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Actress and theatre director, Fiona Shaw is probably best known for her role as Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter films or her role portraying Marnie Stonebrook in the TV series True Blood, but she's now turned her hand to directing for the English National Opera's production of The Marriage Of Figaro.

The Marriage of Figaro runs from 16th October to 23rd November at the London Coliseum.

If you've been listening to Radio 2 this evening, you will have just heard Friday Night is Music Night's special highlighting 麻豆社 Music's Ten Pieces, and you will have also heard the dulcet tones of Radio 2's Ken Bruce!

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Ken joins Will to talk about Ten Pieces and also "The Relaxed" performance of "War Horse" presented in assocation with the National Autistic Society.

Diana Quick and Jack Lowden are currently performing in Electra at the Old Vic, London. Jack plays Orestes with听 Kristen Scott Thomas as Electra, and Diana Quick who plays his mother Clytemnestra.

Electra at The Old Vic runs until 20th December 2014.

THE MAZE RUNNER

Director:听听 Wes Ball
Starring:听听 Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Will Poulter, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Ami Ameen

When Thomas wakes up trapped in a massive maze with a group of other boys, he has no memory of the outside world other than strange dreams about a mysterious organization known as W.C.K.D. Only by piecing together fragments of his past with clues he discovers in the maze can Thomas hope to uncover his true purpose and a way to escape.

The Maze Runner is out now and rated 12A

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'71

Director: Yann Demange
Starring: Jack O'Connell, Sean Harris, Kilian Scott, Martin McCann

A young British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a riot on the streets of Belfast. Unable to tell friend from foe, and increasingly wary of his own comrades, the raw recruit must survive the night alone and find his way to safety through a disorientating, alien and deadly landscape.

'71 is out now and Rated 15

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The London Film Festival opened yesterday and runs until 19th October

John Challis is probably best known for his role as Boycie in the long running 麻豆社 television comedy series Only Fools and Horses, and its spin-off The Green Green Grass. He has now written his second novel听 "Reggie In The Frame".

Reggie In The Frame is out now and published by Wigmore Books.

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1. Taken at Midnight at the Minerva, Chichester.

A new play by Mark Hayhurst about a brave woman, Irmgard Litten, who took on the Gestapo when her lawyer-son was incarcerated by the Nazis in 1933. Penelope Wilton plays Irmgard and Martin Hutson her son, Hans, in Jonathan Church's production.

Taken at Midnight runs at the Minerva until November 1.

2. Electra at the Old Vic, London

Kristin Scott Thomas returns to the stage as the Sophocles heroine who is
determined to get revenge on her mother, Clytemnestra, for murdering her father. The play comes in a Frank McGuinness translation and is directed by Ian Rickson who has worked with Scott-Thomas before on Chekhov and Pinter.

Electra runs at the Old Vic London until December 20

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3 Speed-The-Plow at the the Playhouse, London

Lindsay Lohan is making her stage debut in a revival of David Mamet's play. She plays the small but pivotal role of the temp sec to a Hollywood production chief who tries to get him to drop a bankable project in favour of a clunky novel about radiation.

Speed-The-Plow is running at the Playhouse until 29th November

4.Notes From Underground at the Print Room at the Coronet.

A new venture. A west London fringe theatre, the Print Room,has moved to a
converted cinema in London's Notting Hill Gate. And it opens with a one-man show,听 performed and co written by Harry Lloyd, who stars in Game of Thrones. The story itself comes from an early work by Dostoveysky.

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Notes From Underground plays at the Coronet, London until November 1.

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to take a stroll along Leicester Square's red carpet? Coen Van Niersen and photographer Dave Hogan have worked together on the photo book "The Glamour Of Leicester Square" and Coen joins Will to talk about the glamourous West End of London.

The Glamour Of Leicester Sqaure is out now.