Marking the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war BBC Four is repeating the extraordinary 3-hour doco The Fallen: Legacy of Iraq (5 days left to watch) in which friends and family of those who died during the Iraq conflict talk about their relatives who died. Whether your views are pro or pacifist for war this doco proves compelling for all.
Frontline Iraq (3 episodes)
The TV satire on UK politics Bremner, Bird and Fortune is back for another series on Channel Four.
Political writers and satirists asked for their take on the turmoil at Gordon Brown's No 10
And Michel Gondry returns Flight of the Conchords to its former glory on BBC Four.
Tony Robinson interview for the DVD reissue of Blackadder
How Blackadder changed the history of television comedy
When Charlotte Jones, age eight, wrote a stern letter of complaint to The Guardian, they asked her in to help edit for a day.
Blogger loses hidden identity fight
BBC Radio 3's The Verb (4 days left to listen) has the band The Leisure Society, nominated for an Ivor Novello Award discuss their song The Last of the Melting Snow.
Rebecca Lenkiewicz reads her new short story written specially for this programme about a lost soul called Lucian Dark, who’s condemned to wander the streets of London for 500 years. Beauty that can seem so far can so close be.
And a discussion of history of Concrete Poetry - the poetic movement which believes that the visual appearance of a poem is as important as what it says.
Poor. Old. Tired. Horse is has opened at the ICA
Sky will use live TV drama to broadcast six debut plays by leading British writers
Charlie Winston spent much of the past few years as a struggling musician in Britain, gigging in pubs, busking on bridges - and remaining almost entirely unknown.
He has spent just six months in France and is already a national superstar
This weekend 615 people discovered they are among those who have been selected by computer to take their place for one hour as Antony Gormley's "living monument" on the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.
'Poo' scientist to take over Trafalgar Square plinth
Take a stuffy old institution. Remix. Add wit. It's Banksy v the museum
Futurism has opened at Tate Modern but art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon didn't sound that impressed on BBC Radio 3's Nightwaves.
Women of the futurists
London Shop Fronts and
Store fronts in New York: Baby Watson cheesecake and kosher chewing gum
New York Times review of the book.
Werner Herzog maverick German film-maker, 66, on snakes, soup and spontaneity
Universal Pictures launches niche UK DVD label - Anvil! The Story of Anvil is one of their first DVDs.
British director Nick Broomfield is releasing his new film on direct action, A Time Comes, available for free online. The 20 minute film tells the story of the Kingsnorth Six, a group of Greenpeace volunteers who, in protest against government plans to build new coal plants across Britain, climbed the 220m chimney at a coal-fired power station in Kent in 2007.
on the Greenpeace website
Refugee Week on BFI Southbank (16 to 21 Jun) "a nationwide fixture brings music, art, and other events focusing on the refugee experience, as well as films that help convey the pain, horror and human rights abuses endured by displaced peoples. Leading the way, the BFI's season is curated by young refugees and includes films like sweatshop documentary Made In LA, which depicts Latina workers battling for labour rights, The Fortress, exposing Swiss treatment of asylum seekers, and Oscar-nominated The Betrayal, on the life of a Laotian family in Brooklyn."
World Naked Bike Ride
Grange Park Opera hosts David Fielding's X-rated production of Eliogabalo (Francesco Cavalli's 1668 opera) - New York's experimental Wooster Group just riffed and rapped on Cavalli's La Didone.
And 2 must-hear radio items:
BBC Radio 4's Archive on 4- Fred Gaisberg: The First A and R Man who left Washington, D.C. and in 1898 arrived in London setting up his enterprise in a poky Covent Garden room. He was the first to record Caruso and the first to record the court music of the Chinese and Japanese Emperors but was initially held in great suspicion by both performers and 'the market'.
Sound Revolutions: A Biography of Fred Gaisberg (Paperback) by Jerrold Northrop Moore (Sanctuary Publishing)
Telstar (Nick Moran's film of his play) telling the story of Brit recording maverick Joe Meek opens next week with great performances all round, and whilst the film never 'flies' leaving its 'stage world', this sad tale cannot help affecting the viewer about the worlds of creativity and conformity. Also worth checking out the doco A Life in the Death of Joe Meek (2008 Raindance Film Fest).
BBC Radio 3's Reith Lectures- A New Citizenship: Professor Michael Sandel delivers four lectures about the prospects of a new politics of the common good.(2nd lecture on Saturday) When should we use markets. It's not enough to think about efficiency but the right way of valuing goods. Debate case by case the moral meaning of these goods and not indulge in market triumphalism; in having that debate now lies the hope for moral and civic renewal.
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