Front Row - 28/08/2008

Presented by Kirsty Lang. Including: Hollywood screenwriter Richard Price talks about his new novel Lush Life, set on the tough and gritty streets of Lower East Side, New York. Writer and critic Antonia Quirke reviews the latest film from French director Francois Ozon, based on the novel by Elizabeth Taylor. Angel is about a young writer of romantic fiction who refuses to accept the world around her and creates her own reality. The young author Thomas Wright has spent the last 20 years researching Oscar Wilde's extensive reading habits, which ranged from the classics to poetry, including English, European, Japanese and Russian literature. In Oscar's Books, Wright examines Wilde's character by looking at his reading material. He discusses what he found. When the Swedish pianist Esbjorn Svensson died in a diving accident in June this year at the age of 44, his obituaries were unanimous. Svensson and his trio EST were widely considered to be among Europe's finest jazz ensembles. Shortly before Svensson's death, the band completed a new recording, which is released next week. Kevin Le Gendre reflects on the art of the posthumous record release.