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12 July 2004
Presented by Mark Lawson
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Art Restoration
What does x-raying a painting by Lowry reveal about the way he worked? A new exhibition aims to answer that question. Meanwhile in Birmingham the Barber Institute is cleaning one of its Spanish paintings in public. On tonight's Front Row Mark Lawson looks at the subject of art conservation.
View Front Row's conservation slideshow
The Secret Life of Lowry’s Art opens at the Lowry Gallery in Salford this Saturday, 17 July and runs until January. The Murillo conservation work takes place at the Barber Institute in Birmingham on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays between 10 and 4 until the end of August.
The Liverpool Conservation Centre which has exhibitions about different conservation techniques is open every day and is free. If you want to see the conservators at work you need to book in advance on a behind the scenes tour.
Liverpool Conservation Centre
Spider-Man 2
Film critic Jason Solomons joins Mark Lawson to review Spider-Man 2. Once again Tobey Maguire plays the superhero and this time takes on Alfred Molina's evil Dr Octopus. The film has already broken American box office records.
Spider-Man 2 is released this Thursday 15 July, certificate PG.
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
The National Theatre has revived Stephen Sondheim's 1960's musical farce, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, which is based on the writings of Roman playwright Plautus. Tom Holland, author of Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic reviews the show.
A Funny Thing Happened …. is on at London's National Theatre until the beginning of November.
Bill Clinton Book Signing
Former American President Bill Clinton was signing copies of his autobiography today in a London bookshop. Mark Lawson went to watch what was billed as Britian's biggest ever political book signing.
Doctors As Writers
The poet Gael Turnbull has died at the age of 76. The Scottish-born writer, like Chekhov and Somerset Maugham before him, was also a practicing doctor. For Front Row, the poet Dannie Abse who was himself a doctor, discussed literary medics.
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