10/07/2009
Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson reports on the continuing success of celebrity memoirs, with guests including Julie Walters, Paul O'Grady, Michael Parkinson and Alan Carr.
The publishing industry like most businesses is struggling in the recession, but one type of book has been selling as quickly as it could be printed - the celebrity memoir.
The autobiographies of Paul O'Grady, Dawn French, Julie Walters, Michael Parkinson and Alan Carr have now sold over two and a half million hard back copies between them. Unusually for this genre, the books are self-written and genuinely revealing.
In a special edition of Front Row, Mark Lawson speaks to these authors - and others - about why they decided to set down their lives.
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