Front Row
Deathtrap and Michael Sheen completes his Blair trilogy
With Mark Lawson. Crime writer Frances Fyfield reviews a new staging of Ira Levin's thriller Deathtrap, with a cast including Simon Russell Beale, Jonathan Groff from Glee, and Claire Skinner. Martin Sheen completes his Blair trilogy acting opposite Dennis Quaid as Clinton in Peter Morgan's new TV drama The Special Relationship. Journalists Anne McElvoy and Stryker McGuire give their views. The Turner Prize-winning artist Rachel Whiteread made her name with large plaster cast sculptures including one taken from the inside of a Victorian house which was later demolished. As her drawings go on show at Tate Britain, she discusses how they inform her work. Pianist Paul Lewis discusses completing his cycle of Beethoven piano concertos at this year's Proms. And another instalment of the Front Row chain story with contributions from writers including Frederick Forsyth and Felix Francis. The complete story is available on the Front Row website. Producer Martin Williams.