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Launchpad
The Science Museum has unveiled the new version of Launchpad, its most popular gallery, after a £4 million transformation. Aimed at 8–14 year olds the gallery offers a bigger, bolder version of the original interactive science gallery which first opened 21 years ago.

Boy A
This television drama tells the story of a 24-year-old boy (Andrew Garfield) who is freed after serving time for killing a child when he was himself a minor. Adapted from Jonathan Trigell’s award-winning book, the story focuses not on why the boy committed the murder, but on his re-emergence into the world after his rehabilitation in prison and on the difficulties he faces.

The Darjeeling Ltd
Wes Anderson’s film is the story of three American brothers who have become estranged since their father’s death a year before. The eldest brother Francis, played by Owen Wilson, organises for them to reunite on a train journey across India to find themselves and bond with each other. Soon their spiritual quest veers off-course and a new, unplanned journey begins. Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman play the brothers, and Angelica Huston appears as their mother.

Guest Choice: Radio Activity by John Murray
Adam Mars-Jones nominates this book by the Cumbrian writer John Murray as one of his favourite books. It was first published in 1993.

The Company
This three part series was made for American television and based on Robert Littell’s best-selling novel about the CIA. It traces CIA activities over a 40 year-period, from the beginning of the Cold War through the demise of the Soviet Union. It stars Alfred Molina as Harvey Torriti, code-named The Sorcerer, who is an old-style CIA agent. Chris O’Donnell plays his apprentice, Jack McAuliffe, an idealistic young man straight out of Yale and on his first assignment in Berlin in 1954.