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Coming under the Front Row spotlight today are: Kenneth Branagh\\u2019s new stage production of King Lear, in which he both stars and directs, and How to Have Sex, a new coming of age film about the trend for post-exam holidays abroad, by first time director Molly Manning Walker, and which won the Un Certain Regard award at Cannes this summer. Theatre critic Susannah Clapp and journalist and Good Bad Billionaire podcast host Zing Tsjeng review.

A new track by The Beatles dubbed their \\u201cfinal song\\u201d has been released 45 years after it was first conceived. The track, Now and Then, uses John Lennon\\u2019s vocals and all four Beatles feature on it. We'll have a listen and review.

\\u2018He first deceased; she for a little tried\\nTo live without him, liked it not, and died.\\u2019

Lady Morton\\u2019s epitaph, written in the 17th century, is the shortest verse in The Penguin Book of Elegy. The new anthology gathers hundreds of poems of memory, mourning, and consolation, by writers ranging from Virgil, born in 70 BCE, to Raymond Antrobus, born in 1986. Andrew Motion, the book\\u2019s co-editor, discusses the ways elegy shapes memory, giving it meaning. He also reflects on the variety of elegy and how it stretches beyond the human, honouring loss of landscape, species and cultures.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe\\nProducer: Corinna Jones