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* Ross Stretton, the director of the Royal Ballet, reponds to criticism of his stewardship.
The Royal Ballet's season of contemporary ballet opens on Monday 4th March with Enduring Images, which features pieces by William Forsythe and Nacho Duato. Carmen - choreographed by Mats Ek - opens in April.
* From the 1950s to the 1980s, the Cold War thriller was a popular genre in novels and films. So how well did the fiction-writers guess what was going on in the closed corridors? Recently declassified state papers reveal British planning for a nuclear war and are the subject of a new book by Britain's leading constitutional historian, Peter Hennessy. The critic and author Professor John Sutherland has been comparing fact and fiction.
Listen to Professor John Sutherland
* Will Young - winner of ITV's Pop Idol talent show - today released his first single: a double A side of Anything is Possible and Evergreen. Alan Moore - Professor of music at the University of Surrey - listened to the single and then analysed it.
Will Young's first single is now in the shops.
* Does Silvio Berlusconi have too much influence in the cultural life of Italy? To talk about the Berlusconi influence, we spoke to the Guardian correspondent Rory Carroll.
* Tomorrow is the 200th anniversary of the birth of the French writer Victor Hugo John Baxter went to Paris to see how the French remember him.
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