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Kirsty Lang meets Italian intellectual and novelist Umberto Eco, now nearly 80, at his home in Milan. The writer looks back at the surprise success of his first novel The Name of the Rose, published when he was 48, which has sold 50 million copies.

A review of Roland Emmmerich's new film Anonymous, Stephan Solzhenitsyn on a new volume of short stories by his late father Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, and actress Viola Davis on her latest film The Help.

Brian Wilson and Bruce Johnston of The Beach Boys reflect on their never-released album Smile. A review of Steven Spielberg's Tin Tin. The RSC's revival of the controversial 1960s play Marat/Sade reviewed.

With John Wilson, including an interview with musician Peter Gabriel, and a re-assessment of the work of painter Edward Burra, renowned for capturing the seedy side of city life. There are reviews of Karen Gillan's stage debut in John Osborne's play Inadmissable Evidence and Gus van Sant's film Restless

Thandie Newton on her first ever stage role; Romola Garai discusses depictions of historical actresses in art; the TV adaptation of The Slap is reviewed; and Danny Robins assesses why some popular titles, such as We Need to Talk About Kevin, have seemingly endless appeal.

Novelist Terry Pratchett, actor Mark Rylance on returning to the West End stage with Jerusalem, and Steven Soderbergh's pandemic film Contagion.

Mark Lawson talks to Lynne Ramsay, director of We Need to Talk About Kevin, adapted from Lionel Shriver's novel, and to Cameron Mackintosh who is 65 today.Toby Litt reviews new 3 part novel by Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

With Kirsty Lang. Tamsin Greig talks about Jumpy, a new play about parenting; a review of Holy Flying Circus, TV drama about the outrage caused by Life Of Brian

Nicky Wire of the Manic Street Preachers; a three part feature on Marathon Performances and an interview with Shona McCarthy, Chief Executive of Culture Company 2013.

Noel Gallagher discusses his new solo album and why the modern music industry baffles him. As the world's art collectors gather at the Frieze Art Fair, experts Godfrey Barker and Sarah Thornton discuss why it's the one market that seems impervious to economic turmoil and photographer Don McCullin looks back on 50 years of avoiding bullets in search of the perfect picture.

With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Steve Coogan on the memoirs of his comic creation Alan Partridge, and a review of Australian film Sleeping Beauty

With Mark Lawson, who reports from Tate Modern as Tacita Dean reveals a new work for the vast space of the Turbine Hall, plus Morgan Spurlock on his latest film and a review of robot sci-fi Real Steel.

Tracy Chevalier reviews Vermeer's Women, a new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. The actor Paddy Considine's on his first feature film,Tyrannosaur. Mohammed Hanif on his new novel Our Lady of Alice Bhatti. Orlando Bloom on his new film, The Three Musketeers.

Des O'Connor on being on stage in Dreamcoats and Petticoats, Vanessa Redgrave in Driving Miss Daisy, and Frank Cottrell Boyce on his sequel to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Kenneth Branagh returns to the stage in his native Belfast in an adaptation of the French farce The Painkiller. In a Front Row special, he talks to Mark Lawson