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Freedom Escape Hatch: Finally – Brighton earnings growth eases house affordability gap The combination of rising incomes and reduced house price inflation is making living and working in Brighton and Hove a better prospect than ever before. Average UK earnings rose 3.7per cent in the year to January 2008 (National Statistics) while the Land Registry said that house price growth in the South East eased over the period. With the prospect of further interest rate cuts in 2008, the affordability gap is likely to narrow further.

According to Brighton-based media recruitment firm, Escape Hatch Media, the undersupply of experienced advertising agency account managers, PR agency account managers, business development managers and marketing managers is being reflected in the higher salaries being offered by Brighton’s leading media companies looking to attract the best London and Brighton talent.

Derek Grant, Escape Hatch’s MD, said that all their major clients were currently recruiting. “The general uncertainty in the financial markets seems to be having little effect on our clients’ recruitment plans. All of our major clients are staffing up and with the start of the new financial year we’ve been briefed on a large number of advertising, PR and marketing vacancies by new clients”.

According to Grant, however, candidates are still a little nervous about moving. “There is a perception that in times of economic uncertainty it makes sense to stay with your current employer. The reality is that it’s a great time to move – more opportunities and higher salaries. And with house prices easing, the ‘holy grail’ of buying a home in Brighton and Hove and walking to work along the seafront is perhaps more achievable than ever before”.

Escape Hatch, Pimlico House, 5 Orange Row, Brighton East Sussex, BN1 1UQ. Call: 01273 710044.

Recruitment Consultants - Brighton Basic Salary to £50K (DOE) + up to 40% uncapped commission + benefits, realistic OTE Year 1 = £130K Carpenter Farraday is an executive search firm with offices in Brighton and London. We specialise in senior level appointments in investment banking, hedge funds and private equity and are seeking experienced recruitment consultants to join our team. Carpenter Farraday has been established for 2 years and in that short time we have developed an enviable reputation amongst more established players in our sector. We deal with contingent work for more junior level roles through to retained executive search for candidates on £multi million packages.

Carpenter Farraday hires recruitment consultants who have 2 years + proven stable track record in recruitment but may be at a stage in their careers where they are looking to move to a more consultative and mentally challenging role.

We do not look for previous search experience or a finance recruitment background, but do value consultants that are inquisitive by nature, consultative, display the maturity to manage their own market sectors, and above all are interested in building a professional recruitment career. If you are currently working in contingent recruitment and would like to develop experience of executive search, we would like to speak with you.

Alternatively if you have experience in other fields such as management consulting, tax, legal or risk management and are interested in building your own team with related financial rewards please contact us.

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Senior Digital Art Director – Kerb We are looking for an inspirational Senior Art Director with a love of interactive design to head up our team of talented digital designers. You will be working for high profile clients and also working on some very cool non-client projects. The role requires a full understanding of clients brand and marketing requirements, together with an innate urge to push the boundaries of interactive design.

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Junior PPC/SEO Search Executive – Oban Multilingual Essential skills required: You should have a real passion for online marketing and SEO/SEM, at least 1 years Search Marketing experience. English to high-level fluency and excellent organisational and communication skills.

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Account Director (PR) – Man Bites Dog PRWeek’s New Consultancy Of The Year is looking for an Account Director to strengthen its growing team. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record in B2B public relations, working with blue chip organisations. You should also be able to demonstrate an ability to develop new business.

Junior Artworker/Designer – PWS We are looking for a junior artworker with a good knowledge of Quark and In-design and an enthusiastic approach to new learning - to join PWS. As part of a small team, you will work on a wide range of creative collateral, including exhibition stands, ads, brochures, invites, web sites and annual reports.

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contents 32 Hot List

Enjoy the summer with a new job

8 Social diary

Local restaurants, cafés and bar guide

33 The Parlure

St George’s Day celebrations

8 Competitions

Topping and Butch are heading to town

34 Fun days out

Katie can’t call in sick these days

9 What Katie did and Massive ticket give away this week

Make it a family day out at Legoland, plus your chance to win family tickets

35 Listings guide Your guide to the week ahead and that was the week that was

9 Crossword Whir your brain with this mind workout

36 Stage

11 Celeb city

It’s a bumper week for theatre

Brighton’s in the competition and Mr Big’s girls are in town

12 Eminemmylou & Dani’s Diary ‘Indebted to the Centuries’ by Jouni Inkala and Dani’s muffin-top trauma

13 News Strippers speak out and the internet war of words after local murder

17 Letters

37 Stand-up comedy Too much is not always a good thing

37 Books John McCullough’s The Lives of Ghosts and new writing classes

38 Film listings All the latest releases and reviews

39 Film interview

Your right to reply

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Marjane Satrapi talks about her film Persepolis and big boobs

17 Latest Sport The Bunker’s round up of the European Champions League semi-finals

18 Model City

40 Kids & Events Win Playhouse Disney tickets and Mayday in Albion

41 Open Houses

Sandra is in it to win it!

Thirteen pages of people and profiles from the celebrated Open Houses

19 Beauty & Health Products for the perfect summer glow and all the health listings

55 Music Previews, reviews and news

20 Bare Cheek Our memory man solves your problems and Orac discovers his sensitive side

20 Stars

58 Latest Chart The hottest chart in the city

61 Gay

Aquarians – you got away with it !

21 Brighton Festival Special Ten-page guide to the best of the Fest.

Including: vox pops, An Infinite Line, spotlight on literature and music, and fun things to do for a tenner

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Equality 2008, Amy Lamé, Will Tells, and all the listings and highlights of the week

65 Clubs All the listings to plan your week ahead plus Sleazy sauce with Wild Fruit and special guest Mutya Buena

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The Full Moon serves up a cracking Sunday feast

Complete seven-day TV guide and Dani’s got the spooks

01273 818150 Managing Editor Bill Smith Business Director Angi Mariani Creative Director Andrew Kay Production Director Fiona McTernan Finance Manager Sharon Caple Art Director Stephen King Production Manager Neil Ive Website Manager Paul Burgess Production Editor Victoria Nangle Assistant Editor Zara Friend

Editor Rachel Pegg

Chief Sub Editor Alison Swann

Music Editor Jeff Hemmings

Sub Editors Joe Curtin Melina Greenfield Tristan Parker

Listings Editor Nick Aldwinckle Staff Writers Matt Chittock Craig Driver Katie Glass Dani Winch Photographer Tim Richardson Designers Rob Burdick Anand Day Peter Knight Faye Perriam Steve Sawyer

Advertising Director Lynne Edwards

Welcome At last, it’s festival season and the most exciting time of the year for anyone in Brighton and Hove who loves the arts.

Over the next few weeks locals and visitors can enjoy at least four different festivals.

Brighton Festival offers up some of its most innovative and adventurous programming in music, dance, books, classical, family, outdoors and performance.

There are free events, exclusive shows, new commissions, bite size lunchtime concerts and opportunities to hear and question some of the greatest living composers, film-makers, musicians and writers from this country and beyond. For our exclusive ten-page feature with interviews with the programmers, news about the festival, views on the street and must-see events turn to page 21.

Your copy of Latest this week comes with the brochure for Artists Open Houses, telling you how to find your way to the homes of 220 of our most accomplished artists. For highlights, see Latest Art (p41). We’ve also got news on the festival fringe, with details of the headline comedy acts piling into The Parlure, the Spiegeltent next to St Peter’s Church in York Place (p33).

Coming in a couple of weeks is the Great Escape, when bands will play at 30 venues all around the city and we have five pairs of tickets to give away (p55). This weekend, one of the best gigs will probably be the Maccabees homecoming - if you were lucky enough to get tickets (p56).

We are the best and most exhaustive listings magazine in Sussex, but sometimes even we have to admit defeat. There are so many hundreds of things to do in the next month, we just couldn’t fit them all in. So we have made sure everything we didn’t have room for is available on our website www.latest7.co.uk in a day-by-day guide.

For families, we have six sets of family tickets for Playhouse Disney Live at the Brighton Centre – worth more than £60 – to give away, but you need to act quickly as the show runs from this Thursday, 1 May, to Saturday. See page 40 for how to enter. If you fancy a trip further afield, we have three family tickets to Legoland Windsor to give away too and a discount at Preston Manor (p34).

In our health and beauty section, columnist Sandra describes the fear models feel when they are judged by what they have to say instead of just how they look (p18) and Zara Friend tests the best tanning products on the market.

In news, Latest Gay editor Paul Disney has spoken to glam gay icon Amy Lamé (p62), and I asked lapdancers what they thought about allegations of exploitation (p13).

Advertising Sales Lucy Kamper Ian Trevett Marie Viviani Administration Claire Peerless Sara Henfridsson Latest Homes Unit 1, Level 5 North New England House New England Street Brighton BN1 4GH

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Fantastic ticket extravaganza this week with music and films!

Da Doo Ron Ron – tickets Da Doo Ron Ron are the ‘Legendary sixties girl pop extravaganza’ (NME) and they’re chuffed to bits to welcome guest superstar DJ Ian Parton, the mainman from Brighton's The Go! Team to the Da Doo decks on Friday 23 May downstairs at the Komedia. This extra special event is part of the Brighton Festival Fringe. In keeping with the Da Doo femme-centric remit, The Go! Team's head honcho will be spinning an utterly one-off DJ set of 60s femme pop, soul and funk. We have three pairs of tickets to Da Doo Ron Ron featuring The Go! Team at Komedia on Friday 23 May to give away. To be in with a chance of winning, tell us: From which decade of music do the Da Doo Ron Ron team play? See below for details.

Mike Read (special guest)

Rousing St George’s charity lunch On Friday 18 April, at the Hilton Brighton Metropole, the Fifth Annual Brighton and Hove St George’s Day Charity Luncheon gathered to celebrate St George and Englishness. The afternoon – this year sponsored by Spearmint Rhino – started with a drinks reception followed by the call to a sumptuous lunch and grace. Special guests this year were renowned radio DJ Mike Read and from London’s East End, comedian Jeff Innocent. The charity auction took on a brisk pace and all monies from the lots auctioned will be donated to The Chestnut Tree House, the only children’s hospice in Sussex, which cares for children and young adults from 0-19 years of age. To finish off the afternoon’s celebrations, The Royal Logistical Corps Band put on a magnificent display of music and marching, leading the way for the anthems ‘Abide With Me‘, ‘Rule Britannia‘, ‘There’ll always be an England,’ ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ and my favourite ‘Jerusalem.’

Legend of funk at Komedia The legendary funk and soul jazz saxophonist Maceo Parker played an adrenaline-pumping live show down at the Komedia on Wednesday 16 April with the Maceo Parker Band, the tightest little funk orchestra on earth with special guest Dennis Rollins – one of the most exciting British trombonists for decades. Maceo Parker has played with each and every leader of funk, from his start with James Brown to George Clinton to Bootsy's Rubber Band and since the year 1999 has participated in some of Prince's groundbreaking tours when not with his own group. This was a very special gig and was not to be missed.

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Here and Now – tickets Moving from sixties classics to eighties hits, don’t miss the Here and Now Tour when it comes to the Brighton Centre on Thursday 15 May. Stars of yesteryear take to the stage to wow the audience as they did back in their heyday. Stars performing their hits includes Rick Astley with his number one single ‘Never Gonna Give You Up,’ Bananarama with ‘Venus’ and Cutting Crew’s classic ‘(I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight.’ Dig out your leg warmers but leave the shoulder pads at home as you come and sing along to these eighties greats as they return to the stage in a special tour.

We have five pairs of tickets to give away to lucky readers. To be in with a chance of winning, tell us: What was the title of Rick Astley’s number one song which was also the best selling single of 1987? See below for details.

China Now Film Festival – Duke of York’s tickets The CHINA NOW UK film tour is coming to the Duke of Yorks cinema in Brighton on Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 May and we have ten pairs of tickets to give away to lucky readers.

The CHINA NOW UK tour aims to expose the UK audience to mainstream Chinese box office hits and popular films, offering a unique look into the social changes in China over the past 20 years. Bringing Chinese mainstream films to top UK cinemas, the tour includes premiers of box office hits including Cannes Festival award winner Luxury Car. CHINA NOW is the UK’s largest festival celebrating Chinese culture. The festival was launched to coincide with Chinese New Year and runs through to the end of July and the opening of the Beijing Olympics.

Saturday 10 May sees the screening of Luxury Car (15) at the Duke of York’s cinema in Brighton. This beautifully directed faultlessly performed story of a kindly country schoolteacher who comes to the city in search of his missing son, offers a piercing insight into contemporary China.

Alternatively, Sunflower (PG) is screened on Sunday 11 May, where a Chinese family saga unfolds over 25 years. The film deftly combines personal memories and salient moments of recent history to reveal the impact on one family of the momentous social changes that have gone into producing a new China.

For more information on this and other aspects of the CHINA NOW festival, visit www.chinanow.org.uk.

We have ten pairs of tickets to give away to these film screenings at the Duke of York’s. For a chance to win tell us: Which city is the capital of China? See below for details.

Don’t forget to put which film you would like to see on your entry. One pair of tickets to either film listed above available per winner.

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To be in with a chance of winning, email competitions@thelatest.co.uk with the title of the prize you wish to win in the subject box. Leave your answer to the question in the body of the email, along with your name, address and telephone number. Alternatively, write to us at the address at the front of the magazine. Entrants must be aged 18 or over. Closing date for entries: Tuesday 6 May 2008.

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What Katie did Katie is in no fit state to go to work.

But journalists don’t do duvet days

The lost weekend 7am this morning and I am in a canal boat in Somerset, stood crying over the sink. I have had the best weekend of my life – or at least this year. I’m not unhappy; I’m just exhausted. I haven’t slept for 48 hours, and with a bowl of cold water I am trying to rearrange the features of my face to put across some semblance of sanity and awakeness.

My clean clothes are an hour’s drive away, locked in a house to which I don’t have the keys. Who knows where its occupant lies? My phone is dead, my brain is pulp and my spit is now the colour of a chai latte.

For a moment I stop crying and almost start to giggle. And then I look at the clock and remember that in two hours time I have to be sitting at my desk at a newspaper in Kensington, and I begin to regret that last bottle of wine.

Journalists are supposed to be hardcore. When I was a kitchen porter being forced to work Christmas Eve with a ball of clingfilm wrapped around my little finger, collecting the blood from its deeply severed end, I thought times were bad. But at least in a restaurant, sometimes we’d close. With the paper it feels like we never do.

National newspapers don’t believe in sick days – we don’t even do lunch. The idea of calling in with a hangover is as futile as a prima ballerina claiming she can’t dance because of blisters. And a head full of froth caused by less than two hours sleep is simply part of the job. As is rocking up ill.

The day I was rushed to A&E in an ambulance after falling off my horse while showjumping, my editor was on the phone while I was lying in the hospital ward, checking the details of my copy and reminding me that I’d be in the office tomorrow, no matter how much codeine it took to get me there, before the doctor had even wheeled me to X-ray.

Once, after contracting gastroenteritis, I walked to work, vomiting on the way. After a morning of retching over the basin until there was nothing left to evict, I slunk to the sick room in my lunch break to ask for a paracetamol, where the horrified nurse duly demanded I go home.

Meanwhile, one hardcore girl I knew proudly told the tale of taking a taxi straight from dancefloor to newsroom when scheduled to work New Year’s Day. And now, here I am in Somerset. And staying is not an option. Wobbling across the plank from the boat to the gravel towpath, I march off in the probable direction of town, skiffing past the dog walkers, through the rising mist, while my Amy Winehouse make-up dribbles down my cheeks. An hour later I am scrubbing it off in a train toilet with some GWR bog roll. An hour after that I am filing my first story.

“The idea of calling in with a hangover is as futile as a prima ballerina claiming she can’t dance because of blisters”

Comments, queries and general chitchat can be sent to: letters@thelatest.co.uk

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7 Former student making usual detour around many Northern capitals (7) 8 Apprentice twins holding creature by the fold (5) 9 Rugs with a sweet substance woven in (5) 10 Girl taking bounder to Eastern school (7) 11 Merchant made to tell on zooman (10) 14 Wave-like language, not cultivated on the outside (10) 17 Moorland girl? (7) 19 Batting allowed in the bay (5) 20 Nothing is as moving as a fertile place (5) 21 General with minor interest in wind direction (7)

1 One grub wriggling to grow (7) 2 Continuous attainment of knowledge from a French brother (8) 3 One way a snipe can get loose (6) 4 Bloodsucker heard to run away (4) 5 Observe publicist breaking up drunken bout (5) 6 Make music with flying brother - he's a story-teller (10) 9 Female gangster adopted by religious society (10) 12 Test official formerly an underground worker? (8) 13 Maybe a sweet man (7) 15 Stormy run arranged before the end of the month (6) 16 Chap's Oriental religious house (5) 18 Legwear of the water-carrier (4)

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Vision of health With retinal-imaging, a visit to David Clulow Opticians ensures tip-top eye health When James Morgan decided to open his own David Clulow Opticians, Brighton, with its stylish residents and exclusive shopping locations, was the ideal choice. With 14 years experience as an optometrist and 11 years of managing stores for David Clulow, James felt that the time was right to set up his own practice and relocate to a town he loved.

The store is in a premier location on East Street and offers a fresh, boutique environment combining clinical excellence with high-quality products and service.

Many people treat visiting their opticians as a chore, and will only make an appointment if they are having trouble with their vision, but by making the Brighton David Clulow practice as comfortable and stylish as possible and introducing new top-of-the-range testing equipment, James hopes to change this attitude and make a visit to David Clulow an enjoyable experience.

Regular eye examinations are important for monitoring not only your vision, but your overall eye health, and with the newly installed retinalimaging equipment at David Clulow, your optician is able to take detailed photographs of the interior of your eye and keep it on record to monitor any changes in your health, year on year. For James, this is not only a great way of detecting any problems, 10 latest 7

but also an important breakthrough in the relationship between optometrist and patient.

“When people have a standard sight test they will ask whether their vision has changed but can sometimes be unaware of all the other checks optometrists make.

Retinal imaging allows us to show the patient what we see when we examine their eye, and give them a greater understanding of what we are looking for.

“Sight tests can detect a number of conditions including glaucoma, diabetes,

cataracts and age-related macular degeneration, and I find that once people see the picture of their own eye, they become more interested in their eye health, which can only be a good thing for both patient and optometrist,” James says.

In addition to excellent testing facilities, James and the team at David Clulow offer a wealth of expert advice and solutions to all your eyewear needs, from contact lens fitting to designer spectacles and sports-specific frames.

David Clulow stocks an exclusive collection of designer spectacle frames, and with a private fitting gallery upstairs, customers are guaranteed the time and advice they need to find the frame that offers them the best style and fit. Spectacle brands available include Lindberg, Mykita, Face a Face, Starck, Paul Smith, Oliver Peoples and Mikli, as well as all the main designer brands including Chanel and Prada.

For those in search of stylish sunglasses, Tom Ford, Oliver Peoples, Bulgari and Ray-Ban will appeal, and there is an excellent selection of Oakley frames for those looking for sports-specific frames.

In addition to this, a great selection of the sunglasses can be glazed with prescription lenses for spectacle wearers.

To view the collections, or speak to James and the team about any concerns you may have about your eye health, simply drop into the store which is open seven days a week, or call for an appointment.

David Clulow, 25 East Street, Brighton, BN1 1HL. Please call 01273 737578.

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Brighton’s got talent There’s a Cheeky wedding coming up, Brighton is full of talent and Mr Big’s girls are in town It’s time to get behind the city as Brighton has been shortlisted for “England’s Most Musical City”. We are up against Birmingham, Bristol, Colchester, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Sheffield and Newcastle. The good old British public are to decide which city gets the accolade in the six week competition. Brighton and Hove is pretty rich with musical talent, being the home of Fat Boy Slim and The Kooks, not to mention all the wealth of unsigned bands that hail from the city. To register your vote log on to www.mostmusicalcity.co.uk and give us douze points.

Sex in the City favourites in town The office is now getting very excited about the impending release of the new Sex in the City movie, that hits our screens next month. But if, like me, you are extremely impatient, you can get your SATC fix before the film’s release by heading down to the Udderbelly on Brighton’s Old Steine where Mr Big’s favourite burlesque act – Le Scandal, will be performing.

The sexy New York collective who are the house act at Chris Noth’s Manhattan nightclub will be in residence from Monday 5 May. It’ll be a hot ticket so book now at www.udderbelly.co.uk – and wear your Manolos!

Cheeky wedding Liberal MP Lembit Opik is to marry his very own Cheeky Girl. The oddball couple met at a celebrity bash last year and have been inseparable ever since. Now, Lembit has proposed to popstar Gabriela Irimia, who lives in Rye, on a trip to Rome.

Cbeebies Sid Spotted! Ex-Corrie star Stephen Beckett shopping with his gorgeous little girl at Churchill Square. Spotted! Every Yummy Mummy’s favourite kids presenter, Sid Sloane from Cbeebies. Fans can get a slice of Sid every Saturday on BBC Southern Counties Radio between 12 and 2pm.

You can hear me every Thursday from 9am on the Juice FM Breakfast Show with Guy and Andrea.

Jo Brooks is director of Brighton-based PR company JBPR Ltd, 01273 622555, www.jb-pr.com

To comment on any of these stories or send in any news stories email editorial@thelatest.co.uk

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Eminemmylou Hi, I’m Eminemmylou, throwin’ lyrics at you. This week Jouni Inkala Indebted to the centuries Mice don’t know that in the case of a human being the death of a dear one may paralyse a person’s capacity for years and years.

But in two things they’re more experienced than we.

They understand they’re in constant mortal danger.

That the trap is swift and silent.

That poison is a tear of awareness rising from the heart.

They also realise that in a cat’s claws they fly like jackknives in the hands of a knife thrower.

And that when the audience finally gets round to wakening up their hands in a rising storm of applause, they won’t be distinguishable from the arena spotlights or the ringmaster’s tails.

After their full term of service the mice pass out from this time to the other side, and there see a miracle: the sun’s heart beating six hundred times a minute.

Jouni Inkala, (b 1966), lives in Helsinki.

He studied foreign literature and philosophy at Helsinki University. He has published seven poetry collections and also written essays and columns in different forums.

Winner of J.H Erkko (1992), Kallioniemi Saatio and Einari Vuorela (2005) poetry prizes.

His Selected Poems 1992-2007 were published in Spring of 2007. His poetry has been translated into several languages.

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Dani’s diary Dani becomes anxious about the dangers of sharing the beach with scary creatures this summer Summer is very nearly creeping its way here. How long that summer will last is another question altogether. It could be just two days of mediocre sun like last year. In which case I won’t be too bothered. It will save me having to get my skinny legs out!

In the winter, I feel less inferior, I can cover myself up with endless amounts of jumpers and coats, and just look like everyone else. But in the summer, that breed of perfectly perfect women emerge from hibernation to make the rest of us feel like we have something lacking.

Whether it’s the perfect tan, long legs, plentiful bosom or beautiful hair regardless of the situation, there is something about all of us that our dislike towards triples in the summer months.

I have never been a massive fan of how I look, and the older I have become the more vain I am. Which is, overall, quite a bad thing.

I do not enjoy going to the beach because I do not enjoy putting on a bikini. For the main reason that there will always be about a thousand other girls, in their bikinis, all looking a hell of a lot better than me.

“I sit there, my muffin top creeping out, pondering the inevitability of my bikini going see-through“ Also, if I go in the water, when I come out, I well and truly look like a big piece of rag. No matter how I style my hair it always looks awful when I get out, all stuck to the side of my face and then dries into a mass of frizz. Whereas, other girls (from the planet ‘Not Human’) waltz out of the water, all ‘Bond girl-esq’, with their hair looking amazing, and sit there, while it dries into a perfectly fashion position, without one wisp out of place!

Is it any wonder I hate the summer?

And if the fact that their hair isn’t out of place isn’t enough, we also have to put up with the fact that they can get away with wearing no make up and still look fantastic, whereas I look about six. And if I did put make up on, I don’t have access to the secret line of water proof make up that really doesn’t run!

And they all have perfect feet. And the perfect accessories so they are never too hot or too cold. They never get blisters from their flip flops and their skirts never blow up when a gust of wind comes along. When they eat, sitting on the beach, they never get any of it on themselves or suffer stick-hand syndrome after eating an ice cream. Whereas, I sit there, my mini muffin top creeping its way out, pondering the inevitability of my bikini going see-through if I venture into the water, with sore feet and sticky hands. What is the point! I wish I was three again. I would have never thought twice about any of this. There are a number of things I blame for my neurosis, but one has to be this quote: “You have a strange face. When you first see it, it looks really plain, but when you look at it for ages it looks a bit more attractive.”

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What do lap dancers make of claims that they are being exploited by their jobs?

Rachel Pegg reports

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Brighton and Hove is replete with brothels. Dozens advertise in the local press every day. Yet it is the city’s lap-dancing clubs that have lately incurred the wrath of local female politicians. A group of MPs and peers are supporting a national campaign by lobbying group Object to change the law to allow local authorities to refuse licences to these clubs.

Object launched its campaign last week and is working to put forward a bill in the Commons. The group wants the clubs to be recognised as ‘sex-encounter establishments’ which would give local authorities greater powers to turn down licence applications, like they can with sex shops, and to place clubs under tougher controls.

Celia Barlow, MP for Hove and Portslade, argued in an article for New Statesman that lap-dancing clubs exploit women and increase sexual violence. She claimed that: “Since 2005, Brighton and Hove has seen five such clubs open where none existed before.” In fact, the city has three lap-dancing clubs and one of them, the Pussycat Club in Grand Parade, has been open for 11 years, first in Dyke Road, Hove before moving to Brighton to take over the premises of its sister club Top Totty.

“The men are the ones who are spending loads of money. They are the ones being exploited” The others are Rouge in East Street, which is owned by Spearmint Rhino and opened last September, and Grace of Brighton which opened in North Street in March last year. Grace is run by 22-year-old Siobhan Hodgetts, a former lap dancer, and her fiancé Kevin Roberts, a former nightclub doorman. Miss Hodgetts said their main clientele were stag parties aged 20 to 60 who come down to spend money across the city.

She said: “It is traditional for stags to come to a lap-dancing club.

When they come down, they go to hotels and restaurants. In the longterm, it is making money for Brighton.”

Behaviour, she said, is monitored by CCTV everywhere in the club. “It is a very controlled environment. Sometimes it has quite a bad reputation.

Each girl has their identity protected by a stage name.

“When a gentleman comes in here, it is all a show anyway because they’re all acting. None of the girls have ever gone home with a client.

The girls have very strict dancing they all stick by. It is no touching, not even near enough to touch. We have got brothels in Brighton but they like to focus on us.”

The club has 26 dancers aged 20 to 30, who are all self-employed.

The club charges £20 for a naked dance, of which £16 goes to the dancer and £4 to the club. The three dancers I spoke to said they only have to work a few nights a week to make enough money.

Peaches, 24, who has been dancing for about two years, said: I got into it because I was £1,199 into my £1,200 overdraft. I went out to drown my sorrows in Crawley and there was a wet T-shirt competition.

I was really drunk and my mate entered me. I got £100 for winning.

“I choose to do this. Other people are mathematical and they use that to their advantage” That was really easy. My friends said, ‘Why don't you try stripping?’

“Once you get into it, it is really hard to get out because it is quick money. It is not easy money but it is quick. It is the only job I have ever had that I like everyone who works there.

“There has been times when I don’t want to do it any more. I’ll say, ‘I am leaving’, but I come back because I miss it. I am doing it because I am saving for a mortgage. Most people are here for a reason.”

She said occasionally men tried to break the rules and touch her but it was not the norm. “It is worse in a normal nightclub. If I go out I am being constantly groped by horrible men.”

Peaches thought it was unfair that male strippers were not accused of being exploited. “I could do any other job if I wanted. I choose to do this. Other people are mathematical, they use that to their advantage.

Some people are musical. Everybody’s different. You have got to take it on face value. Blokes come in and have a few drinks and go home with a smile on their face.”

Lilly, 21, who has been dancing for a year, said: “You'll rarely find a girl in this job who doesn’t want to be here. All of us want to be here.

It is a really nice lifestyle."

Cleo, 24, who has been lap dancing for six months, said: “Exploitation of women is an absolute joke. As far as I’m concerned, any girl that works in this industry – you have to be a certain type of girl. The men are the ones who are coming in and spending loads of money. They are the ones being exploited.

“To say that stripping is in some way inappropriate is another form of suppression of women. We are saying, ‘We are all powerful creatures.

This is our empowerment’. Let us have it.”

Lilly, Peaches and Cleo

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The Jubilee Library opened on a Sunday for the first time since it was built in 2005. Special events were held to mark the first in a long line of Sunday openings. The city council has promised to buy in 11,700 extra books to cope with all the extra visits. It is hoped that about 1,400 people will come every Sunday, adding up to 73,000 extra visits a year.

Family and friends gathered to remember Simon Jones, a student killed on his first day of work at Shoreham Dock. The 24-year-old died ten years ago.

A commemoration, film screening and discussion led by Simon's mother Anne took place at the Cowley Club, London Road, on Thursday night. Simon was on a year out from Sussex University when his head was crushed by the grab of a crane. The Simon Jones Memorial Campaign since fought for those who put him at risk to be brought to justice.

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Ambitious proposals to redevelop the run-down London Road area have been thrown open for debate. Developer St James's Investments held an exhibition asking for opinions about the ‘Gateway to Brighton‘. Its proposals include a twostorey Tesco store selling food, clothes, music, books and household goods.

The development would cover the area between New England Street to London Road, contained on one side by New England Road and on the other by York Hill. It would mean demolishing the city council's New England House, home of Latest magazines and many other media and arts firms. St James's says the new development could include workshops for creative companies as well as homes, shops and offices. Their traffic consultant has suggested abolishing the one-way system so people can approach and leave Brighton via London Road. There might also be leisure facilities and an entertainment centre.

People who wrote on post-it notes at the exhibition last week complained about traffic and street drinkers. Project leader James Hepburn said: “As the entrance to the city and one of the last city centre areas that is in great need of regeneration, this is a very exciting opportunity. We really want to hear local people's views.“ A planning application might be entered later this year. The company is working alongside developments at City College in Pelham Street and the Open Market. To comment, visit www.brightnewlondonroad.co.uk

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Flying the flag Wine makers Henry Butler and Andy Martin set off on a 1,600km charity tandem bike ride in aid of a children’s hospice. But the journey could get a bit wobbly – they’re going to be followed by their wives in a van full of wine.

While on the trip through France and Italy the pair, of The Butlers Wine Cellar in Brighton, plan to visit vineyards to spread the message about the quality of British wine.

They set off from the English Wine Centre in Alfriston on Friday. Their bicycle was created for them by the Brighton Bike Hut. The trip will raise funds for Chestnut Tree House Children’s Hospice, near Arundel.

Mr Butler said: “As well as being complete tandem novices up to a few weeks ago, what makes this trip unique is our quest to put English wines head to head with French and Italian wines across the major wine producing regions of France and Northern Italy.“ Andy and Henry’s final destination is Bra in Northern Italy, the headquarters of the Slow Food movement.

See maddogsandenglishwine.com

A man was found dead in the toilets at Sainsbury in the New England Quarter. The body was discovered last week just after lunchtime. Police said there were no suspicious circumstances.

The man was said to be in his 30s. The store's customer toilets were closed down for the rest of the week.

The city council announced it was reviewing the tolerated graffiti zone at The Level and would probably not grant any other authorised sites in the city because they did not seem to help reduce the amount of illegal graffiti elsewhere.

A Hove couple were convicted of illegally obtaining £23,000 in benefits while failing to declare that they were working. Phillip and Patricia Patchett, of Ingram Crescent West, admitted the fraud at Brighton Magistrates Court. Mr Patchett was given a 16-week curfew order from 8pm-6am, enforced by an electronic tag. He was also ordered to do 240 hours of community service. Mrs Patchett was given a 12-week suspended sentence.

The pair were charged with receiving more than £17,500 in housing benefit since 2000 and nearly £5,500 in council tax benefit. At one stage the couple claimed they had joint earnings of £600 per month. Checks revealed a real income of £1722.

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New city council leader Mary Mears put forward the names who will make up her cabinet.

The nine post holders will be the most powerful councillors in Brighton and Hove's history. Each cabinet member will make crucial decisions for a whole area of council services involving budgets of many millions of pounds.

Coun Mears' position is expected to be ratified at the city council AGM on 15 May. Coun Mears has proposed the appointment of two deputy leaders, Denise Cobb, who will lead on sustainability, and Vanessa Brown. The cabinet members will be Vanessa Brown (children and young people); Maria Caulfield (housing), Ayas Fallon-Khan (central services), Ted Kemble (enterprise, employment and major projects), Ken Norman (adult social care and health), Dee Simson (community affairs, inclusion and internal relations); David Smith (culture, recreation and tourism); Geoffrey Theobald (environment) and Jan Young (finance).

Cancer support Commuters were stopped in their tracks by an unusual sight at Brighton Station – a group of friends sitting down to a four course meal. Cancer survivors and friends dressed in black tie for the party on the station concourse.

They handed out leaflets to passers-by advertising Cancer Research UK's latest fundraising scheme called Dine@Mine. The charity is encouraging people to host dinner parties and ask their

guests to make a donation.

Ryan Bromley, Cancer Research UK’s Area Volunteer Manager for Brighton, said: “Dine@Mine is a great way for people to take part in an event that will make a real difference to the charity’s work to help prevent, treat and beat cancer – a disease that affects one-in-three people in the UK at some stage in their lives.“ Visit www.cancerresearchuk.org or call 08701 60 20 40.

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Hayley Stunell with a photograph of her brother

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Time to end the feud

A young mother is calling for a truce between two factions following the murder of her brother. Since her former friend was convicted of the killing, some friends of both men have waged an internet war of words including veiled threats.

Hayley Stunell, 19, pleaded: “Please stop – this won’t bring my brother back and it can only lead to more violence. I want this to end now. It’s stupid.”

The aggressively worded exchanges, carried on a Brighton website, followed the conviction of Aaron Aymer who stabbed Hayley’s brother Dave Stunell, 22, in front of her and her mother. The offensive emails have since been removed from the site and police have been informed.

Aymer, 18 and from Wapping, London, was found guilty at Lewes Crown Court and is facing a life term when he returns to court for sentencing on 28 May.

“Please stop – this won’t bring my brother back and it can only lead to more violence“ Pictures of Mr Stunell line shelves and mantelpieces at the family home where Hayley and her two-year-old daughter Isabel are temporarily living. Hayley gave evidence during the trial and told how she held her carpenter brother in her arms after he was stabbed in the neck. She told him she loved him before he was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Her 22-year-old brother had gone to talk to Aymer as he sat in a car at Seven Dials, Brighton, last year. He was concerned for his sister who had become friends with Aymer over the previous fortnight. Aymer was into drugs and knives and the brother was worried for his sister’s safety.

Judge Richard Brown called Aymer, who has a history of violence, one of the most dangerous men he had ever had in his court. Mr Stunell’s mother Carol, 51, sent Judge Brown a victim’s statement and spoke of her daily heartache, stress and anger.

Currently having counselling, Mrs Stunell wrote: “We have had to seek medical attention to help us cope with our nightmares and grief.

We can’t justify in our heads how we could have lost such a great man … in such an immoral way. My son was my rock.”

Mrs Stunell told how her son had taken over as the man of the house after her divorce and how he had been helping cope with her multiple sclerosis. Mrs Stunell echoed her daughter’s call and pleaded for an end to the threats and insults following the trial: “They will do no good.”

Instead, she hopes something positive will come from her loss in the form of tougher measures against those who carry knives. She wants tougher punishment for offenders and wants metal detectors installed at the entrances to public places including shopping malls, train stations, hospitals and supermarkets to catch those who do.

She said: “I know we can’t get rid of all knives but this just might make people think before they go out carrying one. I will never get over what has happened… every time I look in my kitchen drawer and see a knife it upsets me.”

Mrs Stunell would “speak” to her son’s photographs in her lounge during the trial. They were mainly tearful words but on the day of the guilty verdict, she was able to smile at him and she said: “We did it Dave, we got justice.”

Bluebells ring out early Bluebells are out early in Sussex as this Cavalier King Charles pup discovered when he was captured by a Latest 7 photographer on a walk at Plumpton, north of Brighton.

Veronica Withall, a ranger at Wakehurst Place near Haywards Heath, said bluebells were premature but she described the spring so far as “odd”.

She said: “Blossoming among several spring plants started sooner than normal this year, but then the recent cold snap slowed everything down again and we’re pretty much back to normal – which is good

because we have some free spring tours coming up.”

Wakehurst is organising walks on 4 May and a minibus tour for the less able on 11 May. Hawthorn – or the mayflower – is also out early this year and was first seen blossoming early in April.

Dr Kate Lewthwaite, from the Woodland Trust, said: “Hawthorn is commonly not seen until May but over the past 30 years it has edged its way into April.

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Brighton will be one of the first places in the country to open a GP's surgery inside a branch of Boots. Dr Adolfo Gracia of Queens Road surgery will transfer to the North Street shop together with practice staff and 2,000 registered patients when their lease expires in mid May. It is hoped the move will provide better surroundings for patients and staff, better facilities for disabled people and, over time, better access to a range of healthcare services. Primary Care Trust bosses believe the central location will relieve pressure on other practices, and provide a convenient service for temporary residents and visitors to the city who are taken ill. Patients will be able to walk straight out of their doctor’s appointments into the shop to pick up prescriptions and get expert advice from the pharmacist.

The move is the result of a partnership between Brighton and Hove Primary Care Trust, healthcare contractors Chilvers McCrae and Boots.

Patient representative Mary-Ann Letten, of the recently disbanded Brighton and Hove PCT patient and public involvement forum, said it was good news as the surgery would be large, accessible and on a main bus route. The old surgery in Queens Road, she said, was rather cramped. She said: “It is a more robust, appropriate service for the 21st century.“ PCT chief executive Darren Grayson said: “I am delighted that Brighton and Hove is one of the first places to work with Boots in this way.

“This is partnership with a purpose – to deliver first class NHS primary care in top quality surroundings.“ Alex Gourlay, managing director of Boots, said: “This is an excellent example of the potential for pharmacy to be involved in the wider provision of healthcare. The pharmacy is more than just a place to pick up prescriptions, and we hope that this development will help demonstrate the increasing role that pharmacy can play in people's lives.

“As modern life means people lead busier lives, Boots has the aim of making healthcare more accessible and convenient.“ Details of the moving date will be sent to all registered patients.

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Joint action gets results Brighton’s ditched, unroadworthy, or untaxed cars are on the hit list as services and organisations continue to clean the streets A multi-agency operation to tackle abandoned, untaxed, unroadworthy and dangerously parked vehicles has been another resounding success.

Brighton and Hove City Council’s highways, waste enforcement and trading standards teams joined up with Sussex Police, the DVLA, the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (Vosa) and NCP to clear up streets around Preston Park and Brighton seafront.

One vehicle at Preston Park was seized with no tax, MOT, or insurance and the driver didn’t have a licence either. An unroadworthy van at the same location was ticketed by Vosa and the owners agreed to voluntarily scrap the vehicle.

In all, 21 faulty vehicles were ticketed by Vosa and the DVLA gave out warnings for 14 untaxed vehicles. The police also issued five warnings and seized three vehicles for having no insurance. The DVLA found six number plate irregularities.

Checks were carried out by the council’s Cityclean on waste carriers to make sure they had the appropriate licences. NCP provided a truck to tow away some of the vehicles. Environment chairman councillor Geoffrey Theobald commented: “This action day had excellent cooperation between all the agencies involved.

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“No street in the city is going to escape, make sure your vehicle is legal or you could lose it”

Teachers action Teachers and pupils are working hard to make up for lost time during last week's strike by the NUT. Forty-seven Brighton and Hove schools were closed for the one-day stoppage on Thursday, while 14 others ran a skeleton service.

Meanwhile an estimated 300 people marched through the streets in the pouring rain to demand a better pay deal from the Government.

Protesters carried placards calling for “Fair Pay for Teachers“ and chanted as they walked through the town centre. The march was supported by members of the UCCU, the University and College Union.

Teachers had been offered 2.45 per cent, instead of the 4.1 per cent they asked for.

On the march from the Pavilion Gardens to the Old Ship Hotel, where strikers held a meeting, was Ron Gordon, Brighton and Hove president of the NUT. Mr Gordon, a religious studies teacher from Blatchington Mill School in Hove, said: “We have had our pay cut successively in real terms for the last four years. We don't want to be left in a position where our pay is cut for another three years. We think it is in the interests of children and teachers to have a well rewarded profession.“ He said a lot of teachers found it difficult to get on the property ladder.

Deborah Gray, a teacher from West Hove Junior School, said: “We are here for our younger teachers who are leaving this town because they can't afford to live here.“ A city council spokesman said the council worked with schools in an attempt to ensure parents and pupils were disrupted as little as possible. Many pupils at partially closed schools were able to come in for lessons or revision, including Year 11s approaching crucial exams at secondary schools Falmer High, Hove Park and Patcham High.

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“It is one of a series where council officers from different departments join up with the police and other agencies to get to grips with illegal and environmentally damaging vehicles.

“By working together, we can deal with a number of problems at the same time. It’s very effective at tackling the eyesore caused by dumped vehicles. By getting them off the streets, it also frees up parking space for residents.”

From 1 April to 2 June, the council will have taken part in seven joint action days. In March the council ran a joint operation between highway enforcement, Cityclean, trading standards, the police and DVLA in Hangleton. Five vans were found to be carrying waste without a licence, the police issued 23 fixed penalty notices, nine vehicles were clamped for expired tax and 12 others issued with warnings.

Further operations are taking place at the end of May and in June in the west of the city.

Hamish MacKenzie, cleansing and highways enforcement officer, said: “No street in the city is going to escape these action days, so the message is make sure your vehicle is legal, or you could lose it.“

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Latest Sport Round ups and rumblings from the Latest Sports Bunker

Isn’t it ironic...

Joe Curtin looks at the contradictions in the beautiful game and salutes Fergie’s reign Food for thought After your coverage of our campaign Food for US, promoting ethically viable food at Sussex University, we had a really enthusiastic response from students, management and local companies. Our ‘Chicken Out’ demonstration on campus (where students protested against battery chicken being served at university outlets) definitely caused university management to sit up and take notice of growing student concern as we presented them with a 500 signature strong petition.

We were delighted to find out before the protest that the university now only uses free-range eggs, totalling 70,000 per year. We still have a long way to go however. As well as free range chicken we would like to see more organic and local food, less processed food, more vegetarian and vegan options and the banning of flown food.

Our last meeting with them was extremely productive as we covered all of our concerns and we are confident they will be taking them seriously during the next phase of their catering strategy. It is great that now we are working together with the university to improve such an integral part of the university experience.

As next year’s welfare officer, I want to bring the fair trade status of Sussex University closer to home and make Food for US a highly localised movement. I hope to collaborate with Brighton University’s students as well as more local producers, shops and restaurants in providing sustainable food options. We really appreciate your support at Latest 7 and we would love to keep you updated as our campaign expands in the near future. To watch the documentary that began this campaign then simply search Food for US on Google Videos. Cheers.

Richa and the Food for US team foodforus@gmail.com

Deeks gets canned Jack Deeks deserved a much tougher sentence for plastering the city with his horrible tags. People like him give a bad name to real graffiti artists, who have created the pictures in the North Laine, the New England Quarter and on the wall of the Prince Albert.

