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* Such is Henri Matisse's status, that he would normally command an exhibition poster of his own, but at the Tate Modern gallery in London this week he must share with a great artistic contemporary: the gallery has opted for Matisse Picasso for the title of its latest exhibition. Art critic Charlotte Mullins discusses the show.
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Matisse Picasso is at Tate Modern, London until 18 August.
* When the author Douglas Adams died suddenly last year, the creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy had missed the deadline for his latest novel by eight years. But Adams was a computer enthusiast and his relatives and editors have been able to construct a final book containing ten chapters of the final novel, The Salmon of Doubt. Front Row suggests to the journalist Stephen Armstrong that the book is very much the product of a time in which writers, if they use computers, leave more first drafts and second thoughts behind them than had ever been the case before.
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* The Blair administration has turned its attention to the more popular parts of the TV schedules as Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell launches a Communications Draft Bill. The main issues can be summarised as who gets their hands on television ownership, and to what extent TV characters can get their hands on each other: with proposals on the regulation of sex and violence and other taste issues. Front Row's John Wilson suggests to Steven Barnett, Professor of Communications, Westminster University, that the draft bill was a balancing act between market freedom and the British tradition of media regulation.
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* Knocked out of European competition last week, and with his only hope of a premiership title this season being an uncharacteristic collapse by leaders Arsenal in the final matches, Sir Alex Ferguson now finds himself the unwilling subject of the most feared biographer in Britain. Michael Crick is best-known for a biography of Jeffrey Archer which laid down much of the case which would later be successfully made by the Crown Prosecution Service. Sir Alex hasn't responded publicly to the book, but he made this morning's back pages with a foul-mouthed tirade at a press conference yesterday against football reporters who were escorted from the ground. Front Row asks Michael Crick what he made of his subject's behaviour.
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Michael Crick's The Boss - The Many Sides of Alex Ferguson is published by Simon and Schuster.
* The point about Don Quixote was that his ventures failed. But the knight has had a significant success. In a poll of 100 leading writers, Don Quixote was voted the best book ever written, grossing twice as many votes as any other book. To talk about why, Front Row is joined by the writer and broadcaster Julian Evans who presented The Romantic Road, Radio 3's series on European literature.
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Tomorrow: a review of Sean Penn in I Am Sam and the new novel by Ian Pears, author of the award-winning An Instance of the Fingerpost.
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