Dame Helen Mirren was recorded live and in HD as National Theatre's Phèdre is beamed into cinemas worldwide. Great f***ing play for a long dead Frenchman!
Another chance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) tonight (July 9).
And how the audience in Kettering, England responded to a cinema screening and an interview with RNT artistic director Nicholas Hytner about the NT Live project.
Theatre Live! Starts on Sky Arts 1 and Sky Arts 1 HD (Front Row, Nightwaves,The Guardian)

[Addition: The BAFTA (x2) and Emmy (2007) award-winning drama The Street (BBC One) is back for a third series: 6 'Plays for Today' ("a focussed intense emotional experience") on modern issues. The drama, which explores the lives behind different closed doors on the same street somewhere in the North West of England, was conceived by Jimmy McGovern who bemoans the fact that ITV closed down the series making this the very last one.

Everybody's doin' it- including U.S. soprano Renee Fleming for the Royal Opera House.
Her performance in Verdi's opera La Traviata was beamed live into 178 cinemas across Britain and the rest of Europe, as well as to 15 giant screens in England, Scotland and Wales, in the company's biggest foray yet into real-time cinema tie-ins.

But unlike New York and the many free events there such as HBO's Bryant Park screenings, the UK charges for it's outings: Film4 Summer Screen at Somerset House(30 July - 8 August 2009) will set you back £5
30 July sees the UK premiere of Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces.
Notting Hill Film Festival opens with Bananaz on July 10
Tilda Swinton and Mark Cousins plan mobile film festival

[Addition: As the British Museum publishes its Annual Review 2008/2009, the museum's Director, Neil MacGregor, discusses the importance of free entry to museums on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (last 5 min)]

For lovers of the celestial, BBC Four's Space season that includes Apollo Wives-all in their seventies, come to Arizona for a very special reunion. They are very different from one another, but all have one thing in common - each was married to an Apollo astronaut.

Lunacy at the BFI Southbank landmark films and live events celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing. Music for Astronauts and Cosmonauts is the UK premiere of this visual album poem of the same name created by producer and artist Howie B and Icelandic artist Húbert Nói.
This high-definition experimental film work with real-time soundtrack is organised into four tracks - Morning, Day, Evening, Night - and running for 90 minutes. This is the time it takes to experience a full Earth orbit. Filmmaker Jake Martin has carefully crafted sequences from NASA's amazing film archive to mirror Howie and Húbert 's pulsing, mesmerising electronica.
This special late-night screening will follow a 70mm presentation of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey
And in the gallery space is Simon Faithfull's Gravity Sucks: "Escape Vehicles, seven quixotic artworks that utilise an assortment of balloons, insects and rockets to offer the viewer the idea of freeing themselves from the constraints of gravity."
Original Moonwalker: How Neil Armstrong kept his feet on the ground despite becoming the most famous man on Earth
The Guardian's July 2 edition has an entire section on the Apollo anniversary
In a special Archive on 4 programme (11 July), we will hear the story of what has been described as ‘the greatest event in all the history of the human race’ as told by the man who stood on the Moon, Buzz Aldrin.
An Astronaut Goes From Walking on the Moon to Painting It

Basil Dearden's Man in the Moon reaches DVD from Network Releasing.

Al Reinert's 1990 Oscar nominated doco For All Mankind out in new Criterion Blu-ray and DVD editions telling the story of the twenty-four men who traveled to the moon, told in their words, in their voices, using the images of their experiences. Great extras as always including an audio commentary featuring Reinert and Apollo 17 commander Eugene A. Cernan, the last man to set foot on the moon.
Ancient Light: A Portrait of the Universe by David Malin is published by Phaidon
American artist Bill Viola has been asked to create two permanent works of video art for St Paul's Cathedral.
And for those in Oz, Waldemar Januszczak's The Sculpture Diaries (originally broadcast on Channel Four) is being screened on ABC TV. The sight of the intrepid artiped Januszczak - shorts striding to seventh heaven as he finds Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in the middle of saltlake nowhere - can only but inspire one to quiet greatness.

And as the Royal Geographical Society's new head, Michael Palin is a man with the world in his hands. Makes a change from the Monty Python sketches of real life.
Fraud inquiry into new government jobs scheme
So who won the duck house?
Philosophical Tannoy at train station
A commuter’s first-class philosophical journey to hell
Tube too hot for cattle as station shops cash in
Commuters face “cattle truck” overcrowding for years after the Government renationalised a flagship train service.
Train firms want to reopen lines axed by Richard Beeching 40 years ago
National Express East Coast bail out to cost taxpayer £700m, The Independent
Leak reveals transport funding crisis as east coast mainline nationalised
An atmosphere of confrontation is brewing between the government and train operators
Fare rises threat as Tube faces a £1.7bn shortfall

MPs condemn police tactics at G20 protest: Keep untrained officers off frontline at demos, says highly critical Commons committee report
Admissions from senior Metropolitan police officers that some inexperienced officers, who were clearly quite scared, used "inappropriate force".
whatever next...Family of Ian Tomlinson were told by a senior investigator he may have been assaulted by a police impersonator shortly before he collapsed and died
Met slow to change after death of Jean Charles de Menezes, says report
Innocent people are branded as criminals: DNA pioneer is outraged by government's policy
Taking The Flak is a caustic TV comedy-drama about what happens when a small African war suddenly becomes the centre of global attention, and a team of BBC journalists arrives to cover the conflict. Co-written and co-produced by news journalists and comedy writers. Front Row spot

29 years on, Glasgow lifts ruling on Life of Brian
Monty Python stars to stage reunion
Can artists save the world?
Echoes of Home is a doco all about the music form of yodelling (ICA) (The Sunday Times even liked this one..:) Trivia question: does Thomas Mann even mention the noun or verb 'yodel'?

[Addition: Cut & Splice: Living Rooms festival from Wilton's Music Hall (Britain's oldest-left virtually derelict, propped up by European funding and gorgeously restored a few years ago.) This festival of electronic music and sound art, co-promoted by BBC Radio 3's Hear and Now and the Sound and Music organisation, features work inspired by and utilising the domestic environment.
Graeme Miller opens a major sound and video installation in the Barbican Centre's Car Park on from 9 July using a series of projections that reveal the landscape of the City with recorded testimonies of an hour-long walk made by the 15 participants and underscored by a solo bass line mapping out the territory, based on a piece by Henry Purcell (marking the 350th anniversary of the London-born composer).

English National Opera's new production of Kaija Saariaho's L'amour de loin (BBC Radio 3's Music Matters). Saariaho's publisher.
Manchester-based Beating Wing Orchestra (BWO) - made up of equal numbers of asylum seekers and refugees and local musicians - preparing for their appearance in the Manchester International Festival.
PoetryFilm: Strangers & Strangeness (Curzon Renoir Cinema ,July 14th, 6.15pm). Includes an important film by Beat poet Michael McClure, a BAFTA award winning film about levitation, and an photographic art film by Marco Sanges. Q&A after the screening.]