I was in my gym the other day in Frederick Place and I saw three people come to take photos of the Bansky policemen kissing within the space of 15 minutes. It is a major tourist attraction. No one could ever say that about Deeks’ tedious scrawls. They have no artistic merit whatsoever, and just make the city look a mess. Deeks should at least learn some skills before inflicting his rubbish egotistical doodles on everyone else who lives here.

Sarah, Seven Dials

Barking mad I was very upset to read about the man who hurt his dog by hitting it with a hammer.

As a long term supporter of the RSPCA, it is one of the worst cases I have heard about.

If someone did that to a child, they would be locked up for life. I hope Bailey finds a good home with someone who looks after him properly.

Paula, Brighton

You can also write to: Letters, Latest Homes Ltd, Unit 1, Level 5 North, New England House, New England Street, Brighton BN1 4GH

Last week was one of massive ironies in English top-flight football. John Arne Riise’s bizarre 95th-minute own goal gave the under-fire Chelsea boss Grant the upper hand and consequently, it looks like, consigned Liverpool’s season to the bin. This it increasingly seems apparent will save the job of one manager and see another depart to fresh pastures.

Avram Grant has been doomed to unpopularity since the day he started. Without the looks and charisma of Mourinho, and seen by many Chelsea players and fans along with the press as being part of the Abramovich mafia that forced the ‘Special One’ out, his future has been the source of much speculation. But he is a good manager and plays, admittedly only slightly, more attractive football than his illustrious forebear and it now looks like he might go one better and take Chelsea to a European Champions League final. This is without the spending power Mourinho had and with Drogba off form. And of course with Chelsea’s infamously ‘small’ squad (how the Albion wishes for their inadequacies). It is interesting as well how it appears that Grant has got away with dropping the ageing and out-of-form Shevchenko when this was the source of so much tension between him and Abramovich. Maybe it was just a clash of personalities after all. And Grant hasn’t got one .

“Rather than pass, Ronaldo wanted to take on the entire Barca team. Is the World Player of the Year award coming up at all?”

Benitez is a great manager, one I’ve defended countless times but even, although it now looks unlikely, winning the European Cup again it looks as though he will leave Anfield, as the civil war gripping the club escalates. Does he need the grief? No, he will be off accordingly and the losers will be the red half of Liverpool.

One of the ironies in the other semi-final is that Ronaldo, United’s hero all season, almost cost them the game with his selfish display all evening. Rather than pass he wanted to take on the entire Barcelona team in front of the world. Is the World Player of the Year award coming up at all? This, more than his penalty miss, made him, for once, United’s villain in the Camp Nou. After Vidic’s mystery stomach bug, United’s jerrybuilt line-up defended magnificently against wave after wave of Barca attacks, and should’ve had a second penalty. United underperformed but still absorbed all Barca had to offer and ultimately weren’t too troubled.

Their name must surely be on the Cup this season.

The biggest irony, however, is that in Fergie’s penultimate season United restrained the urgent, aggressively attacking English style of football and defended like Italians. Not their greatest performance by a long way, especially compared to their classic dynamic and free-flowing attacking grandeur of ‘99, but ironically, one that, surely, must finally cement this Ferguson era as a truly great one.

Get yourself up to the Withdean this Saturday 3pm to see the champions play (Swansea, that is) • Sat 3 May – Albion v Swansea (League One – home)

Ticketline 01273 776992 5–6 Queens Road, Brighton | www.seagulls.co.uk

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Model city Sandra Omo does a spell in beaut camp for a rigorous beauty competition

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Before today, I had almost forgotten that I am in a competition. The fun right here in camp is unbelievable. Now I am beginning to understand how contestants can be happy for those who win when they themselves lose. Until you have the experience that I have had over the past two weeks, you will never fully comprehend how this can be possible. Your competitors, I mean fellow contestants, are the only companions you have in camp. You eat, sleep and wake up together, borrow from and lend to each other, and basically do everything together. At the end of it all, it becomes impossible for you not to be happy for whoever wins, even though you may feel disappointed.

Competition proper has begun this week and we have just finished the first round: the Miss Photogenic photoshoot. I am not eyeing-up this prize at all. In fact, if there is an award I have never craved in my life, it is this one. I believe my pictures look as good as I do, not less or better. Nonetheless, I have to give it my best anyway because I realise if I want to win one of the five crowns, then I must be good at everything. After my shoot, I had the opportunity to look at the photos, and I must confess that I thought they looked lovely, but I have also had photos that I think are lovelier, so I knew this wouldn’t bring me the Miss Photogenic Award, and I am glad for the girl who won.

“I am a model and I am used to showing up on the deal day, strutting my stuff and hearing the decisions” Now, in camp, everything we do matters. I have never been in a competition where everything had to matter. I am a model and I am used to showing up on the deal day, strutting my stuff and getting to hear the decisions. But for the first time, I had to taste what beauty pageant preparation really feels like. Did I like it? Well, yes I did enjoy the experience, as the other contestants were lovely, but if I have to repeat the same process for every modelling competition I enter, the answer would be a no. I guess there is this thing in us models that makes us want to do these competitions as quickly as possible and get the results equally fast.

Like I said earlier, everything we do in camp matters to the extent that the top ten models are actually selected in camp before the final day, when they are announced. Did you know this? Dare I also tell you that this is so with every beauty pageant and top modelling competition?! In fact, while the models are still in camp, the judges already know who the winners are. This can only change slightly on the final day – if it does so at all. So halfway through the second week, we had the chance to impress the judges in order to be considered as one of the top ten. This is the pre-judging stage, and today is that day.

It is tense and awfully quiet today. We are all having our make-up done and you can hear a pin drop. My mind is set on what I have to do when I get in the judging room to meet the ten judges that are ready to mark the slightest mistake against you. There are 30 of us and they only pick ten, so I cannot be careless. When I spoke to the other contestants later, I discovered that they all had the same fear.

As we begin to file in one after the other in the judging room, the tension is mounting even higher. One contestant comes out through the wrong entrance – that isn’t good – and another comes out crying.

She thinks she talked too much. It’s my turn to enter the judging room.

I look in the mirror one more time, and am pleased with what I see.

But will the judges feel the same way? If they do, I am sure to be among the top ten. If they don’t, well... I haven’t even thought about it.

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HEALTH&BEAUTY

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Bronze ambition Make sure you’re not left looking pasty from winter with our guide to achieving the perfect summer glow before even taking a step outside. Compiled by Zara Friend

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Biotherm Homme’s Power Bronze Matte Powder Brush £30, for stockists call: 0800 037 1020. www.biotherm.co.uk One for the men now, with another innovative creation from Biotherm. Power Bronze is the bronzing line for men that gives a natural, healthy looking tan in just 15 seconds.

Whether it’s a hint of a tan or a deep tan, apply as you would a shaving brush and achieve a long lasting healthy glow all day.

FCUK Pure Tanning Body Lotion Available at Boots stores nationwide, £4 This new tanning lotion from FCUK gives skin a subtle sun-kissed glow without breaking the bank. A blend of two tanning agents gives the most natural, long lasting, streak free tan so skin looks radiant day after day. Extracts of shea butter, aloe vera, pink grapefruit and vitamins A and E keep skin soft and smelling gorgeous.

FCUK Polished Bronzer with Tan Enhancer Available at Boots stores nationwide, £5 A velvety textured gel that glides onto the skin.

In just two hours, skin becomes browner with a warm, healthy glow, but be sure to apply evenly.

DHC Facial Scrub available online at www.dhcuk.co.uk or by phoning 08000 23 24 25, £8.50 Before reaching for the self tanning lotions, prep your skin ready for even application. A good facial scrub is essential – this apricot seed exfoliator helps to achieve greatlooking smooth skin for the summer, cleansing deeply to create the perfect base for your self tan to be applied.

St Tropez Intensifier (medium and dark) St Tropez Intensifier rrp: £14.95, 150ml.

For more on St Tropez tanning, contact Beauty Works, 2 Burlington Parade, Portslade, 01273 420198 If you’re concerned about DIY self tans, then leave it to the professionals – or two: St Tropez at Beauty Works gives fantastic results (read natural) applied by a professionally trained team. You can also purchase the products individually to prolong your tan! The new Intensifier contains organic aloe vera to hydrate and ensure the tan fades evenly.

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Health & fitness TUESDAY 29 Astanga Vinyasa Yoga With Ginny Haswell, Coast Chiropractic, 10am–11.30am, £64 for 8 Choi Kwang Do The 21st Century approach to Martial Arts training. Dorothy Stringer Sports Complex, Brighton.

Children’s class (6.30–7.30pm), adults class (7.30–8.30pm).

Call 07895 066321 for more info.

Dynamic Meditation Revitalise, 7.30am–8.30am, £4 Hatha Yoga With Taravajra Evolution Arts, 1–2.15pm, £6/4 Lunchtime Oasis Meditation Brighton Buddhist Centre, 1.15–1.45pm, £3/£2 Pilates All levels, Coral Health & Fitness, 9.15am (also Wednesday 8.10pm) £3.50 Restorative Yoga The Acupuncture Clinic, 5.15–6.15pm, £8/£6

WEDNESDAY 30 Astanga Yoga All levels including beginners, Brighton Buddhist Centre, 12.45–2pm, £6/4 Classic Yoga With Louise Beglin. All Levels. Brighton Natural Health Centre, 1–2.15pm £5.50/ £5 Hatha Yoga Coral Health and Fitness. 1.30pm, £4 Lunch Spin Fitforall, 12.30pm, £5 Pilates With James Powell at Coast Chiropractic, 6.30pm–7.30pm, £40 for 5 classes.

Scaravelli Yoga The Acupuncture Clinic, 7.30–9pm, £8/35 for 5.

Yoga Rhythms Hatha/Vinyasa yoga. Classes for beginners. back 2 Balance, 6.30–8pm, £7/6 Yummymummys Fitforall, 10.30am, £4

THURSDAY 1 Body Control Pilates Mixed & advanced classes. Holistic Health Centre, 8–9.15pm, £60 for six weeks Hatha Yoga Brighton Buddhist Centre, 6–7.15pm, £6/4 Jazz Dance Alive gym, 1.30pm Pilates General/improvers level. The Acupuncture Clinic, 7.45–8.45pm, £40 for 5 new course Sivananda Based Yoga Cornerstone Community Centre, 7.15–8.30pm, info call Sarah: 01272 208402, £6 per session Vajrasati Yoga Brighton Buddhist Centre, 1–2.15pm and 6–7.15pm, £6/4 Yoga Fitforall, 7.30pm, £5 Yoga With Peter Roussel, Evolution Arts, 10.30am–11.45am, £6/4 Yoga Rhythms Hatha/Vinyasa yoga. Classes for intermediates. Back 2 Balance, 6.30–8pm, £7/6

FRIDAY 2 Latin Dance (salsa) Coral Health and Fitness, please call 01273 731262 for class times, £4 Meditation Class Natural Bodies, 2pm, £5 Reiki Taster Treatments With Delamay from £15, The Therapy Rooms, Hove, 01273 687778, 9.30am–2pm Sivananda Yoga Beg/int.

Revitalise. 9.30–10.45am, £6 drop-in/£30 for 6.

Supple Strength Healthy Vibes, 12–1pm, £6/30 for 6 Tatty Bumpkin Yoga Classes for toddlers (18 months–five years). Wendy Whatling School of Dance, info call

Sarah 01273 208402, £30 for 6 sessions Yogalates With Fiona, Fitforall, 9.30am, £5 Zodiac Yoga The Acupuncture Clinic, 2–3.30pm, £7/6, £30 for 5 classes.

SATURDAY 3 Boxercise Circuit Training 90-minute class. Details: www.halinapt.co.uk Goldstone Business Centre, 2 Goldstone Street, Hove.

12.30–2pm, £7 Children's Ki and Aikido Four to seven years, Bob for info: 01273 323315, Brighton Ki Centre, 9–9.45am, £2.50 Dynamic Flow Yoga With Tara and Niki. The Acupuncture Clinic, 11.15am–12.45pm, £8 Hi/Lo Aerobics Intermediate/advanced, Alive gym, 10am Pre Natal Pilates Call Carla for info 01273 273204, Back2Balance, 12.15pm, £60 for 6 weeks Tai Chi Fitforall, 9am, £5 Yoga 1 1/2 hour class. Coral Health and Fitness, 12pm, £4.50

SUNDAY 4 EFT Discovery Day The Emotional Freedom Technique for emotional and physical problems. Evolution Arts, 10.45am–4.45pm, £45/35 Evolution Walk Walk with Louise Stone. All welcome, including children.

Approx 4 miles – 2 hours.

12pm, £7.50/6 (01273 204204 for more info).

Green Tara Puja All welcome.

Bodhi Garden, from 6pm Legs, Bums and Tums Coral Health & Fitness, 10.15am, £3.50

MONDAY 5 Bodyzone Training Brighton Natural Health Centre, 6.30–8.30pm, £9/8 Eckhart Tolle Group 45 minutes of listening to Eckhart talking on CD. Followed by a discussion and few minutes of silent stillness (or meditation if you meditate). Revitalise Health Cafe, 7.15pm Hatha Yoga Brighton Buddhist Centre, 6–7.30pm, £6/4 Inspiring Yoga All levels.

Holistic Health Clinic.

6.15–7.45pm, £7 Pole Dancing Great for whole body toning. 4 consecutive week courses. Beginners/ intermediate, Fitforall, 7.30pm £48/58 course Spinning General level, Alive Gym, 10am Street Dance Healthy Vibes, 6.30–7.30pm, £6/30 for 6 Tai Chi Chuan Class More info: 07900 193230. All Saints Church Hall, 8pm, £5 Unguided Meditation Alan for info: 07966 046524, Bodhi Garden, 6-7pm, suggested donation £5 Yoga With Jo, Cornerstone Community Centre, 9.30–10.30am, £7 /30 for 6

DIRECTORY The Acupuncture Clinic 143 Portland Road, Hove 01273 722422 Alexandra Dance Academy 11 Howard Road, Hanover, 01273 273522 Alive 25-27 Castle Street, Brighton 01273 739606 All Saints Church Hall Eaton Road, Hove Ian: 07900 193230 www.ik-taichi.com Anahata Health Clinic 119–120 Edward Street, Kemp Town, 01273 239466 Back2Balance, 35 Goldstone Villas, Hove, 01273 206868 BE Pilates Studio

121 Eldred Avenue, Westdene Carla: 01273 273074 Bodhi Garden Centre 7 Ship St Gardens, Brighton Richard: 07796 331167 Brighthelm Community Centre North Road, Brighton 01273821512 Brighton Buddhist Centre 17 Tichborne Street, Brighton 01273 772090 Brighton Ki Centre 12 Queen’s Square, Brighton Barry: 07854 389606 Brighton Natural Health Centre Regent Street, Brighton, 01273 600010 Brighton Reiki Centre Viaduct Road, Brighton 07968 982136 Coast Chiropractic 198 Church Road, Hove 01273 321133 Coral Health and Fitness Orchard Road, Hove 01273 731262 Cornerstone Community Centre Church Road, Hove The Dance Station Unit 4, 57 North St, Portslade 01273 506681 Davigdor Infants School Somerhill Road, Hove Bernie: 07799 097776 Dean’s Leisure Centre Longhill School Karen: 01273 391168 The Dharma School Ladies Mile Road, Patcham 01273 502055 Diamond Way Buddhist Centre Montpelier Road, Brighton, Ingrid: 07736 061108 Dorothy Stringer Sports Complex, Loder Rd, Brighton Info: 07895 066321 Evolution Arts & Health Centre, 2 Sillwood Terrace, Brighton, 01273 204204 Fitforall, Unit 1, Portland Road Trading Estate, Hove, 01273 415515 Gallus Boxing Gym 21a Melbourne St, Brighton Paul Evans: 07982 692195 Goldstone Business Centre 2 Goldstone Street, Hove www.halinapt.co.uk Healthy Vibes 200 Church Road, Hove, 01273 710709 Holistic Health Clinic 53 Beaconsfield Rd, Brighton 01273 696295 Johnson Page Healthcare Chiropractic & Medical Acupuncture, 15 Ship Street 01273 724777 King Alfred Leisure Centre Kingsway, Hove, 01273 290290 Komaja Centre 21a Upper Market St, Hove Cela: 01273 771472 Leach Court Eastern Road, Brighton Ian Kendall: 07900 193230 Medical Herbalist Sarah Flower (MNIMH) at Anahata Health Clinic Info: 01273 698687 More Bar/Restaurant 98 Trafalgar Street, Brighton 07717584738 Patcham Community Centre Ladies Mile Road, Patcham Peacehaven Leisure Centre Greenwich Way, Peacehaven 01273 588858 Revitalise 86 Church Road Hove 01273 738389 St Mary Magdalen 55 Upper North St, Brighton 01273 676992 Unit 4 20–26 Roundhill Street Brighton Wendy Whatling School of Dance, Unit 11a, Dyke Road Mews, Brighton Westhill Hall Compton Ave, Seven Dials ZT Fitness Behind Hove Station, Hove, 01273 202226 List for FREE in this section. email health events to editorial@thelatest.co.uk with the date, place, time and cost

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ONLY JOKING!

Bare cheek Brian Mitchell and Joseph Nixon’s thoroughly scurrilous Brighton column

The futuristic computer from Blake’s 7 solves all your problems N.B. After several complaints about Orac's insensitivity we have had him reprogrammed to be more compassionate. Apologies.

Dear Orac, My mother is getting rather too old and befuddled to live on her own.

I don’t mind her moving in to our place – the problem is her Boston Terrier, Archie. I can’t stand dogs at the best of times, but my husband is chronically allergic to them, breaking out in hives and suffering breathing difficulties at the merest sniff of canine. There is no way we can have Archie living under our roof. Unfortunately he is my mother’s born companion, and has been with her for nearly twenty years. I don’t think she could bear to be parted from him. What should I do?

Orac says: Whirr...click...Poor you...You have a very difficult decision to make...The question...of...what is best for an elderly and infirm parent is never an easy one..and much loved family pets...are always...an emotive issue...whirr...however, the only logical course of action open to you is to sell the animal to vivisectionists, use the money to pay for an assassin to kill the old woman, and spend the money she leaves you in her will on cakes...Hope this has been of help...whirr...click.

Orac will be signing copies of his autobiography, What Is It Now?, at Sussex Stationers, East Street in May.

In & Out IN

OUT

• That bloke blowing up the rubber glove

• Max Beesley playing the bongos

• Terry Christian

• Amanda de Cadenet

• Alexander “Bruiser” de Cadenet

• Feminist protests by Huggy Bear

• Shabba Ranks expressing homophobic views

• Dani Behr

• Hufty

• Katie Puckrik

Astral Angi ★Finding truth in the stars★

What was that?

Can’t remember the name of an obscure film, TV show, book or whatever? Ask Mike Hunter, the man with all the answers Dear Mike, When I was a kid my Granddad, who used to look after me while my mum was working, would always read me a bedtime story. One such tale, which was quite long and lasted us several weeks, has really stayed with me, but I can’t for the life of me remember what it was called. It concerned this sailor who gets shipwrecked on this desert island, where he has to live all alone for what seems like many a year. Then one day he sees a footprint in the sand, and this leads him to befriend a benevolent native of the island, who becomes his sole companion. Eventually he is rescued by an English ship and returns home to tell his tale. I’d love to read this to my own ten-year-old grandson – any idea what book I’m thinking of?

Eric Winsham, Hangleton Dear Eric, The book you remember so fondly is Hollywood Husbands by Jackie Collins, which is published by Pan Books, and is available in most libraries. Hope your grandson likes it!

Buy the CD Bardsley’s, country music with c-hip s-hop beats at Bardsley’s and Borders NOW!

Dear Mike, I want to buy a print to brighten up my bedroom, and I remember seeing a coffee table book some years ago of famous ‘Pop Art.’ One that particularly stood out for me was a large picture of a tin of Campbell’s soup. I thought it was really striking and sort of funny, and seemed to say something about our consumerist society and mass production, but it wasn’t like the artist was railing against this – it was like he really liked it, and wanted to celebrate it.

Can you please let me know the name of the piece, and the artist, as I’d really like to check out any other works he’s done.

Chloe Webb, Portslade Dear Chloe, Well, the piece in question has certainly been famous for more than fifteen minutes – it’s The Laughing Cavalier by Franz Hals. Keep those queries flooding in folks!

Mike x BARDSLEY’S

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ARIES (MAR 21–APR 20)

CANCER (JUNE 22–JULY 22)

LIBRA (SEP 23–OCT 22)

CAPRICORN (DEC 21–JAN 19)

All plans for world domination should now be put on hold until the stars are in a better aspect for you. Remember that bottle blonde looks cheap and khaki makes you look ill.

Relax, go to it! Time to improve your social life Cancer. Accept that invitation, go to the ball and suck the juices of life dry – remember to be prepared at all times.

I recently mentioned your massive brains. What I failed to mention was that not all of you know how to use them. Think you’re clever, maybe you should start to think again.

Okay Capricorn, enough resting, get your buns in gear and go for it now.

This week will see a window of opportunity that you cannot afford to miss, open it and fly away.

TAURUS (APR 21–MAY 21)

LEO (JULY 23–AUG 22)

SCORPIO (OCT 23–NOV 21)

AQUARIUS (JAN 20–FEB 19)

The current confluence of the planets is likely to make you more irritable and irritating than ever. Better stay home, perhaps a good time for a fast or a radical detox.

I’m afraid that some of you took my advice about pressing big problems too seriously. The bedroom is no place for a steam iron is it you naughty girl.

Time to stop drinking, alcohol that is.

Statistics are on the whole created to show what people want them to show but one thing is true – drunks are bores – full stop!

Well that’s another fine mess you have gotten yourself into and no mistaking. No problem, sign the bottom and call it art. If it’s a real bottom sign that.

GEMINI (MAY 22–JUNE 21)

VIRGO (AUG 23–SEP 22)

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22–DEC 20)

PISCES (FEB 20–MAR 20)

This your time to go for it. Take it from me, dither now and you could regret it for the rest of your life. Remember to make sure that your life insurance is up to date.

Planning is essential at this moment in time for all Virgos, financial planning, family planning and planning permission – make sure you don’t muddle them.

As the weather improves, take time to sort out your summer wardrobe. If you need to ask “does my bum look big in this?” Then bin it. Life is bigger than your bum, or anyones for that matter.

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly… ah to hell with that. Get a life, get a job, get away, get together, get in trouble, get in touch, get that, get out, get in, get away with it, get a bag of chips.

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BRIGHTON FESTIVAL

The voice of the people It’s almost May, and that means one thing here in Brighton and Hove – Festival! In the next ten pages we take a look at the rich gateau which is this year’s programme. But before that, we asked people what it is that they love about the city’s biggest and best annual arts event and this is what they said…

I love all the fun things – the music and comedy. But I also really enjoy the more cultural events.

Daniel Carey, age 23

You get a sense that you live somewhere that celebrates energy and culture. Brighton Festival means fun.

Corinna Edwards-College, age 36

Brighton Festival is a time for all culture – from the biggest outdoor event to a performance in a front room.

Jamie Flawn, age 27

Being in the Children’s Parade is great but it’s as much fun to watch and you get to see every school.

Rebecca Clark, age 10

It’s such a great all-round event. It brings together all aspects of Brighton’s diverse community Lewis Friend, age 21

We are fairly new here but even before we moved down we would visit Brighton to go to the Festival.

Claudette Donaldson Nareike, age 39

With so much choice it’s hard deciding what to see.

We make a wish list, then whittle it down.

Marian Cullwick, age 53

I don’t live in Brighton but every year I make a point of coming down for events at the Brighton Festival.

Cliff Harris, age 42

I love the Children’s Parade.

All the schools get together and the costumes are great.

With two kids I go to a lot of children’s events, but I also really just love the festival atmosphere in May Trevor Heath, age 37

Brighton’s such a cosmopolitan place, the festival starts the summer

During the festival I like to broaden my horizons and take in other forms of music.

Faye Perry, age 39, Preston Park

Rob Burdick, age 29, Hove

Compton, age 36, Western Road

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BRIGHTONFESTIVAL

Seeing the light Andrew Kay talks to David Harradine about An Infinite Line: Brighton, a Festival commission In recent years Brighton Festival have had great success with the concept of site specific works. Pieces created for a particular place at a particular time have captured the imaginations of festival audiences and provided us with some of the highlights of recent years. We have been lured into the dark spaces backstage at the Theatre Royal, paraded around Stanmer Park and been voyeurs in Deco hotels. This year, artist David Harradine, has been asked to create something very special for The Basement – a reflection on the quality of Brighton light in a long, underground space devoid of any natural light whatsoever. ‘An Infinite Line: Brighton‘ is Harradine’s response to the light that we experience every day, and perhaps take for granted. His vision sets out to prompt the audience to look again, to look more closely and to question what it is that we see when we look. I caught up with him in a break from rehearsals a few weeks before the start of the festival.

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When did Brighton Festival approach you?

It was back in October 2004. I was giving a talk about photography, light and performance at the Visions festival and Jane McMorrow, Brighton Festival’s Producer approached me. She wanted to commission a piece about the light in Brighton. At that time I lived in London and had even commuted to Brighton when studying for my MA at Sussex University.

‘‘It has become a question of how we see, how we look at and how we inhabit a landscape, our environment. It’s about how we perceive things’’ I had never lived here and didn’t know the quality of Brighton’s light. I wanted to take time to really discover why the light is different here. The overriding question was why is the light in Brighton like it is? In a way the piece I have created is a response to that question but it has also become the question of how we see, how we look and how we inhabit a landscape, our environment. It’s about how we perceive things.

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BRIGHTONFESTIVAL A lot of people may be surprised that this is not a recreation of the light in Brighton but why do that when the real thing is outside?

After that initial thought I spent time thinking very broadly about an installation and a performance. Something very sparse. I then took a whole year and came every month for two or three days walking around the city looking and watching and waiting for something to happen.

Was there a sudden revelatory moment?

No, not really, there are various concrete factors that influence what I have done. The pale yellow architecture, the chalk cliffs and the chalk in the soil, but not one single moment.

Is the piece about the landscape around the city as much as the city centre?

Yes, it is, and it’s about the surface of the sea. There are two reflectors: white chalky soil behind and a mirror infront. Both bounce light above the city.

Is this piece site specific?

In that it is about Brighton, yes, but the piece could work anywhere. It is designed for The Basement but it is not a response to The Basement.

Does that mean that the work could travel, say to Leeds?

I suppose it could – but it will not. It has thought provoked the idea that we might create ‘An Infinite Line‘ for any number of places as a response to that place and in each case it will be a very different piece.

Each work would emerge from my encounter with that place, in Brighton as an installation, a book and a performance, in other places it could take different forms.

‘‘Each work would emerge from my encounter with that place, in Brighton as an installation, a book and a performance’’ What is the An Infinite Line: Brighton book?

It's very much an artist’s book, not a programme. It is in the format of a book of postcards but with words where the pictures would be. 215 separate cards each with a different response or observation. It’s a collection of my personal observations of the light here in Brighton. It’s a solid chalky white block of a book, again reflecting the pale city architecture, the cliffs and the Downland that forms the encompassing hills of the city. I spent time walking on the downs and noting changes as the farmland was bare or as the crops ripened to a golden yellow.

How many people are involved in the creation of the work?

In the creative team eleven: two actor/dancers, two actor/musicians, a sound artist, the stage management technical manager, the lighting designer and me, but five people on stage.

Do you have a clear vision of what shape the performance will take before the rehearsal period?

No, no idea, I am quite surprised that the piece is like it is. I knew that it was going to be uninteresting and impossible to recreate the light. It becomes as much about inhabiting the space and opening oneself to observation. It is a piece of visual theatre but it is also very strange.

Is there script?

No, there are words but they are taken from the notes that I made throughout the year. It is about trying to understand the light and turning light into movement or sound or dance, a complex building of layers into something. I'm not interested in constructing something perfectly formed but something which is infinitely variable – like the light. The project is also a kind of experiment and we are constantly trying to do new things even trying to find out what it is that we have to do. It is becoming beautiful, again like the light. I want it to be a beautiful encounter for the audience. The audience need to work hard too, to look for the moments of revelation as I did – but in a playful way. There is a sense that the company is a group of people playing.

What will people experience in the day when the work exists as an installation without the performers?

Thirty 8mm cine projectors showing 30 moving images projected onto 30 blocks of postcard shaped chalk all relating to light and the way it affects the city the landscape and the architecture. It’s like a harvest of the city’s life on 98mm film. The postcard shape is a recurring theme.

Why choose 8mm film over video? Surely it would be much easier?

I don’t think that video is either beautiful or poetic, it does not move me.

That’s the emotional response to your question. Technically film has the energy of the light, the chemical on the film is affected by light and it becomes an integral part of that film.

How do you think the Brighton audience will respond?

I hope they find it visually beautiful and emotionally moving. I want to present them with something beautiful but strange, in the same way that poetry presents language, often in a strange way. I hope people will enjoy that and be surprised.

Are you already working on your next project?

With ‘Fevered Sleep‘ we have made a visual theatre piece which is touring the UK. It is a piece, again about light, but for young children.

After that we are working on ideas for a new installation project again with cine film, a performance piece about ageing and growing old and another, again for children, which is about winter, snow and ice.

What other art forms do you enjoy?

I rarely go to conventional theatre but I do go to lots of dance performances and contemporary art and I read lots of poetry. Oh and pop music, I'm not as ernest as I might sound. I don’t see the point of art that tells us what we know already. I like forms that when you engage with them you have to invest the effort of ‘meaning making‘, that is what interests me. It takes me back to what we are doing here, not recreating the special extraordinary light but prompting people to perhaps look up and see the light themselves.

An Infinite Line: Brighton, Fevered Sleep, 3 May 2008 to 24 May 2008 at various times No Latecomers Permitted,The Basement £15 Saturday 3, Monday 5 – Saturday 10, Tuesday 13 – Thursday 15, Saturday 17, Thursday 22 & Saturday 24, 8pm, Friday 16 & Friday 23, 6pm & 9pm Free Installation opening times; Thursday 8, Friday 9, Saturday 10, Wednesday 14, Thursday 15, Saturday 17 & Thursday 22, 2pm–5pm, Friday16, 1pm–4pm, Monday 19–Wed 21, 2pm–5pm & 6pm–9pm Post show talks Wed 14 & Thu 22. Supported by Southern.

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BRIGHTON FESTIVAL

Beatrice Martini

Slava

Huw Warren

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Brighton Festival’s music programmers Guy Morley and Gill Kay in conversation Guy Programming the music for the Festival is quite a complex task, it’s all about balance and it’s quite difficult for me over eight to ten concerts to cover such a broad spectrum, plus trying to programme events that are unusual and haven’t been done before.

Gill Yes exactly, I like to make sure there is something for absolutely everyone, so music from some of the earliest in the western world to music literally commissioned and written yesterday. In some cases the ink is still wet.

Guy This year I am particularly proud as we have more exclusives than we have ever had before, they are also very balanced, everything from world music and jazz to contemporary experimental stuff.

Gill One of your events that really appeals to me is the Manic Organic concert as people will have never heard the Dome organ played like this.

Guy Manic Organic has been a passion of mine for the last few years, ever since the organ was refurbished. As it’s such an expensive instrument, its only right that the festival should really make use of this.

Gill As this year is a Messiaen centenary anniversary year, I really wanted to have his ‘Quartet for the End of Time‘ somewhere in the Festival, then I heard that an Irish composer I have been looking at for quite sometime, Ian Wilson, had written a piece especially to partner this, ‘The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World‘. This piece is narrated by Gavin Friday who’s someone you wouldn’t usually expect to see in a classical concert!

Guy Ian Wilson features in several events this year doesn’t he?

Gill That’s right, we have decided to make a feature of Ian’s work so we have some more in the lunchtime series, Slava and Leonard Grigoryan will be playing a new piece especially commissioned for the Festival.

Also the Cappa String Quartet will be playing a piece that Ian wrote a while ago ‘Veer‘, again it’s a UK premiere!

Guy The lunchtimes are a constant delight and are a wonderful thing to go to in the festival, you can see a concert for an hour in your lunchtime and there’s such a diversity of music!

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Gill So what are you recommending?

Guy This year the Maria Pia & Huw Warren event is my rank outsider, Maria is such an outstanding singer and Huw is one of those rare pianists that sit between jazz and classical music. Also Taara are a great African band from Senegal that I saw playing in a little café in Brixton and really liked them. Some of the classical events have a link with other art forms don’t they?

Gill Yes, and a great example is one of our World Premiere’s The Bootmaker’s Daughter. I heard about the play last year and the first thing that struck me about it was that it’s set in a really interesting time in music history when music went through a huge period of change. I thought it would make a really interesting project to take this music and integrate it into the play. The end result will appeal to people who might usually enjoy theatre but not know the music and vice versa.

Guy So it’s a really good opportunity for people to experience an art form that they may have never seen before.

Gill Yes, the idea of capturing an audience that are interested in one art form and introducing them to another, is something that really interests me!

Guy So what’s your hot tip for this year?

Gill Go for something big if you are new to classical music, if you’ve never seen 50 string players with their bows whizzing around or six French horns in a row with their bells up in the air, it’s so exciting, not only the sound but visually.

Guy So something like the John Tavener Concert?

Gill Exactly, Tavener will have performers who will be all around the auditorium – singing high up in the Dome, walking through the audience, as well as altogether on the stage that’s definitely a concert but also a real experience worth seeing! Also this year’s closing concert with the Philharmonia Orchestra will start with Jonathan Harvey’s ‘Tranquil Abiding‘ which is quite a short piece about 18 minutes. Jonathan actually lives in Lewes so will be at the concert which is always special having the composer present during the performance. The second half is a big Mahler symphony with over 300 musicians – the sheer volume is pretty awe inspiring. What about from your events?

Guy The first non London gig with legendary Blue note organ trio Medeski, Martin, and Wood are my pick of the bunch – it’ll also feature the fantastic Brazilian percussionist Airto Moriera. It will have to be seen to be believed. While I’m on the Latin theme it’s worth mentioning Luisito Quintero, I started to pick up on his music while he was touring with Louie Vega. He is a fantastic percussionist and a few of his tunes have become club favourites, his music is very lively which is why I needed to find a venue where people could get up and dance.

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Every year Brighton Festival programmes a superb selection of classical music and 2008 is no exception The Concert Hall in the impressive Brighton Dome has fast become the home for classical music in Sussex with a year round programme of great orchestras, soloists, choirs and smaller ensembles. But it truly comes into its own in May each year when the Festival draws some of the greatest artists from around the world and this year is no exception.

This year sees a concert by the City of London Sinfonia to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Vaughan Williams. Williams stands alongside Britten and Elgar as one of the great 20th century English composers. And there is something uniquely English about his work that in some way may contribute to its international popularity.

At this concert Richard Hickox, one of his foremost interpreters, conducts a programme that includes the overture from The Wasps, Toward The Unknown Region and Songs of Travel. In the second half of the programme, which is being recorded by BBC Radio 3, there will be a rare concert performance of his haunting music drama Riders to the Sea which tells the story of a troubled Irish fishing community.

Vaughan Williams Anniversary Concert, City of London Sinfonia, 11 May at 7.30pm (doors 6.45pm) Concert Hall £10, £15, £20, £25, £30.

Supported by Brighton Festival Friends Equally impressive as a classical music venue is The Corn Exchange and it is here that we find a Messiaen Anniversary Concert marking the centenary of the composer’s birth. Belfast born composer Ian Wilson is bringing the UK premiere of a compelling new work and companion piece to Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. Based on a short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquex, The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World, Wilson has created a piece of a small ensemble with narration by Gavin Friday. It forms a macabre but uplifting companion to Messiaen’s seminal ‘Quartet for The End Of Time‘ which the composer wrote

whilst interned in the German prison camp Stalag III-A. Messiaen Anniversary Concert, 19 May at 7.30pm (doors 7pm), Corn Exchange £18 Sponsored by SME Network The City of London Sinfonia return to the Concert Hall for an evening of music by John Taverner after the immense success of last year’s proms style performance of his Veil of the Temple. This year we have The Protecting Veil, a piece for cello and strings featuring internationally acclaimed cellist Steven Isserlis as soloist. In the second half another UK premiere this time of Taverners Sollemnitas in Conceptione Immaculate Beatae Maria Virginis.

Don’t let the title deter you from experiencing the uplifting music of this master of sacred music as his work has a truly universal appeal.

John Tavener Concert, City of London Sinfonia, 20 May at 7.30pm (doors 6.45pm) Concert Hall £7.50, £15, £20, £25, £30 Sponsored by Baker Tilly

Wedded bliss Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro is a farce of matrimonial matters in the hands of Armonico Consort Armonico Consort delighted us with a magical Fairy Queen and an uncontrollably exuberant Magic Flute. This year they bring us the delight of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. The score is bursting with classic Mozart moments for this award winning company to get their hands on and in a new translation by humourist Kit HeskethHarvey, set in the 1950s, there are bound to be plenty of laughs. Armonico have in the past brought opera to the Festival that has opened up this art form to a far wider audience and their usual panache and charm is sure to come into play once more here; directed by Michael McCaffery in one of the greatest comic operas ever written.

Marriage of Figaro, Armonico Consort, 14 May 2008 to 15 May 2008 at 7.30pm (doors 7pm) Theatre Royal Brighton £7.50, £12.50, £18, £22, £26 Sponsored by The Royal Bank of Scotland Group

This year’s closing concert, always a stunning night of celebration and celebratory music, features The Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davies. The first half is given to a performance of Jonathan Harvey’s Tranquil Abiding. Harvey is internationally acclaimed for his electroacoustic music which is described as haunting and evocative. This piece forms part of an evening themed love, death, birth and redemption. And so to Mahler’s massive Resurrection symphony, which builds from an almost funereal first movement to the final moments in which the Brighton Festival Chorus at 200 strong will sing out in a monumental expression of hope and everlasting renewal.

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Events for £10 or under

Events to put a smile on your face

Festival events that won’t break the bank

Happy Together 15–17 May, 7.30pm, Promenade performance starting in Jubilee Square and finishing in Tru Nightclub on West Street, £18, Ages 14+ Brighton is a popular hen and stag destination. Exploring this ritual with fresh new vision are choral ensemble The Shout and dance/theatre company Protein Dance. Join in the fun and maraud through the streets and The Lanes. Brace yourself for the finale on West Street when the Stags and Hens meet in a nightclub.

The 7 Fingers – Traces 20–24 May, 7.30pm, Theatre Royal Brighton, £10, £15, £20 (family ticket £60) Traces is a gravity-defying mix of circus, physical theatre and music from French-Canadian troupe The 7 Fingers who are all former Cirque du Soleil members. Watch them perform daredevil tricks and be wowed by their breathtaking skill and precision.

Sponsored by MacConvilles Surveying Fanfare Ciocarlia & Tcha Limberger’s Budapest Gypsy Orchestra with DJ provided by Balkan Beats UK. 17 May, 8pm, Concert Hall, Brighton Dome, £15, £18.50, plus free outdoor event 2pm, New Road, Sat 17 May Have a night of dancing with an incendiary Gypsy music doubleheader with Romania’s high velocity Roma funksters Fanfare Ciocarlia playing alongside Tcha Limberger’s hand-picked ensemble of Hungary's finest gypsy players. Plus dance in the streets with a special New Road performance from 2pm the same day.

Children’s Parade 3 May, from 10.30am, Sydney Street to Madeira Drive, FREE This year’s theme is children’s games. So expect a hopscotching, leapfrogging cavalcade; as the towering tableux and fantastic costumes of over 4,000 children from over 70 schools snake through the street to a samba beat.

Sponsored by Southern Water Happy Ever After Family Day 11 May, 2pm–5pm, St Ann’s Well Gardens, FREE Neverland descends on St Ann’s Well Gardens for an interactive art trail with Peter Pan and friends. Five specially commissioned art works provide a cryptic clue to the title of a classic children’s fable, fairytale or story. A literary day out for children and big children alike, bring a picnic and discover your inner child.

Sponsored by EDF Energy

Big Splash 25-26 May, 1pm to dusk, evening show and fireworks 8.30pm, 26 May, 1pm to 6pm, Brighton Marina, FREE The conclusion to this year’s Festival features street performers from Festival of Fools, Belfast’s International Street Festival. The two days of high-octane aqua entertainment include Sunday night’s firework spectacular. It also has the premiere of Brighton-based company Flaming Fun with Night of the Dragon, a pyro-musical extravaganza.

Supported by American Express Fund at Sussex Community Foundation and Brighton Marina Fat Cat Nights 16–17 May, 8pm, Theatre Royal Brighton, £15, £6 gallery Brighton-based label Fat Cat presents two nights of fantastic live music, with, Vashti Bunyan, Frightened Rabbit, Haushka, Tom Brosseau, Nina Nastasia, The Twilight Sad, Vetiver and Silje Nes. From post-punk indie to folk and on to Americana, Fat Cat Nights have music for everyone.

Burst Pipe Dream 22–25 May, Jubilee Square, Performances Sat 2pm, 6pm & 9.30pm, FREE Jubilee Square has been taken over by the Bureau of Silly Ideas and roadwork’s have never been so entertaining…Bring a hard hat, teabags, children, tap shoes, aqualung and a spanner – if you’ve got one.

Supported by Legal & General Festival Ceilidh 25 May, 7pm, Corn Exchange, Brighton Dome, £10, children £7, family ticket £30 This year South London’s Celtic band the Flying Chaucers kick-off the carousing with a flourish of reels, polkas, jigs and hornpipes. Sending off the festival with a whoop and a holler and a do-si-do! Grab your partner and kick your heels up at the biggest family friendly knees-up in the neighbourhood.

Norman 6–10 May, 8pm Theatre Royal Brighton Tickets from £10 This mesmerising new show, from mixed media masters Michael Lemieux and Victor Pilon, brings one of the innovators of animation, Norman McLaren, to life; in a fusion of state-of-the-art virtual projection and live theatre. McLaren’s animations are set loose in a riotous ballet of line, light, and movement.

Sponsored by Dean Wilson Laing Solicitors Ballet National de Marseille Metamorphoses 3–4 May, 8.30pm Concert Hall, Brighton Dome, Tickets from £6 Loosely inspired by Ovid’s epic poem, it’s set to the flamboyant designs of Brazil’s Campana Brothers, whose maverick designs recycled and reinvented materials for inspiration to astonishing effect. With internationally acclaimed dancers performing duets and large scale set pieces it’s a night not to be missed. bahok 9–10 May, 8pm Concert Hall, Brighton Dome,Tickets from £6 Choreography by Akram Khan, music

by Nitin Sawhney and dancers from the National Ballet of China come together in this new collaboration.

This is a contemporary Babel, a tower of language and movement, the performers share the things they carry with them – their memories of home, their dreams and aspirations.

Sponsored by SME Network Manic Organic 15 May, 8pm Concert Hall, Brighton Dome,Tickets from £10 Happy Hardcore Classics as you’ve never heard them before played on Brighton Dome’s 1939 pipe organ.

Brighton bands The Go! Team, British Sea Power and Fujiya and Miyagi get the organ treatment, with two tracks transcribed, chosen from an online vote.

Vaughan Williams Anniversary Concert 11 May, 7.30pm Concert Hall, Brighton Dome,Tickets from £10 To mark 50 years since the death of Vaughan Williams one of his foremost interpreters, Richard Hickox leads his own City of London Sinfonia in a special anniversary concert featuring a rare performance of the one-act opera Riders to the Sea. Supported by Brighton Festival Friends John Tavener Concert 20 May, 7.30pm Concert Hall, Brighton Dome. Tickets from £7.50 Enjoy a unique proms-style experience, with a performance where the musicians literally move around the audience. A fusion of East and West, ancient and modern, sacred and secular, terrestrial and celestial meet as Brighton Dome celebrates the music of John Tavener.

