Front Row - 07/10/2009

To coincide with his 70th birthday, the TV critic and writer Clive James has published the latest volume of memoirs, The Blaze of Obscurity: The TV Years. He discusses his years in television and the enormous changes witnessed in the medium in the 21st century. The Power of Yes is a new play by David Hare in response to the turmoil which hit banks and financial institutions in 2008. BBC business editor Robert Peston reviews. Novelist Esther Freud reviews Up, the latest animated film from Pixar, the first to feature an Asian American boy hero and which opened the 2009 Cannes festival. A new docu-drama explores the shared past of Conservative politicians Boris Johnson and David Cameron. The programme looks back at Oxford University in the 1980s where both men were members of an elite drinking society. Former Conservative minister Edwina Currie reviews.