What's On

Recommended TV

The series ‘Maestro’ on BBC2 at 9pm

What does it take to be a good conductor of music?
See also Musical Conductors

Recommended Theatre

Fragments by Samuel Beckett directed by Peter Brook 27 August – 13 September

Peter Brook’s joyously received Fragments returns for just 22 performances following a sold out run last year.
The Young Vic 020 7922 2924 (Mon-Sat, 10am-6pm)

The Pitmen Painters by Lee Hall

The National Theatre from January 27th 2009
Early booking is advised as the short run in June 2008 quickly sold out.

Recommended Exhibitions in London

Vilhelm Hammershøi: The Poetry of Silence

28 Jun—7 Sep 2008 at the Royal Academy, Sackler Wing, London

The Ramayana: Love and Valour in India's Great Epic

16 May – 14 September 2008 at the British Library

LONDON,SUGAR AND SLAVERY

Museum in Docklands, London

On the Net

This has interested a number of In-Between readers,it
is an account by a neuro-anatomist of her experience
of having a stroke:

http://www.microclesia.com/?p=320