Sponsored by Baker Tilly Val McDermid The City Reads, 17 May, 2pm, Corn Exchange, Brighton Dome, £7.50 Keep your eyes peeled across Brighton for copies of A Place of Execution hidden around the city.

Then take the chance to join bestselling crime writer Val McDermid for the conclusion to City Reads 2008, a three month collective read of her modern crime classic.

Sponsored by Hotel du Vin & Bistro Keith Allen 12 May, 7.30pm Theatre Royal Brighton.

Tickets £10 Has Keith Allen finally grown up?

Find out as he takes us on a breakneck journey through a life lived sans roadmap and beyond the rule book.

The Bell and Arquiem The Bell, 10–11 May, 10pm, Wild Park Arquiem, 16–18 May, 9.30pm, Brighton College. FREE Two explosive night time promenade pieces from Brighton-based Periplum. The Bell is a tale of warring clans ignited with incendiary zeal by pyro-masters The World Famous.

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Glow life Choreography and technology go hand in hand in a new work by Australia’s Chunky Move

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The creative disciplines have lived under the threat of a technological take-over for decades. But artists were underestimated and rather than being subsumed by the techies they have absorbed the techies and made them work for the arts. The marriage of art and technology for many years was a clunky affair but recent developments have seen an almost seamless union of creativity and technology.

Glow, a new dance installation is a collaboration between artistic director Gideon Obarzanek and German interactive software engineer Freider Weiß. But who is controlling who, does the dancer trigger the light and sound or does the light and sound controll the performer.

Performed in Brighton’s Fabrica, the floor of the venue, a converted church, becomes the screen on which the performance is acted out.

The audience watches from the gallery above and experiences the emergence of the solo dancer in an intimate geometric performance where sound, light, graphics, animation and movement are forged into one unified multi-dimensional work in which your perceptions of each element will be stretched and tested.

Glow, Chunky Move, 23 May to 25 May, Fabrica. Fri 23 7pm, 8pm, 9pm, 10pm Sat. Sat 24 and Sun 25 6pm, 7pm, 8pm, 9pm. Visit www.brightonfestival.org to watch a video clip from the show.

The genius of Norman McLaren’s animation brought to life as live performance From Tue 6 – Sat 10 May, Brighton Festival takes you on a unique journey into the world of Oscar-winning animator Norman McLaren.

With abstract works drawn or scratched directly on film, McLaren was a master of cameraless animation and ranks among the great names in experimental cinema. Influenced and inspired by artists, animators and filmmakers McLaren dreamed of being a dancer, but through his pioneering stop-motion films of the 50's and 60's, became known as a choreographer of images.

Canada's mixed media masters Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon, aka 4d art, are best known for their collaboration on Cirque du Soleil's stadium extravaganza Delerium. Now, they invite you to experience the creativity and inventiveness of a man who never stopped trying to extend the limits of his art as they bring the genius of McLaren to life in a magical fusion of state-of-the-art virtual projection and live theatre.

'Norman is a show about the great animator Norman McLaren. It uses an extraordinary technique of 3D projection on stage, to create a truly thrilling interplay between performers and projected images.

I've never seen anything like it before.'

Jane McMorrow, Theatre Programmer Brighton Festival In an improbable act of theatrical alchemy dancer/choreographer Peter Trosztmer literally inhabits McLaren’s cinematic universe as he dances, converses and interacts with the animator's pulsing images.

A performer of infinite sensibility and generosity, Trosztmer learns from the stories and memories of those who knew McLaren or were influenced by him.

'Norman is a 100-minute visual that illuminates the brilliant machinery of Norman McLaren's imagination. Norman is so good, it almost channels McLaren back to life, and creates fantastic theatre that makes it hard to separate from reality.' Ottawa Sun A true revolution in the world of the performing arts, Norman is more than just a homage to a major artist and his work. Through interviews, explorations of visuals and music, and live performance integrated with film, Norman exposes a whole new generation to the timelessness of beauty, the effectiveness of simplicity, and the importance of memory.

Lemieux.pilon 4d art, Norman, Tue 6–Sat 10 May, 8pm, Theatre Royal Brighton £10, £15, £20. Visit www.brightonfestival.org to watch a video clip from the show.

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On yer bike Low technology meets high in Blast Theory’s new work Rider Spoke Brighton based Blast Theory are not known for taking the easy road, their antics are inventive, inclusive and entertaining and Rider Spoke is proof that they are still at their creative best.

Astride one of the company’s bikes, or on your own velocopide, fitted with a helmet, a handle bar mounted video consul and a headest you embark on a personal journey, discovering Brighton’s secret places.

Prompted by the technology each rider will set off on an excercise in interactive, off-road theatre. Are you audience or are you performer? Blast Theory once more blur the boundaries between audience and performance in what has to be the city’s most exciting site specific event this year.

Are you bold enough to take part in this two wheel confessional journey? Do you want to share your experiences, record your memories and eavesdrop on your fellow players. The company may be giving you a push start but the core of this exciting event will be the way the participants react to the experience.

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Invest in the Fest We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our funders, partners, sponsors and supporters who have generously supported Brighton Festival 2008. As you will see from the profiles featured here, all of the companies who support have their own favourite events and their own reasons for becoming involved. They are all, however, united by one common belief – that investing in Brighton Festival is essential in supporting the cultural diversity of the area and the long-term growth of our city as a whole.

One of the best ways of spreading the word is through the media, and our Media Partners are excellent ambassadors for Brighton Festival. After last year’s success as our first National Media Partner, the guardian is once more involved in 2008. Their support is invaluable in allowing us to access national and international audiences and to encourage visitors into Brighton, boosting the local economy.

We would also really like to thank Latest 7 – media sponsor and The Argus – Regional Media Partner, for their vital work in the region promoting every Festival show with previews, stories, reviews and information. Their coverage gives readers the inside story on Festival shows, and creates that special Brighton Festival buzz in the city!

Southern Once again, Southern is delighted to be associated with the world-class Brighton Festival by being one of its partners. We are now in our second year of working closely with Festival organisers helping to promote the event though our publications and Paul Reed website. We will again be providing a special fast late night train from Brighton to London calling at East Croydon and Clapham Junction for the entire duration of the event which will allow people to leave the Festival later than usual, arriving in London just after midnight.

We are also delighted to support what promises to be a truly outstanding performance - An Infinite Line: Brighton by Fevered Sleep, one of the UKs most consistently inventive performance makers. This performance gets its world premiere at the Festival and is both an aural and visual sensory delight. This is definitely one that should not be missed.

We’re sure it will be an enjoyable Festival for everyone who visits, and we look forward to bringing people into Brighton from far and wide.

Paul Reed, Southern, Brand and Communications Manager

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EDF Energy Brighton Festival has a growing reputation as the most exciting arts festival in the UK, showcasing locally based Brighton creative talents alongside the best national and international artists. As a Brighton Dome and Festival Partner, EDF Energy sees its Sally Jacobs investment in the Brighton Festival as a means of celebrating the cultural diversity of the area and supporting the long-term growth of the city as a whole.

EDF Energy is also committed to playing an active role within the local community.

Supporting 26 Letters enables us to champion events that will inspire a whole new generation of children to read, write and enjoy language, poetry, Michael drama and storytelling from all over the world.

Rosen Sally Jacobs, EDF Energy, Sponsorship, PR & Events Officer

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Legal & General

My top tips for Brighton Festival 2008 are the free outdoor events which are open to everyone to enjoy and take part in, for example: Bureau of Silly Ideas The Burst Pipe Dream and not forgetting the spectacular ‘Big Splash‘ at the Marina, a fantastic Festival finale for all.

In sponsoring the Festival family highlight Traces, MacConvilles Surveying have found the experience a great opportunity to raise our profile both in the business community including the not for profit sector and individuals. We can also entertain key clients at some of the most unusual events on the arts calendar.

Charles Haywood, Director, MacConvilles Surveying

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Burst Pipe Dream

Big Splash

Once again Brighton Festival offers a great mix of events for every taste and pocket, including many exciting events for children.

I am looking forward to bringing my family to Shakespeare a la Carte, which Legal & General is supporting this year.

Tim Warren As a local employer we are committed to being involved in the communities where we have offices, and support a wide range of local charities and organisations as part of our Community Involvement programme.

We have been supporters of Festival events for a number of years now and are pleased to be part of what I’m sure will be a great month of entertainment for the local community as well as visitors to the city.

Tim Warren Director of Communications, Legal & General Wealth Management Shakespeare a la carte

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Sky Arts

Jonathan Ericson, managing partner of the Sussex region comments: “My first choice must be our sponsored concert; John Tavener’s The Protecting Veil. Thereafter my choices cover a broad spectrum of events including Jarvis Cocker on Song - Saying the Unsayable, 4d Art with Norman and Gore Vidal in conversation with Andrew Marr.

Supporting local businesses is one of Baker Tilly’s core aims and the firm is heavily involved in the arts and sport across Sussex. Our sponsorship of Brighton Festival is an ideal platform for us to entertain both clients and targets at events which always prove popular and have given us a good cross section of business.”

Jonathan Ericson, Managing Partner, Baker Tilly, Sussex Region

I would encourage festival goers to visit as many events as possible including the exclusive concert by the great jazz trio Medeski, Martin, and Wood supported by Sky Arts.

Brighton Festival offers a rich and John Cassy diverse programme of international arts events. Sky Arts wants to support the Festival by bringing it to a wider audience on the only channel dedicated to all areas of the arts. Sky believe that the arts are vital to a healthy society, and that everyone should have the opportunity to experience and be enriched by them. Both on stage, and on screen, we are committed to supporting the arts and contributing to the UK cultural landscape. For broadcast times for Sky Arts at Brighton Festival, a behind the scenes look at this year’s Festival, as well as more info on the channel, visit www.skyarts.co.uk John Cassy, Channel Manager, Sky Arts, Channel 267

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Funders, Partners, Sponsors & Supporters 2008 Brighton Festival is grateful for the generous support of the following funders, partners, companies, individuals, trusts and foundations: Funders Brighton & Hove City Council Arts Council England National Media Partner the guardian Regional Media Partner The Argus Festival Partners EDF Energy Southern National Broadcast Supporter Sky Arts Channel 267 Sponsors and Supporters AI Digital Jon and Julia Aisbitt American Express Fund at Sussex Community Foundation Aneela Rose PR

Arts & Business South East AVT Limited Baker Tilly Bang & Olufsen BBC Southern Counties Beard Digital Printing Brighton Festival Friends Brighton Marina Brighton Square City Books Hove Classic FM June and Sidney Crown Crown Office Row Chambers, Brighton csma Dean Wilson Laing Solicitors DMH Stallard Facelift GB Ltd Facilitate Ltd Fat Sand Productions First Capital Connect Food for Friends Restaurant Harrison and Co Creative Healys Solicitors

Hilton Brighton Metropole Hotel du Vin & Bistro iCrossing Julia Robinson Catering Ltd Latest 7 LCE Architects Leaders The Rental Agents Legal & General The Lynn Foundation MacConvilles Surveying Matthew Andrews Photographer Maugherman’s Deli myhotel Brighton neo: creative One Digital The Open University Pure Redhead Design Ltd The Roddick Foundation The Royal Bank of Scotland Group RVW Trust sam Selits

Southern Water Springboard Coaching Synchronicity Productions Ltd Unilever UK University of Brighton University of Sussex Waitrose Without Walls: Street Arts Consortium Worth WSL (Brighton) Ltd Thanks also go to: A.C. Lighting Sarah Arnett Big Yellow Storage Gunns Flowers Dylan Izaak Meringue Suitcase Québec Government Office, London RDF Group Sainsbury’s Sparks Theatrical Hire

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Hisham Matar

Gore Vidal

James Meek

John Gray

Liam Browne, Brighton Festival’s books and debates programmer, talks about the process of creating a festival of words and thoughts One of the highlights each year in the Books and Debate programme is the strand focusing on political and topical issues. This is always a pleasure to programme, primarily because the audience response is so good, both in terms of ticket sales and the questions and reactions on the night. A couple of years ago David Hare spoke at the festival, and on leaving the stage he asked me, “Was that your typical audience?“, so astonished was he by the quality of the audience contribution.

Brighton festival audiences are certainly knowledgeable, politically engaged and ever-curious and always have a part to play. I think that's why panel debates and discussions work so well because they allow adequate space for audience involvement. The topical subject matter means that audiences come to the events with their own attitudes, preconceptions and passions and often in the heat of the discussion want to have their say. It makes for a great event. This year we're holding two debates. The first is on the theme of parenting, looking at the pitfalls and pressures that exist for parents, but the discussion will also explore it from the child's perspective – is growing up almost a competitive sport these days? Tanya Byron, one of the panelists, has recently completed an independent review for the government looking at the risks to children from internet and video games. Her report called for more regulation and she'll elaborate on this in the debate.

The other debate examines our lack of trust in politicians and political structures. It’s a great line-up: Oona King, Nick Robinson, A. C. Grayling and Melissa Benn; they will try and determine whether our politicians and leaders have got worse over the years or whether we have simply become more sceptical of their actions, both of these are part of our guardian supported series.

In my first year with the festival I programmed John Gray to speak about his book Straw Dogs. He was a great success, barely an audience member left without buying a book. He’s back this year to discuss Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia. His fans include J. G. Ballard and Will Self (Self was so enthused by Straw Dogs that he arranged to meet Gray so he could help publicise the book, that’s how good he thought it!). Gray is wonderfully eloquent and has a clarity of thought that challenges you to reconsider and reassess your own beliefs.

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Because of the size of the Books and Debate programme there are always certain events that you worry will get lost in the publicity surrounding the bigger names. One such is the visit to the Festival of Rahila Gupta and Kate Clanchy. I think this will be a fascinating evening.

The impetus for programming this event was an opportunity to read a proof copy of Rahila’s book Enslaved, which is a devastating critique of how we treat immigrants. Rahila and Kate’s books personalise and humanise the story of what happens to individuals who disappear into an underworld from which many of them never re-emerge.

There is an assumption that, when it comes to political realities, only non-fiction can provide answers. But fiction brings special qualities to an engagement with the brutal realities of conflict, as will be demonstrated at James Meek and Hisham Matar’s event. Matar of course was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for In the Country of Men, set in Libya, and Meek, who is a working journalist and has written extensively about Afghanistan, has now chosen to set his second novel there, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent.

No mention of political cut and thrust in the festival would be complete without mentioning Gore Vidal, the final event in the guardian series.

Doubtless he will have a few things to say about contemporary politics in the US. Having learned about politics on his grandfather’s knee (T. P. Gore, the senator for Oklahoma), having run for the Senate himself, and having watched American presidents come and go, his take on Bush and his place in American history should be worth the admission price alone.

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Cracking crackling Andrew Kay enjoys a traditional roast and a tip top Yorkshire at The Full Moon in Brighton Brighton and Hove is networking central, and I am very glad to be able to say that. I took a call the other day from a chef who is cooking in a pub in the centre of town. He had been sourcing meat to serve at Sunday lunch and ended up at Brampton’s in Kemp Town village where my old friend Paul had been happy to find him exactly what he was looking for. Along with the beef and lamb and pork, he also handed him my name and suggested that he get in touch.

Well it would have been rude not to, so on a sunny April Sunday I met up with Mr L for a quick stroll around the shops before heading to the Full Moon in Boyces Street.

The Full Moon is one of those small Brighton pubs that, despite a modern interior make-over, retains all the charm of a traditional pub. I like that, I like pubs to look and feel like pubs, not bars and certainly not restaurants. Stupidly I had muddled the times and we were an hour early and lunch was not ready. Not a problem, I simply spent another hour persuading Mr L that he did not need another pair of black shoes or another black jacket.

One hour later we were back and within a very short time the charming barman had delivered a couple of drinks and taken our orders.

I had a yearning for beef, Mister L for pork. We were both delighted when our meals arrived. Mr L’s pork was lean and juicy and came in nice thick slices and there were plenty of them. Crackling is of course essential but so often disappoints. He declared it absolutely perfect, crisp, crunchy, slightly salty but not hard. I have broken teeth on crackling that looked perfect but was enamel shatteringly hard in the past.

My beef was excellent and refreshingly rare. I understand that it’s not to everyone’s taste but it is easier to cook some for a little longer than to reverse the process for people like me. It was exactly as I like it, red in the middle and caramelised on the outside. And again there was plenty of it, really generous portions.

The vegetables also proved to be first class, piping hot, not overcooked, but again not tooth-shatteringly al dente. Finally to the roast potatoes. Well, in my time I have been served some sad, sad spuds so I am always wary, especially of roast potatoes. I hate the places they deep fry par-boiled spuds, I loathe them undercooked and despise them burnt. Here they were perfection, really, just right, the right size, the right level of fluffiness inside, the right crunch outside and the right colour too. By that I mean dark golden brown at the flat base where they had been sitting in the hot fat, fading through deep golden yellow to a pale straw colour at their peaks.

Full marks too for home made irregular Yorkshire puds, where so many would have sent out an Aunt Bessie’s. Gravy was good too, the right texture and the right colour but once again I would personally prefer the gravy to be served separately as I like it on my vegetables and not on my meat. Fussy, fussy, fussy!

At under £8 a head I cannot recommend this more highly.

Full Moon, 8 Boyces Street, Brighton, BN1 1AN, 01273 328797.

‘‘The Full Moon despite a modern make-over, retains the charm of a traditional pub. I like that’’

Superb Wine List Authentic Traditional and Modern Greek Food Tuesday – Saturday evenings 6–11pm Saturday & Sunday lunches 12–2.30pm

168 South Street, Lancing Tel: 01903 765333 Email: mezemeze@gmail.com

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RESTAURANTS BRITISH (ORGANIC) CONTEMPORARY Seasons Restaurant There’s a number of reasons to eat more local, seasonal food: To reduce energy (associated CO2 emissions) needed to grow and transport foods, to avoid paying premiums for foods that are imported, to support local economy and reconnect with nature's cycles, most importantly, because seasonal food is fresher and tends to be tastier and more nutritious.

1b Waterfront, Brighton Marina, BN2 5WA. Tel: 01273 675007

Earth and Stars There’s a new chef in place at this eco pub and the menu has had an upgrade to match the organic wine list. You can now enjoy sustainable jumbo pollack and tarragon fish fingers (MSC approved), local Brighton Sausage Co. banger of the week, homemade pizzas using Infinity Foods wholewheat or GF flour (vegan options too).

Organic five bean burger, Sunday roasts with eight veg and free range yorkies.

46 Windsor St, Brighton. Tel: 01273 722879

BRITISH AND MODERN EUROPEAN Bardsley’s Probably Brighton’s most popular fish and chip shop and restaurant with a large loyal clientele. Totally traditional and family-run with all your favourites, but also an excellent blackboard of daily fish specials.

They’re open for lunch and dinner Tuesday to Saturday and it’s also a great party venue. There are massive fish platters and good seasonal seafood. Fish can be fried, grilled or poached, plus there are vegetarian choices.

22–23a Baker Street, Brighton, 01273 681256

The Coach House Friendly restaurant bar in the city centre serving an excellent range of hearty homecooked food, separate evening and lunch menus and always a selection of roasts on Sunday. Great mussels, steaks, soups and a good wine list. In the winter a central open fire roars. In summer, people soak up the late sun on the pretty terrace. The warm atmosphere and good value pricing make this a popular local haunt.

59 Middle Street, Brighton, 01273 719000 www.coachhousebrighton.com

Sevendials Restaurant A smart restaurant in so many ways, excellent food and a sensible variety of

menus in chic surroundings. Chef Sam runs a team of food-lovers who deliver time after time, from a simple lunch to a full à la carte dinner. Cooking reflects the seasons rather than fashion and quality is paramount, with great locally caught fish, game in season and desserts that are a delight plus a wine list full of treats without being expensive.

Make the most of the terrace when the weather is warm or the private dining room for a treat.

1 Buckingham Place, Brighton, 01273 885555, www.sevendialsrestaurant.co.uk

anglo-french farmhouse cheeseboard.

There is also a selection of superb French desserts on offer such as Tarte aux Pommes and Crème Brulée. Enjoy our south-facing sun terrace with the Brasserie Lunch Menu, Tuesday–Sunday, 12–6pm including Croque Madame, Tarte a l’ognion, moules marinières and more… and a delicious French Sunday roast, this is true entente cordiale.

196 Church Road, Hove, 01273 220868, www.legliserestaurant.co.uk, info@legliserestaurant.co.uk

Sam’s of Brighton

GREEK Symposio Greek Taverna

A brand new restaurant on the Kemp Town restaurant scene. Situated in the famous One Paston Place site, Sam’s offers a more relaxed dining experience. The dishes served are classic yet creative, with a focus on seasonal ingredients. Examples are natural smoked haddock and salmon fish pie with a free-range poached egg or chargrilled Scotch rib-eye steak with proper chips, plum tomato and house butter.

1 Paston Place, Brighton, 01273 676222 www.samsofbrighton.co.uk

CHINESE Gars Restaurant Stunningly refurbished, this old Brighton favourite has attained a new lease of life.

An exciting menu with some great new ideas and a wholly different experience in terms of style and presentation. Smart service, beautiful interiors and a truly chic atmosphere make this one of the city’s top places to be seen. Start downstairs at the bar before rising to the upper dining room and enjoy the glamour of it all. Eat from £10.

19 Prince Albert Street, Brighton 01273 321321 www.gars.co.uk

In a city with very few Greek eateries it’s great to find somewhere warm and inviting to indulge in some Greek food. From magnificent mezze to classic grilled meats, Symposio has a great taverna atmosphere and the lively style of the venue adds a great ambience to what can be a terrific party venue. Also fabulous for a romantic dinner, family outing or business meal. The moussaka is a must and also the deep red wine-soaked sausages and crisp calamari.

121 Western Road, Hove, 01273 779474 www.ipanemarestaurants.com

INDIAN Nooris Indian Cuisine One of Brighton’s longest-standing Indian restaurants, and justifiably so. Smart service and a menu that, as well as offering all our favourite dishes, has some interesting and unusual dishes on offer.

The restaurant has a great central location just off the seafront as well. We have always been particularly impressed by the vegetarian menu. Try the jalfrezi karai and jungle masalla. Excellent breads and side dishes are on offer too. Offers include £6.95 for a two course meal and £9.95 for a three course meal with wine.

70 Ship Street, Brighton, 01273 329405

ITALIAN Donatello The flagship venue of this local family-run business serving excellent value Italian food in stylish and spotless surroundings. It is popular with locals in the week but at the weekend it draws an audience from London.

There are brilliant-value meal deals on blackboards outside – two courses £6.95, three £8.95 – as well as à la carte. The haunt of celebs in season from soap stars to politicos. Fun, friendly and fabulous value.

Brighton Place, Brighton, 01273 775477, www.donatello.co.uk

Fat Leo Supposedly the budget branch of the Donatello stable but you’d be hardpressed to see why. Once again, quality family dining in the Italian mould but a little less expensive. Very popular with students and families with young children, Fat Leo has trendy interiors, including the toilets, and a menu that is utterly affordable with the company’s signature set-price boards proclaiming any two courses £5.95, any three courses £7.95.

16–17 Market Street, Brighton, 01273 325135

FRENCH The Arrogant Frog Fresh, contemporary design with an authentic Gallic feel. We serve traditional food by French chefs in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere in the restaurant, or in the large, calm, sunny garden. Lunchtime dishes start at £4.50, with a range of lunch and dinner menus. A free bottle of wine comes with the Early Frog special, 5.45–6.45pm. Roast dinners on Sunday lunchtimes. Open for morning teas and coffees.

119 Church Road, Hove, 01273 721 488, www.thearrogantfrog.com

New Steine Bistro Cosy French Bistro with regular art exhibitions, creating the perfect setting for the appreciation of traditional homemade French cuisine either with friends or for a romantic night out. A hidden gem in the heart of Kemp Town, and very reasonable too! Daily evening menu at two courses £10.50, three courses £12.50 weekdays; and two courses £14.50, three courses £16.50 Friday and Saturday (ONLY LIMITED SPACES AVAILABLE DAILY). A la carte menu Tuesday to Saturday 6pm to 10pm for last orders.

10-11 New Steine, Brighton, 01273 681546/695415

L’Église L’Église is a traditional French restaurant in Hove offering classic cuisine prepared for contemporary tastes. Offering a fantastic À la Carte menu Tuesday to Sunday together with daily specials like Coq Au Vin and Côte de Bœuf for two.

Locally sourced produce include freshly caught fish of the day and an extensive

L’Église

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FESTIVALCOMEDY Reg D Hunter

Sawadee

Just for laughs Get involved in some serious funny business at this year’s festival with a host of top UK comedy

SPANISH La Tapa De Oro This large upper room is home to great and authentic Spanish cooking. Tapas has been trendy for years but here the emphasis is on real Iberian food. Favourites include sweet slices of octopus on boiled potato slices dressed with olive oil, lovely ensalad russe and great jamon serrano. Informal and friendly, this is a great place for a romantic dinner, family outing, business meal or party.

123 Western Road, Hove, 01273 779474 www.ipanemarestaurants.com

THAI Chokdee This premium take-away next to Hove Station offers fantastic quality Thai food – to your door if you use the free local home-delivery service – or to take away if you are passing. You can eat in too, in the stylish dining area. Counter service does away with additional service charges, so you can enjoy Thai food as often as you like without the fuss. At Chokdee it’s the food that’s the thing.

98 Goldstone Villas, Hove, 01273 720370 www.chokdeethai.co.uk

Sawadee The Thai restaurant that people love for parties and celebrations because they always give the best of times. And why not; this well-priced restaurant pleases repeatedly with dishes we have all grown to love, and new ones too. We were impressed by the use of authentic ingredients, such as pea aubergines where others use peas. Lots of fish dishes too with bass and pomfret and a great sliced beef salad.

87 St James’s Street, Brighton, 01273 624233, www.sawadeethai.co.uk

VEGETARIAN Revitalise (formerly Planet Janet) This popular and stylish Hove café restaurant offers delicious healthy hot and cold food in combination with being an excellent centre for therapies, treatments and classes. Healthy breakfasts, chunky sandwiches, soups, main meals, jacket potatoes and salads form the core of the menu. Freshly pressed fruit and vegetable juices in delicious revitalising combos, delicious fair-trade teas and coffee, vegan and gluten-free options. The only 100 per cent freshly pressed juice bar in Hove open seven days a week, families welcome. You can eat for less than a fiver!

86 Church Road, Hove, 01273 738389 www.revitalise-u.com

COFFEE SHOPS Spinelli Coffee Spinelli Coffee combines the best of modern Italian café culture with greattasting, high-quality specialty coffee and mouth-watering pastries and savouries. A place where customers are attended to by a dedicated team of the very best baristas, whose driving motivation is to provide the ultimate ‘coffee experience’. Beautiful oak, sliding doors look onto a heated outdoor seating area with sea views. Everyone can find a place to sit and sip, get wrapped up in a good book, take advantage of the free Wi-Fi or just relax. Spinelli Coffee is located in the heart of Kemp Town village, just off the corner of St George’s Road and College Road.

Mon–Sat 7:30am–7:00pm Sun 8:30am–5:00pm Spinelli Coffee, 24 Garnet House, College Road, Brighton, 01273 818819

West London’s premier comedy club, Headliners, will be storming the Brighton comedy scene as a part of the Festival Fringe this May. Performing at the illustrious Parlure Spiegeltent, five nights of riotous stand-up has been scheduled with an explosive concoction of the UK’s top comedians.

To kick off the laughs, an opening gala will take place on Sunday 4 May at 7.15pm, with a hybrid cocktail of comedy from the hilarious, deadpan Mike Gunn, musician/comedian Rainer Hersch, the understated, underrated observationalist Mark Maier, crazed magician Otiz Cannelloni, the highly revered antipodean Kitty Flanagan, the easy going, dependable laugh-generator Pierre Hollins with his electric squash racquet and the rare talent of Addy Borgh.

The Monday 5 May performance begins at the earlier time of 7pm, taking on a true cockney theme, starring the pearly kings (and queens) of comedy, including Bob Mills’ ‘In Bed with Medinner’, leather-clad musical satirists Topping and Butch, gangster-tripper Jeff Innocent and the edgy, provocative Ian Stone.

The comic masterpiece of the charismatically-challenged uncle and mute nephew co-operative, Raymond and Mr Timkins Revue, combining inimitable acoustic guitar and stylophone driven rock anthems with a plethora of prop-assisted material and some serial wordplay that would put Stephen Fry to shame, will take to the stage on Tuesday, 6 May at 7pm supported by one of the UK’s most sought-after headline comics, smooth-talking special guest Reg D Hunter, seamlessly woven together by local funny man Stephen Grant.

Magical comedy features on Wednesday 7 May line-up of fresh, funky talent from the ‘Sultan of Swindle’ Paul Zenon, followed by surreal, country ‘n’ western philosophy courtesy of Wilson Dixon, the wonderfully sardonic comic Simon Evans and Edinburgh Fringe favourite Scott Capurro with his controversial, catty and hysterical style.

The finale, ‘Eccentrica’, will take place on Thursday 8 May at 7pm and, as the title suggests, will provide a night of eccentric British comedy, bringing together an abundance of talent to celebrate the weird and the wonderful, featuring Gawk A-Go-Go, The Pros from Dover, Glenn Richardson, Skate Bush, Madame Galina Korsakova and many more.

For performances that will put a spark into your evening, contact the box office on: 01273 709709. Tickets are priced at £14 and £12.

For further information about these and other events at The Parlure Spiegeltent, visit www.theparlure.com or www.brightonfestivalfringe.com Topping and Butch

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Block party Marie Viviani has a day of fun with the family, taking in the delights at Legoland Windsor At Legoland Windsor, there certainly is plenty to keep you entertained.

Children aged three to 12 can take to the road, soar through skies and sail the seas in complete safety. Over 50 interactive rides, attractions and live shows, building workshops and driving schools plus much much more means you’ll be hard-pushed to cram it all into one day, but at least you’ll be well entertained.

It was good to see plenty of entrance gates that meant little or no queuing time. The first thing to notice is the fantastic view of Windsor just after the entrance, and at this high point you get a great overall view of the size of the Legoland park and all the areas.

Legoland is split into a number of different worlds including Viking Land, Imagination Centre, Duplo Land, Wild Woods and Adventure Land. These are just some of the exciting worlds where you can enjoy the thrilling rides, kids’ play areas and relaxing shows. The centre-piece of the park is Miniland, with a fantastic collection of scenes from Europe and the US – all made from Lego. Even Brighton was represented with a perfect recreation of the Palace Pier, complete with helter-skelter and deck chairs. Whichever world you visit, and

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See more at latest7.co.uk there are plenty to choose from, you’ll find lots to keep the kids occupied, with some entertaining activities for all the family to get involved in.

Before long you’ll be hungry and there are plenty of restaurants and cafés on the site with healthy options and happy prices – we enjoyed our lunch in the castle.

At first the park seemed too big but after a while it felt easy to find your way around. It was a great family day out for all ages, although more enjoyable for three-four years and over. And make sure the kids are 0.9m high or taller as this is the minimum height for most rides.

In summary it was a really great day out. It was easy to get to, didn’t take too long from Brighton and well worth the money as there was so much to see. It is worth looking at the website to check on the schedule of summer events planned including the Scandinavian mid-summer festival and firework extravaganza. Check out the annual pass options as ways of saving you a few pennies.

For more information visit www.legoland.co.uk

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Latest 7 have teamed up with Legoland Windsor to offer three family tickets (admits two adults and two children per ticket) to lucky readers. To be in with a chance of winning, just tell us: Which Brighton attraction is recreated in Lego at Legoland Windsor?

A) Brighton Marina B) The Palace Pier C) The Clock Tower To enter, email competitions@thelatest.co.uk with ‘Legoland’ in the subject box.

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latest listings Your weekly guide to what’s on

29 April – 5 May

and with a nastier groove.

Komedia, April 10 ✌✌✌✌

Under review We tell it like it was – a round up of recent local shows John Barrowman

John Barrowman In a venue rammed with hormonally charged, knickerwettingly overexcited females for the most part, Barrowman took to the stage for the slickest of cheese fests in some time. By that I mean no criticism of him or his audience.

Barrowman is a consummate showman, a real pro, and his show was packed with ballads and belters with moments of high camp and deep, deep sentimentality.

The boy can sing, dance and entertain, his programme was highly personal, his band slick, his guest – Daniel, an Any Dream Will Do also-ran – proved he had a great voice too. What he couldn’t do was match Barrowman’s charisma – you could not fail to love him, and if you did your heart was made of stone.

He may be everywhere right now, but that’s because he has worked hard and has real talent.

The Brighton Dome, 17 April ✌✌✌✌✌ Andrew Kay

Havana Rakatan Fill a stage with dancers and musicians high on the music and it can be a recipe for success – or disaster. This infectious Cuban outfit had success stamped right

through it and from bar one had the entire packed hall foot-tapping and clapping along.

Energy and precision were key to their success, but inclusion ultimately made it work. This was certainly their party but we were all invited along. It was all we could do to stay seated and by the end the hall was up and dancing.

From tribal ritual to bar-room schmooze, the entire company proved their worth, all star performances, no slackers to be seen. A bare stage allowed great costumes and lighting to work to and although this may be a highly Westernised production we certainly felt the heat of a Havana night.

The Brighton Dome, 14 April ✌✌✌✌✌ Andrew Kay

Barry Adamson One-time Bad Seed, now loungeroom lizard Barry Adamson takes the stage with his usual sinner’s charisma and jazzy swagger. With a new album of showy numbers to promote, the more cinematic material from his back catalogue is neglected in favour of a newer (though retro), swinging sound.

Still, no one here seemed to mind: tonight’s a lively chase through film noir streets and red neon alleyways as everyone’s taken along for the ride.

“It’s not exactly avant rock” Adamson self-referentially mutters, and he’s right. This is an artist taking his strengths (moody atmospherics, squealing brass death throes) and cranking them up to be sharper, more accessible

HOT REVIEW OF THE WEEK Equus Peter Schaffer’s work demands the highest quality at all levels and that is what we got. Simon Callow is superb, delivery and diction immaculate with a script of extreme complexity. Often applauded for larger-than-life performances, here he is restrained, understated and believably vulnerable. The openness of his portrayal adds depth to the role and throws into stark contrast his character’s road to self-realisation against the boy Alan Strang’s road to redemption.

Alfie Allen proves his worth as a performer in an equally impressive portrayal of the disturbed young man, sexually and spiritually obsessed by the horses that he blinds. We are left with the bitter truth that nothing will repair the damage done to either of these men or by them. An excellent cast added to the whole, in particular Linda Thorson and both set and lighting were of the same high quality Theatre Royal, Brighton April 21 ✌✌✌✌✌ Andrew Kay

Nick Aldwinckle

Red Snapper You’d be forgiven for thinking it was mid-’99 at the Concorde 2 for the live return of the trip-hopping funkateers Red Snapper. For over four consistently interesting albums they were the byword for live dance music, propelled by Ali Friend’s enigmatic, fuzzed-up double bass.

After a break of almost six years, not counting last year’s Big Chill appearance, they return with a new album, a new saxophonist and a full-on European tour. And although they now resemble seasoned veterans rather than the skanking beatniks they once were, the music remains as vitally tight and slinky as ever.

Concorde2, 10 April ✌✌✌✌✌

Angus & Julia Stone, see page 55

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Low St George’s Church is rapidly becoming Brighton’s best music venue, with an intimate feeling, great acoustics and consistently excellent acts choosing to play there. Tonight is no exception as Low grace the pulpit for an appropriately spiritual-sounding set.

Singer Alan Sparhawk, wife Mimi Parker on drums and new bassist Matt Livingstone fill this cavernous hall with their now trademark slowgrinding guitar, soulful vocals and chaotically beautiful crescendos.

New record ‘Drums and Guns’ is blended skilfully with older classics as this crowd of near-obsessive fans are treated to a hypnotic, transcendent blur of despair turning to glittering, resplendent triumph.

St George’s Church, 16 April ✌✌✌✌ Nick Aldwinckle

Funny Women What was lauded as the best and the brightest of female Brightonian comedic talent was a hit and miss affair. This was the heat for the Funny Women 2008 title. Only it wasn’t – funny.

There were the very good – Roisin Mirza and Sha Wylie in particular doing great turns sharing their own perspectives on attitudes towards race and age respectively – and the not so good, the lowlight of which was a woman placing a vibrator into her mouth in order to turn it on and demonstrate the noise it made.

Compere Katy Schutte was as charming as ever. In the vein of a talent show, not half as clever as it thought it was.

Komedia, 17 April ✌✌✌

36 Stage Book your tickets now

37 Comedy It’s maybe best not to go too crazy at the Festival – oh go on!

38 Film Marjane Satrapi talks about her film Persepolis

41 Art It’s Open House season all the way

55 Music Previews of who’s hitting town and reviews of releases, plus the Latest 7 chart (p48)

61 Gay News, interviews and Will Tells plus all the listings, pictures and previews

65 Clubs Mutya’s in town and so is Dolly, sorta...

66 Television Dani’s got spooked, plus seven days of listings

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From Tuesday 29 April to Monday 19 May ABOVE THREE AND TEN

BRIGHTON LITTLE THEATRE

10 Steine Street, Brighton Playhouse Creatures/ A Life In The Theatre Double bill from Hello id, first following the lives of five extraordinary women competing for the limelight and for rich patrons in the tumultuous 1660s. Then an exploration of the mentor/tutor relationship that’s pushed to the limits as the actors struggle through a season trying not to miss cues... (www.hello-id.co.uk) • Fri 2–Sun 4 May & Sun 25 May, 7.45pm, £9/8 Bait and Switch Young theatre company WLTM present a story about a couple who meet in a park through the personal ads. She’s a college girl, Her demeanour is hardly altered by him, with his skittish, jittering faux confidence. She has her reasons. He has his...

• Fri 16–Sun 18 May, 5.30pm

01273 777748 www.the-little.co.uk Dinner Paige has lovingly prepared a dinner to celebrate her husband’s literary success. There are friends, strangers, and a silent butler too, who make up this dinner party no-one will forget in a hurry.

• Tue 6–Sat 10 May, 7.15pm, £tbc

BRIGHTON DOME 01273 709709 www.brightondome.org Metamorphoses Frédéric Flamand's Ballet National de Marseille present creative dance set to the flamboyant urban styling of Brazil's maverick designers the Campana brothers.

• Sat 3–Sun 4 May, 7.45pm, £6–£25 Frantic Assembly – Stockholm Bryony Lavery's love story, Stockholm – there’s a fine line between tenderness and cruelty – this is the tale of a relationship unravelling...

• Sat 3–Sat 10 May, 8pm, Sat 4pm and 8pm, £15–£18, no latecomers permitted.

Bahok Dancers from different cultures come together in a contemporary Babel of language and movement.

• Fri 9–Sat 10 May, 7.15pm, £6–£25

THE CAPITOL, HORSHAM 01403 750220 www.thecapitolhorsham.com The Match Girls Lively musical set in London’s East End in the 1880s. The true story of friends in a factory who fight against their appalling working conditions. Written by Bill (Last of the Summer Wine) Owen.

• Fri 2–Sun 4 May, £10 Sheila’s Wheels Yes, it’s those girls from that advert – on stage performing classic hits from the last 50 years. Expect cheese and lots of pink • Sat 3 May, please call for show times / £

EASTBOURNE: CONGRESS THEATRE 01323 412000 www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk Shout! The Swingin’ Sixties Musical Starring Claire Sweeney and Su Pollard singing classic pop anthems ‘Downtown,’ ‘Son Of A Preacher Man’ and many more.

• Mon 28 April–Fri 2 May, 7.30pm plus 2.30pm Thur, £13.50–£22.50 Hello, Dolly! Starring Anita Dobson and Darren Day. A performance for all musical fans from the show that stormed broadway for 2844 performances.

• Mon 5–Sat 10 May, 7.30pm plus 2.30pm Thu and Sat, £17.50-£30.00

EASTBOURNE: DEVONSHIRE PARK THEATRE 01323 412000 www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk Dad’s Army The most popular and revered British comedies of all time, Dad’s Army is back – and it's live on stage.

• Mon 28 April–Sat 3 May, 7.45pm plus 2.30pm wed and Sat, £13.50–£19.50 Patience Gilbert & Sullivan’s forgotten masterpiece with a traditional orchestra, stylish costumes and the same production team as last year’s Pirates of Penzance.

• Tue 6–Sat 10 May, 7.45pm plus 2.30pm Wed and Sat, £10–£12

CHICHESTER FESTIVAL THEATRE 01243 781312 www.cft.org.uk Funny Girl Fearless ugly duckling Fanny Brice sets out to show the world her star quality can win over Broadway and fulfil her dreams.

• Tue 29 April–14 June. Various times and prices – please check with venue or online.

The Cherry Orchard A comedy of grief and loss about a mum who returns to the country estate where her son drowned.

• Thu 15 May–Sat 7 June, 7.30pm, plus 2pm 24/29/31 May and 5 and 7 June. Please call for prices.

NEW VENTURE THEATRE 01273 746118 www.newventure.org.uk Mojo Jez Butterworth’s jet-black comedy set in a Soho nightclub in 1958. The play charts the grisly, amphetamine-fuelled events of a summer weekend at Ezra’s Atlantic Club.

• Sat 3–Sat 17 May, 7.45pm except Sunday and Mondays. Sunday mat 2.30pm, £7.50

NIGHTINGALE THEATRE 01273 702563 www.nightingaletheatre.co.uk Short Cuts Dance, physical theatre and a puppet’s abstract attempt at overcoming his regrets and finding resolution...

• Sat 3 and Tue 20 May, 7pm and 9pm, £8.50/6.50 The Forgotten By 1945 six million Jewish people had been destroyed by the Nazi policy of extermination. This is the story of one of those people.

• Sun 4–Mon 5 May, 7.30pm, £8.50/6.50 Scratch Night Collaborative work by groups of final year students on the BA (Hons) Theatre Arts at Northbrook College • Tue 6 May, 7.30pm, £ donation

NO. 10 CIRCUS PARADE EASTBOURNE: ROYAL HIPPODROME 01323 412000 www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk Those Variety Days Direct from Blackpool, this glittering new Variety show stars; Syd Little, The George Mitchell Singers and the stars from BBC’s Friday Night is Music Night.

• Tue 13 May, 8pm £14.50

EASTBOURNE: WINTER GARDEN 01323 412000 www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk The Johnny Spice Swing Orchestra May Ball Featuring Johnny as a soloist and ochestra led by Paul Hyde – a selection of ballroom, swing, jive and rock ‘n’ roll.

• Sat 3 May, 7.30pm, £20(with meal)/15 Flyaway Katie The popular show ideal for children aged 2–4 comes to Eastbourne. An inspiring flight of fancy about the power of imagination. Winter Garden Gold Room.

• Wed 14 May, 11am and 1.30pm, £5

THE HAWTH, CRAWLEY 01293 553636 www.hawth.co.uk Hard-Hearted Hannah Part-gig, part jukebox, part-theatre but entirely a voyage of discovery. Every performance of this improvised show will be unique.

• Thu 1 May, call for show times and £ Brainiac Live Delve fearlessly into the mysteries of science and do those things on stage that you’re too scared to do at home!

