Front Row - 02/12/2008

Presented by Mark Lawson. Writer and academic Diane Roberts reviews the film Lakeview Terrace, a provocative thriller about a LAPD cop, played by Samuel L Jackson, who terrorizes a newlywed interracial couple who move next door to him. Jack Kerouac's scroll of On The Road is on display at the Barber Institute in Birmingham. Playwright David Edgar is there for the unfurling and shares the experience with Mark. Sue Townsend, the creator of Adrian Mole, talks to Mark about the seventh collection of diaries by her most famous comic creation. This finds Adrian at the age of 32 as an unemployed single parent of two sons who has had to move back in with his mother. Birkenhead-born artist Mark Leckey talks to Mark about winning this year's Turner Prize at a ceremony at Tate Britain.