Front Row - 29/08/2008

Presented by Kirsty Lang. Including: The Reign of Terror during the French Revolution is the focus of poet Glyn Maxwell's new verse drama Liberty at the Globe Theatre in London. The writer discusses his fascination with 18th-century France and its protagonists Robespierre, Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. Gina McKee and Jeremy Northam star in a one-off TV drama Fiona's Story, which follows a woman's fight to hold her family together after her husband is accused of downloading indecent images of children from the internet. Anne McElvoy of the London Evening Standard reviews the programme. Kirsty talks to British artist Roger Hiorns about his peice called Seizure, the result of pouring 90,000 litres of copper sulphate solution into a London bedsit. Award-winning Norwegian author and journalist Linn Ullmann, daughter of Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman, talks about her new book A Blessed Child, a story of sisterhood and the inescapable memories of childhood. She discusses how ballet and cinema influence her writing, why she prefers to write in her mother tongue and why she rejects the idea of the classical ending.