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Front Row: 19/02/2010

19/02/2010

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Kyle MacLachlan on 20 years since Twin Peaks, and a TV drama on the MPs' expenses scandal.

Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Kyle MacLachlan on 20 years since Twin Peaks, Hot Chip on their new album One Life Stand, and a TV drama on the MPs' expenses scandal.

On Expenses is a TV drama about American journalist Heather Brooke's fight for the disclosure of MPs' expenses under the Freedom of Information Act, and the resulting political scandal. On Expenses, starring Anna Maxwell Martin as Brooke and Brian Cox as Speaker Michael Martin, is reviewed by Edwina Currie and Andrew Rawnsley.

Twenty years after he played an FBI agent in David Lynch's cult TV series Twin Peaks, the actor Kyle MacLachlan reflects on working with Lynch and his varied acting career, including Desperate Housewives.

Joe Goddard and Al Doyle of Grammy-nominated electropop group Hot Chip talk about their new album One Life Stand. 

As nominations open for a successor to Sir Christopher Ricks as the new Oxford University Professor of Poetry, and following controversy surrounding the post with Ruth Padel and Derek Walcott, Mark Lawson considers potential candidates.

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