Front Row - 19/03/2010

In the Land of the Free is a new documentary film which examines the story of three inmates of Angola Prison, Louisiana. One has now been released, and the remaining two are in their 38th year of solitary confinement for a crime the film claims they didn't commit. Director Vadim Jean and the released prisoner Robert King discuss the case of the 'Angola 3'. The director Rupert Goold made his name directing Patrick Stewart in Macbeth and is the director of Enron and Oliver!, both currently running in London's West End. Now he is making his RSC debut with a production of Romeo and Juliet. Sarah Churchwell reviews. The Fluid Piano is an acoustic piano that can be tuned, even while it is being played, to use all sorts of musical intervals that have not been possible on the normal piano for the last 250 years. Jazz pianist and composer Julian Joseph tries out this new instrument and meets its inventor Geoff Smith. The rise of the celebrity writer - and authors becoming celebrities in their own right - mean book signings can attract thousands of people. Booksellers now have to handle paparazzi, crowd control and diva demands. Front Row goes behind the scenes at book signings with Sharon Osbourne and Jacqueline Wilson.