The arts and media programme
Cartoonist Nick Garland surveys painter
Jock McFadyen 's idiosyncratic commentary on urban life in London, Belfast and New York. An exhibition of his grotesque and witty transformations of the ordinary opens in London this week.
As Britain's national daily newspapers move their headquarters away from
Fleet Street, and new media centres continue to spring up, Paul Barker asks what kind of public image buildings such as the Observer's impressive new post-modernist home are trying to present.
Roddy Doyle 's first novel,
The Commitments has been a huge sucess in his native Ireland. Elvis Costello follows the story of a young band's anarchic mission to bring Soul to Dublin. Directors SAM COLLYNS
ANDREW EATON , JAMES MARSH Producer ALEX MARENGO Editor JOHN ARCHER