• Sat 3 May, call for show times and £ Hitting Home (08) Adapted from Andrea Ashworth’s acclaimed autobiography, this is the story of Andrea and her sister growing up in the 1970s.

• Fri 9 May, call for show times and £

KOMEDIA 01273 647100 www.komedia.co.uk Backward Glance – Multistory Theatre Hands reaching, a severed head preaching – can the world be put back together again?

Words and physical imagery. Ages 16+.

• Sat 3 May–Thu 8 May, 6pm Sat, 6.45pm other days, £6/5 Exposures Experimental, urban theatre that invites its audience to use the city like a playground or a film set; to see it a new as a place of adventure, of danger and of history.

• Sat 3–Sun 4 May, 11am–4pm, £10 Clamp’d – Resident Alien A game of cat and mouse? Tom, a Falklands veteren, kidnaps Gerry, a traffic warden... who’s going to miss one of those? For ages 15+.

• Sat 3 May, 8.15pm, £7/6 Brighton Bits – Hole In The Road Six new 36 latest 7

exciting short works for your viewing pleasure.

Don’t forget to let them know what you think!

• Mon 5 May, 2.45pm, £5/4

01273 709709 www.brightonfestival.org So Close To Home Staged in a former pizza restaurant, a site specific production about a chef who’s setting up on his own.

• Tue 13–Sun 25 May (not Mon 19) various times, £15. Post show talks Thu 15 and 22.

PROMENADE PERFORMANCE 01273 709709 www.brightonfestival.org Happy Together For ages 14+. A site specific trip around Brighton taking us along for hen and stag dos. Truly unique show experience starting in Jubilee Square and ends at Tru Nightclub on West Street – like a normal hen do then.

• Thu 15–Sat 17 May, £18, 7.30pm

THEATRE ROYAL 08700 606650 www.theambassadors.com/theatreroyal South Pacific Rodgers & Hammerstein’s musical about a naïve Navy nurse who falls in love with a middle-aged French plantation owner. Featuring ‘Some Enchanted Evening.’

• Mon 28 Apr–Sat 3 May, 7.45pm, plus 2.30pm Thu and Sat, £20–£30 Norman – Lemieux.Pilon 4D Art State of the art virtual projection and live theatre. An inventive one man tour de force.

• Tue 6–Sat 10 May, 8pm, £11–£16

THE UDDERBELLY Old Steine Lawns, Venue 224 www.brightonfestivalfringe.org.uk Potted Potter: The Unauthorised Harry Experience All seven Potter books in 70 minutes. It’s fast, it’s furious – with endless costumes and brilliant songs. Ages 6+..

• Sat 3–Mon 5 May, 2pm and 6pm, £12/10 X Files Improv Dean Haglund (computer geek Langly in all 9 series) improvises an X-Files episode on audience suggestion!

• Sat 3 and Sat 10 May, 5pm, £12/10 Graffiti Classics Music, dancing, singing and comedy routines, 16 strings, 8 dancing feet and 4 voices.

• Sun 4 and Mon 5 May, 3pm, £12/10 The Last South: Pursuit of the Pole New drama charting the incredible journey of two of the world’s most revered explorers. Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott.

• Mon 5 May, 4pm, £12/10

WORTHING: PAVILION THEATRE 01903 206206 www.worthingtheatres.co.uk Halfway To Paradise – The Billy Fury Story Marking the 25th anniversary of Billy Fury’s death, his band the original Fury’s Tornadoes recreate the era with Colin Gold.

•Thu 8 May, 7.30pm, £16/14

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A laughing matter Victoria Nangle is keeping her funny-bones crossed she makes it through Brighton Festival in one piece It’s festival time! Time to dance around in the moonlight drunk on the surrounding talent. Time to cherrypick your favourite shows from all the many programmes that have been slowly being released into the wild over the last couple of weeks. Time to rush around seeing everything I want for half the month and then fall down ill for the second part, feeling very sorry for myself and swearing I’ll learn not to do it again next festival.

No, this time it’ll be different. Really.

This is my main piece of advice to all culture vultures come festival time: whether it’s theatre, dance, song or the creme de la creme that is comedy – pace yourself.

My birthday falls in October. Slap bang in the middle of the Paramount Comedy Festival month, it’s touch and go whether I’ll be up and about celebrating it or tucked up with a thermometer stuck in my mouth and half a Judy Bloom book propped up on the pillow next to me. It happens every year when there’s a must-see overload, whether it’s May’s spring offerings or October’s burnt ones.

The difficulty with having so many treats is to make sure you don’t gorge yourself straight off and end up with a terrible stomach ache and a face like a slapped armadillo. Surely this is something I learnt not so long ago with Easter and all of its chocolatey goodness.

“Don’t gorge yourself straight off and end up with stomach ache and a face like a slapped armadillo” It’s so tempting though. With Brighton Festival and Fringe getting bigger than ever before and attracting those bright sparks that made such a huge hit in Edinburgh last year, or who have brand new shows for this year, or who are just generally fantabulous and like to put their comic genius about a bit – it’s hard to say ‘no’.

You can’t really say: “No, I’m not going to see the show I’ve heard so much about and you say you’re never going to perform again after this time.” It’s hard to mutter the words: “No, I’ll give that big name comic’s brand new topical material a miss and have a quiet night in catching up with what Ricky and Bianca have been up to since they returned to the Square.” It’s like turning your back on actually seeing the fairies at the bottom of the garden when they do their annual pilgrimage to the Joogleberry to tell all the funny things that happened on the way to the bar. It just feels wrong. Which is why I always get ill.

Only this year it really will be different. This May I’ll make it to the end. Promise, cross my heart and eat mud if I should falter. Although if I do get poorly that might make me worse. Best get the vitamins in.

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Stand-up wisdom: “I’m going to call my kid after my father – dad.” Francesca Martinez

LIVE COMEDY PICK OF THE WEEK Aeneas Faversham Forever Nicely bookending the Fringe Brighton Festival with shows on both 3 May (this Saturday) and 23 May, is this highly acclaimed Victorian sketch troupe. A sell-out show in Edinburgh last year and already spotted by Radio 4 and BBC7, this collection of well dressed intelligent and talented young men are mixing up not always wholey accurate history with laugh out-loud highly original comedic sketches. One group to watch for the future, they make you sick at how talented, young and successful they really are becoming. Catch them now before they sell out the Dome next time around.

Saturday 3 May, 8.15pm, £12/10, Udderplace

➧ For full listings go to latest7.co.uk/listings

Write club John Davies delves into a new poetry collection by a University of Sussex tutor of creative writing This week sees the launch of John McCullough’s The Lives of Ghosts, published in Tall-Lighthouse’s new ‘pilot’ series. Ghosts are all the rage!

Checking my trusty old OED I’m intrigued to find that’s truer than I could have imagined, as the origins of the word can be traced back to meanings connected with ‘anger and rage’. By the way, the ‘gh’ spelling is courtesy of Caxton. Like the other volumes in the ‘pilot’ series, John’s collection was assembled with editorial guidance from the Scottish poet Roddy Lumsden. Roddy doesn’t like sestinas so, sadly, you’ll find none of John’s carefully wrought examples here, but he has managed to squeeze in a sonnet (Ghosts – the opening poem) and many of the poems are more structured in terms of metre, line and stanza than John’s earlier work.

John loves words and uses language with the care of a knowledgeable craftsman. Every word he uses demands a second and third thought, so his writing is characterised by that density and layering of meaning which makes reading poetry so fruitful in us, even when we don’t understand every single part of a poem. A poem entitled and set in Talacre, on the Flintshire coast, is beautiful. In dunes like “hills of sugar” two people falling in love follow a fence, “like rabbits squirting over marram”. “our only witnesses the wind turbines way out – a sleepy, inaudible crowd, two so close to each other from our perspective we swore they must have inhabited the same dream.”

A poem set in the Second World War is scattered with Polari, that English slang popularised by Round the Horne and Kenneth Williams.

The poem demonstrates John’s virtuosity with words.

John’s poetry is also characterised by compression, which creates an energy and urgency in his lyrics. In Belvedere (a belvedere is a raised turret atop a house), the breath of his lover connects with the juggernaut of a wind: “steered through the charred pier – sea-salt, tyranny and molecules of water vapour clinging in perilous motion up Preston Street.”

The longest poem in the collection is a sequence of ten-line poems called The Long Mile. Like a hunting engine, this curious series of taxi driver contemplations shifts gears between three and four stress lines of nine and 14 syllables, although, fascinatingly, usually in the range 9-11.

Astonishingly, the poem shimmers with rhyme of all kinds: assonance, consonance and consonance chime, echo, generic, light, mirrored, off centred, pararhyme, syllable and uneven rhyme. All pour through the poem like glittering street lights. And, as if unconsciously, the poet knows he’s composing something which vaguely emulates a double ballade supreme: “My mind hunts out patterns untouched by bulldozers, shapes that spring from and shuffle and clinch one another like parts in a score.

A ballad in tarmac.”

The road John is travelling is a road less travelled; that of the ultra-fine poet. Stay with your craft John and make sure you don’t get bewitched at the crossroads.

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0871 224 4007 Tuesday 29

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21 (12A) 2.30, 5.30, 8.15 DECEPTION (15) 4.00, 6.30, 9.00 FOOL’S GOLD (12A) 3.00, 5.45, 8.30 FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL (15) 3.15, 6.00, 8.45 GRINDHOUSE (18) 8.00 HAPPY-GO-LUCKY(15) 2.45, 5.45, 8.45 SON OF RAMBOW (12A) 5.45 STEP UP 2: THE STREETS (PG)1.45 THE EYE (15) 3.00, 6.00, 8.30 THE OXFORD MURDERS (15) 2.30, 5.30, 8.30 THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES (PG) 1.45, 3.45

21 (12A) 2.30, 5.30, 8.15 DECEPTION (15) 4.00, 6.30, 9.00 FOOL’S GOLD (12A) 12.35, 3.00, 5.45 FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL (15) 12.30, 3.15, 6.00, 8.45 HAPPY-GO-LUCKY(15) 8.45 IRON MAN (12A) 12.00, 1.00, 2.30, 3.30, 5.30, 6.30, 8.00 SON OF RAMBOW (12A) 10.45 STEP UP 2: THE STREETS (PG)1.45 SWEENEY TODD (18) 10.30 THE EYE (15) 3.00, 6.00, 8.30 THE OXFORD MURDERS (15) 2.30, 5.30, 8.30

Wednesday 30 21 (12A) 2.30, 5.30, 8.15 DECEPTION (15) 4.00, 6.30, 9.00 FOOL’S GOLD (12A) 3.00, 5.45, 8.30 FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL (15) 3.15, 6.00, 8.45 HAPPY-GO-LUCKY(15) 2.45, 5.45, 8.45 SON OF RAMBOW (12A) 5.45 STEP UP 2: THE STREETS (PG)1.45 STREET KINGS (15) 8.00 THE EYE (15) 3.00, 6.00, 8.30 THE OXFORD MURDERS (15) 2.30, 5.30, 8.30 THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES (PG) 1.45, 3.45

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HAPPY-GO-LUCKY(15) 6.30 PERSEPOLIS (12A) 4.00, 9.00

PART TIME WARLOCKS (15) 9.00 YOU, THE LIVING (15) 1.30 PERSEPOLIS (12A) 6.00 SON OF RAMBOW (12A) 4.00 THE UGLY DUCKLING &ME! (U) 11.00

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FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL (15) DECEPTION (15) DOOMSDAY (18) IRON MAN (12A) THE EYE (15) THE OXFORD MURDERS (15)

01273 626261

HAPPY-GO-LUCKY(15) 6.30 PERSEPOLIS (12A) 4.00, 9.00 WE ARE TOGETHER (PG) 7.00 (Sallis Benney)

New releases reviewed

Films showing Friday 2–Monday 5

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Director: Jon Favreau Marvel Comics get another big pay day in the comic adaptation.

Billionaire Tony Stark, the world’s foremost weapons designer, decides to retire from arms manufacture.

Things go awry when a rival attempts to kill him, and almost succeeds. In order to survive Stark creates the

Sunday 4

HAPPY-GO-LUCKY(15) 6.30 PERSEPOLIS (12A) 4.00, 9.00

PERSEPOLIS (12A) SON OF RAMBOW (12A) 4.00 YOU, THE LIVING (15) 1.30

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Monday 5

DIARY OF THE DEAD(18) 11.30 PERSEPOLIS (12A) 4.00, 9.00 SON OF RAMBOW (12A) 6.30

PERSEPOLIS (12A) 4.00, 9.00 SON OF RAMBOW (12A) 6.30 CHECK WITH CINEMA TO CONFIRM FILMS/TIMES

www.cineworld.co.uk

0871 200 2000 Tuesday 29

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21 (12A) 3.20, 6.10, 9.00 DECEPTION (15) 2.10, 4.40, 7.15, 9.50 FOOL’S GOLD (12A) 3.50, 6.30, 9.10 FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL (15) 4.15, 6.50, 9.30 IN BRUGES (18) 4.00, 6.40, 9.20 SON OF RAMBOW (12A) 6.20, 8.40 THE EYE (15) 2.30, 5.00, 7.20, 9.40 THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES (PG) 2.00, 4.10 THREE AND OUT (15) 3.40, 6.15, 8.50

21 (12A) 3.20, 6.10, 9.00 DECEPTION (15) 2.10, 4.40, 7.15, 9.50 FOOL’S GOLD (12A) 6.30 FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL (15) 4.15, 6.50, 9.30 IN BRUGES (18) 4.00, 6.40, 9.20 IRON MAN (12A) 2.40, 3.30, 5.30, 6.20, 8.20, 9.10 SON OF RAMBOW (12A) 6.20, 8.40 THE EYE (15) 2.30, 9.40 THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES (PG) 2.00 THREE AND OUT (15) 6.15, 8.50

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Films showing Friday 2–Monday 5

21 (12A) 3.20, 6.10, 9.00 DECEPTION (15) 2.10, 4.40, 7.15, 9.50 FOOL’S GOLD (12A) 3.50, 6.30, 9.10 FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL (15) 4.15, 6.50, 9.30 IN BRUGES (18) 4.00, 6.40, 9.20 SON OF RAMBOW (12A) 6.20, 8.40 THE EYE (15) 2.30, 5.00, 7.20, 9.40 THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES (PG) 2.00, 4.10 THREE AND OUT (15) 3.40, 6.15, 8.50

21 (12A) DECEPTION (TBC) DOOMSDAY (18) FOOL’S GOLD (12A) FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL (15) IN BRUGES (18) IRON MAN (12A) NIM’S ISLAND (TBC) SON OF RAMBOW (12A) THE EYE (15) THREE AND OUT (15) PLEASE CHECK WITH CINEMA FOR FILMS/TIMES

WORTHING CINEMA

You, The Living (15)

Dir: Roy Andersson After making among other things a series of commercials for Felix Tomato Ketchup Andersson has turned his sleek and critical eye towards the kooky desperation of his native Sweden. You, the Living may cite itself as a film about the joys and sorrows of existence but ultimately this is an achingly clever analysis of what it means to be alone. Sweden might mean Abba and Ikea to most but for a country with one of the highest suicide rates in Europe this is a sad but very silly and clever film indeed.

Showing at Duke of York’s

The Eye (15)

Dir: David Moreau/Xavier Palud After making the fairly spooky Them in 2006 Moreau and Palud have teamed up to remake the Hong Kong film Jian Gui. Jessica Alba plays a woman who receives an eye transplant which allows her to see into the supernatural world. The original itself was a muddled mix of straight out horror and blurry existential guff but this Hollywood remake is just plain lazy. Alba proves she truly can’t act in a film that is crass, drab and most importantly not that scary.

Showing at Cineworld and Odeon

01903 206206 www.worthingtheatres.co.uk Tues 29-Thurs 1 May

Fri 2-Mon 5

FOOL’S GOLD (12A) 2.30 (thurs), 8.00

27 DRESSES (12A) 1.30 (mon), 4.30 (sun-mon), 8.00

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Sat 3

NIM’S ISLAND (U) 2.00 (sat-mon), 5.00, 7.15 (sun)

MR MAGORIUM’S WONDER EMPORIUM (U) 10.15

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ultimate armoured suit thereby becoming Iron Man and fight crime and global injustice. This might not have Spiderman’s pathos but in Robert Downey Jnr. it has a charismatic and wry leading man. This is daft fluff for sure but enjoyable with it too.

Showing at Cineworld and Odeon Craig Driver

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Grindhouse (18)

Dir: Quentin Tarantino/ Robert Rodriguez This gargantuan pop-kitsch effort from Tarantino and Rodriguez is a true cinematic event. Updating the drive-in

B-movie experience from the seventies with typical panache this is a double bill of gross-out misogynistic fanfare as each director offers up their own seventy minute effort: Death Proof for Tarantino and Planet Terror from Rodriguez. Sandwiched in between are a bunch of fake trailers from Eli Roth, Edgar Wright and Rob Zombie. This project has been a bit of a PR nightmare but as an exercise in ice-cool revisionism this is wrong in all the right ways.

Showing at Odeon

Three and Out (15)

Dir: Jonathan Gershfield After directing brilliant comedy series Big Train, Gershfield has been drafted in to make this madcap comedy caper.

The story follows Mackenzie Crook as a London tube driver who after accidentally killing two people in a month must decide whether to go for a third and thereby receive a bumper payoff. Macabre and mild in equal measure this is enjoyably nasty. When a film stars Kerry Katona alongside RSC maestro Anthony Sher you know you’re in for something different.

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time I am living in. The good thing about this movie is that 30 years after you can watch it and it has not taken one wrinkle, because it’s a good movie. I mean, it belongs to this time, but it’s not a leaflet that you read and you throw away.

Marjane Satrapi talks to Latest 7 about her new film Persepolis, Middle Eastern politics and big boobs

So would you say this is more of a loose memoir of your own childhood?

It’s not so much of a memoir, I always say that. This is a perversity of the reality show that all of us we want to have the reality. I base myself on my own experience, but it’s not a documentary about my life.

How did the graphic novel originally come about? Why the decision to write about your life in that form?

It’s not so much about my life, you know. If I didn’t use myself, it would become like a political or sociological or historical statement, and I’m none of those. I’m just one person, and you see what I saw. It’s not a statement. This is an artistic work. The graphic novel form became an obvious choice because words are not enough for me.

Would you feel comfortable describing yourself as a feminist or perhaps more at ease with the term ‘humanist’?

Well, I’m always opposed to any kind of silencing or cultural stupidity.

The kind of bimbo who only thinks having a flat belly and a nice ass is the way to succeed in life is another kind of oppressed woman, too. No brain, no pain. In my country, a woman with a brain also has to have a nice figure. Reducing a woman to a size 2 and nice boobs and a nice ass and nice lips full of collagen – that is making women into objects, also. Is that really cool? We don’t have the right to become old any more? Fewer than 70 years ago, women didn’t have the right to vote. Culture doesn’t solve all problems – of course not – but it helps us to be less stupid. And as you know, it’s always better to be less stupid than more stupid.

What sort of reaction are you getting from Iran?

It’s a different kind of reaction.

When I made the books there was no reaction at all. But at the Cannes Film Festival they made a big deal because nothing else was happening, and they made a big fuss of it. The Ministry of Culture in Iran sent a letter to the French Embassy in Iran, and you know, they didn’t like it. It is normal that they do not like the reaction, so what do you want me to say? This is normal. You know, George Bush’s government made a reaction to the Michael Moore movie also. These things happen.

Was it an easy decision to make the film as an animated feature?

Well you know, I mean people think that animation is a style. Animation is just a technique. It’s like people thinking that comics are a style, like comics as a superhero story. A comic is just a narration and a medium, you can tell any kind of story in comics and you can tell any kind of of story in animation. The first language of the human being was drawing, before writing, before talking.

What I love about Persepolis is that the story has deeply human characteristics at a time when there is such a proliferation of impersonal politics in the Middle East situation.

Well yes, but we started the movie three and a half years ago and that was not a question of Iran at this time. Of course I am the fruit of the

Also showing…

A quick look at this week’s releases 27 Dresses (12A) Dir: Anne Fletcher After the gross-out/romantic comedy hybrid that was Knocked Up, Katherine Heigl goes for a full-blown romcom with this saga about your standard gal who’s always the bridesmaid, never the bride, until she falls in love with her sister’s fiancé. Cue, presumably, lots of kooky support-cast silliness, good-natured indecision and general unashamed fluffiness. James Marsden and Edward Burns co-star as the requisite chick-flick eye candy.

Showing at Worthing Diary of the Dead (18) Dir: George A Romero George A Romero, the king of the zombie movie, returns with this latest instalment of his massively popular cult ‘Dead’ franchise which began with the 60s classic Night of the Living Dead. Taking a step back from 2005’s great comeback Land of the Dead, Diary... takes place on an alternative first night when the dead decide to walk the Earth. A group of students filming a mummy movie get sucked into a reallife horror when walking dead stumble into their lives. Filmed from the students’ hand-held

cameras, it seems Mr Romero’s taken a tip from the new school of horror and films such as The Blair Witch Project and Open Water. An interesting addition to the zombie canon.

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interesting take on the guns, swearing and posh-boys-acting-tough Brit gangster film.

Farrell plays an Irish hitman exiled to Bruges to lay low with his partner, played by Brendan Gleeson. Ralph Fiennes plays against character as the Essex crime boss dealing with our unlikely heroes. Boasting great performances from the three leads, tongue-incheek Bruges set-pieces and a sub-plot involving bad behaved little people, this looks to be an enjoyably silly variation on the buddy movie, albeit with loads of inventive swearing and bad taste humour. Go feckin’ see it.

Showing at Cineworld

Happy-Go-Lucky (15) Dir: Mike Leigh It’s been a while (four years) since Mike Leigh’s last cinematic outing, and maybe the break’s cheered him up a little. Lightening the tone after a career that has included the unrelentingly grim Naked and acclaimed abortion drama Vera Drake, Happy-Go-Lucky follows easy-going primary teacher Poppy’s daily life. Played by Tipping the Velvet’s Sally Hawkins, after her bike is stolen, Poppy takes up driving lessons, then flamenco, smiling all the way. Almost uncharacteristically upbeat, if early reviews are anything to go by, this should confirm Leigh’s status as one of Britain’s best living directors.

Showing at Duke of York’s and Odeon

Son of Rambow (12A) Dir: Garth Jennings As a kid growing up in the 80s, music video and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy director Garth Jennings got hold of a pirated copy of First Blood and remade it. Though not that film itself, Son of Rambow is a kind of remake of that remake. British to the core, this low-budget and heart-warming tale of two kids who bond over their love of Stallone has garnered rave reviews. Silly and charming, this is the definition of the term ‘sleeper hit’.

Showing at Cineworld, Odeon, Duke of York’s

In Bruges (18) Dir: Martin McDonagh Colin Farrell makes a welcome return after a while away from the big screen with this

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (18) Dir: Tim Burton The cinematic love affair between Tim Burton

Son of Rambow

and Johnny Depp continues with this daring adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s 70s Broadway musical of the same name. It says a lot about the bankability of this double act that an R-rated opera starring a cast who have largely never sung before makes it to the big screen – interesting if nothing else. Depp plays a wrongly convicted barber who wreaks bloody vengeance on those who have wronged him after release from jail. Featuring Mrs Burton – Helena Bonham Carter – Alan Rickman and Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen.

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EVENTSHIGHLIGHTS Mayday in Albion

Disney dreams The Brighton Centre bring Playhouse Disney favourites to life in an all-new special show Come and join the fun at The Brighton Centre as characters from four popular Playhouse Disney TV shows appear live on stage for an unforgettable musical celebration. Produced by Feld Entertainment, Playhouse Disney Live! brings all the colourful characters usually just seen on television to life. Youngsters will not want to miss the chance to see their favourites from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Little Einsteins, My Friends Tigger & Pooh and Handy Manny.

The fun starts with the iconic Mickey Mouse. He’s hosting a musical party at the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and everyone’s invited! The Playhouse Disney Postess delivers party invitations to all of Mickey’s Playhouse Disney pals with the audience in tow.

Meanwhile, everyone’s favourite honey-loving bear Winnie the Pooh, the fun-loving Tigger and their friend Darby call upon the kids to help solve the mystery of their missing music. It’s a great interactive show, with children given the rare opportunity of seeing their favourite characters in life-size! Producer Kenneth Feld talks about the challenge of pleasing the most important critics of all – the children: “We have a very demanding audience – kids – and we want to ensure we’ve exceeded their expectations for what could serve as their first theatrical experience.”

The party comes together at the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse where Mickey reminds his friends that music brings everyone together. The Playhouse Disney pals take centre stage sharing their special songs, making this a musical experience young ones will never forget.

Playhouse Disney Live! at The Brighton Centre, Thu 1–Sat 3 May. Tickets start at £15.50. For more info/booking call 0844 847 1515

Win tickets!

We have 6 sets of family tickets (4 per family) to give away to lucky readers.

PLUS, one lucky family will get the chance to meet and greet some of the Disney characters at the show!

For your chance to win tell us: What is Pooh’s favorite thing to eat?

To enter, call Frances Ford at The Brighton Centre on 01273 290131, but hurry, as the closing date for entering is Thursday 1 May 2008.

KIDSLISTINGS Tuesday 29 Circus Project Kids trapeze – fun class for youngsters. Contact Emma Taylor for more info/fees: 01273 884732,. Hangleton Community Centre, Harmsworth Crescent, 4.15–6.15pm Old Toys Early years session for 2–5 year olds. Includes art activities, storytelling and a museum expedition. Hove Museum & Art Gallery, 1pm- 2:30pm, £4.50 Sticky Kids Six tables of craft, playdough,

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easel painting, sand, water and gunge!

Scout Hut, Salts Rec Ground, Richmond Road, Seaford, (more info on 01323 896856) 10–11am, 11am–12pm, 1.15–2.15pm

Wednesday 30 Fun 4 Kids For ages 5–11. St Richard’s Church and Community Centre, Egmont Road. 01273 414483 for more info.

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This coming bank holiday weekend, don’t miss the chance to celebrate with a free family fayre at Queen’s Park on Sunday 4 May. The fayre will celebrate the cultural diversity of Albion.

The Guild of Bloodstone honours and promotes showmen, drawing upon the European traditions of arts, crafts and performance. Join in the merriment that reflects our roots, with mythopoets, singalongs, fooling, country dancing, summer games and jazz, folk and gypsy bands. The ‘Feast of Fools’ includes Red Seal, Geezers, Duende Flamenco, Daniel Herlakin, Carrie Tree, Jonathan Kay and more.

Don’t miss out on this gathering – through jesting, playing, dancing and singing, the true spirit of England is brought to life!

Mayday in Albion takes place Sunday 4 May in Queen’s Park, Brighton from 12pm to 8pm. For all enquiries contact www.bloodstonearts.com

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which include a vehicle cavalcade along the entire length of the seafront, parading the vehicles of yesteryear as they park up on the Western Lawns at the start of each day. More entertainment is provided by way of funfair rides, a beer tent, music from the Magnificent Motors stage and a French market. There’s something to keep all the family entertained, so if you’re interested in vintage cars, or just want a fun day out, visit the Magnificent Motor Show.

Sat 3 and Sun 4 May, 10am–5pm both days. http://www.eastbourne.gov.uk/ eastbourne/tourism/magnificent-motors

Eastbourne’s fifth Magnificent Motors Join in the party games for Eastbourne’s fifth motoring festival where fancy dress and classic cars will go hand-in-hand. Enjoy a picnic and browse the attractions,

EVENTSLISTINGS Wednesday 30 Creative Writing Workshop The South writing group lead an eight-week workshop starting today to get your creative ideas off the ground (break for the school holidays on 28 May). De La Warr Pavilion, 6:30pm8:30pm, £75/7

Thursday 1 Pilot Series John McCullough launches his new Pilot Series collection, appearing as part of this monthly night of poetry and music alongside Lewes-based poet Janet Sutherland and band Scenic Routes.

Joogleberry, 7:30pm, £3 donation.

Saturday 3 Art, Craft and Gift Market Unique handmade items and gifts including stained glass, soaps, candles, crystal, glass, traditional toys and jewellery.Uckfield Civic Centre, Uckfield, East Sussex, 10am-2pm Bishopstone May Fayre A traditional village fair with Punch and Judy, birds of prey, refreshments, various games and stalls. Village Green, Bishopstone, Near Seaford, East Sussex, 2-4pm Brighton Ghost Walk Visit the sites around Brighton and discover more about

the city’s spooky past. Fun for all ages.

Departs promptly at 7pm from Brighton Town Hall, Bartholomew Square. £6 adults, £3.50 accompanied children.

Charity Jumble Sale All proceeds going to Activities, Respite, Rehabilitation Care Centre (ARRCC, Registered Charity No 1089639) Rye Community Centre, Conduit Hill, Rye, East Sussex, 2pm-4pm City Books Brunch Acclaimed historian and writer Alison Weir plus a surprise guest for City Books’ annual literary brunch, focusing on Alison’s latest novel The Lady Elizabeth. The Old Market, 11:00am, £17.50.

International Women’s Day Indoor Street Festival Women and children are invited to come along and enjoy live entertainment, local Sussex produce, complimentary therapists, community information stalls plus the chance to sample some delicious international food.

Hove Town Hall, 11:00am-3:00pm, free.

John Gray John Gray’s powerful new book Black Mass argues that the death of utopia doesn't mean peace. Join philosopher Will Self for an enquiry into the religious roots of today’s global conflicts. Pavilion Theatre, 7:30pm, £7.50.

Shoreham Writers’ Group A literary feast to celebrate the 21st Adur Festival in style. Copies of the Shoreham Writers’ Anthology will be placed in local venues, inviting everyone to read and enjoy but also comment on. The Ferry Inn, Shoreham, 6:30pm, free.

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It’s that time of year again...time to explore Brighton’s internationally celebrated Artists Open Houses 2008

Open all hours A long standing Brighton and Hove tradition, Artists Open Houses are back once again for 2008 Voted the ‘Best Cultural Event of 2007’ at last year’s Brighton and Hove Business Awards, the Brighton Festival of Artists Open Houses is a great opportunity to view work by leading local artists and makers in their own homes and studios. Established in 1986, Artists Open Houses (www.aoh.org.uk) in Brighton looks forward to its 28th year in May 2008. 220 venues and over 1,000 artists will showcase new work in a unique way. Timed to coincide with Brighton Festival, the city becomes an organic creature of culture, feeding 300,000 visitors to the houses alone. Walking from house to house, by the coast and in the company of collectors, house hunters, designers, families and celebrities, the experience of open houses entertains, nourishes and inspires everyone who visits. AOH gives a rare opportunity for the public to view art exhibited in the homes and studios of Brighton and Hove artists. From beach hut to Regency villa, there is a vast range of work exhibited from painting to

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sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, furniture, jewellery, stained glass, furnishings and textiles. As well as their own work, local artists also have guest exhibitors, sometimes from further afield. It is a chance to buy the recent work of professionals before it hits the galleries. AOH is open for four weekends in May and for two weekends leading up to Christmas. Whether you enjoy architecture, gardens, interiors, art, performance or food, AOH has something to offer. Often with the artists and makers present, and in an open and welcoming environment, individuals can look, chat, commission or buy without pressure and with the luxury of enjoying the work in a domestic space. AOH is the largest open house event in the UK, and for the more adventurous, it offers open house trails further afield in the surrounding countryside. Many of the houses have beautiful gardens, fabulous homemade food or live performance, making the event a true sensory delight.

With green issues firmly in the public domain, visitors can travel with ease by train, bus, tuk tuk or Green Car Club vehicles, eat organic food and acquire works of art, home-grown and fairly traded.

The Open Houses give open access to all artists, with many of the exhibitors being professional illustrators and makers with international reputations.

Opening times are mostly 12-6pm, during the first four weekends of May, although some open earlier. There will be curated tours during May. For more information or to receive a copy of the brochure, visit: www.aoh.org.uk or http://www.youtube.com/user/visitbrightonfilms2 or alternatively, contact Rhoda Barker at: rhodabarker@phonecoop.coop.

AOH is a not-for-profit organisation.

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Open doors Get along to Scotches Farm to view Jane ButlerBiggs’ latest exhibition as part of Brighton Fringe, you might just find it ‘well hung’ Jane Butler-Biggs is a fine artist of over 20 years standing with a background as a healer and Feng Shui master. She lives in the idyllic countryside surrounds of Hurstpierpoint with her family and will be opening the house for the May Open House festival and also exhibiting at the Brighton Media Centre in the first week of May as part of the Brighton Fringe.

How did you get started in painting?

I have always painted, there was never a beginning and there is never really an end only a point at which I stop.

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I paint in the same way that I clean my teeth or walk across the gardens and down to the field near where I live. I paint as a matter of course and have been grateful for the lack of intrusion I have enjoyed in its progress through the years. For me painting is one of the easy parts of life.

Many people know you for your expertise in Feng Shui. How did you switch to becoming a full time painter?

I had been practicing and teaching Feng Shui for about ten or 15 years, and after my apprentices graduated, and I had put a huge mass of knowledge down in the three books, I felt I could justifiably take a break and catch my breath. The painting was on going anyway and just grew in to the available space that emerged as I let go of all the healing work.

Once my work was seen, I was soon asked to exhibit, and then everyone just wanted me to paint more and more. So I did and, in fact still do!!

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See more at latest-art.co.uk Does a knowledge of Feng Shui help when painting? Do you visualise what a painting would look like in a certain room?

Studying and practising Feng Shui has helped me to develop an awareness of the energetics of a place, and also an attention to the movement of place around the seasons. Detailed observation and development of all the senses carries through from Feng Shui and healing work to painting and Fine Art as well, but I don’t paint for particular rooms or places. It is true however that the paintings create different energies from each other so benefit the places in which they are hung in different ways. They are perfect Feng Shui remedies and can be used in all sorts of ways to alter any place in which they are hung. Of course I always pay attention to this when placing the work, as you will see when you come to the shows in May. I am also aware that I paint my energy into a canvas, in the same way that a chef cooks their energy in to a meal, and since I want my paintings to be uplifting and inspirational for the places in which they are hung I will only paint at times of intense positivity. I know what works to make places come alive and I paint paintings for that purpose.

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What are your artistic influences?

I am influenced by my experience of the world and by the way I interact with the environment, which is very emotional and sensory driven.

I suppose Taoism has a large part to play as well.

Where have you exhibited?

I have mostly shown in London although I started out in Brighton and Sussex and still love showing my work here in the place where lots of it originated. I think Brighton people understand the paintings effortlessly, almost by a process of osmosis. Of course most people still see the work on the online gallery, which has been immensely successful.

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What is your artistic ambition?

In the first instance for people to be able to see the newest work, which I can’t wait to share. This is the reason for offering both the central Brighton venue and then our out of town follow-up location during the festival. I want it to be possible for everyone to enjoy the work as soon as it’s available and in the best venues in the area.

My underlying artistic ambition is massive and strangely precise. It’s about communicating what can happen to our experience of just being alive day-to-day when we are prepared to actively seek out joy, I suppose.

That seems to involve risking confronting things like power and change and movement head on. Also being prepared to consciously navigate huge moral constructs moment to moment while being supremely tender and mindful of the finest of life’s tuning, oh, and keeping a lightness of heart.

A lot of my work with land and people and places, the teaching and the writing, has been around these ideals. The paintings are the most succinct form I’ve found of communicating this to date and they reveal the beauty of experiencing the world in this way as well, which is a massive bonus!

There is a lot of support for my work, and this means on the most basic level that I can go on painting and painting in the way that isn’t restricted or consumer led.

Jane’s work will be on show at the Brighton Media Centre, Middle Street, from Friday 2 to Thursday 8 May, and at Scotches Farm, Malthouse Lane, Hurstpierpoint, the weekends of the 10/11, 17/18 and 24/25 May, 11am to 5pm, as part of the Open Houses festival. www.janebutlerbiggsfineart.com Casa at abadiania VI (detail)

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Welcomes you to the 14th annual Summer Exhibition 2008 of Art on the River – www.artontheriver.co.uk – during May.

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A diverse range of style, media, subject and versatility is showcased by local professional artists – Intriguing paintings/mixed media by Mary Beaney, Viv Cecil, Ben Ecclestone, Jill Emslie, Anthony McIntosh and Kris Powley. Striking watercolours by Angela Perrin and Kate Sayers.

Sculptural ceramics and jewellery by Michéle Findlay.

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Garden stoneware ceramics by Julie Snowball. Stylish woodturning by Peter Snowball.

Stunning wildlife photography taken in Sussex, Kenya and Alaska by Adam Beaney.

This exhibition of high quality yet affordable art is one not to be missed – so come along and see how art is displayed in a friendly and relaxing non-gallery setting, alongside the tranquil River Haven. You won't be disappointed – see you there!

Art on the River, Riverside Studio, Haven Farm, High Street, Pevensey, BN24 5JU Look out for the balloons!

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ON: 11th; 17th, 18th; 24th, 25th and 26th May, 2008 OPEN 11am–5pm Free admission Donations to Macular Disease Society for the partially sighted.

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Open for art Rottingdean and Saltdean artists’ open houses in Brighton Festival during May 2008 This year there will be 13 venues opening, with a total of 60 artists taking part. The locations include five venues in Rottingdean, one in Ovingdean, two in Woodingdean, four in Saltdean and one in Telscombe Cliffs.

A great variety of work will be exhibited in artists’ houses and gardens, galleries and also in local shops and businesses. This promises to be a distinctive and vibrant trail to visit.

All types of painting will be represented as well as wood, ceramic and stone sculpture, glass, textiles, photography, ceramics, jewellery, pewterware, fashion and accessories.

Exhibitors include nationally recognised artists as well as many local professional people and a number of Sussex Guild members.

Locally there will be numerous other events and activities. Venues open weekends and Bank Holiday Mondays in May, 10am-6pm (see AOH brochure and local trail leaflet for individual venue opening dates and times).

For further information contact: Jan Mnich: 01273 301213 or jan@mnich-design.co.uk Sue Warner: 01273 305137 or suwarner@xeonflux.com Chrissy Harfleet: 01273 309666 or chrissyharfleet@hotmail.com www.rottingdeansaltdean-artists.co.uk

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Brian Rice with Bridget Riley

Wide open spaces A unique imprint between the Piers Residents and visitors seeking art between the Piers in Brighton are in for a treat during the Brighton festival; Artizan Editions – renowned publishers and proponents of original art in print – have a retrospective exhibition hosted by Castor & Pollux gallery for the duration of May on the seafront.

“It’s great for us to have the opportunity to exhibit our published works. Not only are we in our home city but exhibiting within an amazing beachside venue. It’ll be something of a welcome change from our London exhibitions.“

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Hove based Artizan Editions invite artists to explore new dimensions in their work using the screenprint medium. Artizan proprietor, Sally Gimson, explains: “Creating an original piece of work in this medium offers the artist a different set of creative possibilities. We have, during the festival in previous years, had an artist demonstrating the process of creating an original print. When people realised the artist was building the image in separate layers of colour, step by step, they tended to be somewhat ‘wowed’. It’s also exciting for us to

Gerald Laing be able to offer original works by artists to a wider audience, by virtue of their affordability.“ Artizan Editions work alongside well-known local and national artists, up and coming artists, as well as established and revered contemporary artists, Bridget Riley, Brian Rice and Gerald Laing. Profiling the Brighton exhibition is the vibrant work of Stella Maris, currently showing in St. Ives with the Penwith Gallery.

Artizan Editions Festival Exhibition from Saturday 3 May at Castor & Pollux, 164–166 King's Road Arches, Brighton BN1 1NB, call 01273 773776

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Properly great Contemporary installations by new artists supported by Brighton creative company Props Studios, Brighton-based creative specialists in design, bespoke props and sculpture for the arts, retail and events industry, are sponsoring three highly promising new talents in the Brighton Artists’ Open Houses Festival.

Entitled ‘Girls’ School’, Alexandra Dipple, Jason Hall and Matt Pagett will be displaying new work.

Alongside prints, drawings and sculpture, each artist will have sole use of the bedroom as an installation space for one weekend only. Jason Hall’s work focuses on sexuality and society, including a decommissioned tank bullet shell engraved with homophobic insults and an AK47 with a gay flag. His work will feature a tribute to Justin Fashanu on the tenth anniversary of his death. Alexandra

Dipple deals with issues around authority, control, erasure and censorship. Her show will include a graphic equalizer made of books, and an alchemical piece using books about madness burnt to ashes and presented as pills. Matt Pagett explores apparently unrelated issues surrounding processes, signs, transience, desire, beauty, man and machine. Matt will replace his bedroom furniture with a coffin.

Nina Constantin, managing director of Props Studios, said: “We are very passionate about working with artists to produce creative installations.”

Props Studios, Unit 3, Old Kiln Works, Ditchling Common Industrial Estate, East Sussex. Tel: 0870 77 00 960 or visit: www.propsstudios.co.uk or email: elina@propsstusios.co.uk

21 professional Sussex artists showcase their work in this artists led gallery – a featured artist is showcased every three weeks with a changing mixed exhibition every six weeks.

Open daily 10am–5pm

Tel: 01273 474477 4 North Street, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 2PA www.chalk gallery.org.uk art@chalkgallery.org.uk

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World of Welly The World of Welly is a fresh and exciting exhibition reflecting the work of artists with learning disabilities from across the city. This is our 4th year as an Open House and we are once again participating in the Hanover Trail.

This year’s theme of “Smugglers, Strugglers and Fishy Tales” has influenced much of the work on offer with the biggest exhibit being “Kipper Island” – dare you brave the wrath of the Smoking Kipper to steal the treasure?

The exhibition creates a trail within a trail, and the pirate’s footsteps will guide you through the variety of displays incorporating different media such as textiles, portraits, sculpture, photography and film. The imaginative and diverse talents of artists with learning disabilities will be obvious throughout.

Come and experience our bright, chatty atmosphere, and see if you can win the challenge of finding all the parrots!

Saturday 10th May & Sunday 11th May – 12pm to 6pm Saturday 17th May & Sunday 18th May – 12pm to 6pm Tuesday 13th May & Tuesday 20th May – 11am to 2pm – includes workshops Gardens, parking and free refreshments available. Wellington House, Wellington Street, Brighton, BN2 3AX

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Monkey business Brass Monkeys are taking up residence at 109 Portland Road Following the success of Brass Monkeys in St John’s Road, founders Samantha Maund and Jenifer Wall have moved the workshop (and eight independent makers) to Portland Road, Hove and have opened a shop selling beautiful, unusual, affordable, handmade jewellery and metalwork.

Jewellers and silversmiths Samantha and Jenifer set up the aptly named Brass Monkeys in a former mechanic’s garage in February 2002. The space quickly evolved into a busy and creative workshop. “We really enjoyed our time in St John’s Road,” says Sam “but the time came to move on to bigger things.

“The work sold in the shop will all be designed and hand made in the UK – some on the premises and some locally,” adds Jenifer.

“It’s a great opportunity for us to promote, and make accessible, a diverse range of designer-made jewellery.”

Please call Brass Monkeys 01273 725170 or visit www.brassmonkeys.org.uk

Art in Ditchling festival trail Follow the festival trail in Ditchling to discover a living tradition of art and craft work. The legacy of Eric Gill and his contemporary craftsmen is celebrated at Ditchling Museum, while galleries, studios and artists’ homes are showing work being produced in and around the village today.

