Front Row - 10/10/2008

Presented by Mark Lawson. Daytime television host, and one half of Richard and Judy, Richard Madeley talks to Mark about his troubled relationship with his father, making jokes about his sex life with Judy on air, and also challenges a rumour about Judy's drinking habits. Novelist AS Byatt reviews Renaissance Faces: Van Eyck to Titian, a new exhibition at the National Galllery in London exploring the rise of portraiture in the Renaissance with works by Raphael, Titian, Botticelli, Van Eyck and Holbein. Heat magazine's TV editor Boyd Hilton reviews Peter Kay's latest project. A satirical look at the current boom for glitzy TV talent shows, the programme's full title is Peter Kay's Britain's Got the Pop Factor and Possibly a New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice.