Front Row

Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road, about a man trying to get his young son to safety in a bleak and hostile post-apocalyptic world, has been made into a film starring Viggo Mortensen. Diane Roberts reviews. Jonathan Miller, who curates a new exhibition, On the Move, talks about 19th-century photographic techniques for capturing movement and how they led to cinema and Impressionist painting. The screenwriter and author MR Hall discusses his new crime novel, The Disappeared, which focuses on a couple of British students who vanish without trace. As Australian premier Kevin Rudd reveals he has written a children's book, comedian Danny Robins wonders what other world leaders might pen for underage voters.