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Answers please by Friday 17 May. £50 book token for the winner.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
* Ben Elton has written a musical We Will Rock You, based around the songs of Queen, which opened at the Dominion Theatre in London on Tuesday 14 May. Is it a Killer or a Flash in the pan?
We Will Rock You is at The Dominion Theatre, London
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* George Lucas talks to John Wilson about his latest film, Star Wars (Part II) - The Attack of the Clones.
Attack of The Clones is at cinemas from Friday.
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* Sick of press attention, Caroline Aherne escaped to Australia threatening retirement. However, she didn't stop work for long. A new series co-written by Aherne begins on BBC2 tonight, 15 May. Dossa and Joe is set in an Australian suburbia familiar to viewers of the soap, Neighbours. The protagonists are the couple of the title, whose marriage comes up for a little reassessment when the husband, Joe, takes early retirement. But it's not quite The Royle Family Down Under.
Dossa and Joe is on BBC2 at 10.00pm, from 15 May.
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* Artists frequently talk of collaborating with others they admire, but schedules or egos often don't permit. A three-way joint venture, Kaash, is an exception. The performer is the award-winning dancer Akram Khan. The music is by Nitin Sawhney, nominated for a Mercury music prize for his album Beyond Skin. The design of the set is by Anish Kapoor, winner of the Turner Prize in 1991. The piece's ambition is considerable - creation and black holes, Hindu theology, laws of physics and mathematics. Front Row asked the three about the challenge of working together.
Kaash will be performed at the Sandfield Theatre, Nottingham on 22 May; The Tramway, Glasgow on 24 and 25 May; and at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester on 14 June. It then tours the world for a year.
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* From early silent cinema to the present, wolfman syndrome doesn't seem to lose its appeal. Dog Soldiers, a film in cinemas this week, places a squad of British troops in a remote part of Scotland. Mysteriously, they are found savaged. Perhaps it was a full moon. Front Row considers the cultural history of the werewolf.
Dog Soldiers is in cinemas now, Certificate 15. The next full moon is on May 26 at approximately 23.51
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ON THURSDAY'S PROGRAMME
The playwright Tony Kushner on his new play set in Kabul and London, an exhibition of 40 years of computer games and Gwyneth Paltrow on stage.
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