The Jointure Studios exhibits fine and applied art with Barbara Burns’ bold abstracts, printed imagery from Philippa Karakashian, stylish wooden bowls by Peter Archer, jewellery and metalwork by Sam Maund and Jenifer Wall and Gilly McCadden’s abstract watercolours. At their crossroads workshop and gallery Pruden and Smith produce beautiful and innovative metalwork in gold, platinum and silver, with stones from all over the world.

Suzie Lockwood describes the paintings in her peaceful Twitten cottage as meditations and reflections contemplating nature. Art At Kennel Cottage celebrates the centenary of Margaret Milnes, the distinguished Ditchling artist, showing her lively scenes with work by her daughters, Ann Raby and Jennifer Milnes Mathur. At the Turner Dumbrell Workshops are jewellery, hats, handbags and silk garments as well as paintings and textiles. In beautiful surroundings at nearby Streat, the Skelton workshops offer two-day taster sessions in stone-carving and letter cutting.

Venues are open May weekends and details of specific opening times are in the open house guide.

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Hove, artfully Explore a wealth of exciting art in homes around Hove through the renowned Hove Art Trail, and have a blast doing it, writes Crispin Gair.

Hove Art Trail-goers are easy to spot. We appear in May, a brochure and an A to Z in hand, wearing an expression halfway between intrepid explorer and devout pilgrim. We fly in twos and threes, like starlings to the West Pier, flock a while in one spot then suddenly take off for the next. We do it because we love to search – for inspiration, for beauty, for something provocative, for something to own, for the unexpected…

What surprises many first-timers on the Hove trail is the fun and friendliness of the event. A world apart from the stuffy, hushed galleries of the art establishment, Artists Open Houses are a month-long hum of warm welcomes and infectious enthusiasm, as well as being home to genuine talent and accomplished work. The quality of the trail has been recognised in recent years, with awards for Best Open House and Best Art in a Garden.

The variety of venues is an attraction in itself, this year encompassing converted stables, a five-star hotel, a synagogue, a vehicle testing station, hidden gardens and mews studios as well as modern flats and Georgian houses. One not-so-secret pleasure that trail-goers enjoy is the chance to sneak a guilt-free peek at people’s homes and workspaces.

And then, of course, there’s the art. As in previous years, the sheer variety of the trail undermines any prejudice that Hove is a dull, safe or parochial place. Yes, there’s something proudly local about the event and the artists, who herd themselves like surprisingly well-organised cats for the duration. But ‘Hove actually’ is home to a broader diversity of people, places, styles, influences and output than you might imagine.

A glance through the brochure (pick up your copy at a local shop, cafe or bar, or visit www.hovearts.co.uk) gives you a sense of it. Even a partial list reads like the cargo manifest of some exotic treasure ship: jewel-hued oils on canvas, abstracted landscapes, comic book cityscapes, tumultuous seascapes, cross-faded soundscapes and sensual bodyscapes, photography of all kinds (close-up, black and white, portrait, documentary), garden expansion kits hinting at Arizona, screen-prints infused with spirits of Barcelona, sculptured forms in stone, wood and clay, bold silver and delicate gold, gloriously fine porcelain and splendidly rough earthenware, pastels and pencils smudged and twirled on to fine papers, textiles stretched, stitched and woven, glassware blown and resins patinated, multilayered unknown and unnamed media, multifarious views of Brighton and Hove.

Part of the game of the trail is finding your own way through the glorious chaos of it, establishing your own style of exploration and discovery. Make of it what you will – a full-on social whirl or a private mission. Work out the optimum route round, or compare notes with other visitors. Start at Hove Station or on the seafront at the Peace Statue.

Cherry-pick venues or visit every single one. Be a silent observer or interview each artist. Feast on art alone or gorge yourself on the cakes, teas, chocolates and other treats on offer. Cram everything into one manic weekend or tease it out over all four. Buy nothing, buy a postcard or splash out on a bigger bargain.

When you’ve done it once, you’ll know why Hove Art Trail is a highlight of the Artists Open Houses and the whole Brighton May Festival, and why an ever-growing gang of us keep coming back. So, we get our parents to chaperone us if we’re kids, we get our relatives to push us if we’re wheelchair-bound, we drag our telly-addicted partners, our art-allergic siblings, and anyone else who’ll come and share our curiosity and sense of adventure. Membership is free. Art is cool. And Hove is where the art is.

Venues are open 11am-6pm, on the weekends of 3/4, 10/11, 17/18 and 24/25 May 2008.

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Fiona Howard will be opening her studio for the Brighton Open Houses in May. No.10 on the Independent Trail 55 Brunswick Square, Hove 11am–6pm May 3rd-4th, 10th–11th, 17th–18th.

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Get Carter! artrepublic introduces two special pieces by Brighton artist Graham Carter, both brand new to artrepublic Graham Carter has given artrepublic two new and utterly delectable prints, Poladroid and Waterfall (with bear). Brand new in for spring, Graham’s pieces transport you into the innocence of pure imagination. His art takes you on a journey into a mystical world of folk tales, folklore, a landscape lovingly crafted with ingenious use of found objects, strong narrative and charming characters. Take the time to explore each image and you will be rewarded.

Because you never know when inspiration will strike!

Back in the days when there were no such things as digital cameras, mobile phones and ASBO teenagers recording ‘happy slappings’, the world was amazed at the instant camera – a big behemoth of a machine that took a photo and noisily spat out a blurry image at the end. The art print ‘Poladroid’ was inspired by recent news that Polaroid camera film is to be discontinued. In this digital age, the artist thought that this was a shame, and so created this lustrous piece where everyone has their own imaginary personal Polaroid photo-taking robot with them at all times. Like the artist himself says: “As you never know when inspiration will strike!”

Splashing around with my bear In ‘Waterfall (with bear)’ the artist wanted to create a huge mythical bathing bear, splashing around with ‘rainbow’ children, having fun under a waterfall. Check out the bear’s soap brush! The rainbow-like colours are a rare addition from an artist whose depth of colour is usually more muted.

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A little bit about Graham Carter

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Originally from Gloucester, Graham Carter studied his Foundation in Cheltenham before taking an illustration degree at University of Brighton, and a Postgraduate Diploma at Central St. Martins, graduating in 2000.

In 2000 Graham became a founding member of the celebrated illustration collective Peepshow, working on projects such as Lost Consonant king Graham Rawle’s Expo 2000 installation and commissions from Diesel Jeans and the BBC. Graham has worked as a freelance illustrator for nearly ten years and has enjoyed solo commissions from companies such as Orange, Bupa, Visa, Monster.com, Camelot and many UK broadsheets.

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Urben renewal A Patcham artist will be displaying local art in her home and opening it up to visitors Tina Gunstone exhibited her retro jewellery successfully last year in the house of the sculptor and trail coordinator Karen Norfolk at Patcham. Hearing that the Patcham trail was to be discontinued prompted Tina to open her own home with the help of her friend and fellow jeweller Lesley Smith. They invited Karen and also Karren Urben, the founder of the Patcham trail, to join them along with other popular Patcham exhibitors Wendy Dolan, Tania Corbett and Bill Phillip.

In total, 13 artists will be showing an eclectic mix of jewellery, paintings in pastel, oil and acrylic, sculpture in bronze and metal, photography, textiles and ceramics.

Along with six other exciting artists, this is the exhibition to put on your ‘must see’ list.

The large garden will be home to a sculpture trail throughout the festival and in good weather you will be able to enjoy tea and cakes, with proceeds going to The Martlets Hospice.

Also at the house during May, the recently completed portrait of The Mayor of Brighton and Hove, painted in pastel by Karren Urben, will be exhibited for the first time.

179 Surrenden Road, Brighton, BN1 6NN. Open each weekend in the May Festival including Bank Holiday Mondays, 11am-6pm. Also open Friday 9, 16, 23 May. Contact Tina Gunstone on 01273 551206. www.karenjnorfolk.com www.karrenurben.com

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NEWS Beachdown As many of you are aware there is a new festival being planned for the Dyke, north of Brighton. Spread over four days and with camping facilities for up to 11,000 revellers, Beachdown is an ambitious addition to the burgeoning festival circuit.

Acts recently announced include De La Soul, Gogol Bordello Brighton’s very own Maccabees, one of this year’s most hotly tipped artists Lightspeed Champion, one of the biggest breaking bands of last year Reverend and the Makers, the master of acoustic soul Terry Callier, and the delirious gypsy balkan punks Gogol Bordello.

Other confirmed artists include Roy Ayers, Infadels, The Hat and Freakpower while Jazz Bop supremo Russ Dewbury heads up the Inspirations Stage which will feature Bah Samba, Azymuth, Snowboy and the Latin Section, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Jah Wobble All-stars, Amp Fiddler and Incognito.

The festival aims to be as carbon neutral as possible and will employ a number of energy saving and environmentally friendly tools.

There will be eight double-decker buses an hour running from Brighton to the festival site and back from 10am until 1am which means all local festival goers can leave their cars at home. Car parks will be utilised at the nearby Hickstead Showground and at Shoreham Airport, where buses will ferry festival goers.

The food stalls on site will offer locally sourced and organic menus, some of which will be offered by local brand name restaurants such as Pinxto People and Pokeno Pies.

The festival will make room for a throng of 15,000 music fans and festival goers, with a projected camping capacity of 11,000.

Weekend passes go on sale this weekend and are priced at £85.

22-25 August www.beachdownfestival.com

Stone Love

With snow in April, it’s timely that Australian brother-sister acoustic duo Angus and Julia Stone bring a little southern hemisphere sunshine The Great Escape looms, and some of you may remember a haunting Antipodean acoustic duo from last year’s event. No? Well, you missed out on something special, and they play the Hanbury Club on 1 May as part of a UK tour for debut album, A Book Like This.

Growing up in Newport, on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, brother and sister Angus and Julia Stone shared a love of reading (the new record resembles an illustrated storybook) and playing music. This progressed to the adult pairing playing as backup musicians to each other at open mic nights in 2006. Their first EP, Chocolate and Cigarettes, released later that year, quickly marked out their sound: beautifully produced acoustic ballads, simultaneously upbeat and melancholy.

2007 saw them relocate to Notting Hill, where they met Travis frontman Fran Healy, who not only invited them to record at his home studio, but produced A Book Like This. Angus describes Healy as “having a cool vibe about him.” They had few instruments so Healy lent his 18th century vintage grand piano. “He treated us like family. We drunk tea and played music and just left the tape rolling. Drinking tea is kind of our thing at the moment – nice and peaceful.”

Healy wasn’t the only factor about the UK influencing the record. The almost Donavan Frankenreiter (but actually enjoyable), surfy feel

subsided a little with inner city living. “Britain put a dampener on things (laughs). To come from Australia to a place like Britain is strange. It is beautiful once you get out of the city, with rolling green hills and everything, but I just don’t like the city. It has its good sides, though. You see freaky stuff, and that’s cool. Freaky’s good.”

Despite this happy-go-lucky image, a subterranean pessimism comes to the fore spectacularly on the record’s lead single, ‘The Beast’, a thinly veiled attack on the international squabble for oil and degradation of civil rights.

Damning lyrics reveal a weary disappointment with a world in thrall to money and power. Well aware of what the band don’t want to be (and don’t want the world to be), there’s less idea of what they want to be. When pressed on their sound, Angus is elusive. “I guess I’ll leave that to the people who place musicians in categories. I’d like to be ‘nowhere’, not pinned down”.

This wanderlust is central to the new record.

Confusing signposts mark an unclear path. As Angus himself says: “It’s about a bunch of kids looking up at the storyteller, not knowing where to go. That could have been us.” For artists claiming to be lost, the siblings Stone certainly seem to be heading in the right direction.

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Haxan – Witchcraft Through The Ages Geoff Smith, world-leading virtuoso and innovator in composition, technique and performance on the hammered dulcimer, follow his acclaimed scores to Faust and The Cabinet of Dr Caligari with a new live score to the infamous 1922 film Haxan. Controversial and banned at the time, this docu-drama is a brew of the horrific, gross and darkly comedic featuring repressed eroticism, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath. Stop giggling at the back…

Wednesday 30 April, Komedia JH The Miserable Rich + Aidan Smith Haunting, lush acoustic pop with a prominent classical influence and production values to die for, this band’s star is certainly rising. Check out their excellent cover of Hot Chip’s ‘Over and Over’ on the Latest Brighton Chart.

Wednesday 30 April, Komedia NA Billy Childish Billy Childish and the Musicians of the British Empire Cultish and eccentric, Mr. Childish is a ridiculously prolific musician, poet and pianter, defiantly underground and anti-commercial, but consistently producing home-made punk via garagey rhythm’n’blues.

God bless Billy.

Thursday 1 May, Komedia JH

The Wombats Tom McRae & Hotel Café Once nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, Tom McRae remains one of the UK’s very best singer-songwriters. He divides his time between London and America, where he established the Hotel Café songwriters’ tour.

Featuring Cary Brothers, Catherine Feeny, Brian Wright, Jim Bianco and Greg Laswell.

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Neneh Cherry + Tofu Love Frogs + Los Albertos This May Day charity fundraiser in aid of rYico.org features a rare appearance by this innovative singer and musician who has flirted with jazz, soul, trip hop and rock over the years, perhaps best known for ‘Manchild’ and ‘Buffalo Stance’. Over the years she’s collaborated and worked with Massive Attack, Youssou’n’Dour, Pulp and Gorillaz.

Thursday 1 May, Concorde 2 JH Comm:UNITY Brighton collective of like-minded musicians and artists trying to raise issues of collective responsibility via some brilliantly organised events such as this. Tonight features two of the bands spearheading the organisation, Bad Science and Samsara, plus

there’s special guests Smerins Anti-Social Club, a nine-piece hip-shaking fusion of brass inflected dancefloor grooves, all the way from Bristol.

Friday 2 May, Komedia JH The Maccabees Top Brighton band who released the very impressive Colour Me In album last year. They make quintessential indie music – dynamic, full off stop-starts and endearing poetics from frontman Hugo, they learnt how to play as they went along, but it’s all about the chemistry, which they have in abundance.

Saturday 3 May, Concorde 2 JH The Orb Ambient chill pioneers who’s legendary ‘A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld’ was an after-hours club classic. At the height of their fame in ‘92 the U.F.Orb album went to number one. Nowadays they’re inclined toward stripped-down beats and digital bass via minimalist German techno. Still pioneering.

Friday 2 May, Concorde JH

These New Puritans + Grammatics Vastly superior to a lot of the current spate of electro-punk crossover characters coming to prominence, this is brilliant, exceedingly nasty-sounding art-punk with a big beat pulsing throughout.

Tuesday 29 April, Freebutt NA Otis Taylor – Reclaiming the Banjo Recapturing the Banjo Celebrating the African American history of the banjo, a new generation of black American blues masters – Otis Taylor, Guy Davis, Corey Harris, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Don Vappie – play banjo in a mix of traditional and innovative musical styles, looking back to their roots, literally reclaiming the banjo as an Afro-American instrument.

Tuesday 29 April, Komedia JH

The Wombats Danceable indie pop that seems to catch the imagination. Like Scouting For Girls and The Hoosiers they are not that good, but obviously possess those essential boys-nextdoor qualities that seem safe and rather sound… In other words, Murph, Tord, Dan and Cherub make likeable if rather dull tunes.

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Crunch Raison d’etre This swinging music club from London features shows from the allstar reggae-funk of Healer Selecta Soundsystem and the seductive Size Nine, plus DJ Healer Selecta and his magic dusty waxy 45s (nothing post-’75 in there…. Funk, jive, and rock’n’roll.

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Crunch + Fat 45 + Kung Fu Monsters Featuring Madness men Lee THOMMO Thompson on sax/vocals and Hove resident Chris CHRISSY BOY Foreman on guitar, Crunch is a big band playing ska-based dub bop pop in the mould of Madness. A hometown gig in a way, with support from two ace Brighton acts: old school punks Kung Fu Monsters and the high energy rock’n’roll, swing and jive of Fat 45. Plus Preston (Ordinary Boys) as DJ! Sunday 4 May, Barfly JH Alice Russell What a voice this woman possesses, full of controlled power. A regular guest with Quantic Soul Orchestra and The Bamboos with a following as a solo artist, playing her own material. Tonight she’ll have a six piece band with her. She is Brighton’s Queen of soul funk.

Monday 5 May, The Parlure JH NME New Noise Tour: Crystal Castles + Friendly Fires + Team Waterpolo Headlined by the none-more-fashionable Toronto electro-kids Crystal Castles, this tour is a pretty safe bet for the bands that will be making a noise (hence the name) this year.

All the bands on the bill are playing The Great Escape this year, so check ‘em out before the swarming indie mass descend on the city.

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MUSIC REVIEWS A weekly review of local and national releases The inappropriately named Cajun Dance Party are a teenage fivepiece from London who blasted their way onto the scene with the impossibly irresistible ‘The Next Untouchable’ late 2005.

Produced by Bernard Butler (ex-Suede).

The Decemberists meets New Order in The Envy Corps and their debut album Dwell.

Intelligent pop at its best, they shy away from the dour and po-faced and are able to name check disparate elements such as Sylvia Plath and Takeshi’s Castle within their make-up.

Serial musician Lou Barlow first made an impression with Dinosaur Jr, before setting up his own band Sebadoh. Achieving a moderate level of indie success over the years their Bubble & Scrape album is getting the deluxe re-issue makeover. Containing 32 tracks there are, not suprisingly, a lot of scraps of ideas, and half-formed melodies. Within the mess though lie some gems of lo-fi beauty including lead track ‘Soul & Fire’.

Incendiary pop rockers The Telegraphs release The Rules of Modern Policing which contains elements of punk rockers The Clash at one end and thrash grungers Foo Fighters at the other. Meaty stuff with a rather cumbersome title.

First release for new Brighton label Brighton Electric, Elle Milano’s debut album Acres of Dead Space Cadets is a superb work of dynamic indie-rock – unpredictable song structures abound, there’s a whiff of The Maccabees fused with The Automatic via the manic rhythms of The Young Knives.

It’s crazy to think The Wedding Present The Telegraphs have been around since ‘85, though somehow David Gedge and co are still relevant. New record El Rey was recorded in LA and the whole album is coated in a Californian sweet texture with typically bitter aftertaste. Dispensing with much of the Ennio Morricone/John Barry sound of Gedge’s other band, Cinerama, this is a return to his jingly-jangly guitar roots, albeit with less bile and a little more My Bloody Valentine shoegazing.

There was a real danger that Alabama 3 would remain a one-song wonder in ‘Woke Up This Morning’, but thanks to the repeated sirings of The Sopranos (of which that song is the theme) and a dogged persistence the band are back on an upward curve, serving up a reliable menu of deep-fried countryThe Wedding Present acid dance music. Collaborations with Orbital and Johnny Cash’s son, loads of festival appearances plus the accolade of one of the best live bands around have served them well and this best of Hits and Exit Wounds reminds us that they are responsible for a number of brilliantly conceived tunes that are perfect for both the dancefloor and the record player.

Time for a look at a few new tracks added to the Latest Brighton Chart. First up is former Hot Chip man Grovesnor’s ‘Drive Your Car’.

Eclectic and more soulful than his sometimes clinical previous band, nonetheless, this retains all of the dance-floor energy that has seen Hot Chip going global.

Lastly, we have something Brighton really needs – truly idiosyncratic, silly and brilliant music from the eccentric Tractor Countdown. Rustic dandies and garden gnome musicians live in this act’s surreal allotment landscape, and the world’s better for it. A curious mix of traditional folk and neo-noir beats filtered through haunting brass and guitar, ‘Love’s Elusions’ succeeds on a grand scale. With debut record Shedworks out soon, this is a promising start.

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It’s still rock at the top as Without Warrant cling to number one with their big riffing, guitar posing number ‘Stop The Machine’. Leo Altarelli continues his climb to the summit with his catchy electro-infused take on classic pop songwriting at number two, ‘See It Now’. In at three is a welcome return for Latest Music favourites Caramel Jack with their polished vaudevillian showtune ‘We Could Build Skyscrapers’. Making up the fourth and fifth slots are hardcore types Thoughts Collide and seemingly permanent top five residents Friday Night Hero.

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★ 1 Without Warrant – Stop the Machine ★ 2 Leo Altarelli – See It Now 3 Caramel Jack – We Could Build Skyscrapers 4 Thoughts Collide – I’ll Buy You a Megaphone 5 Friday Night Hero – Our Time 6 Damn Dirty Humans – You’re So Retro 7 Urban Delights – Maybe Baby 8 Mean Poppa Lean – Ain’t Nobody 9 Tractor Countdown– Love’s Elusions 10 Blue Skies – Arcade Girl 11 Cath O’Drae Sofageddon 12 Ghostbirds Little Scars 13 Sherlock Bones The Ugly Bugs Balls 14 Go Johnny Go Ebbenflow 15 The SlyShakers Cha Ching 16 The Flesh Happening Total Surrender 17 Floors and Walls What to do 18 Joanne Arrowsmith Smile 19 This Mono Galaxy Accusations Fly 20 Dan Sumner Glitterball 21 Lisa Osbourne Grounded 22 Dubdog KimBlee – Fade (Short Mix) 23 Sweet Sweet Lies My Overrated Girlfriend 24 Hold Fire Emma-Louise 25 Friday Night Hero Outside

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MUSIC LISTINGS 29 Apr–5 May Tuesday 29 Acoustic Lounge Acoustic singer-songwriter showcase. Joogleberry Playhouse, 7:30pm, free Arty Karate Local Indie rockers.Barfly, 7:30pm, £5 Cable Club: Les Oeufs + Joey Nightmare + The Caution Horses Eggstra-special line-up of local alternative acts. Pressure Point, 8pm, £3 Carter Brown + Taking Chase + Fights and Fires + Wire Ways The Hope, 7:30pm, £tbc Fountain of Open Mics Open mic, obviously.

The Fountain Head, 8pm, free The Long Goodbye + Sweet Sweet Lies A night of Americana-informed acts, including the melancholy Long Goodbye and Glastonbury/Isle of Wight performers Sweet Sweet Lies.

Joogleberry Playhouse, 8pm, £5 Tom McRae and the Hotel Café Tour One of Britain’s very best singer-songwriters introduces a bunch of his American mates to a whole new crowd. Concorde 2, 7:30pm, £14 Ocean Delay + Sparky’s Magic Piano + Kelly Barnes Band Pop rock, soul, r’n’b and a night of general eclectic pop. Cella (at Sanctuary Café), 8pm, £4/£3 Open Mic Why is EVERY open mic night on a Tuesday? Duke of Norfolk, 9pm, free Open Mic Grand Central, 8pm, free Recapturing The Banjo The leaders of the new generation of black American blues masters share the stage. Featuring Guy Davis, Corey Harris, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Otis Taylor and Don Vapple. Komedia, 8pm, £16 These New Puritans + Grammatics Southend doesn’t usually export new bands of this calibre.

Brilliant, exceedingly nasty-sounding arty punk/big beat crossover. Freebutt, 7:30pm, £tbc Wombats + Santogold Chart-storming, poppeddling simpletons. Brighton Dome, 7pm, £13

Wednesday 30 Candela Fiery Flamenco Free Spanish music and tapas! Joogleberry Playhouse, 8pm, free Coalition Totally Unsigned: Lineup tbc Weekly live unsigned bands night. Brighton Coalition, 7:30pm, £4/3/2 Friday Night Hero Local indie heroes and finalists in the national Indy Awards contest (finals just taken place) play a potential victory show! Brighton Coalition, 8pm, £tbc Geoff Smith Scores Haxan Acclaimed musician puts a hammered dulcimer score to 1922 classic docu-horror film Haxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages. Komedia, 8pm, £10/8 The Legendary Bee’s Mouth Open Mic Bee's Mouth, 8:30pm, free The Miserable Rich + Aidan Smith Yet more proof of a quality week of great Brighton acts stepping to the fore. Haunting, lush, classicalinfluenced acoustic pop that should be heard live. Komedia, 8pm, £7 The Mojo Fins Haunting acoustic balladry in the vein of Elliott Smith. The Brunswick, 7:30pm, £4/3

Ok Acoustic Live acoustic music night.

Western Front, 8pm, free

Thursday 1 Angus and Julia Stone Aussie brother-sister acoustic folk duo . Hanbury Club, 7:30pm, £8/9 Billy Childish and the Musicians of the British Empire The punk legend, artist and writer returns with a new band and record.

Komedia, 8:30pm, £10 The Brunswick Singer-Songwriter Showcase Part of Brighton Festival Fringe. The Brunswick, 9pm, £tbc Escape to Victory Open Mic Open mic night starring Pele. The Victory, 8pm, free Fools Gold: Andy Walker + The Laylanas Acoustic singer songwriters night. Cella (at Sanctuary Café), 8pm, £tbc Four Legs Good Accordion and fiddle European folk duo. Xuma, 9pm, free Ghostbirds Moody seventies-style low key rock. The Brunswick, 8pm, free Mayday Mayhem Charity Fundraiser: Neneh Cherry + Tofu Love Frogs + Los Albertos + The Amigos The pop legend plays a rare modern-day show in aid of ryico.org.

Concorde 2, 8pm-4am, £12 Open Mic Turn up, plug in and play! Grand Central, 8pm, free Sofa Sessions Open mic, and not on a Tuesday, for shame. Juggler, 9pm, free Sweet Sweet Lies Old-fashioned, zoot-suited jivey sound mixed with Americana. Bee's Mouth, 9pm, free

Friday 2 Tom Tom Club Beatboxing, record scratching and acrobatics! Part of Brighton Festival Fringe.

Udderbelly, 7pm, £12/16 Andrea Magee Band Funk and soul band featuring members of Los Albertos. Hanbury Club, 8pm, £tbc Blues Night Special: Kris Dollimore Bluesman Dollimore promotes his debut solo album 02/01/1978. The Neptune, 8:30pm, free Carnivalesque Skank-happy gypsy horn and samba rhythms. Barfly, 9.30pm, £6-£10 comm: UNITY One-night festival style sounds from local heroes Bad Science and Samsara and the ska, funk, d’n’b mash-up of Bristol's Smerins Anti-Social Club. Komedia, 8pm, £8/6 Dylan Howe's Unity 4 A Brighton Jazz Club event. Komedia, 8pm, £12/10 Kinema Live bands and DJs night with indie, r’n’b and disco. Thomas Kemp Pub, 8pm, free Noise Ensemble Ethan Lewis Maltby brings his percussion spectacular to Worthing. Pavilion Theatre (Worthing), 7:30pm, £13.50-16.50 The Orb The ambient house veterans and general dance innovators Concorde 2 10pm, £15 Pressure Cookin’: Andrea Magee Band Soul DJ night from Momma Cherri’s man Goatee Phil, with live music. Hanbury Club, 7:30pm, £7/5

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Dr Feelgood Seventies rock/blues veterans of nearly 40 years.Half Brick (Worthing), 8pm, £15 Emma Christian by Candlelight Acclaimed vocalist.Celtic harp, recorders and storytelling.

St Bartholomew’s Church, 8pm, £10/12 The Fish Brothers Perhaps Brighton's favourite punks and friends of Neighbours star Mark Little! Go figure. Horse and Groom, 8:30pm, free The Fog Classic rock from popular locals. Hare & Hounds, 9pm, free Fun at the Fringe A hearty mixture of music and comedy with special guests. Joogleberry Playhouse, 8pm, £6 Jumping Monkey with Giant Jungle Band A jungle-themed band roam the streets of Brighton, playing jazz, funk, disco and ska. Meet at Royal Pavilion, 12.00pm, free The Maccabees Jingly-jangly Brighton hot properties play a sold out homecoming show.

Concorde 2, 7:30pm, sold out Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers Brighton Festival Fringe percussion event blending traditional and more contemporary Japanese drumming styles.

Salis Benney, 7:30pm, £tbc Ska Toons Present Ska-Kestra 20 piece big band play ska and funk classics. Part of Brighton Festival Fringe. Old Market, 8.30pm, £8-12 Speak and Spell: Depeche Mode Tribute This tribute to Basildon’s finest includes an entire performance of the album Violator. Lovely.

Portland Rock Bar, 7pm, £6 The Splendour: The Gin Club Jubilant ska-pop with DJs playing old school r’n’b, sixties and indie. The Hope, 7:30pm, £4/3 Supper Club: Cuatro Monos Cuban ‘son’ music, encompassing danzon, mumba, rumba, descarga and cha cha cha. Hanbury Club, 7pm, £10-7 (not inc food) Take Note Free live music and DJs. The World's End, 8pm, free World in Harmony Music, dance and song from around the world. St Andrew’s Church, 3.00pm, £5

Antifolk does Antifolk UK Antifolk celebrates its fourth year of with artists covering each other’s songs. The Hope, 7:30pm, free Blues Jam Get involved or just sit back and watch. Hare & Hounds, 8:30pm, free The Elevators Live Chicago blues. Joogleberry Playhouse, 7pm, £6 Graffiti Classics Irreverent string quartet refuse to sit down. Part of Brighton Festival Fringe. Udderbelly, 3.00pm, £10-12 Ju Ju Band 4 piece jazz outfit. Hare & Hounds, 4pm, free The Porchlight Smokers Country rockers. The Neptune, 8:30pm, free Roast ‘n’ Jazz: Bobby Wellins Sunday roast and jazz. Joogleberry Playhouse, 12pm, £10

Monday 5 The Bee’s Mouth Jazz Forum A house band welcomes all comers and every performer gets some free booze! Bee's Mouth, 8:30pm, free NME New Noise Tour: Crystal Castles + Friendly Fires + Team Waterpolo + White Lies The bands the NME reckon will be big this year, headlined by Canadian arty electro types Crystal Castles. Concorde 2, 7:30pm, £9.50 Ode Too Musical retrospective starring Trudi Styles. Joogleberry Playhouse, 10pm, £7 Ska Toons Present Ska-Kestra Soul singer-songwriter. Part of Brighton Festival Fringe. Parlure Spiegeltent, 10pm, £10-12 The Stash Presents: Shirley + Holy Roller + The Vinyls Jangly indie and garage rock. The Hope, 8pm, £4/3 UK Subs Hardworking punk veterans/legends with a huge cult following. Freebutt, 7:30pm, £8

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“I had the best time ever, and so did all my family and friends. Thank you so much for all your hard work and to your staff who worked extremely professionally and made the night run so smoothly. We will all remember it for ever and ever – except those who drank too much!”

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NEWS

29 April – 5 May

AIDS Memorial Project The Aids Memorial Project is delighted to announce that an exhibition of sculptures by Romany Mark Bruce will open at the Jubilee Library in Brighton and Hove.

Romany is the artist chosen by public vote to undertake the prestigious AIDS memorial public art commission to remember those whose lives have been affected by HIV and AIDS. His exhibition of striking sculptures in bronze and smashed windscreen glass are dramatic, and his unique combination of materials to reflect the strength and fragility of the human condition shows he is the right choice for this memorial project which will commemorate not only those who have died, but also those who have survived HIV and AIDS. Jubilee Library, Jubilee Street, Brighton BN1 1GE. 3-31 May.

Equality 2008 Sussex Police reached out to members of the LGBT community and others by hosting a one-day community event at the Jury’s Inn, New England Street, Brighton recently. Dozens of people attended Equality 2008, including many police officers and staff interested in learning about equality issues.

Delegates were asked to help shape the force’s new Equality Scheme, which has been expanded from covering disability, gender and race to cover sexual orientation, age, faith and belief.

Assistant Chief Constable Robin Merrett, said he did intend that the day would be followed with continuing outreach work. He said: “Due to the nature of policing in Brighton and Hove, LGBT is a subject which we have got considerable experience of.

“I am the last person to think we have got it right. We have got to constantly look at how we can improve our services, recognising that within the community there are a host of individuals who have individual needs. It is not one size fits all.”

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Free wine and shopping Gay friendly furniture and accessories store, Marsha’s is offering Latest Gay readers 15 per cent off for one night only. Marsha’s in Newtown Road, Hove will hold a discount evening with fine wine, food and music tonight, (29 April) from 7pm to 9pm. Visit: www.marshas.co.uk for further information.

Love Brighton

Campaign against homophobia in football

It’s only been around for a couple of months but Love Brighton, the community website for people of all persuasions for Sussex and in particular Brighton and Hove, has put the fun back into online dating and even ‘real life’ parties and club nights.

Angie Lee, organiser of the website says to date they have organised meetup parties, with the focus on fun, rather than the usual pressurised, ‘single nights’. “We have successfully managed to have a mixture of gay and straight locals at our events and it has been a lot of fun,” says Angie. “We currently have 1100 members and our gay members are increasing every day.

“I thought with such a mixed bunch of residents it would be the perfect place to mix the clientele and it is!”

Visit: www.lovebrighton.com for info.

Justin is a campaign against homophobia in football that focuses on vindicating the memory of Justin Fashanu, the world’s first openly gay professional footballer.

The campaign will be launched two days after the tenth anniversary of Justin Fashanu’s death, and will take place at The Amsterdam after the Stonewall Equality Walk. Ben Summerskill, chief executive of Stonewall, and gay rights activist and Justin co-founder Jason Hall, will address the gathering.

The Amsterdam, 4 May, 5pm.

Girls School The Girls’ School is a collaborative project between three artists, creating, curating and promoting their own work in a generative month-long exhibition.

Alexandra Dipple, Jason Hall and Matt Pagett will be displaying new work in Matt’s one-bedroom flat. With interests ranging from banned books, sex, and technology, to self-immolation, football and viruses.

Girls’ School will be open to visitors every weekend in May from 11am to 6pm, Flat 3, 9 Denmark Terrace, Brighton, BN1 3AN.

If you have a story for Latest Gay please email paul.disney@magazinedoctor.co.uk or call 01273 690602

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Glam girl She’s the hostess with the mostest – it can only be Amy Lamé. Paul Disney caught up with the chubby glamourpuss Describe yourself I am a writer, performer, television and radio presenter and all-round chubby glamourpuss!

How does it feel being a British citizen for the last few years?

People are still surprised at how strong my accent is though. You can take the girl out of Jersey, but you can’t take the Jersey out of the girl (that’s NEW Jersey!).

So what do you miss most about New Jersey?

I like playing Bruce Springsteen REALLLLLY loud on my Mustang convertible car stereo. Or blow drying my hair super-big, wearing lots of gold jewellery and having a deep mahogany tan. Eating a huge plate of disco fries at 3am in the morning at a roadside diner. Having beer chugging competitions at the annual Fireman’s Fair.

William Tells Will Harris grins and bears it when he splits more than just his DVD collection “You’re not going to write about this, are you?” asks my boyfriend – sorry, ex boyfriend – as we solemnly divide up our DVD collection into two separate piles.

“Of course not,” I reply. “And that’s my copy of Mean Girls.”

I can tell from the expression on his face that he wants to say how appropriate that is, but instead we carry on disassembling the remnants of our relationship in a stony silence.

Like the song says, breaking up is hard to do. It’s especially hard when two people are still in love with each other but are at different stages of their lives and, as a result, just can’t make it work. Think of it like flogging a dead horse and choosing to put the flogging stick down before Red Rum returns from his horsey grave to gallop all over you.

That’s what happened to me: the proverbial amicable split. It’s adult and sensible and 100 per cent amicable (99 per cent amicable if you count purloined DVDs). And it sucks.

“I want to be angry with you,” he says as we lie side by side in the darkness. “All this would be so much easier if I could hate you.”

“Don’t blame me, darling. I’m naturally loveable.” My cocky grin cuts through the darkness like a sickle moon, and as I turn the beam on his face he gasps and turns his back on me.

“Ok, now I’m angry with you,” he mutters.

Since it happened, the two of us have been living in relationship no-mans-land. Living together but eating separately. Sleeping in the same bed but washing our laundry in different loads. Loving each other but each trying desperately not to fall back into a relationship that we know – for the time being, at least – is beyond us.

“I’ve always wondered what an amicable split is like, and now I know: intensely confusing”

You mentored the organisers of the lesbian and gay teenage, ‘My Big Gay Prom’, what would you say to lesbian and gay youths who want to bring partners to a prom?

I could never, ever in a million years have brought a girl date to my prom, and it’s still not easy. The work that Stonewall is doing to suggest a school code of conduct to counteract bullying and create a more equal learning environment is crucial. We may have won many battles for equality, but we have to start changing the attitudes of people while they are young. That’s our best hope for a more equal future.

You’re involved with Stonewall quite a bit, why is it so important for you to do this charity work?

Stonewall is near and dear to my heart because without Stonewall, I would not have been able to stay in the UK with my partner. Back in 1997 the Labour government, after consultation with Stonewall, changed the law to allow foreign nationals in a same sex relationship to stay together here in the UK. Stonewall work with the government and across society to not just change the laws but also the attitudes and perceptions people have of gay men and lesbians.Stonewall is responsible for achieving every shred of equality we now enjoy in the UK. What’s been the highlight to date in your career?

Meeting Tony Blair at last year’s Stonewall Equality Dinner. But then again, so was performing on the stage of the Blackpool Tower Ballroom.

What does it feel like supporting the Stonewall Equality Walk?

I love Brighton – who doesn’t? I’m from a seaside town they forgot to bomb (in the words of Morrissey!) I hosted the Equality Walk last year – it is the natural home of the Equality Walk – taking in that fresh sea breeze, sidestepping for a bit of shopping, then partying till the small hours of the morning!

You can meet Amy in person at this week’s Brighton Stonewall Equality Walk. Sunday 4 May, 2pm. Starting off at The Royal Pavilion Gardens. If you would like to register for the walk tel: 020 7593 1874 (£10).

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I’ve always wondered what an amicable split is like, and now I know: intensely confusing. My previous break-ups, in contrast, have been a simpler proposition: voices raised, doors slammed, drinks thrown, police called (yes, parts of my dating history read like an FBI Most Wanted list. I regret nothing). And that stuff’s easy to deal with.

Grief and rage and half-baked plots to shave your ex’s eyebrows while he sleeps are all a cathartic part of the healing process.

But what do you do when you’re still in love with the other person?

When all that’s keeping you apart is the rational part of your own brain telling you that, yes, this is the right person for you but that you met each other at completely the wrong time? And how about when your ex’s face is on the pillow across from you when you first open your eyes every morning?

“Any regrets?” he asks, looking down at the twin islands of DVDs we‘ve built.

“None at all,” I smile back, amicably, but very aware of the DVD my hand is resting on. He can’t see it, of course, but there’s a picture of Jim Carrey on the cover, and the words Liar Liar.

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Booty Call at the Candy Bar

The downright dirty R’n’B, hip hop and urban house anthems from DJ Rocket were exceptional as always and gave the place a fantastic vibe right from the outset. The girls are always out to have a good time and tonight there was a constant influx of people arriving and making their way to the dance floor.

Image and edit: Stuart Martin www.realbrighton.com

Ignition at The Basement Club at Legends

There's no reason to find yourself at a loose end in Brighton on a Saturday! Ignition at Legends offers up some great music and a guaranteed party mood. Great for getting your evening started, or as the main event, Legends bar is the perfect space for meeting new people and – of course – have a bit of a dance in the Basement Club downstairs if the mood takes you. Downstairs DJ Peter Castle was raising the dancefloor with commercial house and chart sounds, there were friendly bar staff on hand (with the odd drinks promotion available too!), and plenty of stunners lurking in corners just waiting to be found! Gotta love it! Image and edit: Stuart Martin www.realbrighton.com

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GAYLISTINGS 29 April–5 May

Tuesday 29

Saturday 3

Amsterdam Bar and Bistro Food from 11am-8pm. Sauna open 5pm–4am. £5/8 Candy Bar Twisted karaoke night hosted by mistress of mic, Cat. DJ Rocket 9pm–2am free Queen’s Arms Betty’s Karaoke Show 9pm Star Inn Charity Jukebox. Food 12–3pm, 6–9pm

20th Century Music by Gay Composers.

(Brighton Fringe Festival) The Rainbow Chorus perform music by: Poulenc, Barber, Bernsteine, Copland and Tipett. Pre performance discussion at 6pm. Show 7.30pm, £10/8 at St George’s Church, Kemp Town Amsterdam Bar and Bistro D.I.S.C.O. A night devoted to 70s and party music for pre-clubbers!

8pm–2am, free The Basement Club@Legends Ignition. Ignite your life at Brighton’s latest gay popular Saturday nighter with the cool dance sounds of DJ Peter Castle. 11pm–4am, free before midnight/£5 after Candy Bar Sugar. Brighton’s best girl DJs on rotation. Including the Golden Handbag Award, and best female DJ Queen Josephine 10pm £5 Legends Bar Terrace and bar open all day. PreIgnition with Ignition DJ sounds from 7pm.

Smoking terrace, bar open 11am–5am free Queens Arms Saturday Afternoon Live. Vocalists, comedians, drag (3:30pm-5:30pm). Expect to be entertained! Tonight Davina Sparkle (9pm), party with DJ Kamp Kevin.Open til 12am Rebel Rocks @ Brighton Coalition Wild Fruit presents a one-off Rebel Party with MC Crystal, DJ Lady Bianca, Mr Haywood and DJ Jonny.

10:30pm, £7 before midnight/£9 after Revenge Kinky Dangerous. DJ Dusty O, Nik C, Dulcie Danger plays dangerous house upstairs.

10:30pm–late £5 before midnight/7 after Star Inn Bear Essentials: Bears’ social night with DJ Charlie. free

Wednesday 30 Amsterdam Bar and Bistro The Big Quiz.

Food from 11am–8pm. Quiz 8pm The Basement Club@Legends Play. With DJ Alex Baker. House. 11pm–4am, free Candy Bar Bring it On. Hosted by Queen Josephine, introducing DJ Princess. 9pm free Queens Arms Music, quiz and bingo. 9pm Star Inn Charity Jukebox.Food 12–3pm/6–9pm

Thursday 1 The Basement Club@Legends Sessions with DJ Eddie K. 11pm–3:30am free Candy Bar Dynamite Boogaloo. 9pm–2am £5/3 Legends Bar Cabaret spot with Pat Cruise. Bar open 11am–5am, cabaret 9:30pm Queens Arms Betty’s Karaoke 9pm–11:30pm Religion@Charles Street Club Two floors of anthems, funky house. Drinks £1. 10pm, £4/3 Star Inn Quiz night. Food 12–3pm and 6–9pm

Friday 2 Amsterdam Bar and Bistro. Jazz Lounge with Wesley Sebastian. Swing and intimate jazz.

7:30pm–11:30pm, £5/8 The Basement Club@Legends Celebration.

Door Whore Pooh La May presides over the cabaret from The Chavettes. DJs Steve Lush and Alex Baker play girly pop and handbag tracks. 11pm–4am, free before midnight/4 after Candy Bar Booty Call. DJ Rocket plays an eclectic mix of urban grinds and pop anthems.

9pm–late, free Dollywood @ Koo Klub Dolly Rocket and her Dolly Boys take over Koo Klub. 10:30pm, £3–5 Legends Bar Terrace and bar open all day.

7pm. 11am–5am, free Queens Arms Camptastic cabaret. DJ Kamp Kevin, cabaret and games. Open until 12:30am School’s Out for Summer at the PV. The PV girls play favourite high school tunes.

8pm, free Secret Disco@R-Bar Join Queen Josephine, Kate Wildblood and guest DJs for disco-tinged, soulful, funked-up house tunes. 9pm, free Star Inn Bear Camp Party. Until late. Food 12–3pm and 6–9pm We Luv Pop Sounds from the past, present and future. Komedia (Upstairs) 10pm, £6/5

The Rainbow Chorus (see left) Candy Bar Late Night Bank Holiday Special: Club Tropicana. DJs Cassy O and Throwback play retro electro hairspray, synth pop and party classics. 9pm, free Legends Bar Cabaret with Lola Lasagne and John Bruzon. 3:15pm, free Monkey @ Koo Klub Welcome return of this dirty tech house club night! 10.30pm, £5–7 Queen’s Arms Super Sundays. Top cabaret from The Boy George Experience (5:30pm).

