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Nicci French is the pseudonym of English husband-and-wife team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French, who write psychological thrillers together - they join Claudia to talk about their latest novel Thursday's Children.

Thursday's Children by Nicci French is out now.

William Gaminara is an English actor and screenwriter and is probably best known for playing pathologist Professor Leo Dalton on the 麻豆约拍-1 series Silent Witness.

He joins Claudia to talk about his part as Juror No 10 in the play "Twelve Angry Men".

Twelve Angry Men is on at The Garrick Theatre until Saturday 14th June.

1:听 TRANSCENDENCE

Director:听 Wally Pfister
Cast:听 Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany,听 Morgan Freeman

Dr. Will Caster is the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions.听 His highly controversial experiments have made him famous, but they have also made him the prime target of anti-technology extremists who will do whatever it takes to stop him.
However, in their attempt to destroy Will, they inadvertently become the catalyst for him to succeed鈥攖o be a participant in his own transcendence.听 For his wife Evelyn and best friend Max Waters, both fellow researchers, the question is not if they can鈥�but if they should.
Their worst fears are realized as Will鈥檚 thirst for knowledge evolves into a seemingly omnipresent quest for power, to what end is unknown.听 The only thing that is becoming terrifyingly clear is there may be no way to stop him.

Transcendence is out now Rated 12 A

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2:听 EXHIBITION

Director:听 Joanna Hogg
Cast:听 Tom Hiddleston, Viv Albertine, Liam Gillick

Exhibition is an intimate, austere and engrossing portrait of a marriage and a revealing investigation into memory, architecture and the artistic process.
When artists D and H decide to sell the home that they have loved and lived in for two decades, they begin a difficult process of saying goodbye. The upheaval has caused anxieties to surface and D struggles to control the personal and creative aspects of her life with H.
Dreams, memories and fears have all imprinted themselves on their home, a container for their lives and an axis of their marriage. How will their relationship 鈥� and their art 鈥� exist without its confines?

Exhibition is out now Rated 15

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3:听 TRACKS

Director:听 John Curran
Cast:听 Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver

In 1977, a young Australian woman named Robyn Davidson set out from Alice Springs to trek across 2,700 kilometers of harsh desert of Western Australia to reach the ocean. Accompanied only by her dog and four camels, Davidson had no other purpose than to reach the ocean and find herself on a journey of self-discovery.

Tracks is out now Rated 12A

4: DVD/BluRay听 AMERICAN HUSTLE

Director:听 David O鈥橰ussell
Cast:听 Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper

A con man, Irving Rosenfeld along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia.

American Hustle is released on DVD and BluRay on April 28th, Rated 15

1. Privacy at the Donmar Warehouse.

This is a new play by James Graham who wrote the hugely popular play about Parliament, 鈥淭his House鈥�, at the National.

Privacy runs at the Donmar Warehouse, London until May 31.

2. The Silver Tassie at the National.

Sean O'Casey's play was famously rejected by Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 1928 - an event which led to O'Casey's English exile. It's an anti-war play about a football hero who returns from the trenches in a wheelchair and loses the girl he loves.

The Silver Tassie is at the National's Lyttelton Theatre until July 3.

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3. Henry 1V Parts One & Two at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon

Antony Sher plays Falstaff in the two parts of Shakespeare's epic study of the rebellion-scarred reign of Henry 1V and Gregory Doran directs.

Henry 1V plays in Stratford until September 6 and then goes on tour before coming to London's Babrican. The two plays can be seen live in cinemas on May 14th and June 18th.

4. King Charles 111 at the Almeida, London

From past history to future history and a new play by Mike Bartlett that speculates about what might happen when Charles becomes king. The idea is that Charles, in vetoing a parliamentary bill about press regulation, provokes a constitutional crisis.

King Charles 111 runs at the Almeida until May 31.

Half of a Yellow Sun

He won a Bafta for his portrayal as Soloman Northup in 12 Years a Slave and now Chiwetel Ejiofer is back on the big screen with his new film Half of a Yellow Sun.

Based on the bestselling book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie it tells the story of a group of people living through the Biafran war which took place in Nigeria in the late 1960s displacing and killing millions of people. Despite the destruction it caused it鈥檚 a war that鈥檚 rarely talked about, until now.

Our reporter Anna Bailey caught up with Chimamanda and Chiwetel to find out more about the war and why Chimamanda felt compelled to tell the story.

Half of a Yellow Sun is out on general release.

The last time Imelda Staunton and director Jonathan Kent joined forces they took the West-End by storm with the award winning musical "Sweeney Todd". Well, they're back working together in Good People, following a massively successful stint at the Hampshire Theatre earlier this year, and it's just transferred to the Noel Corward Theatre in the heart of London.

Staunton plays a sharp-tongued single mum who falls on hard times - and as she told our Arts Correspondent Thomas Magill when he caught up with her and Jonathan at the opening night - it was a role she couldn't resist.

Good People at the Noel Coward Theatre, London until 14th June 2014

Having spent over a decade in Ireland's biggest boy band - you might expect Boyzone's Keith Duffy to make his London stage debut in听some sort of a toe tapping, high energy musical but not so!

Instead, the Dubliner has gone back to his roots to play Stapler, a Wexford based boxer in Bill Roache's play "A Handful of Stars".

Due to open this week - our Arts Correspondent Thomas Magill hooked up with Keith and the show's director Paul Robinson as they tried to wind down after rehearsals.

A Handful Of Stars opens at Theatre 503 in South London on Wednesday 30th April and runs听until the 24th May.听