Sisyphus still trying to move that rock for the big one

Did the handling of the G20 protests reveal the future of policing?
Tomlinson death: missing moment?
Shareholders vote against RBS pay
Planet group protest against RBS
Time Shift: The North-South Divide
For visitors to London be warned that Royal Mint is warned that one in 20 £1 coins is fake. Or is that another government ploy for something dark and deep with promises to keep.
The Hospital on Britain’s NHS (National Health Service) (4oD Catch-Up at Channel 4). Depressing comment from one nurse that what used to be a staff ‘event’ – a stabbing or a shooting – is now fairly commonplace among their clientele. Tonight's show highlights teenage pregnancy.

If you thought things were bad your end watch from Kiev on how Ukraine - in receipt of $16bn from the IMF - is on the economic brink.
BBC’s Our World - Russia's New Model Army - has access to the Russian military and plans for the biggest reform in the former Cold War army for more than fifty years.

This year's Proms are taking a walk on the wild side of music
Handel Week on Radio 3
Private Passions
The Handel House Museum was home to the baroque composer George Frideric Handel from 1723 until his death in 1759
Catherine Bott and Laurence Cummings explore Handel's Eight Great Keyboard Suites on The Early Music Show
Why we are shutting children out of classical music?
Charles Hazlewood on Discovering Music explores Handel's Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne.
BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature:
Liquid Assets - Handel's Finances
I can vouch for all of those programmes.
Nightwaves (Wed 15 Apr) about Handel's originalityPianist Nikolai Demidenko on BBC Radio 3's In Tune gives a sneak preview of his Chopin CD played on the composer's original piano. Well worth 20 min of your time.
BBC Radio 3's Hear And Nowexplores the spoken word in new music and sound art.

Amateur orchestra greeted by thousands as Gustavo Dudamel begins a one-week residency at London's South Bank Centre
Mystery girl Madeleine Peyroux, in Britain to support the homeless charity St Mungo's and to promote her latest album

BBC Four screens West End Jungle - banned when made in 1961, this documentary delves into the history and seedy reality of the sex industry in London's Soho.
BBC Radio 3's Nightwaves explores the contemporary state of Arabic-speaking Christians.

Cult chanteuse who accompanied herself on the piano and wrote songs Blossom Dearie died in February aged 84 A good place to start for the uninitiated might be her rendition of Sheldon Harnick’s (altogether different but very much the same as his Fiddler on the Roof) The Ballad of the Shape of Things To Come.
God forbid you can even get a ringtone:
Then try the other singles in the NYT obit. Ever wondrous on stage, gracious in person, and if you only knew her recordings and not her age you’d would swear she was an innocent young girl.
I like London in the rain
Youtube,1985


The fascinating Tis Autumn about forgotten jazz legend Jackie Paris is out on DVD.
Betsy Blair
aural obit on The Last Word (27th March)

The Menier Chocolate Factory’s sell out production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s A Little Night Music is to transfer to the West End.
Front Row spot on the Menier’s rise to prominence.
Radio 4's The Reunion (Fri 10 April) brings together some of the original members of the National Theatre to remember its birth in 1963 under artistic director Laurence Olivier.
programme’s archive for previous years

The East End Film Festival arrives in week or so and
The Escapist Brit director Rupert Wyatt interviewed as his film opens in New York.

Peter Ackroyd and the Retelling of Chaucer

And in The New Yorker How Palladian was Palladio?. The Royal Academy show just closed.

The Clore Ballroom Screenplay
And 2009 Italian Film Festival UK