Front Row

Matt Lucas talks to Mark Lawson about playing Kenneth Halliwell, the infamous lover and murderer of playwright Joe Orton, in a new stage play entitled Prick Up Your Ears, based on John Lahr's biography of Orton. After winning the Mercury Music Prize in 2003 with his debut album Boy In Da Corner, East London-born rapper, songwriter and record producer Dylan Mills (better known by his stage name Dizzee Rascal) has gone from strength to strength, with his last three singles going to Number One. With his new album, Tongue N' Cheek, promising a more commercial sound, he talks about being the voice of a generation and meeting Jeremy Paxman. Hughie O'Donoghue discusses his new exhibition at Leeds City Gallery, The Journey, which includes work based on his father's experiences as an infantryman in World War Two and pictures inspired by Van Gogh, Francis Bacon and Gericault. Also on show in London at the James Hyman Gallery is a series of O'Donoghue's works depicting Ireland and Egypt, which use a fusion of photography and paint.