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* A four-part television drama with a starts tomorrow night. Murder, whose cast includes Julie Walters , Imelda Staunton and Robert Glenister. Ian Rankin reviews the series.
  Murder starts tomorrow, 29 May, on BBC2 at 9pm.
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* Poet Kathleen Jamie's book about her experiences of travelling in Northern Pakistan has been republished. Last November a group of Pakistani men on a peace walk wandered into her home town and threw themselves upon the kindness of the locals - much as she had done in their country a decade earlier. We speak to her about this incident and her book.
   Among Muslims is published by Sort of Books.
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* A new adaptation of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine is released this week. Peter Kemp, Fiction Editor of the Sunday Times, reviews the film.
   The Time Machine opens this Friday, 31 May, nationwide.
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* The white rapper Eminem - who might argue himself that he is the world's most controversial recording artist - has a single, Without Me, at number 1 this week. The single has been taken from his new album, The Eminem Show. Poet Roddy Lumsden, who has written about pop lyrics and music writer and Time Out Contributing Editor Garry Mulholland. and her book.
   The Eminem Show is now out on Interscope Records.
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* Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, are planning to appear on stage in a new play at the Peacock Theatre in late August. The play, called The Guys is based on events following the attacks on the World Trade Centre. It's also to be made into a film with Sigourney Weaver. We spoke to Ann Nelson, professor of Colubia University's journalism school, who wrote the play.
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