Front Row - 13/10/2008

Presented by Mark Lawson. Adam Mars Jones reviews Burn After Reading, the latest film from the Coen Brothers, a comic thriller, which centres around two unscrupulous gym employees who find themselves in a possession of a disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent. Historian Dr David Starkey talks us through the complexities of and influences over, the virtuous and intelligent young Renaissance prince who turned tyrant, Henry VIII. Times art critic Rachel Campbell-Johnston reviews two exhibitions. TH.2058 opens in the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern in London tomorrow. Cildo Meireles runs until January 11 2009. Comedian and television presenter Alan Carr talks to Mark about not coming out to his parents and the amount of exaggeration he permitted himself when writing his autobiography.