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18 October 2004
Presented by Mark Lawson
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David Starkey's TV series Monarchy
The historian Lady Antonia Fraser reviews the new television series from David Starkey which looks at the way Britain's Monarchy has developed across the centuries.
Channel 4: Monarchy
Director Michael Winterbottom's Film Nine Songs gets a UK cinema release
Nine Songs consists almost entirely of two actors taking part in sex scenes which, the director has confirmed, were not simulated, intercut with interludes at rock concerts. David Cooke, the director of the British Board of Film Classification explains why they have decided to grant the film an 18 certificate without any cuts being made.
Raphael - From Urbino to Rome at the National Gallery
The painter Tom Phillips reviews the new exhibition which sets the Madonna of the Pinks alongside other paintings and sketches by Raphael and his contemporaries Michaelangelo, Leonardo and Perugino.
View the Front Row gallery
Film Director Marc Forster on Finding Neverland and Monster's Ball
Marc Forster's new film Finding Neverland stars Johnny Depp as the writer JM Barrie and Kate Winslett as the mother of the children he befriends who inspire him to write Peter Pan. Mark Lawson talks to Marc Forster about blurring fact and fiction, the effects of his Swiss upbringing and directing the sex scene in Monster's Ball between Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton.
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