Front Row - Wed, 11 Nov 2009

Mark Lawson visits the new Nottingham Contemporary arts venue and speaks to its director, Alex Farquharson, whose opening show is a major retrospective of the work of David Hockney, and the architect Adam Caruso of Caruso St John, who has created a green concrete and gold metal building on the site of a former railway cutting.

Steven Soderbergh, director of Erin Brokovich, Traffic and Ocean's Eleven, talks about his new film, The Informant! which stars Matt Damon as a whistleblower in an agri-industry company.

Mark reviews the new Channel 4 comic drama series Cast Offs, in which disabled characters are left on a desert island for a fictional reality TV programme, with the journalist Sarah Crompton and the sociologist and disability rights campaigner Tom Shakespeare.

Broadcast on:

BBC Radio 4, 7:15pm Wednesday 11th November 2009

Duration:

30 minutes

Available until:

12:00am Thursday 1st January 2099

Categories:

• Factual,
• Arts, Culture & the Media