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Front Row: Melancholia review, Lee Child

Melancholia review, Lee Child

28/09/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Melancholia review, Lee Child

Mark Lawson reviews the new Lars von Trier film Melancholia, and meets writer Lee Child.

With Mark Lawson, who speaks to best-selling author Lee Child and reviews the latest film from controversial director Lars von Trier.

With Mark Lawson. 

Film director Lars von Trier hit the headlines with his provocative remarks about Hitler and Nazism at the Cannes 
Film festival, while promoting his new film Melancholia. It stars Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg as two sisters reacting to the news that the earth is on a collision course with another planet, called Melancholia. Jenny McCartney reviews.

The latest novel in Lee Child's best-selling Jack Reacher series arrives in bookshops tomorrow. This is the 16th thriller following the life of former military policeman Reacher, and Lee Child reflects on why he keeps returning to his grizzled hero.

Steven Spielberg's latest project is the multi-million dollar television drama Terra Nova. The action takes place 85 million years ago in a prehistoric alternate reality. Naomi Alderman reviews.

Paratrooper turned artist Derek Eland asked front-line soldiers in Afghanistan to write about their experiences. The notes are on display in a new installation at the Imperial War Museum North. Eland discusses how the soldiers felt about sharing their feelings. 

As the source of the catchphrase 'Fire up the Quattro' from Ashes to Ashes becomes a matter of dispute between the actor and the writer, Michael Simkins reflects on the complex relationship between performers and script-writers. 

Producer Georgia Mann.

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