, a show of Russian art that almost didn't happen and why actors love doing accents.