Front Row - 16/10/2008

Presented by Kirsty Lang. Actor Roger Moore talks about his memoirs, with recollections of his childhood in South London, his early screen roles and his seven films as 007. Ralph Fiennes takes the title role in Frank McGuinness' new version of Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus. Classics Professor Edith Hall joins Kirsty for a review. Renowned for screen roles such as his Oscar-winning performance as Hannibal Lecter, actor Anthony Hopkins also writes music. Hopkins talks to Kirsty about his early exposure to music, his interest in composing, and how music informs his work as an actor. A pioneer of photojournalism, Robert Capa (1913 - 1954) captured war as it unfolded on the front line of the Spanish Civil War, as well as the Sino-Japanese conflict and Second World War. David Leland, who wrote and directed an episode of the TV drama Band of Brothers, reviews a new exhibition of his work.