Khaled Hosseini; Michael Landy; DJs in film; Cultural Exchange with AS Byatt
Arts news. Mark Lawson reports on Michael Landy's new kinetic sculptures of saints, talks to Kite Runner novelist Khaled Hosseini and hears AS Byatt's choice for Cultural Exchange.
With Mark Lawson.
Khaled Hosseini's debut novel The Kite Runner was an international best-seller. As he publishes a new novel, And the Mountains Echoed, Hosseini reflects on being a writer in exile, his creative process, and censorship in his native Afghanistan.
Saints Alive is the new project from the artist Michael Landy, who once destroyed all his possessions for a work called Break Down. Images of saints from the National Gallery's collection have been cast in three dimensions and assembled using materials he sourced from car boot sales and flea markets. He shows Mark around the exhibition.
Novelist A S Byatt reveals her choice for Front Row's Cultural Exchange, in which leading creative minds nominate a favourite artwork.
DJ and film critic Andrew Collins presents his top 10 of disc jockeys in film, as The King Of Marvin Gardens is re-released, starring Jack Nicholson as a late-night talk show host.
Producer Stephen Hughes.
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Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini on his new novel And the Mountains Echoed
Duration: 10:29
Michael Landy
Saints Alive is the new project from the artist Michael Landy at the National Gallery
Duration: 06:28
Cultural Exchange: A S Byatt
Novelist A S Byatt talks about the painter Matisse in Front Row's Cultural Exchange
Duration: 06:36
Top 10 disc jockeys in film
DJ and film critic Andrew Collins presents his top 10 of disc jockeys in film
Duration: 04:00
Khaled Hosseini
And the Mountains Echoed by is published by Bloomsbury.ÂMichael Landy: Saints Alive
The exhibition  is at the National Gallery from tomorrow until 24 November 2013.ÂCredits
Role Contributor Presenter Mark Lawson Interviewed Guest Khaled Hosseini Interviewed Guest Michael Landy Interviewed Guest AS Byatt Interviewed Guest Andrew Collins Editor John Goudie Producer Stephen Hughes Broadcast
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