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Tributes paid to television director Gareth Carrivick

Tributes have been paid to prolific television director Gareth Carrivick, whose credits included The Smoking Room and Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps and who died earlier this week. The director, who had been battling leukaemia, worked...

Flashdance confirms dates at Shaftesbury

Flashdance the Musical is to open in the West End this autumn. With a score including What a Feeling, Maniac and I Love Rock and Roll, the musical is based on the 1983 film starring Jennifer Beals and will open at the Shaftesbury Theatre in...

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It has been a tough couple of years for BBC Radio - from the...
Win a pair of tickets to see Grumpy Old Women Live 2 in the West End!

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See Jenny Eclair, Susie Blake and Wendi Peters at the Novello
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The Stage Sailing Regatta

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Square Eyes: Twice weekly TV previews
Turn off the TV: TV Today's radio picks

Square Eyes, March 19-21

TV Today: Sport Relief: The Choir BBC2, Friday 10pm BBC1 gets the bulk of tonight’s huge charity telethon, but while the news break in, attention switches to BBC2 to see choirmaster Gareth Malone attempt to train 20 Olympic and Paralympic athletes...

Turn off the TV: radio choices, March 20-26

TV Today: Jonathan Ross Radio 2, Saturday 10am Guests include Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman, authors of Ghost Stories playing at the Lyric Hammersmith. Sport Relief Comedy Controller Radio 7, Saturday 10am (repeated 8pm) To mark the BBC/Comic Relief sports-related charity...

Train before the train, after the cancelled train

Grads’ Club: “We apologise for the delay in this service,” says the ever so charming but perhaps most despised public announcer in Britain, as the 0830 Cannon Street train is cancelled. Thankfully, being a stickler for time and having the immortal...

My first review, a not-so-Noble departure, and the dumbing down of classical music….

Shenton’s View: Yesterday afternoon I caught a matinee of the touring production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - a show that looms large in my career, but one that will forever be remembered as a sell-out for other reasons than the...

March 18: Ed Vaizey and Jeremy Hunt on the Tories and culture

In The Paper: In this week’s paper: As the General Election looms, the Conservatives are determined to allay fears that theirs is a party of Philistines set on slashing funding for the arts. Alistair Smith met the top Tory duo, Jeremy Hunt...

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