麻豆约拍

With John Wilson.

The writer and cook Nigel Slater talks candidly about his memoir Toast, the story of his childhood remembered through food. It's one of the titles chosen for the first ever World Book Night which takes place tomorrow. One million books will be given away across the UK and Ireland by 20 000 volunteers, distributing 25 different titles.

Front Row has news of the poetry chosen to inspire competitors in the London Olympics in 2012. The Winning Words project invited suggestions for a line of published poetry to be permanently engraved on a prominent wall in the Athletes' Village. William Sieghart, who conceived the project, is in the studio to reveal the line of poetry chosen.

James Nesbitt stars in Monroe, a new TV drama series which focuses on wisecracking neurosurgeon Gabriel Monroe, as he deals with emergencies both medical and personal. Dr Sarah Jarvis casts a critical eye over this latest addition to TV's long list of hospital dramas.

Painter John Martin (1789-1854) became famous for his large scale canvases of apocalyptic biblical scenes. As a new exhibition opens at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle, his biographer William Feaver discusses this maverick artist, who was involved in designing London's sewers and who influenced the development of landscape painting in America.

Producer India Rakusen.