Front Row - 22/07/2008

Presented by Mark Lawson. Including: Baby Mama is an American comedy about two very different women involved in the same pregnancy. Tina Fey plays a successful single businesswoman on a mission to have a baby and Amy Poehler plays her hapless surrogate. Larushka Ivan-Zadeh reviews the film. Pete Johnson, Head of Policy and Business Development, explains why the British Board of Film Classification awarded The Dark Knight a 12A and what the certificate means. As a young man, Jonathan Pryce starred in a production of Comedians by Trevor Griffiths. This weekend on Radio 4 he can be heard playing Thomas Paine, the writer who penned the founding document of the American struggle for independence. Trevor Griffiths talks about the script which he has been trying to film and put on stage for 20 years. Simon Frith, Chair of Judges for the 2008 Nationwide Mercury Prize, discusses the short-listed albums of the year.