Front Row - 10/06/2008

Presented by Mark Lawson. Natalie Haynes reviews M Night Shyamalan's latest film The Happening, a thriller about a family on the run from a natural crisis, starring Mark Wahlberg. As New Yorker Joseph O'Neill publishes a novel about cricket sub-culture in the US and Richard Bean writes a play about the game, an exploration of the attraction of cricket as a literary metaphor with Joseph O'Neill, Richard Bean, Alan Ayckbourn and Simon Gray. Mark learns to crochet with Australian sisters Margaret and Christine Wertheim, who use crochet to create a coral reef to draw attention to the rate at which coral is disappearing. They are joined by applied arts critic Corinne Julius. Margaret Atwood talks to Mark about a charity auction in London in which she writes an original storycard live from Paris via her LongPen machine - which allows her to sign books remotely using a touch-sensitive pad and robotic arm. Other authors in the auction are Sebastian Faulks, Doris Lessing and JK Rowling.