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Radio 4,03 Mar 2011,30 mins

Actress Helen Mirren and crime writer Lee Child

Front Row

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Mark Lawson talks to Helen Mirren about playing Prospero in Julie Taymor's film of The Tempest and - as part of Radio 4's coverage of World Book Night. Thriller writer Lee Child is live on the line from New York. His novel Killing Floor is one of the 25 books chosen to be given away for free this Saturday. One of Front Row's listeners contacted us about problems with the World Book Night website so we brought Jane Schofield together with Jamie Byng, Chairman of World Book Night. Plus Matthew Wilson from the Advertising Standards Authority explains why Jamie Oliver, Cheryl Cole and other personalities are now appearing in adverts during the programmes in which they feature. A look at how increasingly media savvy audiences have led to this change in the Artist Separation Rule. Producer Ella-mai Robey.

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