Pubstars karaoke at 8pm. Open until 11pm Star Inn Bear Bash: 8pm, free The Terraces: Sunday Sundae Opening Party DJs Richard Jones, Diablo and Kate Wildblood celebrate the legendary Sunday social moving to its new home. 7pm, £5–4 Wild Fruit @ Tru Sleaze Bank Holiday Special.

Special PA guest Mutya Buena live on stage, DJs Steve Pitron and residents make this one night to remember. 10:30pm, £6 NUS

Monday 5

Zoe Lyons, Bent Double @ Komedia Sunday 7.30pm

Sunday 4 Amsterdam Bar and Bistro Cabaret Sunday with Dame Connie Conway. 8pm–2am, free The Basement Club@Legends Embrace. With G.A.Y DJ Nick Shepherdson. 11pm–3:30am free Bent Double @ Komedia Gay-friendly comedy night hosted by Zoe Lyons. Marian Pashley, Janice Phayre and Jo Enright. 7:30pm, £9.50

➧ Please check with venue before travelling. See our venue directory online for details

Amsterdam Bar and Bistro Relax and unwind with á la carte menu. 11am–8pm The Basement Club@Legends DJ Steve Lush with the greatest anthems and classic floor fillers. 11pm–3:30am Candy Bar Shibby Shabblers. DJs Pookie and Crackwhore. £1.50 pints and vodka mix.

10pm–2am £3/2 Can U Joogle? Performers showcase for our regular programme. Drop in a demo for the attention of Carly, headed ‘Can U Joogle?’ Or email: info@joogleberry.com for more information. 7:30pm, free Turning Tricks from the Street (Brighton Fringe Festival). Performance art, poetry, burlesque teases and busking with the Wau Wau Sisters. 5–7 May. Udderbelly, Old Steine Lawns, 9pm. £14/12 Delovely (Brighton Fringe Festival) Musical comedy cabaret with a cast played by one woman. Joogleberry Playhouse, 7pm. £8/6 Queens Arms Bank Holiday Special. Cabaret with Kitty Litter and Betty. 9pm, free. Open until 11:30pm Legends Bar Cabaret: Dave Lynn and Laquisha Jonz. 9:30pm, free

Rebel@Digital Popular Wild Fruit after hours party. Wristbands available from Wildfruit (pay more on the door). 3am, £tbc Star Inn Polar Bears and Silver Daddies night.

Food 12–3pm and 6–9pm. 11am-11pm free

LGBT groups and services Brighton and Hove Police Report all homophobic and transphobic incidents to the police.

Tel: 0845 6070999.

Brighton and Hove LGBT Switchboard Helpline from 5pm.

Tel: 01273 204050.

Brighton Ourstory Project Including shows, exhibitions and books for research in LGBT communities.

Tel: 01273 207757.

Brighton Women’s Centre Information, counselling, drop-in, support groups.

Tel: 01273 698036.

Gems Twice monthly meetings for over 50s. Tel: 01273 737433.

Mind Out Independent, impartial advice for LGBT people with mental health issues.

Tel 01273 739847.

Lesbian and Gay AA (general AA helpline).

Tel: 01273 203343.

LGBT NA Group. Narcotics Anonymous group.

Meets Fridays.

Tel: 01273 604604 Open Door Support, referrals, advice, complimentary therapies, back to work training.

Tel: 01273 605706.

Something New Making choices, sharing lives.

Group get together for gay men.

Tel: 0870 760 5476.

Sussex Beacon 24-hour medical care and day care.

Tel: 01273 694222.

Terrence Higgins Trust South HIV, free condoms, counselling and outreach work.

Tel: 01273 764200.

Wilde Clinic Gay men’s sexual health clinic open wed 6pm-9pm.

Tel: 01273 664721

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CLUBLISTINGS 29 April–5 May

Shotta. 11pm–4am, £3 Udder Place Silent Disco. Two DJs and two channels on your headphones = a very quiet disco riot. 10pm–2am, £13 Volks Psychdelicious. Psytrance upstairs plus breaks down in the bar. 11pm–5am, £7/5

Sunday 4 Brighton Centre Carl Cox All-nighter. Carl Cox returns to Brighton with Hot Chip (DJ set) and Switch. 9pm–5am, £25 Digital Sub Prime. Drum ‘n’ bass from DJ Hype, Sinden and the Dub Pressure crew.

10:30pm–3am, £9 Digital Rebel (Wild Fruit after party). The fruity fun continues into the very early hours.

3am–7am, £9/8/7 Funky Buddha Lounge Aura Bank Holiday Special. Funky and dirty deep house music.

10pm–3am, £8/5

Heist Sunday Sessions. Local hero Paul Clark plays classic tunes. 8pm, Free Honey Club Sundelicious. Jackin' house music for a fun-loving crowd. 10pm–3am, £2 Komedia The Club Smooch Revue. With Brighton burlesque babes Marianne Cheesecake and Venus Envy. 11:00pm–1:30am, £9/8 Parlure Spiegeltent Raison d'Etre. Funk, soul and rock 'n roll.10pm–2am, £12/10 Tru Wild Fruit. Sleazy sauce with a live PA from Mutya Buena. 10:00pm- 3:00am, £10/8/6 Udder Place Silent Disco. A very quiet disco riot. 10pm–2am, £13

Monday 5 Arc We Love 90s. Trashy pop from the decade that seems like yesterday 10:30pm–3am, 90p Honeyclub Disco Babe. 70s–90s in the main room, R’n’B out back. 10:30pm–2:30am, £3/1

Mutya, Tru, Sunday 4 May

Tuesday 29 Audio Snide. Indie and alternative night.

10:30pm–2am, £2/1 Digital Glitterati. With Airforce One. 10:30pm–3am, £3.50/3 Po Na Na Tap. Sassy urban and R’n’B night with a fun-loving crowd. 11pm–4am, £5/4

Wednesday 30 Arc Born in the 80s. Theme night with 1980s drinks prices. 10:30pm–3am, 80p Digital Pure. The official UBSU night taking in cool pop, hip hop and house with cheap drinks deals. 10:30pm–3am, £4/3/1.50

Thursday 1 Barfly Mad For It. Proper indie tunes for Brighton's alternative peeps. 10:30pm–2am, £3/1.50 Candy Bar Dynamite Boogaloo. Dynamite Sal spins tinsel-tinged trash and indie faves with the notorious midnight cabaret.

9pm–2am, £4/3/2 Digital Love Dough. Hip hop and smooth R’n’B with Mike Panteli and some very special guests.

10:30pm–3am, £4/3.50 Pavilion Tavern Dirty Words. Jump start your body to electro and indie. 10pm–2am, £2 Po Na Na Off The Wall. Funk, soul and Motown from the 50s right up to the present day.

10pm–3am, £2

Friday 2 Arc Free Party. Gratis electro entertainment with various DJs. 10:30pm–3am, Free Barfly Carnivalesque. Carnival extravaganza with DJs and live acts. 10:30pm–3am, £10/8/6 Digital DJ Yoda's Magic Cinema Show. The scratchmeister gets his head out of the 80s and into a few movies with his head-shredding live A/V show. 8pm–11pm, £10 Digital Stone Love. 101% rock ‘n’ roll indie disco bullets from scenester DJs and the odd special guest. 11pm–3am, £4 Engine Rooms Deviant. Alternative and metal night. 11pm–3am, £5/4/3 Funky Buddha Lounge The Pork Chop Express.

Breaks and bootlegs with DJ Johnny Rocks at the controls. 3am–8am, £8/5 Funky Buddha Lounge Thank Funk it's Friday.

Funky vibes and party anthems from Sean Quinn. 10pm–3am, £8/6 Funky Fish Funkyfish. Soul, Motown, jazz and old-skool breaks for your dancing delectation.

10pm–3am, £5/4/3.50 Hanbury Club Pressure Cookin'. Soul classics from Ann Peebles to Lee Dorsey.

7.30pm–2am, £7/5 Heist Hellenic Unity. Greek night dedicated to 'Med' for it types. 11pm–4am, £5 Honey Club Hard South. Hard dance and tuff house. 11pm–5am, £10/8/5

Honey Club Snap. Dance night for 11-16 yearolds. 7pm–10pm, £6 Komedia Top of the Pops. Worship at the altar of pure pop goodness with the folks behind We Luv Pop. 11pm–3am, £6/5 KooKlub Dollywood. Dolly Rocket introduces a night of camp guilty pleasures and trash favourites. 10:30pm–3am, £5/4/3 Ocean Rooms Universe. Electro pop from the likes of Justice and MIA. 10pm–3am, £5/4 Pavilion Tavern Kick Out the Jams. Riotous indie and punk pleasures. 10pm–3am, £4/3 Po Na Na Ice Box. Cool soul, funky house and modern dance floor cuts. 10pm–3am, £5 The Loft Positivity. A special selection of hip hop, funk and soul. 11pm–3am, £5/3 Volks White Rhino. Dirty breaks and electro with Soul of Man. 11pm–4am, £6/4 Volks Harder. Early morning hard house.

4am–8am, £TBC

Saturday 3 Arc Hold Up. Brighton's favourite unpretentious indie night. 10.30pm–3am, £5 Audio Summer of Love '08. Two floors of acid mayhem with some very special big name guests. 10.30pm–3am, Free Barfly 13 Monsters. Indie and dance music for people who care... 7.30pm–3am, £5/4 Concorde 2 Roots Garden. A dubwise bank holiday line up starring Mannessah and Earl 16.

11pm–4am, £7 Digital Pussycat Club. The Pussycat Club gets in session with a bank holiday-style extravaganza.

11pm–5am, £12/10 Funky Buddha Lounge Bright 'n Early. Glam after party with Yianni and Russell. 3am–8am, £10/7/5 Funky Buddha Lounge Buddha Soul. Fresh and soulful dance music from DJ Mike Panteli.

10pm–3am, £10 Funky Fish Funkyfish. Soul, Motown, jazz and old-skool breaks. 10pm–3am, £6/5 Greenhouse Effect (basement) November Spawned a Mozza. Get out the gladioli for a Hove-based Moz-fest. 8pm–2am, Free Heist De Puta Madre. Twisted electro house from the after-party organisers. 11pm–3am, Free Honey Club Seven Sins. The one and only Judge Jules plays house, trance and electro.

10.30pm–5am, £12/5 Jazz Place The Brighton Jazz Rooms. Soulful jazz and Afro funk with Dom Servini from Wah Wah Records. 10.30pm–3am, £6/5 Komedia Stick It On. Rock the dance floor with 15 minutes of hand picked music. 11pm–3am, £8 KooKlub Monkey. Dirty tech house with the monkey massive. 10.30pm–2am, £7/5 Ocean Rooms MSTRKRFT. The Canadian electro punks go live at the Ocean Rooms for an all-night session. 11pm–10am, £10 Parlure Spiegeltent Sean Rowley's Guilty Pleasures. The king of cheese lays down some more MOR, power ballads and other shameless selections. 10pm–2am, £12/10 Po Na Na Silk. Smooth urban, electro, bootlegs and house. 10pm–3:30am, £10/8 Pressure Point Strictly Drumz. Drum and bass action with Jumping Jack Frost and Harry

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Dani on TV

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Films on TV

SATURDAY 3

The Naked City ★★★★✩

Charlotte Gray ★★✩✩✩

(1948, Sky Movies Classics, 3.25am.

Dir Jules Dassin) “There are eight million stories in the naked city, this is just one of them.”

Welcome to murder in the Big Apple as straight-laced cop Barry Fitzgerald unravels the killing of a young model.

The innovative hard-nosed documentary style continues to inspire ‘tec movies right up to the present day.

(2001, Channel 4, 9.10pm.

Dir Gillian Armstrong) A fair attempt to make an oldfashioned war movie, Cate Blanchett stars as the self-sacrificing Charlotte who falls in love with the ideals and leader of the resistance in France during World War 2. With a plot that tends towards melodrama the recent Atonement made a better movie with similar ingredients.

WEDNESDAY 30

Halloween H20 ★★★★✩ (1998, BBC1, 11.50pm. Dir Steve Miner) Jamie Lee Curtis isn’t too pleased to find out that Michael Myers is still stalking her in this inventive slasher flick that gives a nod to the Scream movies. Watch out for a cameo by the original Psycho scream queen, Janet Leigh, who’s still driving that car she had at the Bates Motel.

★★★★✩ (1976, Sci Fi, 11.50pm. Dir Nic Roeg) David Bowie is the man of the title, an alien who crash lands on Earth (complete with British passport) looking to save his home planet.

The star man can just about act, but the real point is director Nic Roeg’s psychedelic wide screen story telling.

THURSDAY 1 Ben-Hur ★★★★✩

Living TV, Tuesday 9pm What are your views on this programme? I am unsure of how to think about it. When it first appeared on our screens I was glued to it, having never really seen anything similar before. How cool was that, a group of people in black clothes wandering around dark and spooky houses in the middle of the night with a medium who would quite potentially become possessed.

Then my sceptic side kicked in and I cant help but think that perhaps he was possessed one too many times, and why always be something nasty? Why never the six-year-old girl who spends all day stuck in time with her dolls? Why always the evil man who murdered someone?

When I say ‘he’ I mean Derek Acorah, the original medium on Most Haunted. After nine series the medium has changed (I could imagine being possessed for nine series might be pretty tiring). I do get quite confused about this programme. It was good at the very beginning, but since then they have done weekend long live shows. And the question I have is: how do they do that?

Surely to get good ratings and have so many Most Haunted Live’s there would have to be a large amount of paranormal activity to keep the viewers happy. So how exactly do they ensure that it all happens on those specific two nights of the week when the camera crew are there?

And why on Halloween or the summer solstice? Do they think the spirits have an up to the date calendar on them? What difference does it make if it is Halloween? Had we been Mexican it may hold slightly more meaning! Just because it is a certain day of the year it doesn’t necessarily mean more ghosts will be out for the catching, does it! But apparently that means it does, and the whole programme can take over my TV for three days and nights!

Admittedly, some of the episodes of this have scared me witless and some have left me thinking that maybe it’s all a load of rubbish. And maybe, it’s somewhere in-between, the truth with a sprinkle of magic.

Nothing on TV is 100 per cent true, perhaps excluding panorama (which is just bias). If you love Most Haunted you always will and if you hate it, I reckon you always will. But if you are not sure which way to fall, maybe you ought to give it another go.

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Movies on the box this week

TUESDAY 29

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Most Haunted

29 April – 5 May

(1959, TCM, 3pm. Dir William Wyler) Charlton Heston put his bloodstained vest on for this Hollywood epic famed for its death-defying chariot-racing sequences and cheeky homoerotic overtones.

The best way to waste a Thursday afternoon, swords ‘n sandals have never looked this spectacular.

FRIDAY 2 Cabaret ★★★★✩ (1972, Sky Movies Indie, 7.05pm.

Dir Bob Fosse) Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome to Liza Minelli’s finest screen moment.

She stars as Sally Bowles – the divinely decadent underworld denizen of pre-war Berlin. Rather than clogging up the plot the musical numbers perfectly capture an ambiguous atmosphere that reeks of sexual ambivalence and unchecked hedonism. When can I book my flight?

Gods and Generals ★★✩✩✩ (2003, ITV1, 12.50am.

Dir Ronald F. Maxwell) With a truly bum-numbing running time and a less-than-fascinating (to Europeans, anyway) subject matter, this stately American Civil war epic has too much jaw and not enough war. Jeff Daniels makes a fair fist of Colonel Lawrence, but for a livelier treatment rent Gone With the Wind.

SUNDAY 4 Raiders of the Lost Ark ★★★★✩ (1981, BBC1, 8.05pm. Dir Steven Spielberg) The new Indiana Jones movie is going to have to be going some to match this classic Boys’ Own adventure yarn. From the snows of Tibet to forgotten (and downright scary) tombs, Harrison Ford manages to get the girl, beat the Nazis and keep that sardonic grin spread all over his face.

MONDAY 5 Hostage ★★★✩✩ (2003, Channel 4, 10pm.

Dir Florent Emilio Siri) Bruce Willis is back on the action movie beat for a strong thriller with some smart plot twists. When a rich businessman is held hostage with his family, it looks like a straightforward case for his burnt-out cop character.

But he has his own hidden motivations that threaten to complicate the case.

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tuesday 29 How to Look Good Naked Channel 4, 8pm Gok Wan comes to the rescue yet again, with his firm but gentle guidance to being plastered across your local shopping centre frontage in the altogether.

This week the fairy godfather swoops to the aid of a former beauty queen who can’t bear her big boobs. Bit of a difficulty when they’re always there. Right there.

Egypt’s Lost Tomb: Revealed Five, 8pm Back in 1922 Howard Carter found the Tomb of Tutankhamen and everyone started talking about curses, and thus a film franchise was born. Zoom forward to 2005 and the next ancient Egyptian tomb is found in the Valley of the Kings – Tomb KV63. Right next door. This could be old Tut’s child bride. Ooh.

Bionic Woman ITV2, 9pm In true superhero styley – no matter how contemporary and happening it thinks it is – as soon as our hero and her little sis manage to take a well-earned break, trouble turns up. Goodness – there’s a dead assassin in their spa resort! However could that happen? Whoever has to go back to work to find out? You guessed.

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6.00am Breakfast 9.15 Missing Live 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer 11.00 To Buy Or Not to Buy 11.45 Cash in the Attic 12.15pm Bargain Hunt 1.00 BBC News and Weather 1.30 South East Today; Weather 1.40 Doctors 2.10 Out of the Blue 2.35 Real Rescues 3.05 Space Pirates 3.35 ChuckleVision 3.50 Eliot Kid 4.00 The Cramp Twins 4.15 Dinosapien 4.35 Blue Peter 5.00 Newsround 5.15 The Weakest Link

6.00am Tikkabilla 6.30 Teletubbies 6.55 Tweenies Songtime 7.00 Arthur 7.25 Newsround 7.29 The Owl 7.30 Hider in the House 8.30 Jackanory Junior 8.45 Numberjacks 9.00 Boogie Beebies 9.20 Me Too! 9.40 Something Special 9.55 Be Safe With the Tweenies 10.00 In the Night Garden 10.30 Let’s Write Poetry 10.50 Primary History 11.10 The Black Pharaohs 12.00pm The Daily Politics 12.30 Working Lunch 1.00 The Maths Channel 1.10 Primary Geography 1.30 World Championship Snooker 6.00 Eggheads Think you’ve got all the answers? If so you’ll have no problem with this quiz, then. Nur. 6.30 Great British Menu The chefs from Northern Ireland prepare their fish courses. Yummy scrummy in their tummies. Not ours. Dang and blast.

7.00 World Championship Snooker Live coverage of the quarter finals, where the difference between winning and losing is £30,000. aka no-mortgage-land. Lovely.

9.00 The Age of Terror Christmas Eve 1994, an Air France plane is hijacked in Algiers by a group of Islamist extremists. But this was no ordinary hijack. A chilling precursor to 9/11, the plan was to divert the plane and use it as a weapon of mass destruction in the heart of Paris.

10.00 Later Live... With Jools Holland Featuring recently reformed indie band James, singer-songwriter Melody Gardot, rock band The Gutter Twins, blues singer Mable John, Australian sextet Operator Please and British folk-rockers Pentangle.

10.30 Newsnight 11.20 Mad Men The agency tries to spruce up their Nixon presidential campaign to counteract a successful Kennedy ad by Jackie Kennedy.

12.10am World Snooker Highlights 1.00 World Championship Snooker 2.30 Joins BBC News 4.00 GCSE Bitesize Revision

6.00am GMTV 9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show 10.30 This Morning 11.10 ITV News 11.15 Meridian News and Weather 11.20 This Morning 12.30pm Loose Women 1.30 ITV Lunchtime News and Weather 2.00 60 Minute Makeover 3.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal 4.00 Midsomer Murders 5.00 Goldenballs

6.10am The Hoobs (x2) 7.00 Freshly Squeezed 7.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 7.55 Just Shoot Me 8.25 Frasier (x2) 9.30 Will and Grace 9.55 The OC 10.55 Smallville: Superman The Early Years 11.55 3 Minute Wonder: Iraq and Me 12.00pm News at Noon 12.30 A Brief History of Fun 12.55 FILM: An American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950) 2.55 A Place in the Sun 3.25 Countdown 4.15 Deal Or No Deal 5.00 The Paul O’Grady Show

6.00 – 9.00am Children’s television 9.00 The Wright Stuff 10.30 Trisha Goddard 11.30 Put Your Money Where Your House is 12.00pm House Doctor 12.30 Five News 12.45 Law and Order: Criminal Intent 1.45 Neighbours 2.15 Home and Away 2.50 Rough Guide to Cities 3.05 Five News Update 3.10 FILM: Another Woman (1994) 5.00 Five News 5.30 Neighbours

6.00am Good Morning Sports Fans 9.00 PFA Awards 2008 10.30 Big League Weekend 12.00pm Soccer AM: The Best Bits 1.00 PFA Awards 2008 2.30 Big League Weekend 4.00 NFL – Total Access 5.00 Soccer AM: The Best Bits 6.00 Sports Adventures 6.30 Revista De La Liga 7.30 LIVE Greyhound Racing 10.00 Revista De La Liga 11.00 NFL – Total Access 12.00am Sports Unlimited 1.00 Revista De La Liga 2.00 World Motor Sport 4.30 Revista De La Liga 5.30 Sports Adventures

6.00 Meridian Tonight 6.25 Party Election Broadcast

By The Labour Party 6.30 ITV Evening News; Weather 7.00 Emmerdale Gray learns that Perdy has hired a lawyer to fight for the baby. They’ve all gone baby mad in the Emmerdale storyline department. Is someone preggers?

7.30 UEFA Champions League Live: Manchester United V Barcelona Steve Rider presents live coverage from Old Trafford of the 2nd leg of the semi-final between Manchester United and Barcelona.

10.00 News at Ten; Weather 10.40 Benidorm When Madge accuses Sylvia of messing with her man, a slanging match between them gets out of hand, culminating in a Western-style shoot out – with a difference – by the pool.

11.10 Teenage Kicks The appeal of free money, women and a student bar appeals to Vernon, so he applies to university. Forgotten the debts, dear?

11.40 Dexter Dexter is stunned to learn that his biological dad has died, having been told by his adoptive dad that he had died 30 years before.

12.40am Nightwatch With Steve Scott – Mystery 1.30 Nightwatch With Steve Scott 2.25 Loose Women 3.15 The Jeremy Kyle Show 4.10 ITV Nightscreen 5.30 ITV Early Morning News

6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 Hollyoaks Mike is fuming when Sarah invites her lecherous older boyfriend Roger to stay over. Amy hides her bruises from Mike but her heart melts after a passionate declaration of love from Ste. Families.

7.00 Channel 4 News I 7.55 3 Minute Wonder 8.00 How to Look Good Naked See highlights.

9.00 Embarrassing Bodies Christian Jessen, Dawn Harper and Pixie McKenna return to destigmatise common medical complaints. The doctors take a closer look at breasts and all matters mammary.

10.00 Michael Barrymore: What Really Happened Jacques Peretti travels to Essex to find out what happened on the night Stuart Lubbock died in the swimming pool of TV star Michael Barrymore, and how the events of the night brought an end to Barrymore’s career. Any major new revelations would already be titilating the tabloids by now though.

11.05 Embarrassing Bodies 12.10am Dirty Sexy Money 1.10 PartyPoker.com Premier League 2.05 FIA GT Championship 2.35 Bennetts British Superbike Championship 3.30 KOTV 4.00 Freesports On 4 4.55 Adrenalin Rush 5.20 St Elsewhere

6.00 Home and Away Summer Bay says its goodbyes to Drew. Bye! 6.30 Zoo Days Head keeper Alan Woodward plays mum to two newborn lion cubs. Want!

7.00 Five News 7.30 Jaguar Adventure With Nigel Marven Nigel heads deeper into the wetland and encounters giant otters, black skimmers and giant bulldog bats. Who gets to make up the names of these animals?

8.00 Egypt’s Lost Tomb: Revealed See highlights.

9.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation When Brass, Catherine, Grissom and Nick investigate the murder of a woman whose body was found in an apartment building, a familiar face becomes a person of interest.

10.00 CSI: Miami Suspicions are raised when a hunter killed in a bear attack is found to have vanilla gel – commonly used as bear lure – on his jacket. Squeal little piggy!

11.00 Law and Order: Criminal Intent A bridesmaid is found dead in a cheap motel room, and Goren and Eames suspect that the victim had a personal connection to her killer.

12.00am The FBI Files 1.00 NBA Basketball 3.30 French Football 4.20 Football Italiano 5.10 House Doctor 5.35 Neighbours

Sky Sports 2

6.00 BBC News 6.30 South East Today; Weather 7.00 The One Show 7.30 EastEnders Stacey’s search for Sean takes her to Tanya’s doorstep.

Steven makes a serious accusation.

That they’re all really mockneys?

Take that back!

7.57 BBC News; Regional News 8.00 Holby City Medical drama.

The return of an old friend causes problems for Ric. Meanwhile the nursing staff are focused on a modelling competition – who will become the face of the Byrne foundation? Probably the one wearing the most foundation themselves.

9.00 Waking the Dead Crime series.

An Iraqi woman proves the key to the unlocking of the case. Knew that funny profile would come in handy someday.

10.00 BBC Ten O’Clock News 10.25 South East Today; Weather 10.33 BBC Weather 10.35 FILM: The Recruit (2003) Starring Al Pacino, Colin Farrell.

Spy thriller. A promising CIA trainee catches the eye of an agency veteran who begins to act as his mentor.

12.25am Weatherview 12.30 Stand By Your Man 1.00 Sign Zone: Tiger Spy in the Jungle 2.00 Extreme Dreams With Ben Fogle 2.30 To Buy Or Not to Buy 3.15 To Buy Or Not to Buy 4.00 Joins BBC News

6.00am Aerobics: Oz Style 6.30 Sports Adventures 7.00 Aerobics: Oz Style 7.30 Sports Adventures 8.00 Soccer AM: The Best Bits 9.00 Sports Adventures 9.30 Spirit Of Yachting 10.00 World Motor Sport 12.30pm Speedway 2.30 World Motor Sport 5.00 Rally Fever 6.00 Tennis 8.00 Pool: World Cup Of Pool 9.00 Rally Fever 10.00 Poker: Sports Stars Challenge 12.00am Tennis 2.00 Pool: World Cup Of Pool

Sky Sports 3 9.00am Speedway 11.00 Aerobics: Oz Style 11.30 Racing News 12.00pm Bass Fishing 1.00 NFL – Total Access 2.00 Sports Adventures 2.30 Wild Spirits 3.00 Spirit of Yachting 3.30 Speedway 5.30 Spirit of Yachting 6.00 Bass Fishing 7.00 Sports Unlimited 8.00 Everyday is Raceday: Touring Car Diaries 8.30 Ginetta Championship 9.00 Tennis 11.00 Pool: World Cup of Pool 12.00am Squash: PSA Tour (x2) 2.00 Ginetta Championship

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12.00pm Stargate Atlantis 1.00 Cold Case 2.00 Angel 3.00 Stargate SG-1 (x2) 5.00 Futurama (x3) 6.30 Malcolm in the Middle 7.00 The Simpsons (x4) 9.00 Battlestar Galactica 10.00 The Dresden Files 11.00 Inside... 12.00am Stargate Atlantis 1.00 Road Wars (x2) 2.50 Angel 3.40 Deadwood 4.40 Bite Size Brainiac

7.00pm Dog Borstal 8.00 Natalie Cassidy’s Diet Secrets 9.00 Blood Sweat and T-Shirts 10.00 EastEnders 10.30 Scallywagga 11.00 The Wall 11.45 Family Guy (x2) 12.30am Blood Sweat and T-Shirts 1.30 Scallywagga 1.55 The Wall 2.40 Natalie Cassidy’s Diet Secrets 3.40 Spendaholics

7.00pm World News Today 7.30 Pop Go the Sixties 7.35 Batman 8.00 Life in Cold Blood 9.00 Chinese School 10.00 Goodness Gracious Me 10.30 FILM: The Christmas Tale (2005) 11.40 Chinese School 12.40am Proms on Four 2007 2.45 Chinese School

5.20pm The Montel Williams Show 6.05 Judge Judy (x2) 7.00 Smallville 8.00 Katie & Peter: The Next Chapter 9.00 Bionic Woman. See highlights.

10.00 Headcases 10.30 Laura, Ben and Him 11.00 FILM: The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) 1.25am Comedy Cuts 1.50 FILM: Spirit Trap (2005)

1.00pm Heartbeat 2.00 Rosemary and Thyme 3.05 Jeeves and Wooster 4.15 Surgical Spirit 4.50 Pie in The Sky 5.50 Heartbeat 7.00 The Beiderbecke Affair 8.00 Pie in the Sky 9.00 Clocking Off 10.05 David Jason - Frost and Me 10.10 A Touch of Frost 12.10am Clocking Off 1.20 Tales of the Unexpected (x2)

1.05pm The Simple Life (x2) 2.05 Style Her Famous 2.35 Kevin Hill 3.30 Smallville 4.25 Hollyoaks 5.00 Friends (x2) 6.00 Scrubs (x2) 7.00 Hollyoaks 7.30 My Name is Earl 8.00 Friends (x2) 9.00 Big Brother USA 10.00 Dirty Sexy Money 11.00 Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious 12.00am Scrubs (x2)

2.00pm ER 3.00 Hill Street Blues 4.00 A Place in the Sun (x2) 5.05 Relocation, Relocation 6.05 Deal or No Deal 7.00 Grand Designs Revisited 8.00 More4 News 8.30 The Daily Show With Jon Stewart 9.00 Secret Millionaire 10.00 True Stories: Our Daily Bread 12.00am Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

2.00pm Bewitched (x2) 3.00 Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman 4.00 Charmed (x2) 6.00 America’s Next Top Model 7.00 The Steve Wilkos Show 7.55 The Fix 8.00 Britain’s Next Top Model 9.00 New Most Haunted 10.00 Moonlight 11.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 12.00am The X Files

UK TV Gold

Paramount

Discovery

Sci Fi

Sky Movies

Sky Movies

Film4

TCM

3.00pm Open All Hours 3.40 My Family 4.20 Keeping Up Appearances 5.00 Last of the Summer Wine 5.40 Open All Hours 6.20 My Family 7.00 Open All Hours 7.40 Only Fools and Horses 8.20 The Black Adder 9.00 Victoria Wood Live at the Albert 11.25 Only Fools and Horses 12.05am The Black Adder

3.00pm Two and a Half Men (x2) 4.00 King of Queens (x2) 5.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (x2) 6.00 Frasier (x2) 7.00 Becker (x2) 8.00 Two and a Half Men (x2) 9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (x2) 10.00 Sex and the City (x2) 11.10 Two and a Half Men 11.40 Scrubs 12.10am South Park 12.40 Shortcuts Shuffle

3.00pm Deadliest Catch 4.00 Days That Shook the World 5.00 How it’s Made 5.30 How Do They Do it?

6.00 Mythbusters 7.00 How it’s Made 7.30 How Do They Do it? 8.00 Deadliest Catch 9.00 Born Survivor: Bear Grylls 10.00 Oil Strike! 11.00 Crime Scene Australia 12.00am Crime Scene USA (x2)

2.00pm FILM: Frozen Impact (2002) 4.00 Star Trek 5.00 The Lost World 6.00 Dark Angel 7.00 Quantum Leap 8.00 3rd Rock From the Sun (x2) 9.00 FILM: Stephen King’s Sleepwalkers (1992) 10.40 FILM: The Last Winter (2006) 12.40am FILM: The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space (1995)

Classics

Indie

10.40pm Pimpernel Smith (1941) 12.40pm Operation Petticoat (1959) 2.45 Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) 4.45 Twelve O’Clock High (1949) 7.00 Pimpernel Smith (1941) 9.00 Fail-Safe (1964) 11.00 Soldier Blue (1970) 1.10am Twelve O’Clock High (1949) 3.25 The Naked City (1948)

10.00am The New World (2005) 12.25pm The Top 10 Show 12.45 Cache (2005) 2.50 The Horseman on the Roof (1995) 5.05 Brotherhood (2004) 7.40 Kundun (1997) 10.00 The New World (2005) 12.15am Cache (2005) 2.15 Brotherhood (2004) 4.45 Sky Movies Preview (x2)

1.00pm The Diamond Queen (1953) 2.45 The Good Die Young (1954) 4.40 The Long Ships (1964) 7.05 Happy-Go-Lucky Preview 7.15 Thunderbirds Are Go! (1966) Acting even more wooden than the original puppets. 9.00 Fantastic Four (2005) 11.00 Big Trouble in Little China (1986) 1.00am 2046 (2000)

9.00am The Brothers Karamazov (1958) 11.30 Viva Las Vegas (1964) 1.00pm Wives and Daughters 3.00 That’s Dancing! (1985) 4.55 The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963) 7.05 Two Weeks in Another Town (1962) 9.00 Wise Guys (1986) 10.35 Cool Breeze (1972) 12.45am Sitting Target (1972)

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wednesday 30 The Apprentice BBC1, 9pm As if Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Grandparents’ Day and Valentine’s weren’t enough Sir Alan’s got the mogul-wannabes inventing brand new reasons to buy someone a card, and then pitching their new essential designs to card companies. Grr. Can’t we just give someone a pat on the back and be done with it?

Comedy Sketchbook BBC1, 10.45pm Angus Deayton smiles smuggly and presents a successful skimming from BBC sketch comedy of the 30 years, including Johnny Depp in The Fast Show, Catherine Tate, Dead Ringers – and oldies from such luminaries as Russ Abbott, Little and Large and Les Dawson. A mixed bag for a tired brain by that time of night.

Shrink Rap More4, 11.40pm Voyeuristic and exhibitionistic in equal parts, this series of celebrities undergoing a counselling session with Dr Pamela Connelly tells more than Wossy could get to. Tonight Kiss frontman Gene Simmons discusses being brought up in poverty by his mother, a Nazi death camp survivor. Not light.

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6.00am Breakfast 9.15 Missing Live 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer 11.00 To Buy or Not to Buy 11.45 Cash in the Attic 12.15pm Bargain Hunt 1.00 BBC News and Weather 1.30 South East Today; Weather 1.40 Doctors 2.10 Out of the Blue 2.35 Real Rescues 3.05 Space Pirates 3.35 ChuckleVision 3.50 Eliot Kid 4.00 Thumb Wrestling Federation 4.10 Young Dracula 4.35 Blue Peter 5.00 Newsround 5.15 The Weakest Link

6.00am Tikkabilla 6.30 Teletubbies 6.55 Be Safe with the Tweenies 7.00 Arthur 7.25 Newsround 7.29 The Owl 7.30 Hider in the House 8.30 Jackanory Junior 8.45 Numberjacks 9.00 Boogie Beebies 9.20 Me Too! 9.40 Something Special 9.55 Be Safe with the Tweenies 10.00 In the Night Garden 10.30 A Picture of Britain 11.30 The Daily Politics 1.00pm Don’t Leave Me This Way 1.30 Working Lunch 2.00 World Championship Snooker

6.00am GMTV 9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show 10.30 This Morning 11.10 ITV News 11.15 Meridian News and Weather 11.20 This Morning 12.30pm Loose Women 1.30 ITV Lunchtime News and Weather 2.00 60 Minute Makeover 3.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal 4.00 Midsomer Murders 5.00 Goldenballs

6.10am The Hoobs (x2) 7.00 Freshly Squeezed 7.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 8.00 Just Shoot Me 8.30 Frasier (x2) 9.30 Will and Grace 9.55 The OC 10.55 Smallville: Superman The Early Years 11.55 3 Minute Wonder: My Music 12.00pm News at Noon 12.30 In Your Dreams 12.45 FILM: The Return Of Frank James (1940) 2.25 A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 3.25 Countdown 4.15 Deal or No Deal 5.00 The Paul O’Grady Show

6.00 – 9.00am Children’s television 9.00 The Wright Stuff 10.30 Trisha Goddard 11.30 Put your Money Where your House Is 12.00pm House Doctor 12.30 Five News 12.45 Law and Order: Criminal Intent 1.45 Neighbours 2.15 Home and Away 2.50 Animal Rescue Squad 3.10 FILM: Borrowed Hearts (1997) 5.00 Five News 5.30 Neighbours

6.00 BBC News 6.30 South East Today; Weather 7.00 The One Show 7.30 Street Doctor Health series that takes four GPs out on to the streets of Britain.

7.57 BBC News; Regional News 8.00 Traffic Cops A look at the challenges facing Britain’s road police. They’re after those pesky kids.

9.00 The Apprentice The candidates must come up with a brand new occasion for a range of greetings cards. See highlights.

10.00 BBC Ten O’Clock News 10.25 South East Today; Weather 10.33 BBC Weather 10.35 The National Lottery Draws Scott Mills is live from Lottery HQ with the Thunderball, Dream Number and Lotto draws.

10.45 Comedy Sketchbook Angus Deayton presents a collection of classic comedy sketches. See highlights.

11.35 FILM: Extraordinary Rendition (2007) 12.50am Weatherview 12.55 Sign Zone: Seaside Rescue 1.25 Meet the Immigrants 1.55 An Island Parish 2.25 Extreme Dreams With Ben Fogle 2.55 To Buy or Not to Buy 3.40 Joins BBC News

6.00 Eggheads Looking for some real answers? There are some in this teatime quiz show.

6.30 Great British Menu The chefs from Northern Ireland prepare their main courses: Noel McMeel presents a breast and slow roasted leg of duckling, fennel and chive mash, baby courgettes, whilst Danny Millar serves up caramelised pork belly with prawns and a potato and bacon sauce. Television drool time.

7.00 World Championship Snooker Hazel Irvine introduces live coverage from the concluding sessions of this year’s quarter finals.

9.00 Dan Cruickshank’s Adventures in Architecture Dan finds vibrant communities in extraordinary buildings – but why do some places succeed and others fail?

To find out, Dan visits Brasilia, an ideal city built by communists, the Rockefeller Centre in New York and Dharavi in Mumbai, the biggest slum in India. Some holiday travelling!

10.00 The Apprentice: You’re Fired Companion discussion show to the Apprentice, with Adrian Chiles.

10.30 Newsnight 11.20 World Snooker Highlights 12.10am World Championship Snooker Extra 2.00 Joins BBC News 3.40 Close 4.00 GCSE Bitesize Revision

6.00 Meridian Tonight 6.30 ITV Evening News; Weather 7.00 Emmerdale Jo’s cheese is given the official all clear. Sounds like code for deepest darkest espionage.

7.30 Coronation Street Harry voices his objections when Leanne moves in.

Saying “I object!” in a loud and clear voice as if he was on Kavanagh QC? 8.00 Madeleine, One Year On: Campaign For Change Almost a year to the day since their daughter went missing from their holiday apartment in Portugal, Kate and Gerry McCann talk exclusively to ITV about the events of that fateful night. Plus, cameras follow the couple from their Leicester home to Washington and Brussels as they campaign for the introduction of a Europe-wide alert system for abducted children.

10.00 News at Ten; Weather 10.35 Dexter Dexter is called to the scene of a massacre the likes of which he has never seen before – or has he? A stream of memories start to return that shock him to his very core. That’s got to leave you dizzy for days, that has.

11.45 Meridian Soccer Night 12.15am Nightwatch with Steve Scott – Crime 1.05 Quincy, ME 2.00 Loose Women 2.50 The Jeremy Kyle Show 3.45 ITV Nightscreen 5.30 ITV Early Morning News

6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 Hollyoaks Sarah finishes with Roger after Zoe tells her he made a pass at her. Slimey older men, eh?

Apart from her delightful older man.

Shows you can’t really generalise.

7.00 Channel 4 News 7.55 3 Minute Wonder 8.00 Property Ladder Sarah catches up with Tina and Brian Young in Burgh Heath, who’s first development proved disastrous. Undeterred, the married couple have launched into a massive six-flat conversion. Learning.

Not something everyone does.

9.00 Embarrassing Bodies A look at gynaecological issues, including a vaginal and rectal prolapse, incontinence and ovarian problems.

Now don’t get squeamish.

10.00 Desperate Housewives Carlos walks out on his relationship with Edie. Susan finds Mike’s supposedly dead father. An unexpected delivery at a Halloween party surprises the neighbourhood.

Is it Christmas trees?

11.05 Embarrassing Bodies 12.05am What about Me? 12.40 The Nokia Green Room 1.10 Bremner, Bird and Fortune 2.10 Late One Night 2.25 Stargate SG-1 (x2) 4.00 Chrono-Perambulator 4.15 St Elsewhere 5.05 In Your Dreams 5.15 Countdown

6.00 Home and Away Jack finally reads Johnny’s letter -– is it all over for Sam? Dirty rotten caring nurse that she is. Bit confusing this.

6.30 Zoo Days James Andrewes takes us behind the scenes of the largest bat cave in Europe. Dinna, dinna, dinna, dinna – bat cave!

7.00 Five News 7.30 It Pays to Watch Martin passes on some tips on how to book flights and hotels for less.

8.00 Monster Moves Two teams of engineers each attempt to move enormous historic structures to new homes. A hall and a museum.

9.00 Escape from Alcatraz: The True Story In June 1962, three inmates successfully broke out of the jail and took to the waters of San Francisco Bay in a makeshift raft, never to be seen again. The film uses interviews with former inmates, guards and FBI agents to piece together the story of the escape.

10.00 FILM: Fled (1996) Starring Laurence Fishburne, Stephen Baldwin. Adventure about a pair of escaped convicts who are handcuffed together and must learn to trust one another if they are to stay free.

12.00am PartyPoker.com European Open IV 1.30 Major League Baseball 4.20 Supercross World Championship 5.10 House Doctor 5.35 Neighbours

6.00am Good Morning Sports Fans 9.00 Revista de la Liga 10.00 Football: UEFA Champions League (x2) 12.00pm Revista de la Liga 1.00 Football: UEFA Champions League (x2) 3.00 Revista de la Liga 4.00 Football: UEFA Champions League (x2) 6.00 Boots ‘n’ All 7.00 Trans World Sport 8.00 Total Rugby 8.30 European Tour Weekly 9.00 Boots ‘n’ All 10.00 Trans World Sport 11.00 Boots ‘n’ All 12.00am FIFA Futbol Mundial 12.30 Total Rugby 1.00 Poker: Sports Stars Challenge 3.00 FIFA Futbol Mundial 3.30 Sports Unlimited 4.30 You’re on Sky Sports

Sky Sports 2 6.00am Aerobics: Oz Style 6.30 Sports Adventure 7.00 Aerobics: Oz Style 7.30 Sports Adventure 8.00 Sports Unlimited 9.00 Sports Adventure 9.30 Everyday is Raceday: Touring Car Diaries 10.00 Pool: World Cup of Pool 11.00 Poker: Sports Stars Challenge 1.00pm Tennis 3.00 Poker: Sports Stars Challenge 5.00 NFL – Total Access 6.00 European Tour Weekly 6.30 FIFA Futbol Mundial 7.00 LIVE Champions League 10.15 You’re on Sky Sports 11.45 European Tour Weekly 12.15am British Motocross Championship 1.15 Boots ‘n’ All 2.15 FIFA Futbol Mundial

Sky Sports 3 7.30am Ginetta Championship 8.00 Tennis 10.00 Rally Fever 11.00 Aerobics: Oz Style 11.30 Racing News 12.00pm Sports Unlimited 1.00 NFL – Total Access 2.00 Sports Adventures 2.30 Everyday is Raceday: Touring Car Diaries 3.00 Sports Unlimited 4.00 Tennis 6.00 Sports Adventures 6.30 Total Rugby 7.00 British Motocross Championship 8.00 Tenpin Bowling: World Masters 9.00 Max Power 10.00 Watersports World 11.00 NFL - Total Access 12.00am Tenpin Bowling: World Masters 1.00 Trans World Sport

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12.00pm Stargate Atlantis 1.00 Cold Case 2.00 Angel 3.00 Stargate SG-1 (x2) 5.00 Futurama (x2) 6.30 Malcolm in the Middle 7.00 The Simpsons (x3) 8.30 A-Z of Gladiators 10.00 FILM: The Pelican Brief (1993) 12.45am Cold Case 1.45 Stargate Atlantis 2.35 Road Wars 3.25 Angel 4.15 Deadwood 5.10 Guilty!

