Front Row Daily

Writer Mark Haddon on his new novel The Red House, the Turner Prize shortlist reviewed, singer-songwriter Norah Jones on her latest album and journalist Jim White reflects on Roy Hodgson's interest in the artist Wassily Kandinsky.

American Reunion reviewed; Maxim Vengerov interviewed; Lemn Sissay on Olympic poetry; Professor Robert Winston on Da Vinci's art of anatomy

Kirsty Lang reviews Toni Morrison's new novel, discusses a theatrical investigation of journalism, reviews Picasso etchings with Andrew Graham Dixon and talks to Tracie Bennett playing Judy Garland on Broadway

Mark Lawson meets the Brodsky Quartet, talks to the veteran playwright Edward Bond, asks Nicholas Hytner about Shakespeare's collaborators and meets the impressionists who will star in a new TV show satirising celebrity culture.

Michael Frayn on his new novel Skios, Derek Walcott directs one of his own early plays, and a theatrical double-bill of Rattigan's The Browning Version and David Hare's South Downs

A review of Glenn Close in Albert Nobbs; The Simpsons actor Harry Shearer on his new role as Richard Nixon; Playwright Robert Holman discusses his work; Gabriel Tate, TV editor of Time Out, discusses the BAFTA Television Awards nominations.

John Wilson visits the Olympic Park to see the finished Winning Words poetry project; Shakespeare's sonnets on World Book Night; and new film Marvel Avengers Assemble

Mark Lawson talks to Barbara Windsor about 60 years in showbusiness, and to film star Cillian Murphy as he returns to the stage in a one-man show written by Enda Walsh. Professor John Sutherland reflects on over-used literary titles.

With Mark Lawson. David Suchet discusses his role in a new production of Long Day's Journey Into Night and Roger Wright reveals highlights of the 2012 BBC Proms season

Larushka Ivan-Zadeh reviews the film adaptation of the bestseller Salmon Fishing In The Yemen, Charles Gant discusses the record number of films being released this week and Damon Albarn reveals his third project for the Cultural Olympics. Plus journalist Stanley Booth on touring with the Rolling Stones and artist Jamie Shovlin on his new exhibition.

Marley is a feature length documentary about the life and legacy of the reggae superstar Bob Marley. David Hepworth, who saw Bob Marley live in London in 1975, reflects on the unexpected history the film unearths. Irvine Welsh discusses his prequel to Trainspotting, Skagboys. Mark Renton is set for university and an escape from working-class Edinburgh - but when his family falls apart and life in 1980s Britain gets too tough, heroin offers a different way out. Novelist Joanna Trollope is chair of the judges for this year's Orange Prize for fiction, and she reveals the decisions behind this year's shortlist, which was announced today. Simon Armitage discusses the Poetry Parnassus, an ambitious project to bring together poets from all the nations competing in the Olympics - and appeals for poets to come forward from the nations as yet unrepresented.

Mark Lawson talks to Sir Tim Rice about his musical adaptation of From Here To Eternity as Jesus Christ Superstar has a Broadway revival. Pamela Stephenson made her name as a comedian on Not the Nine O'Clock News. After leaving the show she trained as a clinical psychologist and has used both experiences in a new Channel 4 documentary called The Fame Report. She explains her hypothesis that becoming famous is a mental trauma, and why her husband Billy Connolly found her stint on Strictly Come Dancing difficult. After The Killing, crime writer John Harvey reviews the next slab of Nordic Noir called The Bridge, which centres on the discovery of a body halfway along the bridge that spans Denmark and Sweden.

John Wilson meets the makers of Horrible Histories on TV; dancer Tamara Rojo on taking over the leadership of English National Ballet; the verdict on a film about Mozart's sister, another prodigy and an interview with photographer Roger Ballen.

John Wilson talks to Dara OBriain about his new TV series Dara OBriain's School of Hard Sums and to Whit Stillman about his new film Damsels in Distress. Antonia Quirke reviews the film Blackthorn and Kitty Empire reflects on religion in Pop.

In this Front Row special, writers including Shalom Auslander, Nathan Englander, Ellen Feldman, Meg Rosoff and Bernard Kops discuss why the life and writing of Anne Frank inspire writers of fiction. They also reflect on her continuing significance, while the actress Amy Dawson discusses how she approaches playing Anne on stage.