Front Row - 20/08/2008

Presented by Mark Lawson. Including: Mark talks to David Soul, the former Starsky and Hutch star whose singing career includes hits such as Don't Give Up On Us. He has now learned to conduct for the BBC's Maestro programme. Julie Myerson reviews two BBC adaptations of stage plays. In David Hare's My Zinc Bed, Jonathan Pryce, Uma Thurman and Paddy Considine play a threesome dealing with various addictions. Caryl Churchill's A Number is a drama about cloning, starring Tom Wilkinson as the father and Rhys Ifans as his cloned son. Stephen Armstrong discusses the Edinburgh Fringe Intelligent Finance Comedy Awards. Shortlisted comedians are David O'Doherty, Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler, Rhod Gilbert and Russell Kane. The winner will be announced on Saturday. Former KLF frontman Bill Drummond is marking the opening of Derby's new arts centre Quad with a performance of 17, in which 100 groups of 17 people from different parts of the community have been recorded singing a particular note. The resulting piece of music will be heard in Derby's Market Place on Friday.