Front Row - 30/10/2008

Presented by Mark Lawson. Tony Blair's former director of communications Alastair Campbell discusses his first novel, which is the story of a psychiatrist, his patients and family. Since its first appearance in 1985, Glasgow-set detective drama Taggart has become the world's longest-running police TV series. Its creator Glenn Chandler and actress Blythe Duff, who has played DS Jackie Reid for 19 seasons, discuss the its longevity and how it has survived even the death of Mark McManus, Taggart himself. Reports on several New York Theatre openings: Farragut North, a political satire by Beau Willimon. Streamers, a play about soldiers in the army before the Vietnam War, written by David Rabe. All My Sons by Arthur Miller, directed by Simon McBurney and starring John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Katie Holmes and Patrick Wilson. Doctor Atomic, John Adams opera about J Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the atomic bomb, directed for the New York Metropolitan Opera by Penny Woolcock.