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11/02/2009

Arts news and reviews. John Wilson reviews Notorious, a new film about the life of rapper Biggie Smalls, who was shot dead at the age of 24.

Presented by John Wilson.

Manchester City Council have announced that they are going to take down Thomas Heatherwick's spikey 56-metre-high sculpture B of the Bang and put it into storage following safety concerns and a legal row. Head of the council, Sir Richard Leese, and the designer Thomas Heatherwick assess the situation.

James McAvoy and Eastenders star Nigel Harman head the cast in a West End revival of Richard Greenberg's comedy Three Days of Rain. Critic Sarah Churchwell gives her verdict.

Christopher Wallace, AKA New York rapper The Notorious B.I.G, was shot dead in 1997 in Los Angeles, aged 24. It was rumoured to have been a revenge killing in response to his West Coast rival Tupac Shakur's fatal shooting the year before. A film about the unsolved case, Notorious, is about to be released. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ 1Xtra's DJ Semtex joins John to review the film.

The crime writer Graham Hurley's book No Lovelier Death is set, like all his earlier novels, in Portsmouth. John heads for the top of The Spinnaker building overlooking Portsmouth to discuss the town and its appeal as a fictional crime location.

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