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Last broadcast on Fri, 29 May 2009, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
Kirsty Lang and TV critic Stephen Armstrong review two new comedy series - Krod Mandoon and The Flaming Sword of Fire, and Mumbai Calling.
Female customers of videogame specialist shop, Game, have almost tripled in the last decade, with the gaming industry as a whole experiencing growth during the economic downturn. Children's writer Malorie Blackman and videogame consultant Margaret Robertson talk to Kirsty about how gaming seems to have finally reached the female market, and the growing sophistication of today's gaming world.
Kirsty also meets Sharon D Clarke, who has gone from being a talent-show judge to a performer in a musical.
With three films currently on release which set puzzles for their protagonists, Andrew Collins considers the kind of brainteasers audiences could decode.
New TV Comedy Series
Kröd Mandöon And The Flaming Sword Of Fire begins on BBC2 on June 11, at 9pm.
Mumbai Calling begins on ITV1 on 30 May at 10pm.
Sharon D Clarke
Once On This Island is at Birmingham Repertory Theatre from June 5 to June 30.
Women and Computers
Videogame Nation, an exhibition charting the history of video gaming in Britain is at Urbis in Manchester until September 20.
Column: Film Puzzles and Brainteasers
Fermat's Room and 12 Rounds are on general release, both certificate 12A
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Fri 29 May 200919:15
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