The weekly arts magazine

Inter-Action
A unique experiment of taking drama into the community has grown up this year and has now reached a crisis.
Ed Berman, writer and theatre director, is seen at work with small children in Paddington, older boys at Chalk Farm, and a group of adults at The Ambiance.

The Longest Mural in the World
...has just gone up in New York. Almost a year ago Release filmed the artist Stefan Knapp at his Surrey studio fusing coloured glass on to a sheet of steel, a process which achieves colours of extraordinary richness. Now the finished work is seen in situ around three sides of a New York building.

Metaphoropolis
Cities of more than 1,000 million inhabitants-a prediction for the next century with appalling consequences. But there is more to cities than the population explosion and planners' attempts at a solution. This month's Architectural Design, guest-edited by Jonathan Miller, is devoted to the city as an imaginative metaphor 'Metaphoropolis': what it means and has meant to the imagination of artists, thinkers, and politicians. In tonight's programme he explains his ideas to John Donat.

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