7.00pm Holby City 8.00 Glamour Girls 8.30 The Real Hustle 9.00 Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps 9.30 Ideal 10.00 FILM: High Fidelity (2000) 11.50 Family Guy (x2) 12.35am Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps 1.05 Ideal 1.35 Bizarre ER 2.05 The Wall 2.50 Glamour Girls

7.00pm World News Today 7.30 Pop Go the Sixties 7.35 Batman. Holy balderdash Batman! 8.00 Life in Cold Blood 9.00 A History of Britain by Simon Schama 10.00 FILM: El Cid (1961) 12.50am Selling the Sixties 1.50 David Ogilvy: Original Mad Man 2.50 The Rise and Fall of the Ad Man

3.45pm The Ricki Lake Show 4.30 Sally Jessy Raphael 5.20 The Montel Williams Show 6.05 Judge Judy (x2) 7.00 Smallville 8.00 FILM: The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) 10.30 Coronation Street 11.00 FILM: Spirit Trap (2005) 12.45am Benidorm 1.15 Benidorm 1.45 Teleshopping

3.05pm Jeeves and Wooster 4.15 Surgical Spirit 4.50 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 5.50 Heartbeat 7.00 The Beiderbecke Affair 8.00 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 9.00 Those Were the Days: Charles and Diana 10.00 Housewife, 49 12.10am Those Were the Days: Charles and Diana

1.05pm The Simple Life (x2) 2.05 Style Her Famous 2.35 Kevin Hill 3.30 Smallville: Superman the Early Years 4.25 Hollyoaks 5.00 Friends (x2) 6.00 Scrubs (x2) 7.00 Hollyoaks 7.30 My Name is Earl 8.00 Friends (x2) 9.00 Reaper 10.00 Big Bang Theory 10.30 Rude Tube 11.35 Brothers and Sisters 12.35am Scrubs (x2)

6.05pm Deal or No Deal 7.00 Grand Designs 8.00 More4 News 8.30 The Daily Show with Jon Stewart 9.00 Dispatches: The Mobile Phone Rip-Off 10.00 Father Ted 10.35 The IT Crowd 11.05 TV Heaven, Telly Hell 11.40 Shrink Rap. See highlights. 12.40am Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

2.00pm Bewitched (x2) 3.00 Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman 4.00 Charmed (x2) 6.00 America’s Next Top Model 7.00 The Steve Wilkos Show 7.55 The Fix 8.00 Exposed: Charlotte Church 9.00 Nothing to Declare (x2) 10.00 CSI: Miami 11.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 12.00am The X Files

UK TV Gold

Paramount

Discovery

Sci Fi

Sky Movies

Sky Movies

Film4

TCM

3.00pm Open All Hours 3.40 My Family 4.20 Keeping Up Appearances 5.00 Last of the Summer Wine 5.40 Open All Hours 6.20 My Family 7.00 Open All Hours 7.40 Only Fools and Horses 8.20 Blackadder II 9.00 Jonathan Creek 10.05 Only Fools and Horses 11.45 Blackadder II 12.25am Only Fools and Horses

3.00pm Two and a Half Men (x2) 4.00 King of Queens (x2) 5.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (x2) 6.00 Frasier (x2) 7.00 Becker (x2) 8.00 Two and a Half Men (x2) 9.00 Scrubs (x2) 10.00 Sex and the City (x2) 11.10 Two and a Half Men 11.40 Scrubs 12.10am South Park 12.40 Shortcuts Shuffle 12.50 Comedy Blue

3.00pm Deadliest Catch 4.00 Days that Shook the World 5.00 How it’s Made 5.30 How do They do It? 6.00 Mythbusters 7.00 How it’s Made 7.30 How do They do It? 8.00 Deadliest Catch 9.00 Rome 10.00 Bone Detectives: Human Sacrifice 11.00 Crime Scene Australia 12.00am Rome 1.00 Most Evil

2.00pm FILM: The Adventures Of Captain Zoom In Outer Space (1995) 4.00 Star Trek 5.00 The Lost World 6.00 Dark Angel 7.00 Quantum Leap 8.00 3rd Rock From The Sun (x2) 9.00 FILM: Tremors (1990) 10.50 Dark Angel 11.50 FILM: The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976) 2.20am Ghost Stories 3.00 Flash Gordon

Classics

Indie

3.50pm The Disorderly Orderly (1964) 5.25 A Foreign Affair (1948) 7.25 A Touch Of Larceny (1959) 9.00 The Quiet Man (1952) 11.15 Three Faces West (1940) 12.45am The Disorderly Orderly (1964) 2.25 The High And The Mighty (1954) 5.00 Three Faces West (1940)

10.00am Red Carpet Preview Show 12.30pm Earth (1998) 2.40 Shine a Light Special 3.15 The Apostle (1997) 5.30 Marie Antoinette (2006) 7.35 The Portrait Of A Lady (1996) 10.00 Boys Don’t Cry (1999) 12.05am Fire (1996) 2.05 Earth (1998) 4.15 Sky Movies Preview (x2)

1.00pm The Left Hand Of God (1955) 2.45 Heaven Can Wait (1943) 4.55 Memoirs Of An Invisible Man (1992) 6.55 Explorers (1985) 9.00 The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) Superheroes get together to defeat baddies.

11.00 Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes (1972) 12.40am The Cooler (2003)

1.00pm East Side, West Side (1949) 3.00 The Tender Trap (1955) 5.10 The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964) 7.25 Where Were You When The Lights Went Out? (1968) 9.00 10 Rillington Place (1971) 11.05 The Appointment (1969) 1.05am The Split (1968) 2.45 The Loved One (1965)

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thursday 1 May The Invisibles BBC1, 9pm Another British comedy drama about crims ‘going straight’. This lot have spent the last 15 years living the vida loca on the Costa del Sol and venture back to Blighty on a visit with the promise that they’ll not return to crime – so says the missus. Only one thing leads to another and kids play up and... you know how it is.

The Baron ITV1, 10.35pm This is like some April Fool that somebody forgot to stop.

Suzanne Shaw, Mike Reid and Malcolm McClaren are vying to be elected Baron of a small Scottish town. Except McClaren has had to leave town after proposing a National Sinners’ Day to the devoutly religious community at a hustings. Really.

ER More4, 10pm With the announcement earlier this month that the next season will be the show’s last – and that this means 15 series in total – you’ve gotta hand it to County for keeping it fresh and compelling.

Remember why they have all the accolades as Abby looks after a beaten-up student and Neela tries to stem an infection.

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6.00am Breakfast 9.15 Missing Live 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer 11.00 To Buy or Not to Buy 11.45 Cash in the Attic 12.15pm Bargain Hunt 1.00 BBC News and Weather 1.30 South East Today; Weather 1.40 Doctors 2.10 Out of the Blue 2.35 Real Rescues 3.05 Space Pirates 3.35 ChuckleVision 3.50 Eliot Kid 4.00 Thumb Wrestling Federation 4.05 Stake Out 4.35 Beat The Boss 5.00 Newsround 5.15 The Weakest Link

6.00am Tikkabilla 6.30 Teletubbies 6.55 Tweenies Songtime 7.00 Arthur 7.25 Newsround 7.29 The Owl 7.30 Hider in the House 8.30 Jackanory Junior 8.45 Numberjacks 9.00 Boogie Beebies 9.20 Me Too! 9.40 Something Special 9.55 Be Safe With the Tweenies 10.00 In the Night Garden 10.30 Primary History 10.50 Megamaths 11.10 Landmarks 11.30 KS1 Science Clips (x2) 11.50 Hands Up! 12.00pm The Daily Politics 12.30 Working Lunch 1.00 Open Gardens 1.30 World Championship Snooker 6.00 Eggheads Needs answers?!

Well, right here’s where you can find them. It is a quiz show after all.

6.30 Great British Menu The chefs from Northern Ireland prepare their desserts: Noel McMeel serves up a strawberry melba, while Danny Millar makes poached rhubarb with crispy porridge, hot milk and ice cream.

Danny’s sounds impressive.

7.00 World Championship Snooker Ray Stubbs introduces live coverage from The Crucible as the second semi-final gets underway.

9.00 Heroes As Matt investigates the death of one hero, another is attacked by this new sinister force.

9.45 Heroes Unmasked A look behind the scenes of the drama series, with insightful interviews and exclusive backstage access.

10.00 The Graham Norton Show Featuring the reunion of Hart to Hart stars Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers, with music from Sandi Thom.

10.30 Newsnight 11.20 World Snooker Highlights 12.10am Panorama 12.40 Johnny’s New Kingdom 1.10 The Twenties in Colour: The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn 1.40 Bill Oddie’s Wild Side 2.10 Extreme Dreams With Ben Fogle 2.40 To Buy or Not to Buy 3.25 Close 4.00 GCSE Bitesize Revision

6.00am GMTV 9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show 10.30 This Morning 11.10 ITV News 11.15 Meridian News and Weather 11.20 This Morning 12.30pm Loose Women 1.30 ITV Lunchtime News and Weather 2.00 60 Minute Makeover 3.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal 4.00 Midsomer Murders 5.00 Goldenballs

6.00am The Treacle People 6.10 The Hoobs (x2) 7.00 Freshly Squeezed 7.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 8.00 Just Shoot Me 8.30 Frasier (x2) 9.30 Will and Grace 9.55 The OC 10.55 Smallville: Superman The Early Years 11.55 3 Minute Wonder: The Best of FourDocs 12.00pm News at Noon 12.30 Checking Into History 12.55 FILM: The Tall T (1957) 2.25 A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 3.25 Countdown 4.15 Deal or No Deal 5.00 The Paul O’Grady Show

6.00 – 9.00am Children’s television 9.00 The Wright Stuff 10.30 Trisha Goddard 11.30 Put Your Money Where Your House is 12.00pm House Doctor 12.30 Five News 12.45 Law and Order: Criminal Intent 1.45 Neighbours 2.15 Home and Away 2.50 Animal Rescue Squad 3.05 Five News Update 3.15 FILM: Terror in the Family (1996) 5.00 Five News With Natasha Kaplinsky 5.30 Neighbours

6.00am Good Morning Sports Fans 9.00 Boots ‘n’ All 10.00 European Tour Weekly 10.30 LIVE European Tour Golf 12.30pm Total Rugby 1.00 FIFA Futbol Mundial 1.30 Boots ‘n’ All 2.30 Total Rugby 3.00 FIFA Futbol Mundial 3.30 European Tour Golf 5.30 FIFA Futbol Mundial 6.00 Trans World Sport 7.00 Barclays Premier League World 7.30 LIVE Darts: Premier League 11.00 Barclays Premier League World 11.30 The Rugby Club 1.00am Darts: Premier League 4.30 Race World 5.30 Barclays Premier League World

6.00 Meridian Tonight 6.30 ITV Evening News; Weather 7.00 Emmerdale Matthew’s furious to find his car covered in manure.

Quick – everyone have a flashback to Back to the Future. McFly! 7.30 Country Ways Jim Flegg and Jill Cochrane present a portrait of the villages surrounding Brightstone Forest on the Isle of Wight.

8.00 The Bill Out on patrol, Emma and Sally hear two explosions. There are many casualties and Callum takes charge, dealing with the aftermath and attempting to calm the rising hysteria. Callum confronts a man who has been posing as a doctor and molesting women among the injured.

9.00 Taggart When a college principal is crushed to death in a lift, the preliminary investigation into his death discovers that the lift mechanism was deliberately sabotaged, and the finger of suspicion points to the dead man’s wife, who may have avenged herself over his adultery. More Miss Marple than DI Ross with this synopsis.

10.00 News at Ten; Weather 10.35 The Baron See highlights.

11.35 UEFA Cup Highlights 12.30am Motorsport UK 1.00 Nightwatch With Steve Scott 2.45 Loose Women 3.35 The Jeremy Kyle Show 4.30 ITV Nightscreen 5.30 ITV Early Morning News

6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 Hollyoaks Michaela gloats about Fletch splitting up with Sasha.

Justin takes Sasha’s mind off things as a candid conversation leads to a tender moment. That was fast!

7.00 Channel 4 News 7.55 3 Minute Wonder 8.00 Come Dine With Me Four more enthusiatic amateur cooks attempt to impress their guests in the hope of winning loadsa dosh.

9.00 Embarrassing Bodies The final episode of a special series highlighting the illnesses and conditions that most sufferers would rather not divulge to their doctor. A man discusses his problem with gynecomastia, or man boobs, while another is concerned that he might have problems consummating his marriage owing to an earlier circumcision. Cross your legs.

10.00 My Name is Earl US comedy.

10.30 Big Bang Theory Penny volunteers to nurse Sheldon when he is sick. Fool!

11.00 Embarrassing Bodies 12.05am 4 Music: Snowbombing Rocked By Xbox 12.35 4Music: Shockwaves NME Awards 2008: Big Gig 1.35 The Law of the Playground 2.05 King of the Hill (x2) 3.00 FILM: Beware, My Lovely (1952) 4.20 St Elsewhere 5.15 Countdown

6.00 Home and Away Sam’s secret is out. Boo! Hiss! New leper in town.

6.30 Zoo Days Chester Zoo’s baby pandas come out to play.

7.00 Five News With Natasha Kaplinsky 7.30 Rough Guide to Bang For Your Buck Toby enjoys an adventure in the wild west of Arizona. And Julia comes up with some clever ways to make the most of her money in Venice by hiring a boat that serves as both accommodation and transport.

8.00 I Own Britain’s Best Home This edition features a medieval house, a surprising bungalow and a glamorous, gadget-filled home. The last two sound like they could belong to Austin Powers.

9.00 House House must contend with a documentary film crew following his every move. At the same time, he confronts dissent from within his team. Showing off really.

10.00 Grey’s Anatomy A camping trip ends in a fight between George and Alex, plus Callie and Addison bond over a distressing case.

11.00 A Girl’s Guide to 21st Century Sex Tonight, tips from the experts on sado-masochism.

11.45 Quiz Call 4.00am Football Argentina 4.20 Major League Soccer 4.45 Dutch Football 5.10 House Doctor 5.35 Neighbours

6.00 BBC News 6.30 South East Today; Weather 7.00 The One Show 7.30 EastEnders Gus bids farewell to the Square, but not before gaining revenge on Sean. Yay! Way to go, Mr nice guy!

7.57 BBC News; Regional News 8.00 Holby Blue While the girls go off on a night out, John and Luke investigate a series of smash-andgrabs which lead to the solving of an old case. Meanwhile, William has an unfortunate encounter with his mother. She doesn’t own a motel, does she?

9.00 The Invisibles See highlights.

10.00 BBC Ten O’Clock News 10.25 South East Today; Weather 10.33 BBC Weather 10.35 Question Time David Dimbleby chairs the weekly political debate live from London. On the panel are Defence Secretary Des Browne, Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague, former leader of the Liberal Democrats Lord Ashdown, Hollywood star and political activist Saffron Burrows and columnist and broadcaster Richard Littlejohn.

11.35 Election Night 2008 David Dimbleby leads the team for the 2008 local elections, Gordon Brown’s first major electoral test as Prime Minister. Will he do any better than Tony Blair last year? Watch the spiffy graphics and find out.

Sky Sports 2 6.00am Aerobics: Oz Style 6.30 Sports Adventures 7.00 Aerobics: Oz Style 7.30 Sports Adventures 8.00 Watersports World 9.00 Sports Adventures 9.30 FIFA Futbol Mundial 10.00 Tenpin Bowling: World Masters 11.00 Trans World Sport 12.00pm Boots ‘n’ All 1.00 European Tour Golf 3.00 Wild Spirits 3.30 Boots ‘n’ All 4.30 Total Rugby 5.00 NFL – Total Access 6.00 The Rugby Club 7.30 Golf Night 10.00 LIVE Poker 12.00am NFL – Total Access 1.00 Golf Night 3.30 Close

Sky Sports 3 9.00am Irish Greyhound Racing 9.30 Total Rugby 10.00 British Motocross Championship 11.00 Aerobics: Oz Style 11.30 Racing News 12.00pm Watersports World 1.00 NFL – Total Access 2.00 Sports Adventure 2.30 Irish Greyhound Racing 3.00 Watersports World 4.00 British Motocross Championship 5.00 Tenpin Bowling: World Masters 6.00 Sports Adventures 6.30 ATP Tennis Magazine 7.00 Race World 8.00 The Rugby Club 9.30 WWE Late Night Raw 11.30 Extreme Championship Wrestling 12.30am IAAF Athletix Weekly 1.00 Premier League World 1.30 Poker 3.30 Close

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ITV3

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More4

Living

12.00pm Stargate Atlantis 1.00 Cold Case 2.00 Angel 3.00 Stargate SG-1 (x2) 5.00 Futurama (x3) 6.30 Malcolm in the Middle 7.00 The Simpsons (x2) 8.00 Project Runway 9.00 Bones 10.00 Cold Case 11.00 Road Wars 12.00am Stargate Atlantis 1.00 Road Wars 1.50 Angel 2.40 Road Wars 3.30 Deadwood

7.00pm Spendaholics 8.00 Blood Sweat and T-Shirts 9.00 Should I Smoke Dope?

10.00 EastEnders 10.30 Heroes 11.10 Family Guy (x2) 11.55 Pulling 12.25am Should I Smoke Dope? 1.20 Blood Sweat and T-Shirts 2.20 Pulling 2.50 Spendaholics 3.50 Sex...

With Mum and Dad

7.00pm World News 7.30 In Search of Medieval Britain 8.00 Sacred Music 9.00 Inside the Medieval Mind 10.00 Crusades 10.50 Mad Men 11.40 Chinese School 12.40am In Search of Medieval Britain 1.10 Inside the Medieval Mind 2.10 The Book Quiz 2.40 In Search of Medieval Britain 3.10 Inside the Medieval Mind

4.30mp Sally Jessy Raphael 5.20 The Montel Williams Show 6.05 Judge Judy (x2) 7.00 Smallville 8.00 American Idol 2008 9.00 Katie & Peter: The Next Chapter 10.00 Gossip Girl 11.00 Entourage 11.30 The Office: An American Workplace 12.00am Katie & Peter: The Next Chapter 1.00 Entourage

2.00pm Rosemary and Thyme 3.05 Jeeves and Wooster 4.10 Surgical Spirit 4.45 The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes 5.50 Heartbeat 6.55 The Beiderbecke Affair 8.00 The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes 9.00 Numb3rs 10.00 Murder in Mind: Regrets 11.00 Cane 12.00am FILM: Eye For an Eye (1996)

2.05pm Style Her Famous 2.35 Kevin Hill 3.30 Smallville: Superman The Early Years 4.25 Hollyoaks 5.00 Friends (x2) 6.00 Scrubs (x2) 7.00 Hollyoaks 7.30 My Name is Earl 8.00 Friends (x2) 9.00 Walliams and Lucas: New Heroes of Comedy 10.00 The Inbetweeners (x2) 11.05 Reaper 12.05am Scrubs (x2)

2.00pm ER 3.00 Hill Street Blues 4.00 A Place in the Sun (x2) 5.05 Relocation, Relocation 6.05 Deal or No Deal 7.00 Grand Designs 8.00 More4 News 8.30 The Daily Show With Jon Stewart 9.00 Property Ladder 10.00 ER. See highlights. 11.00 Without a Trace 12.00am Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

2.00pm Bewitched (x2) 3.00 Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman 4.00 Charmed (x2) 6.00 America’s Next Top Model 7.00 The Steve Wilkos Show 7.55 The Fix 8.00 Army Wives 9.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 10.00 Boston Legal 11.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 12.00am The X Files

UK TV Gold

Paramount

Discovery

Sci Fi

Sky Movies

Sky Movies

Film4

TCM

5.00pm Last of the Summer Wine 5.40 Open All Hours 6.20 My Family 7.00 Open All Hours 7.40 Only Fools and Horses 8.20 Blackadder II 9.00 Only Fools and Horses 10.30 The Royle Family 11.10 Blackadder II 11.50 Only Fools and Horses 12.30am The Worst Week of My Life 1.10 Open All Hours

3.00pm Two and a Half Men (x2) 4.00 King of Queens (x2) 5.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (x2) 6.00 Frasier (x2) 7.00 Becker (x2) 8.00 Two and a Half Men (x2) 9.00 Everybody Hates Chris (x2) 10.00 Sex and the City (x2) 11.10 Two and a Half Men 11.40 Scrubs 12.10am South Park 12.40 Shortcuts Shuffle

3.00pm Deadliest Catch 4.00 Days That Shook the World 5.00 How it’s Made 5.30 How do They do it?

6.00 Mythbusters 7.00 How it’s Made 7.30 How do They do it? 8.00 Deadliest Catch 9.00 Mythbusters 10.00 Smash Lab 11.00 Crime Scene Australia 12.00am Crime Scene USA (x2) 1.00 Most Evil

12.00pm The Lost World 1.00 Quantum Leap 2.00 FILM: Stargate (1994) 4.30 3rd Rock From the Sun 5.00 The Lost World 6.00 Dark Angel 7.00 Quantum Leap 8.00 3rd Rock From the Sun 8.30 The Making of Tin Man 9.00 FILM: Invincible (2001) 10.40 FILM: Lightspeed (2005) 12.20am FILM: Dead & Deader (2006)

Classics

Indie

11.05am Evil of Frankenstein (1964) 12.35pm West Side Story (1961) 3.10 The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) 5.45 The Blue Dahlia (1946) 7.30 The Old Dark House (1963) 9.00 Torn Curtain (1966) 11.10 The Night of the Hunter (1955) 12.50am White Savage (1943)

1.15pm Tube Tales (1999) 2.50 Resurrection Man (1997) 4.40 Best (1999) 6.30 Remnants of Everest: The 1996 Tragedy (2007) 8.20 Manhattan (1979) 10.00 The Curse of the Golden Flower (2006) 11.55 Ong-Bak (2004) 2.00am Resurrection Man (1997) 4.00 Sky Movies Preview

1.00pm The Kidnappers (1953) 2.45 Lady From Louisiana (1941) 4.25 Operation Amsterdam (1959) 6.25 The Core (2003) 9.00 AVP: Alien Vs Predator (2004) Big scary monsters focus on destroying each other rather than worthless humans. 10.50 Predator 2 (1990) 12.55am The Death of Mr Lazarescu (2005)

10.55am The Tender Trap (1955) 1.00pm Clarissa 3.00 Ben-Hur (1959) 6.40 The Journey (1959) 9.00 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) 11.15 Classic Shorts 11.20 Classic Shorts: Signals 11.35 Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) 2.35am The Good Earth (1937) 5.00 I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)

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11:54 AM

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friday 2 Big Mac Fights Back ITV1, 8pm Maccy D’s may have suffered a very public drubbing at the hands of environmentalists and obesity campaigners – but is the clown down? It appears not, according to this edition of Tonight, which looks at how the burger chain has had to reinvent itself for the noughties. Big Mac with a side order of humble fries anyone?

Derren Brown: Trick or Treat Channel 4, 10pm He might be part satanic estate agent and part eighteenth century huckster but Derren Brown is always good telly.

This evening he’s back on the airwaves with another load of mind trickery and elaborate audience cons. The ‘trick or treat’ segment is also back, with nasty surprises in store for the public.

Katie & Peter: The Next Chapter ITV2, 10pm The publicity-shy couple offer viewers another glimpse into their everyday lives – with Katie doing the rounds of breakfast TV and Peter having a session with his celebrity trainer it’s all business as usual at chez Price.

But as ever, it doesn’t always add up to marital bliss.

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6.00am Breakfast 9.15 Missing Live 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer 11.00 To Buy or Not to Buy 11.45 Cash in the Attic 12.15pm Bargain Hunt 1.00 BBC News and Weather 1.30 South East Today; Weather 1.40 Doctors 2.10 Out of the Blue 2.35 Real Rescues 3.05 Space Pirates 3.35 ChuckleVision 3.50 Eliot Kid 4.00 Thumb Wrestling Federation 4.10 The Basil Brush Show 4.35 The Slammer 5.00 Newsround 5.15 The Weakest Link

6.00am Tikkabilla 6.30 Teletubbies 6.55 Be Safe with the Tweenies 7.00 Arthur 7.25 Newsround 7.29 The Owl 7.30 Hider in the House 8.30 Jackanory Junior 8.45 Numberjacks 9.00 Boogie Beebies 9.20 Me Too! 9.40 Something Special 9.55 Be Safe with the Tweenies 10.00 In the Night Garden 10.30 Magic Key 10.45 The Way Things Work (x2) 11.15 Tales From Europe 11.30 Watch 11.45 Something Special 12.00pm The Daily Politics 12.30 Working Lunch 1.30 World Championship Snooker 6.00 Eggheads Dermot Murnaghan hosts the general knowledge quiz.

6.30 Great British Menu Which of the Northern Ireland chefs’ menus will Prue, Matthew and Oliver choose to go through to the finals?

7.00 World Championship Snooker Hazel Irvine introduces live action from the penultimate session of the first semi-final.

9.00 Living the Dream Revisited Series following people who set up their dream businesses.

10.00 QI Phill Jupitus, Dara O’Briain, David Mitchell and Alan Davies get to grips with Europe.

10.30 Newsnight In-depth investigation and analysis of the stories behind the day’s headlines with Emily Maitlis.

11.00 Newsnight Review Round table arts and culture discussion programme with Martha Kearney.

11.35 Later Live... With Jools Holland Featuring recently re-formed indie band James and US singersongwriter Melody Gardot.

12.35am World Snooker Highlights Hazel Irvine introduces semi-final highlights.

1.25 FILM: Initiation (1987) 2.55 Star Trek: The Next Generation (x2)

6.00am GMTV 9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show 10.30 This Morning 11.10 ITV News 11.15 Meridian News and Weather 11.20 This Morning 12.30pm Loose Women 1.30 ITV Lunchtime News and Weather 2.00 60 Minute Makeover 3.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal 4.00 Midsomer Murders 5.00 Goldenballs

6.00am The Treacle People 6.10 The Hoobs (x2) 7.00 Freshly Squeezed 7.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 8.00 Just Shoot Me 8.30 Frasier (x2) 9.25 Will and Grace 9.55 Smallville: Superman the Early Years (x2) 11.55 3 Minute Wonder: Rivers of Blood 12.00pm News at Noon 12.30 Proud Parents 12.45 FILM: Young At Heart (1954) 2.55 A 100 Grand Place in the Sun 3.25 Countdown 4.15 Deal or No Deal 5.00 The Paul O’Grady Show

6.00 Meridian Tonight All the latest news, sport and breaking stories from across the region.

6.30 ITV Evening News and Weather 7.00 Emmerdale When Hilary goes missing with Arthur, Mel and Greg demand an explanation.

7.30 Coronation Street Unable to face going home, Maria turns to Audrey – but will she tell her the truth?

8.00 Big Mac Fights Back: Tonight See highlights..

8.30 Coronation Street Family Album Since their arrival on the Street in 2000, the Grimshaws have made quite an impact.

9.00 Benidorm 9.30 Teenage Kicks Vernon appears on Never Mind the Buzzcocks as one of the sad losers in the line up.

10.00 FILM: Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) Third sequel in the longrunning action adventure series, in which the ill-matched cop duo of Riggs and Murtaugh find themselves up against the Chinese Triads and their vicious leader.

11.00 The Late News and Weather 11.40 FILM: Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) 12.50am FILM: Gods And Generals (2003) 4.30 ITV Nightscreen 5.30 ITV Early Morning News

6.00 The Simpsons Homer witnesses children’s TV hero Krusty the Clown holding up Apu’s convenience store at gunpoint.

6.30 Hollyoaks Sasha and Justin decide to keep their kiss secret.

7.00 Channel 4 News Including sport and weather.

7.35 Unreported World Reporter Evan Williams exposes a dark and previously unseen side to Egypt.

8.00 A Place in the Sun: Home or Away Seasoned travellers Neil and Lindsey decide between a new life in Biarritz, Southern France and a home in East Devon close to family.

9.00 Dirty Sexy Money Karen is getting married, but her strong desire for Nick might be more of a distraction than she thought.

10.00 Derren Brown: Trick or Treat See highlights.

10.30 Peep Show Mark rediscovers single life after his disastrous wedding to Sophie.

11.05 Balls of Steel 11.55 Embarrassing Bodies A man discusses his problem with gynecomastia, or man boobs.

12.55am Big Bang Theory 1.25 4 Music: Beat Stevie 1.35 4 Music: Team Waterpolo 1.50 4 Music: Rockfeedback 2.20 Afterworld 2.45 Goalissimo!

3.40 Trans World Sport 4.35 FIA GT Championship

6.35am The Funky Valley Show 6.50 My First... 6.55 Fireman Sam 7.05 Roary the Racing Car 7.20 Rupert Bear 7.30 Mr. Men 7.50 Noddy 8.05 Fifi and the Flowertots 8.20 Peppa Pig 8.25 Thomas & Friends 8.40 Pocoyo 8.50 Bird Bath 9.00 The Wright Stuff 10.30 Trisha Goddard 11.30 Put your Money Where your House Is 12.00pm House Doctor 12.30 News 12.45 Law and Order 1.45 Neighbours 2.15 Home and Away 2.50 Rough Guide to Beaches 3.05 News 3.10 FILM: Final Descent (1997) 5.00 News 5.30 Neighbours 6.00 Home and Away Is there a chance that Rachel and Jazz could be friends?

6.30 Zoo Days All eyes are on Chester Zoo’s newest arrival – a tiny lion cub that spells hope for the future of an endangered species.

7.00 Five News with Natasha Kaplinsky National and international news anchored by Natasha Kaplinsky.

7.30 Animal Rescue Squad Michaela is in San Diego helping a team of vets as they examine an injured tiger.

8.00 The Sharkman Documentary about South African diver Mike Rutzen who has become famous world wide as a man who swims with great white sharks outside a diving cage.

9.00 NCIS A picture taken by a blind photographer reveals that a young petty officer has been murdered.

10.00 Shark Stark’s team investigates the death of a surgically enhanced actress.

11.00 Law and Order: Special Victims Unit A young boy who witnesses an assault in which his stepmother almost dies is too terrified to identify her attackers.

12.00am Quiz Call Interactive quiz show giving viewers the chance to answer questions for money.

5.10 House Doctor 5.35 Neighbours

6.00am Good Morning Sports Fans 9.00 The Rugby Club 10.30 LIVE European Tour Golf 12.30pm IAAF Athletix Weekly 1.00 Premier League World 1.30 The Rugby Club 3.00 Premier League World 3.30 LIVE European Tour Golf 5.30 Premier League World 6.00 Big League Weekend 7.00 Premier League Preview 7.30 LIVE Rugby League 9.30 LIVE Friday Fight Night Live 11.30 Premier League Preview 12.00am Big League Weekend 1.00 Premier League Preview 1.30 Friday Fight Night 3.30 Premier League Preview 4.00 Big League Weekend 5.00 Premier League Preview 5.30 Gillette World Sport

6.00 BBC News 6.30 South East Today; Weather 7.00 The One Show Topical reports and features from around the UK. 7.30 Inside Out What happens when a gypsy journalist tries to convince Ann Widdecombe why we need more sites for gypsies in Kent and Sussex?

7.57 BBC News and Regional News National and regional news bulletin from the BBC. 8.00 EastEnders Ian’s investigations lead to the truth about Steven, but will Ian accept it?

8.30 A Question of Sport Sue Barker hosts the light-hearted sports quiz with captains Matt Dawson and Phil Tufnell.

9.00 Have I Got News For You With guest host Brian Blessed.

9.30 My Family Ben decides to sell his dental practice.

10.00 BBC Ten O’Clock News 10.25 South East Today; Weather 10.33 BBC Weather The latest weather forecast.

10.35 Friday Night with Jonathan Ross Guests are Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow, and Robert Downey Jr. 11.35 National Lottery EuroMillions Draw 11.40 FILM: Unlawful Entry (1992) 1.25am Weatherview 1.30 Sign Zone: Dan Cruickshank’s Adventures in Architecture 2.30 Natural World 3.20 Joins BBC News

Sky Sports 2 6.00am Aerobics 6.30 Sports Adventures 7.00 Aerobics 7.30 Sports Adventures 8.00 Race World 9.00 Darts 12.30pm ATP Tennis Magazine 1.00 European Tour Golf 3.00 IAAF Athletix Weekly 3.30 Sports Adventures 4.00 NFL – Total Access 5.00 Rugby Union: Super 14 6.00 LIVE Rugby Union: Super 14 8.00 Premier League Preview 8.30 Sports Adventures 9.00 Gillette World Sport 9.30 Premier League Preview 10.00 Big League Weekend 11.00 NFL – Total Access 12.00am Golf Night 2.30 Rugby Union 5.30 Sports Adventures

Sky Sports 3 6.30am IAAF Athletix 7.00 WWE Raw 9.00 UEFA Champions League (x2) 11.00 Aerobics 11.30 Racing News 12.00pm Race World 1.00 NFL – Total Access 2.00 Sports Adventures 2.30 ATP Tennis Magazine 3.00 Suzuki Swift Cup 4.00 Race World 5.00 WWE Raw UK 7.00 Gillette World Sport 7.30 Golf Night 10.00 WWE Late Night Smackdown 12.00am WWE Late Night Bottom Line 1.00 Rugby League 3.00 Tight Lines 4.00 Football: UEFA Champions League (x2)

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12.00pm Stargate Atlantis 1.00 Cold Case 2.00 Angel 3.00 Stargate SG-1 (x2) 5.00 Futurama (x3) 6.30 Malcolm in the Middle 7.00 The Simpsons (x2) 8.00 Are You Smarter than a Ten-Year-Old? 9.00 Ross Kemp in Afghanistan 10.00 FILM: Black Friday (2007) 11.35 Battlestar Galactica 12.35am Stargate Atlantis

7.00pm Top Gear 8.00 Last Man Standing 9.00 Doctor Who 9.45 Doctor Who Confidential 10.00 EastEnders 10.30 Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (x2) 11.30 Family Guy (x2) 12.15am Scallywagga 12.45 Ideal 1.15 Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (x2) 2.15 Glamour Girls

7.00pm World News Today 7.30 Transatlantic Sessions 8.00 Darcey Bussell’s Ten Best Ballet Moments 9.00 James Taylor: One Man Band 10.05 Hotel California: LA from The Byrds to The Eagles 11.40 In Concert: James Taylor 12.20am The Avengers 1.10 James Taylor: One Man Band

4.30pm Sally Jessy Raphael 5.20 The Montel Williams Show 6.05 Judge Judy (x2) 7.00 Smallville 8.00 Britain’s Got Talent 9.00 American Idol 2008 10.00 Katie & Peter: The Next Chapter. See highlights. 11.00 Coronation Street 11.30 FILM: Jurassic Park III (2001)

3.05pm Jeeves and Wooster 4.15 Surgical Spirit 4.45 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries: The Double 5.50 Heartbeat 6.55 The Beiderbecke Affair 8.00 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries: The Double 9.00 Murder In Mind: Regrets 10.00 Doc Martin 11.10 FILM: Eye For An Eye (1996) 1.15am The Odyssey

2.05pm Style Her Famous 2.35 Joan of Arcadia 3.30 Smallville 4.25 Hollyoaks 5.00 Friends (x2) 6.00 Scrubs (x2) 7.00 Hollyoaks 7.30 My Name is Earl 8.00 Friends (x2) 9.00 Supernanny US 10.00 FILM: The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell Of Fear (1991) 11.40 Scrubs (x2) 12.35am The Simple Life (x2)

1.10pm Deal or No Deal 2.00 ER 3.00 Hill Street Blues 4.00 A Place in the Sun (x2) 5.05 Relocation, Relocation 6.05 Deal or No Deal 7.00 Grand Designs 8.00 More4 News 8.30 The Daily Show with Jon Stewart 9.00 FILM: Downfall (2004) 11.55 Sex in the 90s 12.55am Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

2.00pm Bewitched (x2) 3.00 Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman 4.00 Charmed (x2) 6.00 America’s Next Top Model 7.00 The Steve Wilkos Show 7.55 The Fix 8.00 Moonlight 9.00 Criminal Minds 10.00 CSI: Miami 11.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 12.00am The X Files

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3.40pm My Family 4.20 Keeping Up Appearances 5.00 Last of the Summer Wine 5.40 Open All Hours 6.20 My Family 7.00 New Tricks 8.00 Dancing with the Stars (x2) 10.15 New Tricks 11.15 FILM: Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) 1.00am The Worst Week of My Life 1.40 The Black Adder

3.00pm Two and a Half Men (x2) 4.00 King of Queens (x2) 5.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (x2) 6.00 Frasier (x2) 7.00 Becker (x2) 8.00 Two and a Half Men (x2) 9.00 South Park (x2) 10.00 Sex and the City (x2) 11.10 Two and a Half Men 11.40 Scrubs 12.10am South Park 12.40 Shortcuts Shuffle 12.50 Comedy Blue

3.00pm Deadliest Catch 4.00 Days That Shook the World 5.00 How It’s Made 5.30 How do They do It? 6.00 Mythbusters 7.00 How It’s Made 7.30 How do They do It? 8.00 Deadliest Catch 9.00 Crime Scene Australia 10.00 Life or Death 11.00 Crime Scene Australia 12.00am Crime Scene USA (x2)

12.00pm The Lost World 1.00 Quantum Leap 2.00 FILM: The Invincible Iron Man (2007) 4.00 Star Trek 5.00 The Lost World 6.00 Dark Angel 7.00 Quantum Leap 8.00 3rd Rock from the Sun (x2) 9.00 Flash Gordon 10.00 FILM: Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) 11.50 FILM: Project Viper (2002) 1.30am Ghost Stories

Classics

Indie

1.25pm Billion Dollar Brain (1967) 3.20 Shadow Of A Doubt (1943) 5.15 Brute Force (1947) 7.05 Island In The Sky (1953) 9.00 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) 11.05 Billion Dollar Brain (1967) 1.00am Shadow Of A Doubt (1943) 3.00 Brute Force (1947)

10.00am Cyrano De Bergerac (1990) 12.25pm Cabaret (1972) 2.35 A Good Woman (2004) 4.15 The Duellists (1977) 6.05 On A Clear Day (2005) 7.05 Cabaret (1972) 10.00 The Thin Red Line (1998) 12.55am The Duellists (1977) 2.40 London To Brighton (2006)

1.00pm The Good Die Young (1954) 2.55 The One That Got Away (1958) 5.00 The Fly (1958) Original creature feature. 6.55 Timeline (2003) 9.00 I, Robot (2004) 11.05 Resident Evil (2002) Video game-inspired horror.

12.55am The Crazies (1973)

1.00pm Silas Marner: The Weaver Of Raveloe (1985) 3.00 The Cincinnati Kid (1965) 4.55 The Boyfriend (1971) 7.20 The Green Slime (1969) 9.00 Catholic Boys (1985) 10.55 Classic Shorts 11.00 Classic Shorts: The Amazing Trousers 11.15 Pink Floyd The Wall (1982) 1.00am Shaft In Africa (1973)

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saturday 3 Love Soup BBC1, 9.45pm Leading lady Tasmin Greig continues to shine in this reliably quirky and offbeat look at modern sex and the single girl. Tonight Alice has managed to move off Milly’s sofa and into her own room in actress friend Fae’s spacious flat – but, as usual, little else in her life looks like it’s settling down.

All Star Mr and Mrs ITV1, 7.05pm More celebrity couples come under the scrutiny of Fern and Philip to compete for big cash prizes on behalf of their chosen charities. This evening’s dirt is dished by Formula 1 driver David Coulthard plus fiancee Karen, comedian Vic Reeves with wife Nancy Sorrell and Bez’s other half, Monica Ward.

In Search of Medieval Britain BBC4, 7.10pm Art historian Dr Alixe Bovey gets medieval on our collective asses with a look at how we used to live back in ye olde days. Exploring the life of the commoner, she discovers where common law came from and examines the bloody beginnings of modern parliament.

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6.00am Breakfast 10.00 Saturday Kitchen 11.30 Great British Menu 12.00pm BBC News; Weather 12.10 Football Focus 1.00 World Championship Snooker 4.30 Final Score 5.20 BBC News 5.40 The Kids Are All Right

6.00am Fimbles 6.20 Tikkabilla 6.55 Be Safe with the Tweenies 7.00 Batfink 7.10 Witch 7.35 Trollz 7.55 Bernard 8.00 The Sorcerer’s Apprentice 8.30 Thumb Wrestling Federation 8.35 Even Stevens 9.00 Escape from Scorpion Island (x2) 9.55 Diddy Dick and Dom 10.00 Hedz 10.30 The Slammer 11.00 What’s New Scooby-Doo? 11.20 Animalia 11.45 Sportsround 12.00pm Falcon Beach (x2) 1.30 The Surgery 1.50 Sound 2.20 FILM: All For Love (1998) 3.45 Monk 4.30 World Snooker 5.30 Coast 6.30 Dad’s Army During an exercise, Captain Mainwaring takes the role of a highly important secret agent – but the regular army is not convinced.

7.00 World Snooker 10.00 Have I Got a Bit More News For You Extended repeat of the news quiz, with team captains Paul Merton and Ian Hislop, guest host Brian Blessed and guest panellist Alan Duncan MP. 10.40 Comedy Map of Britain The Donald Brothers, Simon and Chris, disturb the peace in the Newcastle Victorian terrace where they gave birth to legendary anarchic comic Viz. 11.40 The Apprentice The candidates must come up with a brand new occasion for a range of greetings cards.

12.40am The Apprentice: You’re Fired 1.15 FILM: Tape (2001) 2.35 Mad Men 3.25 Monk 4.05 Close

6.00am GMTV 9.25 Supernormal 9.40 Emu 9.55 My Parents are Aliens 10.25 Coronation Street Omnibus 12.15pm ITV News and Weather 12.20 Meridian News and Weather 12.25 The Crocodile Hunter Diaries 1.25 FILM: Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) 3.00 FILM: Back To The Future, Part III (1990) 4.00 Meridian News and Weather 4.15 ITV News and Weather 4.30 FILM: Back To The Future, Part III (1990) 5.35 All New You’ve Been Framed!

6.00am The Treacle People 6.10 The Hoobs (x2) 7.00 Goalissimo!

