Front Row - 18/08/2008

Presented by Mark Lawson. Including: Mark and Sarah Crompton visit the new Ripley's Believe It Or Not! museum in London. Exhibits include an albino alligator, a copy of The Last Supper painted on a grain of rice, shrunken heads, a mummified man and a genuine moon rock. Edinburgh University Press has brought out a combined edition of two lost Walter Scott novels. Bizarro and The Siege of Malta were completed at the end of Scott's life after the author had suffered three strokes. With editor Ian Alexander. Actor Steve Carell, who stars in the spy action comedy Get Smart, reflects on playing the serious-faced funny man and what it was like finding himself striking comedy gold in his 40s. Boyd Hilton gives Mark his verdict on two new BBC series. Mutual Friends, starring Keeley Hawes and Marc Warren, follows the tangled lives of a group of old friends following the suicide of one of their number. The Cup, meanwhile, focuses on competitive dad Terry, whose footballing son is the obsession of his life.