See some glorious architecture not normally open to the public through Open House this weekend. (Don't know how the wrong link got there - but there wasn't a downloadable venue list on the site anyway if it makes you feel better). Make sure you pick the ones that are rarely open not the ones (and there are quite a few) that are normally easy to gain access. And remember many have long queues. But the sun's out today.
And Elephant and Castle's free annual festival returns...Elefest

Really good interviews with directors of two of this week's highlight films Unrelated's Joanna Hogg and Linha de Passe's Walter Salles on BBC Radio 4's The Film Programme. (19 September 2008). Hogg is also on BBC Radio 3's Nightwaves (17 Sept)
And TCM's Crime Scene 2008 film fest has, amongst other goodies, a retrospective of the great (and still living) French director Bertrand Tavernier. He'll be in attendance.
Optimum's Bertrand Tavernier DVD's (my blog review of them all towards the end of posting)
Really good Newsnight spot on Karadzic's broken Bosnia endures.

And BBC Radio 3's Nightwaves (18 Sept) has a discussion of Philip Hoare's Leviathan book about whales and talk of economics and morality.
6 days left to watch Hoare's Arena: The Hunt for Moby-Dick and BBC 4 have Whale Night on Sunday:The Whale in the Museum, an archive-based Arena documentary telling the story of the construction of the much loved blue whale at the Natural History Museum.
Arena: Philip Hoare's Guide to Whales
And Captain Ahab (from last year's London Film Festival) is still seeking the love of a distributor.
The Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival line-up has been announced.
Metallica special on BBC's The Culture Show.
Composer Mauricio Kagel died on Thursday, at the age of 76. A spot for him on Radio 3's Music Matters and a piece on London’s newest concert hall, Kings Place.
Nicole Atkins describing her sound as "pop-noir made a great Brit television debut alongside Metallica and Carla Bruni (2 days left to watch) on Jools Holland's show.

The temporary ban on short selling in the stock market is understandable, but short selling and hedge fund management are basics of the current stock market and a lot of very influential people have made money legitimately by trading in them. Hmmm...A bit like banning the buying and selling of houses because speculators are making too much money. That is something no one would allow. You can see where my argument is going....although many in government and potential home owners couldn't see it a few years ago. There's a certain Conservative treasurer who did, though.
Tony Blair on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show. He's got himself another day job teaching at Yale Uni in order to pay for his mortgages.

And a really fascinating Radio 4 prog from The Archive Hour The Voices in my Head: Julian Rhind-Tutt explores how actors archive the sounds of their own voices. Delicious sounds that will last you a lifetime.