8.00 The Morning Line 8.55 Beauty and the Geek 9.55 The Nokia Green Room 10.25 Shipwrecked 2008: Battle of the Islands 11.30 Shipwrecked 2008: The Third Island 12.00pm Friends 12.30 Shipwrecked 2008: The Hutcam Diaries 1.00 Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious 2.00 Channel 4 Racing 4.20 Deal Or No Deal 5.05 Jamie at Home 5.40 Come Dine with Me

6.00am Sunrise 7.00 Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs 7.15 Little Princess 7.35 The Beeps 7.50 The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky 8.05 The Milkshake! Show 8.40 Hana’s Helpline 8.55 The Funky Valley Show 9.10 Gerald McBoing Boing 9.40 Mist: Sheepdog Tales 10.00 Football Italiano Highlights 10.30 Neighbours 12.40pm Breaking into Tesco 1.40 FILM: S Club: Seeing Double (2003) 3.30 FILM: Walk, Don’t Run (1966) 5.35 FILM: Anzio (1968)

6.00am Aerobics: Oz Style 6.30 Barclays Premier League Preview 7.00 Big League Weekend 8.00 UEFA Champions League Weekly 8.30 Barclays Premier League Preview 9.00 Soccer AM 12.00pm Ford Football Special LIVE 3.00 Gillette Soccer Saturday 5.55 LIVE Rugby Union 8.25 Football First: Game of the Day 10.15 Football First: Match Choice (x4) 4.15 Spanish Football 5.45 Sky Sports Classics

6.05 Kids Do the Funniest Things Stephen Mulhern presents more clips of children doing strange things.

7.05 All Star Mr and Mrs See highlights.

8.05 Britain’s Got Talent Judges Simon Cowell, Piers Morgan and Amanda Holden continue to audition some of the best – and worst – talent in the country.

9.10 Pushing Daisies Emerson, Ned and Chuck are assisted by Olive as they try to track down the ‘ghost’ who has been killing jockeys at the arena where Olive used to race.

10.10 The Matrix Revolutions: Special Introduction Producer Joel Silver introduces the second and final sequel to one of his most famous productions, The Matrix, exclusively for ITV viewers.

10.15 FILM: The Matrix Revolutions (2003) Final part of the trilogy that sees Neo, Morpheus and Trinity battling to save Zion from the onslaught of the machines.

11.15 ITV News and Weather 11.30 FILM: The Matrix Revolutions (2003) The head-scratching, overblown sci-fi action continues.

12.55am Nightwatch with Steve Scott: Mystery 2.40 FILM: Splitting Heirs (1992) 4.05 ITV Nightscreen 5.30 ITV Early Morning News

6.40 Channel 4 News Including sport and weather.

7.10 Grand Designs Abroad Kevin McCloud is in Tuscany to review the progress of a couple who bought a ruined castle in 1999 only to spend four years battling the Italian authorities for planning permission to modernise it.

8.10 ER Neela finds out that a patient who had emergency aorta surgery has developed an infection.

9.10 FILM: Charlotte Gray (2001) World War II drama about an English woman who volunteers to work for the British intelligence services after the fighter pilot with whom she had an affair is lost in action in France.

11.20 Boy A Coming-of-age story about Jack, a man released from prison 14 years after serving a sentence for a murder he committed at the age of ten.

1.20am FILM: The Shape Of Things (2003) 3.05 FILM: Friday Night In (2001) 3.15 FILM: Seance On A Wet Afternoon (1964) 5.15 3 Minute Wonder: Preparing For the Worst 5.25 Countdown

7.40 Five News and Sport The latest national and international headlines.

7.55 NCIS The NCIS team investigates the fatal shooting of an officer.

8.50 NCIS The team is called in when a marine’s wife is murdered live on the Internet.

9.45 CSI: NY The CSIs investigate when a salesman’s body is found washed up on Rockaway Beach near several dead sharks.

10.45 Law and Order A man is arrested for the fatal shooting of a teenager, only to escape conviction when the prosecution’s star witness is murdered.

11.45 True CSI This edition reconstructs the investigation into the murder of a man at an Ohio gas station.

12.45am Quiz Call Interactive quiz show giving viewers the chance to answer questions for money.

5.10 Wildlife SOS (x2)

6.20 Doctor Who As the Sontarans choke the Earth, the Doctor battles to keep both Martha and Donna alive.

7.05 I’d Do Anything The remaining seven Nancys battle it out to stay in the competition.

8.05 The National Lottery: 1 Vs 100 Ben Shephard hosts a quiz show in which one hopeful contestant takes on 100 opponents in a bid to win a big cash prize.

8.55 Casualty A growing relationship between a couple with Down’s Syndrome has an effect on everyone in the ED. 9.45 Love Soup See highlights.

10.00 BBC News The latest news.

10.30 Match of the Day Gary Lineker presents all the goals and highlights from the day’s Premier League games.

11.50 FILM: Halloween H20 (1998) An addition to the long-running horror franchise, in which the first film’s victim has become paranoid and is tormented by her experiences of twenty years before.

1.10am Man Utd: Beyond the Promised Land Sports documentary focusing on Manchester United’s successful 1999 season.

2.30 Friday Night with Jonathan Ross 3.30 Weatherview

Sky Sports 2 6.00am Sports Adventures 6.30 Friday Fight Night 8.30 LIVE Rugby Union: Super 14 10.30 LIVE Rugby Union: Super 14 12.30pm Gillette World Sport 1.00 Max Power 2.00 LIVE Motor Racing: A1 Grand Prix 4.00 Sports Adventures 4.30 Gillette World Sport 5.00 LIVE Super League: Millennium Magic 7.00 LIVE Super League: Millennium Magic 9.00 Super League: Millennium Magic 10.00 Sports Adventures 10.30 Motor Racing: A1 Grand Prix 12.30am LIVE NASCAR 4.30 Max Power 5.30 IAAF Athletix Weekly

Sky Sports 3 6.00am ATP Tennis Magazine 6.30 Golf Night 9.00 WWE Smackdown 11.00 WWE The Bottom Line 12.00pm Sports Adventures 12.30 LIVE European Tour Golf 4.30 WWE Smackdown 6.30 WWE The Bottom Line 7.30 Golf Night 10.00 Extreme Championship Wrestling 11.00 WWE Late Night Smackdown 1.00am WWE Late Night Bottom Line 2.00 Spanish Football 3.30 Golf Night

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12.00pm Malcolm in the Middle 12.30 Bite Size Brainiac 12.50 Lost in 8’15 1.00 Lost: Enhanced (x4) 5.00 Malcolm in the Middle 5.30 Futurama (x5) 8.00 The Simpsons (x2) 9.00 Road Wars (x2) 11.00 Law and Order 12.00am AZ of Gladiators 1.30 FILM: Something Beneath (2007) 3.00 Deadwood (x2)

7.00pm Three’s Outtakes 7.05 Doctor Who Confidential 7.50 The Real Hustle 8.05 Top Gear 9.10 FILM: High Fidelity (2000) 10.55 Scallywagga 11.25 Family Guy (x5) 1.15am Glamour Girls 1.45 Page Three Teens 2.45 The Wall 3.30 Scallywagga 3.55 Glamour Girls 4.25 The Real Hustle

7.00pm Meetings with Remarkable Trees 7.10 In Search of Medieval Britain.

See highlights. 7.40 The Book Quiz 8.10 A Perfect Spy (x2) 10.00 The Best of Youth 11.35 Mad Men (x3) US drama. 1.55am David Ogilvy: Original Mad Man 2.55 In Search of Medieval Britain 3.25 The Book Quiz.

Literary game show.

2.50pm Beat the Star 4.05 Britain’s Got More Talent 5.05 Pushing Daisies 6.05 Gossip Girl 7.05 FILM: Jurassic Park III (2001) 8.50 Planet’s Funniest Animals 9.10 Thank God You’re Here 10.10 Britain’s Got More Talent 11.10 Katie & Peter: The Next Chapter 12.10am Britain’s Got Talent 1.15 Britain’s Got More Talent

6.00am Surgical Spirit 6.25 Movies Now 6.35 The Rockford Files 7.30 Ironside (x3) 10.40 Robin of Sherwood 11.40 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries: The Double 12.45pm Cadfael (x5) 9.10 Decoding Cadfael 10.10 Cadfael (x2) 1.25am Tales of the Unexpected (x2) 2.20 Ironside 3.10 The Rockford Files

1.35pm Miss Match 2.30 Hollyoaks Omnibus 5.00 Friends (x2) 6.00 Joan of Arcadia 7.00 Lost 7.55 Friends (x2) 9.00 Peep Show 9.35 Derren Brown: Trick or Treat 10.05 FILM: The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell Of Fear (1991) 11.45 Roy Chubby Brown: Britain’s Rudest Comedian 12.45am Lost

9.00am A Place in the Sun 9.30 Time Team (x4) 1.35pm FILM: Up Periscope (1959) 3.40 Relocation, Relocation (x5) 9.10 Ten Days That Made the Queen 10.40 Bremner, Bird and Fortune 11.50 The West Wing 12.50am Deal Or No Deal 1.40 Ten Days That Made the Queen 3.05 Relocation, Relocation

2.00pm The Steve Wilkos Show 2.55 The Fix 3.00 The Jerry Springer Show (x2) 4.00 FILM: Stepmom (1998) 6.30 Will and Grace 7.00 Britain’s Next Top Model 8.00 Ghost Whisperer 9.00 New Most Haunted 10.00 Hotel Babylon 11.05 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 12.05am The X Files 1.00 Exposed: Kate Moss

UK TV Gold

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3.50pm Dinnerladies 4.30 The Thin Blue Line 5.10 Blackadder II 5.50 My Family Christmas Special 6.55 My Family 8.00 Blackadder’s Christmas Carol 9.00 FILM: Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) 10.50 The Black Adder 11.30 The Royle Family 12.10am Men Behaving Badly

4.00pm Everybody Hates Chris (x2) 5.00 Two and a Half Men (x2) 6.00 Everybody Hates Chris (x2) 7.00 Scrubs (x2) 8.00 Everybody Hates Chris (x2) 9.00 Scrubs 9.30 Two and a Half Men 10.00 Sex and the City (x4) 12.20am Two and a Half Men 12.50 South Park (x2) 1.50 Sex and the City (x3)

12.00pm Deadliest Catch: Lobstermen (x3) 3.00 Secrets of Egypt’s Lost Queen 5.00 Mega Builders (x2) 7.00 Cleopatra’s Palace: In Search of a Legend 8.00 Bone Detectives: Human Sacrifice 9.00 Time Team 10.00 Most Evil 11.00 Forensic Detectives 12.00am Most Evil (x2)

12.00pm Flash Gordon 1.00 Quantum Leap 2.40 The Making of Tin Man 3.10 FILM: Timestalkers (1987) 5.00 FILM: Weird Science (1985) 6.50 FILM: Flash Gordon (1980) 9.00 Medium 10.00 FILM: The Fog (1980) 11.40 FILM: Weird Science (1985) 1.30am FILM: Shepherd (1999) 3.20 Ghost Stories

Classics

Indie

7.15am Shenandoah (1965) 9.05 Rio Grande (1950) 10.55 Gypsy (1962) 1.20pm The Bishop’s Wife (1947) 3.20 Father Goose (1964) 5.20 Shenandoah (1965) 7.10 Rio Grande (1950) 9.00 Barbarella (1968) 10.40 Rosemary’s Baby (1968) 1.00am Father Goose (1964) 3.05 Gypsy (1962)

12.10pm Pecker (1998) 1.45 Transamerica (2005) 3.40 New Police Story (2004) 5.50 Indie Close-Up 6.20 The Wind That Shakes The Barley (2006) 8.30 Pecker (1998) 10.00 The Big Lebowski (1998) 12.00am New Police Story (2004) 2.10 Transamerica (2005) 4.00 Sky Movies Preview

1.00pm The Spanish Gardener (1956) 2.45 Thunderbirds Are Go! (1966) Sci fi puppetry. 4.35 The Sons Of Katie Elder (1965) 7.00 Congo (1995) Jungle horror. 9.00 Evolution (2001) Sci fi comedy. 10.50 The Fly (1986) Gory horror remake.

12.35am The Tree Of Wooden Clogs (1978)

1.00pm The People Against O’Hara (1951) 3.00 Anchors Aweigh (1945) 5.30 Code Name: Emerald (1985) 7.10 Casablanca (1942) 9.00 Dead Calm (1989) 10.45 Classic Shorts 10.50 Classic Shorts Cocoon 11.05 Blowup (1966) 1.05am Mr Ricco (1975) 2.55 Boom Town (1940) 5.00 Abbott And Costello In Hollywood (1945)

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sunday 4 Flood ITV1, 8.05pm Just how wet can this summer get? Very wet, if you believe this fictional account of watery disaster taken from Richard Doyles best-selling novel. When a hurricane destroys a Scottish coast the chain reaction looks set to engulf the capital. But, with the seconds ticking away, will anyone take the threat seriously?

Grand Designs Live Channel 4, 8.05pm In a feat of engineering that your usual tea-slurping slacker builders can only dream of Kevin McCloud has six days to build his own Grand Design broadcast live from a special two-storey project.

While he’s busy viewers will get the chance to vote for their favourite finalists in the Grand Designs Home of the Year.

James Taylor: One Man Band BBC4, 10.45pm He’s seen fire and he’s seen rain, but in his later years singer song writer James Taylor has settled down into cosy MOR-mode. See for yourself when he used to have a little more fire in his belly with rare archive footage, revealing interviews, and the stories behind all his hits.

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6.00am Breakfast 7.45 MotoGP: Shanghai 9.00 The Andrew Marr Show 10.00 Sunday Life 11.00 Countryfile 12.00pm The Politics Show 1.00 EastEnders 2.55 FILM: Madeline (1998) 4.20 ‘Allo ‘Allo!

4.50 Keeping Up Appearances 5.20 Points of View 5.35 Songs of Praise

6.00am Fimbles 6.20 Tikkabilla 6.55 Be Safe with the Tweenies 7.00 Legend of the Dragon 7.25 Watch My Chops 7.35 The Batman 7.55 Bernard 8.00 Trapped 8.30 Hider in the House 9.30 Diddy Dick and Dom 9.35 Match of the Day 11.00 Something for the Weekend 12.30pm Premiership Rugby 1.00 Badminton Horse Trials 3.00 World Snooker 5.30 Under the Skin

6.00am GMTV 9.25 Jim Jam and Sunny 9.40 Jim Jam and Sunny 9.55 Captain Mack 10.10 Meg and Mog 10.15 Planet’s Funniest Animals 10.35 FILM: Custer Of The West (1967) 1.05pm ITV News and Weather 1.15 Meridian News and Weather 1.20 Britain’s Got Talent 2.20 FILM: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) 4.20 Pushing Daisies 5.20 Along These Lines 5.50 Meridian News and Weather

6.10am Inuk 6.25 The Hoobs 6.50 Trans World Sport 7.45 The British Formula 3 International Series 8.15 The Shooting Party 8.45 Shipwrecked 2008: The Hutcam Diaries 9.20 Hollyoaks Omnibus 11.50 Shipwrecked 2008: Battle of the Islands 12.55pm Shipwrecked 2008: The Third Island 1.25 The Nokia Green Room 2.00 Channel 4 Racing 4.10 The Simpsons (x2) 5.05 Time Team

6.00am Aerobics: Oz Style 6.30 UEFA Champions League Weekly 7.00 Football First: Match Choice (x2) 10.00 Sunday Supplement 11.00 Goals on Sunday 1.00pm LIVE Ford Super Sunday (x2) 6.30 Super Sunday: The Last Word 7.00 LIVE Spanish Football 10.00 Ford Football Special 11.30 Super Sunday: The Last Word 12.00am Championship Football 1.00 Football: Welsh Cup Final 1.30 Spanish Football 3.00 Ford Football Special 4.30 Super Sunday: The Last Word 5.00 Championship Football

6.10 BBC News; Regional News; Weather 6.35 Seaside Rescue Documentary series following the work of maritime rescue services.

7.05 I’d Do Anything Results Another Nancy leaves the competition, but who will Andrew Lloyd Webber save in the dreaded sing-off?

7.35 My Family Ben decides to sell his dental practice.

8.05 FILM: Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) Action-packed adventure epic in which an intrepid archaeologist tries to beat a band of Nazis to a unique religious relic which is central to their plans for world domination.

10.00 BBC News; Weather 10.20 Match of the Day 2 Adrian Chiles presents highlights from the day’s two Premier League matches.

11.10 FILM: Dragonfly (2002) Sci-fi drama. A doctor struggles with grief after his wife is killed while working with the Red Cross in Colombia, but when he sees a pattern in the sketches of children in his hospital, he becomes convinced that she is trying to contact him.

12.45am The Sky at Night 1.05 Weatherview 1.10 Sign Zone: Watchdog 1.40 Holby City 2.40 The Age of Terror 3.40 Ben Fogle’s Extreme Dreams 4.10 Joins News 24

6.00 Young Musician of the Year 7.00 The Birth of Israel Documentary examining the events leading up to the Israeli war of Independence in l949, its continuing impact on Arab/Israeli relations and the implications for the Middle East peace process.

8.00 World Snooker 11.00 FILM: The Ipcress File (1965) Classic spy thriller starring Michael Caine as an agent assigned to investigate a bizarre brain drain among scientists. Based on the novel by Len Deighton, it spawned two sequels.

12.45am The Graham Norton Show Uncut repeat of the chat show featuring celebrities, live music and fabulous weirdness from the great British public. Featuring the reunion of Hart to Hart stars Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers, with music from Sandi Thom.

1.30 Heroes 2.15 FILM: Curdled (1996) 3.40 Joins BBC News 4.10 Inside Sport

6.05 ITV News and Weather A round-up of the latest news headlines and a national weather forecast.

6.20 Beat the Star 7.35 Coronation Street Audrey continues to comfort Maria but is concerned when she makes a startling discovery.

8.05 Flood See highlights.

10.05 Headcases Topical satirical CGI comedy show which takes a biting look at the great and the good from celebrities to politicians and members of the Royal Family.

10.35 ITV News and Weather The latest news headlines plus a national weather forecast.

10.50 Liza Minnelli: The South Bank Show Melvyn Bragg interviews Liza Minnelli, one of the modern age’s most successful entertainers, at the London Coliseum as she prepares for her forthcoming UK tour.

11.50 Championship Goals Matt Smith reviews all the action from the final weekend of the season in the Coca-Cola Championship and Leagues One and Two. 12.55am Cathedral 1.45 Dial a Mum 2.20 Under One Roof (x2) 3.10 People’s Court 4.05 ITV Nightscreen 5.30 ITV Early Morning News

6.00 Scrapheap Challenge Engineering challenge series in which two teams must create a piece of machinery using junk from a scrapyard.

7.00 Channel 4 News Including sport and weather.

7.05 Bremner, Bird and Fortune As Barack and Hillary do battle and Ken faces a challenge from Boris, politics is threatening to become fun again as the threesome target those in the public eye.

8.05 Grand Designs Live See highlights.

9.05 FILM: The Full Monty (1997) Blockbuster comedy about a group of unemployed Sheffield men who turn to stripping to try to escape the poverty trap.

10.45 FILM: Desperado (1995) Violent, action-packed tale of a mysterious figure who arrives in a Mexican border town seeking revenge against the local crime boss.

12.40am FILM: My First Mister (2002) Comedy drama in which a teenage goth chick, fresh out of high school, finds a job in a local clothing store where she forms an unlikely friendship with her middle-aged, conservative boss.

2.50 Shooting Gallery: The Dish 3.00 The Diets That Time Forgot 4.00 St Elsewhere 4.55 A Brief History of Fun 5.10 Countdown

6.25am Angels of Jarm 6.30 Elmo’s World 6.45 Roobarb and Custard Too 6.55 Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs 7.05 Little Princess 7.25 The Beeps 7.40 Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky 8.00 Milkshake!

8.30 Hana’s Helpline 8.50 The Funky Valley Show 9.00 Gerald McBoing Boing 9.30 Mist 9.45 Demolition Dad 10.00 The Gadget Show 11.00 Kathryn Tickell’s Northumbria 11.50 FILM: I Love You, I Love You Not (1997) 1.30pm Football Italiano 4.20 Escape From Alcatraz 5.20 News 5.35 FILM: Spider-Man 2 (2004) 8.05 FILM: The Bridges Of Madison County (1995) Romantic drama about a passionate affair between an ageing photographer and a lonely housewife in 1960s Iowa.

10.40 FILM: Consenting Adults (1992) Thriller in which a man is arrested on suspicion of murder after succumbing to his neighbour’s desire for a wife-swapping session.

12.30am Great Edinburgh Run Scotland’s capital plays host to thousands of athletes and fun-runners as they undertake a ten-kilometre run through the city.

The runners will take in some of Edinburgh’s most stunning scenery and famous landmarks, including the castle, the Scott Monument, the Royal Mile, Holyrood Palace and the Scottish Parliament building.

1.00 Major League Baseball 4.20 IndyCar 5.10 Wildlife SOS (x2)

Sky Sports 2 6.00am Super League: Millennium Magic 8.00 Super League: Millennium Magic 10.00 Super League: Millennium Magic 11.00 Watersports World 12.00pm LIVE Cricket: Friends Provident Trophy 1.30 Live Football League 4.15 LIVE Cricket: Friends Provident Trophy 7.30 Golf Night 9.30 Gillette World Sport 10.00 A1 Grand Prix 12.00am Golf Night 2.00 A1 Grand Prix 4.00 Golf Night

Sky Sports 3 6.00am Wild Spirits 6.30 Race World 7.30 Spanish Football 9.00 WWE Afterburn 10.00 WWE Heat 11.00 NASCAR 1.00pm LIVE Motor Racing: A1 Grand Prix 4.00 Wild Spirits 4.30 LIVE Super League: Millennium Magic 6.30 LIVE Super League: Millennium Magic 8.30 Super League: Millennium Magic 9.30 Wild Spirits 10.00 WWE Late Night Afterburn 11.00 WWE Heat 12.00am NASCAR 2.00 Watersports World 3.00 Race World 4.00 Fishing: Bass Fishing 5.00 Watersports World

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12.00pm A-Z of Gladiators 1.30 Lost: Enhanced (x4) 5.30 The Simpsons 6.00 Are You Smarter Than a Ten-Year-Old? 7.00 Gladiators Ready! The Gladiators Story 8.00 The Simpsons (x2) 9.00 Lost 10.00 FILM: Goodfellas (1990) 12.40am Ross Kemp in Afghanistan 1.40 Road Wars

7.00pm Sound 7.30 The Real Hustle 8.00 Doctor Who 8.45 Doctor Who Confidential 9.30 Little Britain 10.00 Family Guy 10.45 Scallywagga 11.15 Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (x2) 12.15am Child Stars 1.15 The Real Hustle 1.45 Scallywagga 2.10 Two Pints of Lager

7.00pm Inside the Medieval Mind 8.00 Terry Jones’ Medieval Lives (x2) 9.00 Dear Television 9.10 Washes Whiter 10.00 Mad Men 10.45 James Taylor: One Man Band. See highlights. 11.50 Hotel California: LA from The Byrds to The Eagles 1.25am In Concert: James Taylor

11.40am FILM: Beverly Hills Cop (1984) 1.40pm Emmerdale Omnibus 4.05 Coronation Street Omnibus 6.05 American Idol 2008 (x2) 8.05 Britain’s Got Talent 9.05 Britain’s Got More Talent 10.05 Bionic Woman 11.05 Katie & Peter: The Next Chapter 12.05am Coronation Street 12.40 Laura, Ben and Him

11.20am Agatha Christie’s Partners in Crime 12.25pm Dempsey and Makepeace.

Classic crime drama. 1.30 Cadfael (x4) 8.00 Decoding Cadfael 9.00 Cadfael (x3) 1.50 Tales of the Unexpected. Quirky drama.

2.20 Dead Man’s Walk 3.50 Movies Now 4.00 Emmerdale Omnibus. Rural soap.

3.20pm Shipwrecked 2008: Battle of the Islands 4.25 Shipwrecked 2008: The Third Island 5.00 Friends (x2) 6.00 The War at home 6.30 Big Bang Theory 7.00 Scrubs 7.30 My Name is Earl 8.00 Friends (x2) 9.00 Desperate Housewives (x2) 11.00 Brothers and Sisters 12.00am Dirty Sexy Money 1.00 My Name is Earl

4.40pm Come Dine with Me (x5) 7.25 Jamie at Home 7.55 The View from River Cottage 8.30 The View from River Cottage 9.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 10.00 Michael Barrymore: What Really Happened 11.05 Father Ted 11.40 The IT Crowd 12.10am Curb Your Enthusiasm

1.55pm Maury (x2) 3.45 The Fix 3.50 Maury (x2) 5.30 The Jerry Springer Show 6.00 Army Wives 7.00 Outrageous Home Videos: Crazy Kids’ Clips 8.00 Nothing to Declare (x2) 9.00 CSI: Miami 10.00 Criminal Minds 11.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 12.00am The X Files 1.00 Criminal Minds

UK TV Gold

Paramount

Discovery

Sci Fi

Sky Movies

Sky Movies

Film4

TCM

1.20pm My Family 2.25 FILM: First Knight (1995) 5.00 Dancing With the Stars (x2) 7.20 Only Fools and Horses (x2) 9.00 FILM: Sweet Home Alabama (2002) 11.00 The Black Adder 11.40 The Royle Family 12.20am Men Behaving Badly 1.00 The Worst Week of My Life 1.40 The Royle Family

6.00am QVC: Shopping Made Easy 9.00 Everybody Hates Chris (x6) 12.00pm Everybody Hates Chris (x6) 3.00 Everybody Hates Chris (x6) 6.00 (x6) 9.00 Scrubs 9.30 Two and a Half Men 10.00 Sex and the City (x4) 12.25am Two and a Half Men 12.55 Scrubs (x4) 2.55 Sex and the City 3.30 Linc’s

12.00pm Deadliest Catch (x6) 6.00 Mythbusters (x2) 8.00 Oil Strike! 9.00 Born Survivor: Bear Grylls 10.00 Most Evil 11.00 Forensic Detectives 12.00am Crime Scene USA: Body of Evidence 12.30 Crime Scene USA: Body of Evidence 1.00 Most Evil 2.00 Forensic Detectives 3.00 Oil Strike!

12.05pm The Making of Tin Man 12.40 FILM: Making Mr Right (1987) 2.40 FILM: Flash Gordon (1980) 4.50 FILM: Short Circuit II (1988) 8.00 FILM: Jason And The Argonauts (2000) 9.50 FILM: Highlander (1986) 12.20am FILM: The Howling (1981) 2.00 Flash Gordon 3.00 Dark Angel 4.00 Profiler

Classics

Indie

1.15pm Duck Soup (1933) 2.30 King Kong Vs Godzilla (1962) 4.05 The Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954) 5.30 Operation Petticoat (1959) 7.30 War Of The Worlds (1953) 9.00 Sands Of Iwo Jima (1949) 10.55 The Italian Job (1969) 12.40am A Place In The Sun (1951)

10.00am Marie Antoinette (2006) 12.05pm Them (2005) 1.40 Kundun (1997) 4.00 Indie Close-Up 4.30 Them (2005) 5.55 Marie Antoinette (2006) 8.00 Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds 10.00 Nil By Mouth (1997) 12.10am Guy (1996) 1.45 Kundun (1997)

1.00pm Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow (2004) 3.10 River Of No Return (1954) 4.55 White Feather (1955) 6.55 HappyGo-Lucky Preview 7.05 Evolution (2001) 9.00 The Fifth Element (1997) 11.25 Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes (1972) Simian sci fi. 1.05am The Cooler (2003)

3.05pm High Society (1956) 5.00 Strangers On A Train (1951) 6.55 Rhapsody (1954) 9.00 Plenty (1985) 11.15 Classic Shorts 2007 On Air 11.20 Classic Shorts Intro: Perfect To Begin 11.22 Classic Shorts 07: Perfect To Begin 11.45 Lolita (1962) 2.25am Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse (1961)

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monday 5 Am I Normal?

BBC2, 11pm Dr Tanya Byron dives into the murky world of sexual desire as she tries to discover why we condone some sexual behaviour, but see others as repugnant, and even dangerous. In the course of her enquiries she meets a man who’s had sex with 5,000 partners, and a women who thinks a low libido is the norm.

Britain’s Drowned World Channel 4, 7.30pm With disaster drama Flood finishing on ITV1 tonight, there’s more watery stuff on the agenda as the Time Team examine how man used to live before sea levels rose and destroyed much of Europe. Travelling across the English Channel and the North Sea, Tony Robinson discovers a wealth of archeological finds.

Celebrity Come Dine With Me More4, 9pm Prepare for some dinner parties from hell with this celeb special of the cookery competition show.

Tamara Beckwith, MC Harvey and Jonathan Ansell are the cooks charged with becoming the hosts with the most and winning some hard cash for their chosen charities.

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6.00am Breakfast 9.00 Missing Live 9.45 Homes Under the Hammer 10.45 To Buy or Not to Buy 11.30 Bargain Hunt 12.15pm BBC News and Weather 12.30 South East Today; Weather 12.40 MOTD Live: Women’s FA Cup Final 3.10 FILM: Honey, I Blew Up The Kid (1992) 4.35 FILM: National Treasure (2004)

6.00am Tikkabilla 6.30 Teletubbies 6.55 Pozzie 7.00 Arthur 7.25 Newsround 7.30 Hider in the House 8.29 The Owl 8.30 Jackanory Junior 8.45 Numberjacks 9.00 Boogie Beebies 9.20 Me Too! 9.40 Something Special 9.55 Be Safe with the Tweenies 10.00 In the Night Garden 10.30 Dangermouse 10.50 Animal Park 11.50 FILM: A Distant Trumpet (1964) 1.45pm Murder, She Wrote 2.30 World Championship Snooker

6.00am GMTV 9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show 10.30 Dickinson’s Real Deal 11.30 60 Minute Makeover 12.30pm Loose Women 1.30 ITV Lunchtime News and Weather 2.00 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 3.00 Midsomer Murders 5.00 Goldenballs

6.20am The Hoobs 6.45 Freshly Squeezed 7.15 Everybody Loves Raymond (x2) 8.10 Just Shoot Me 8.40 Frasier 9.10 Will and Grace (x2) 10.10 Friends (x2) 11.10 4Music Presents: Mariah Carey 11.40 4Music Presents... Duffy 12.10pm FILM: Escape To Victory (1981) 2.20 A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 3.25 Countdown 4.15 Deal Or No Deal 5.00 Grand Designs Today

6.00am Aerobics: Oz Style 6.30 Sports Adventure 7.00 Good Morning Sports Fans 9.00 Soccer AM: The Best Bits 10.00 Soccer Extra: Bank Holiday Special 12.00pm LIVE Cricket: Friends Provident Trophy 3.30 Ford Football Special 6.30 Big League Weekend 8.00 LIVE Speedway 10.00 Ford Football Special 11.30 Big League Weekend 1.00am Soccer AM: The Best Bits 2.00 World Motor Sport 4.30 Big League Weekend

6.00 Eggheads Dermot Murnaghan hosts the general knowledge quiz.

6.30 Great British Menu The country’s top chefs compete to cook a banquet at London’s Gherkin building.

7.00 Val Doonican Rocks Pauline McLynn narrates an affectionate portrait of popular Irish entertainer Val Doonican, as famous for his props such as cardigans and rocking chair as for his easy-listening style.

8.00 World Championship Snooker 11.00 Am I Normal? See highlights.

12.00am Have I Got News For You The popular news quiz, with team captains Paul Merton and Ian Hislop, with guest host Brian Blessed and panellists Alan Duncan MP and Marcus Brigstock.

12.30 FILM: Doctor In Trouble (1970) 2.00 The Super League Show 2.45 Joins BBC News 4.00 Shakespeare: The Animated Tales 5.45 KS3 Bitesize Shorts

6.00 Meridian Tonight 6.15 ITV Evening News and Weather 6.30 You’ve Been Framed!

Harry Hill presses play on the nation’s funniest home videos.

7.00 Emmerdale When it is confirmed that Arthur’s parentage is in doubt, Greg takes a DNA test – but Mel refuses.

7.30 Coronation Street Liam is determined to comfort Maria when he hears about the baby.

8.00 Bills to Pay: Tonight 8.30 Coronation Street Has Maria’s deception destroyed her marriage?

9.00 Flood Conclusion of the two part drama. As millions of Londoners’ fight for survival in the devastated capital, Rob, Sam and Leonard come up with a high-risk plan to drain the city of water.

11.00 The Late News and Weather 11.15 FILM: The Adventures Of Pluto Nash (2002) Sci-fi action comedy set in the year 2087 about an entrepreneur who must protect his moon-based nightclub from the unwanted attentions of the intergalactic mafia.

12.55am UEFA Champions League Weekly 1.25 British Touring Car Championship 2.20 Loose Women 3.10 Make Me Perfect 3.55 ITV Nightscreen

6.00am Oswald 6.10 Hana’s Helpline 6.25 Thomas & Friends 6.35 The Funky Valley Show 6.45 My First...

6.55 Fireman Sam 7.05 Roary 7.20 Rupert Bear 7.30 The Mr. Men Show 7.40 Noddy (x2) 8.10 Fifi and the Flowertots 8.20 Peppa Pig 8.25 Thomas & Friends 8.40 Pocoyo 8.45 Look! 8.50 Bird Bath 9.00 The Wright Stuff 10.30 Trisha Goddard 11.30 Breaking into Tesco 12.30pm Five News 12.45 Law and Order: Criminal Intent 1.45 Neighbours 2.15 FILM: The Hallelujah Trail (1965) 5.00 Five News 5.30 Neighbours 6.00 FILM: Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) Disaster movie spoof about a space shuttle careering towards trouble on its maiden lunar voyage.

Featuring a host of famous Hollywood faces in cameo roles.

7.30 How do They do It? Robert finds out how wheat is harvested; visits the cleanest place in Britain; and learns how the world’s toughest crash helmets are made.

8.00 The Gadget Show Jason and Suzi test new mobile phones, night-vision binoculars and satellite navigation systems.

9.00 Paul Merton in China Paul sees some Sichuan Opera in Chengdu that almost makes him lose the will to live.

10.00 Dom Joly’s Complainers Comedian Dom Joly and a crack team of ‘complainers’ set about tackling the myriad irritations of modern life.

11.05 FILM: Dangerous Minds (1995) Formulaic drama about an inner-city school teacher who finds herself confronted by a class of rebellious students written off as no-hopers by the other staff.

12.55am NASCAR: The Sprint Cup 1.55 USPGA Golf Highlights 2.45 NHL Ice Hockey 5.10 House Doctor 5.35 Neighbours

6.35 BBC News 6.50 South East Today; Weather Regional news magazine.

7.00 The One Show Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley present a magazine series featuring a mix of interviews, topical reports and features from around the UK. 7.30 Watchdog Consumer magazine.

7.57 BBC News and Regional News National and regional news bulletin from the BBC. 8.00 EastEnders Pat makes a discovery about her grandson, but is it too late?

8.30 Panorama Reporter Ross McWilliam asks why a teenager who killed a man was sent to an open jail from which he escaped just 18 months into a ten year sentence.

9.00 Waking the Dead 10.00 BBC Ten O’Clock News 10.10 South East Today; Weather 10.18 BBC Weather 10.20 Meet the Immigrants Documentary series looking at the thousands of refugees who hope to illegally enter the UK. 10.50 Inside Sport 11.30 FILM: Runaway Train (1985) Philosophical action thriller.

1.15am Springwatch Weatherview 1.20 Sign Zone: Am I Normal?

2.20 Ben Fogle’s Extreme Dreams 2.50 Animal 24:7 (x2) 4.20 Joins BBC News

6.00 The Simpsons Homer receives a mysterious invitation from his criminal mother.

6.30 Hollyoaks Calvin is missing Carmel.

7.00 Channel 4 News Including sport and weather.

7.30 Britain’s Drowned World: Time Team Special See highlights.

9.00 Grand Designs Live Kevin McCloud has six days to build his own Grand Design.

10.00 FILM: Hostage (2005) A former hostage negotiator-turnedsmall-town cop finds himself unable to escape his past when a gang attempts to burgle the home of a local wealthy accountant, holding him and his two children captive.

12.05am Dylan Moran: Like, Totally Dylan Moran, the creator of Channel 4’s BAFTA award-winning Black Books, is back with his stand-up show.

1.10 The Invasion 1.30 FILM: Man On Fire (1987) 3.00 The Diets That Time Forgot 4.00 Henning’s Haus (x4) 5.15 We Are From...(x3)

Sky Sports 2 6.00am Race World 7.00 Super League: Millennium Magic (x3) 12.00pm LIVE Tennis: ATP Masters Series 9.30 Sports Adventures 10.00 World Motor Sport 12.30am Speedway

Sky Sports 3 6.00am Wild Spirits 6.30 UEFA Champions League Weekly 7.00 Football – Welsh Cup Final 7.30 Spanish Football 9.00 WWE The Bottom Line 10.00 Sports Adventures 10.30 Wild Spirits 11.00 WWE Afterburn 11.30 Racing News 12.00pm Football – Welsh Cup Final 12.30 Soccer Extra Bank Holiday Special 2.30 Soccer AM: The Best Bits 3.30 LIVE Cricket: Friends Provident Trophy 7.30 Sports Adventures 8.00 WWE Diva Special: Diva Diaries 10.00 WWE Late Night Bottom Line 11.00 WWE Late Night Afterburn 12.00am Extreme Championship Wrestling 1.00 WWE Heat 2.00 LIVE WWE Late Night Raw

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Living

12.00pm Stargate Atlantis 1.00 Bones 2.00 Stargate SG-1 (x2) 4.00 Gladiators Ready! The Gladiators Story 5.00 Futurama (x3) 6.30 Malcolm in the Middle 7.00 The Simpsons (x2) 8.00 FILM: Batman And Robin (1997) 10.25 Bones 11.25 Road Wars 12.25am Bones 1.25 Lost: Enhanced (x2) 3.05 Cold Case

7.00pm Dragons’ Den 8.00 The Real Hustle 8.30 Glamour Girls 9.00 Gavin and Stacey (x2) 10.00 EastEnders 10.30 Ideal 11.00 Placebo 11.30 American Dad (x2) 12.15am Glamour Girls 12.45 Gavin and Stacey (x2) 1.45 Ideal 2.15 Placebo 2.45 The Real Hustle 3.15 Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts

7.00pm The Book Quiz 7.30 The Sky at Night 8.00 Young Musician of the Year 9.00 Christina: A Medieval Life 10.00 FILM: Saint Joan (1957) 11.50 Christina: A Medieval Life 12.50am Young Musician of the Year 1.50 The Sky at Night 2.20 The Book Quiz 2.50 Christina: A Medieval Life

9.25am FILM: Beverly Hills Cop (1984) 11.30 Coronation Street (x2) 12.30 Emmerdale 1.00 The Jeremy Kyle Show (x2) 3.00 Gossip Girl (x6) 9.00 Pushing Daisies 10.00 FILM: Die Hard (1988) 12.35am Coronation Street (x2) 1.40 Laura, Ben and Him 2.05 Comedy Cuts 2.30 Teleshopping

2.10pm Decoding Cadfael 3.15 Cadfael 5.00 Pam and Felicity: Being Rosemary and Thyme 5.05 Rosemary and Thyme Christmas Special 6.50 Revisiting Brideshead 7.00 The Beiderbecke Affair 8.00 PD James 9.00 Hack 10.00 Numb3rs 11.00 Cane 11.50 A Touch of Frost 1.40am Ironside

12.05pm Scrubs (x2) 1.05 The Simple Life (x2) 2.05 Style Her Famous 2.35 Joan of Arcadia 3.30 Smallville 4.25 Hollyoaks 5.00 Friends (x2) 6.00 Scrubs (x2) 7.00 Hollyoaks 7.30 My Name is Earl 8.00 Friends (x2) 9.00 FILM: Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) 11.25 Hollyoaks: In the City 12.25am Scrubs

9.45am Time Team (x3) 12.45pm Deal Or No Deal.

Guessing game. 1.30 A Place in the Sun 2.00 Location, Location, Location (x4) 4.10 Come Dine with Me (x5) 6.55 Grand Designs 7.55 Grand Designs 9.00 Celebrity Come Dine With Me. See highlights. 10.00 Shrink Rap 11.05 ER

3.00pm Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman 4.00 Charmed (x2) 6.00 America’s Next Top Model 7.00 The Steve Wilkos Show 7.55 The Fix 8.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 9.00 Britain’s Next Top Model 10.00 Hotel Babylon 11.05 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 12.05am The X Files

UK TV Gold

Paramount

Discovery

Sci Fi

Sky Movies

Sky Movies

Film4

TCM

12.45pm The Vicar of Dibley 2.00 FILM: The Borrowers (1997) 3.40 Only Fools and Horses 5.00 FILM: Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003) 6.35 The Vicar of Dibley (x2) 9.00 Only Fools and Horses 10.20 The Catherine Tate Show 11.00 Men Behaving Badly 11.40 The Royle Family 12.20am The Catherine Tate Show

9.00am Everybody Hates Chris (x23) 8.30 Chris Rock: Up Close 9.00 Everybody Hates Chris (x2) 10.00 Sex and the City (x2) 11.10 Chris Rock: Bigger and Blacker 12.35am Chris Rock: Never Scared 2.10 Everybody Hates Chris (x3) 3.40 Sexy Cam 4.00 Everybody Hates Chris (x2) 5.00 Sir Leslie Quint (x2)

9.00am American Chopper (x3) 12.00pm Deadliest Catch (x3) 3.00 Deadliest Catch (x3) 6.00 Mythbusters 7.00 How It’s Made 7.30 How do They do It? 8.00 Deadliest Catch 9.00 American Chopper 10.00 Mythbusters 11.00 Crime Scene Australia 12.00am Most Evil 1.00 The FBI Files

6.00am Roswell 7.00 Profiler 8.00 Teleshopping 11.00 Star Trek (x2) 1.00pm 3rd Rock from the Sun. Comedy.1.30 FILM: Short Circuit II (1988) 3.40 FILM: Weird Science (1985) 10.00 FILM: Termination Point (2007) 2.00am Ghost Stories (x2) 3.00 Dark Angel 4.00 Star Trek 5.00 Dark Angel

Classics

Indie

12.45pm The Quiet Man (1952) 3.00 A King In New York (1957) 4.50 Hail The Conquering Hero (1944) 6.35 The Top 10 Show 6.55 Some Like It Hot (1959) 9.00 The Quiet Man (1952) 11.20 A Touch Of Larceny (1959) 1.00am Hail The Conquering Hero (1944) 2.50 A King In New York (1957)

10.00am Election (1999) 12.00pm Indie Close-Up 12.30 Everything Is Illuminated (2005) 2.20 Cache (2005) 4.20 Fire (1996) 6.15 Factotum (2005) 7.50 Indie Close-Up 8.15 Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005) 10.00 Election (1999) 11.50 Indie Close-Up 12.20am The Page Turner (2006)

1.00pm Home Alone 3 (1997) American comedy.

3.05 The Americano (1955) 4.45 Prince Valiant (1954) 6.50 Time Bandits (1981) Surreal Python-inspired scifi drama. 9.00 Kingdom Of Heaven (2005) 12.30am The Death Of Mr Lazarescu (2005) Slow-moving, but haunting indie drama follwing one man’s demise.

3.00pm Butterfield 8 (1960) 4.55 Northwest Passage (1940) 7.10 Green Mansions (1959) 9.00 The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) 11.10 Classic Shorts 11.15 Classic Shorts: Always Crashing In The Same Car 11.30 A Clockwork Orange (1971) 1.50am Bataan (1943) 3.50 Parlor, Bedroom And Bath (1931)