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Eastern Promises
Director David Cronenberg鈥檚 new film centres around Russian mafia gangsters at work in London. Viggo Mortensen plays Nikolai, an enforcer for a mafia boss. When a midwife called Anna, played by Naomi Watts, attempts to find out more about a 14 year old girl who鈥檚 died in childbirth, she finds that Nikolai is the best lead she鈥檚 got.

The Book of Other People
This new anthology edited by Zadie Smith intends to raise money for a literacy charity. Smith鈥檚 instructions to her 22 fellow writers was 鈥渕ake somebody up,鈥� and they did just that. Each short story is named after an extraordinary character.

The Book Of Other People is published by Penguin

Britz
Britz is a new two part television drama from Peter Kosminsky about two young British Muslims and their very different reactions to the difficulties of life after 9/11 and the July 7 bombing. One of them joins MI5 while the other goes undercover to train with jihadis, but despite parting at this fork in the road their paths eventually converge again.

Renaissance Siena: Art for a City
Renaissance Siena is a new exhibition at The National Gallery in London which aims to claim back some glory from Rome and Florence. It has reunited alterpieces and pulled together linked work that have long been separated to make the best case for Siena鈥檚 art as a whole and for some of its masters.

Rob Newman鈥檚 The History of the World Backwards
The History of the World Backwards is a new six part series in which the comedian and writer Rob Newman reverses history to see what it might look like going backwards. In his version of events, the aircraft which drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima is named after an Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark album, and the suffragettes successfully campaign to be allowed to give up work and stay at home.