Front Row - 28/11/2008

Presented by Kirsty Lang. Writer and critic Adam Mars-Jones joins Kirsty to discuss Wig Out!, the new play by American dramatist Tarell Alvin McCraney Biographer Andrew Lycett tells Kirsty about The Art Of Conversation, a newly-discovered play by Dylan Thomas. Kirsty and design expert Caroline Roux visit the Japan Car: Designs For The Crowded Globe exhibition at London's Science Museum. They consider its aims with designer Kenya Hara and architect Shigeru Ban. Every disc in the current classical Top Twenty album chart is by a singer, a singing group or a choir. Many of the discs feature the same songs. Music writer Helen Wallace considers the choice of repertoire, and discusses why the composers get little credit.