10/09/2009

Synopsis

Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson are going on tour in the UK for the first time in 28 years, complete with full orchestra and music composed and conducted by Carl Davis. Barry Humphries and Carl Davis, Dame Edna and Sir Les, reveal the secrets behind their musical extravaganza, Last Night of the Poms.

Last Night on Channel 4, in The Event Live, magician Derren Brown appeared to predict the winning numbers in the National Lottery ten minutes before they were selected on BBC One, and he has promised to reveal how he did it tomorrow night. Matt Thorne reviews the illusion and joins widespread speculation about its execution.

Trongate 103, a new centre for the arts, is due to open in Glasgow. The converted Edwardian warehouse will be home to a range of artists and art forms including the Glasgow Print Studio, theatre groups and the Russian Cultural Centre. Mark Lawson visits Trongate to meet Malcolm Dickson, chair of the Trongate 103 Tenants' Forum, and Mark O'Neil from Culture and Sport Glasgow, to discuss how they have set about adapting the building to such a variety of artistic needs. Glaswegian artist and playwright John Byrne, who has a forthcoming exhibition at the venue, gives his perspective on the building.

In the week that a new horror movie, Whiteout, opens, set in in the icy wastes of Antarctica, Adam Smith reflects on the original and best Antarctic horror pic: John Carpenter's The Thing, from 1982.