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Stars of the West End, Eva Noblezada and Alistair Brammer talk to Claudia about Miss Saigon.

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Miss Saigon is on at The Prince Edward Theatre and taking bookings until 25th April 2015

Next Friday marks the 70th anniversary of D-Day and on Radio 2 the commemoration culminates in a special Friday Night is Music Night from London's Royal Albert Hall with The 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra with Jeremy VIne, Dermot O'Leary and Louise Minchin retelling the story with key events from that momentous day.

There will be performances from Patrick Stewart in the role of Sir Winston Churchill, and Katherine Jenkins will be singing a virtual duet with Dame Vera Lynn. Also playing a highly emotional part in the concert is Seth Lakeman.

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Friday Night Is Music Night - D-Day Special is love from The Royal Albert Hall on 6th June at 8pm here on Radio 2.

X-Men: Days Of Future Past (3D)

Director: Bryan Singer
Starring: Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Ellen Page, Peter Dinklage, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Nicholas Hoult

The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods in 'X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST'. The beloved characters from the original 鈥淴-Men鈥� film trilogy join forces with their younger selves from "X-Men: First Class鈥� in an epic battle that must change the past 鈥� to save our future.

X-Man:听 Days of Future Past is out now and Rated 12A

Godzilla (3D)

Director: Gareth Edwards
Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Sally Hawkins, Juliette Binoche, David Strathairn, Bryan Cranston

The world's most famous monster is pitted against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.

Godzilla is out now and Rated 12A

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Edge of Tomorrow (3D)

Director: Doug Liman
Starring: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Lara Pulver, Jeremy Piven, Charlotte Riley

A soldier fighting in a war with aliens finds himself caught in a time loop of his last day in the battle, though he becomes better skilled along the way.

Edge of Tomorrow is out now and Rated 12A

DVD/BLU-RAY 鈥� Dallas Buyers Club

Director: Jean-Marc Vall茅e听
Starring:听 Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto

In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is himself diagnosed with the disease.

Dallas Buyers Club is out on DVD and BluRay this Monday, Rated 15

A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin published by Canongate Books
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It is 1947 and Sherlock Holmes is 93 years old, living a quiet life in Surrey, keeping bees and writing what he intends to be the definitive guide to the art of detection. The story moves between events in his present life and two significant periods in his past, most recently a trip to Japan post Hiroshima, and further back to a mystery he investigated in his prime.
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An Appetite for Violets by Martine Bailey published by Hodder & Stoughton
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This is set in 18th Century Europe, the main character is Biddy Leigh a cook at a English Manor House dreaming of her imminent marriage and her plans to set up her own tavern. All her plans are thrown into chaos by the arrival of the new, very young and very spoilt, mistress of the manor who takes a special interest in Biddy. Forced to accompany her mistress to Italy, Biddy, clutching her beloved recipe book, becomes embroiled in a murderous conspiracy.

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Personal Pick - Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain published by听 Orion
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It鈥檚 80 years since Vera Brittain published her account of her life during the First World War and it is still one of the most poignant and compelling accounts of that time that I鈥檝e ever read. She lost her fianc茅, her brother and two of her closest male friends in the war and she worked as a nurse for the Voluntary Aid Detachment in a almost constant state of near-exhaustion and grief.

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听Million Ways to Die in the West

If you鈥檙e a fan of westerns then you鈥檙e in for a treat because Seth McFarlane has written a brand new comedy Western for the big screen.

It鈥檚 called A Million Ways to Die in the West and it takes a satirical look at how dangerous life could be for people living in the Wild West during the eighteen hundreds.

It stars Liam Neeson, Amanda Seyfried and Oscar winning actress Charlize Theron. Our Arts Correspondent Anna Bailey caught up with Charlize to find out more about her twirling guns.

A Million Ways to Die in the West is released in cinemas across the country this weekend.