Front Row

With Mark Lawson, who meets the legal thriller writer Scott Turow, who is about to publish a sequel to his best-selling debut Presumed Innocent. Actors Nigel Harman and John Light reveal how they're swapping roles on alternate nights in a new production of Sam Shepard's True West in Sheffield. Antonio Pappano, conductor and music director of the Royal Opera House, London talks about his new television series on the history of Italian opera, and discusses the new age of arts-world austerity heralded by Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Author and gamer Naomi Alderman reviews Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton in the film version of Prince of Persia; and the new game from the makers of Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption. Producer Gavin Heard.