Front Row - 20/04/2009

Max Hastings, ex-editor of The Daily Telegraph, reviews the new thriller State of Play, based on the BBC TV series about journalists uncovering a deadly conspiracy. As a festival about Afghanistan opens at the Tricycle Theatre in London, playwrights Abi Morgan, Amit Gupta and Stephen Jeffreys discuss the plays they have written for the season. Stephen Armstrong reviews SunTalk, the Sun newspaper's new online radio station hosted by Jon Gaunt. After his death at the age of 78 was announced, we remember author JG Ballard with his last recorded interview for Front Row.