Summary: The literary quintet who will compete for the 2010 Costa Book of the Year award; Colin Firth on his chances of winning an Oscar for as part in which he almost never gets a line out first time; Danny Boyle on moving from Slumdog Millionaire to the National Theatre via an amputee mountaineer; dramatist Alan Bleasdale discusses the years of the blackstuff: his 12-year absence from TV; plus comic actor Stephen Mangan on roles stretching from a demented doctor to a naive TV producer; and six brave participants – including jazz musician Soweto Kinch and historian Antonia Fraser – attempt the Front Row Quiz.
