Front Row - 14/08/2008

Presented by Kirsty Lang. Kirsty talks to the renowned conductor Daniel Barenboim, a former Radio 4 Reith Lecturer, as he plays two concerts at the BBC Proms, coinciding with the publication of his new book Everything Is Connected. Film critic Nigel Floyd reviews Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Written and directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Ron Perlman as Hellboy and John Hurt as Professor Bruttenholm, the supernatural action thriller based on the Dark Horse Comics is back. Superdoctors and Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery are two new TV documentary series concerned with medical surgery. Prof Robert Winston and Mark Lythgoe discuss both shows and consider how surgery is portrayed on TV in general.