What does our love affair with pre-packaged cuisine say about our society? Journalists and big cheeses discuss how the ready meal came to be a national favourite.
Leonard Bernstein conducts, for the first time, West Side Story. This 1985 edition also covers the days of preparation.
Werner Herzog's career is celebrated, plus reviews of Song of Songs and Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist.
(Stuart Maconie's DVD review: page 38)
A gang leader falls for a refugee caring for a baby after being raped by Iraqi soldiers, in this hellishly black comedy from 2004. In Kurdish with English subtitles. Review p45.
1/3. The 1950s witnessed a struggle for ownership of the folk revival between traditionalists and communists.
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