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Radio 4,08 Mar 2011,30 mins

Roger Daltrey and Carl Hiaasen

Front Row

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With John Wilson. Best-selling author Carl Hiaasen discusses his novel Star Island, which focuses on a 22 year old pop star whose drug-fuelled life is obsessively followed by paparazzi, and managed by PR cover-ups and fake doubles. Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner and Tommy Lee Jones star in The Company Men, a film about three employees forced to re-define their lives when corporate downsizing leaves them jobless. Larushka Ivan-Zadeh reviews. Roger Daltrey is returning to The Who's legendary 1969 rock opera Tommy for a one-off concert performance at the Albert Hall. He reflects on his changing voice, and the experience of performing without his band-mates. John reports on the fate of the Skylon, the symbol of the Festival of Britain, which was dismantled in 1952: after asking Front Row listeners for tip-offs, John follows a trail which leads to both salvage and scrap. Producer: Philippa Ritchie.

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