Front Row - 17/11/2008

Presented by Mark Lawson. Mark talks to the tenor Russell Watson. This year Watson has performed a sell-out UK tour, judged Last Choir Standing on BBC television, brought out an autobiography and now, a new CD called People Get Ready. The Guardian's director of digital content Emily Bell joins Mark to review the latest line up on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! which includes Martina Navratilova, Robert Kilroy-Silk and Mr Sulu from Star Trek, George Takei. In 2001 the Swedish writer Henning Mankell won the highest crime writing award in Britain, the Golden Dagger, for his novel Sidetracked. Now it is being turned into a TV series starring Kenneth Branagh as Inspector Kurt Wallander. Mankell has also just published a prequel collection of short stories, The Pyramid, which explains some of the gaps in Wallander's life. Think of Panic Room, Twelve Angry Men, or Richard Linklater's Tape. What these films have in common is that the majority of the film is shot at one confined location. This week sees the release of a new film, Quarantine, in which almost all the action takes place in one apartment block, shut off from the outside world. Andrew Collins considers the argument for the one-location shoot.