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HisÌýbooks, "Fever Pitch", "About A Boy" and "High Fidelity" have all been turned into successful films, author Nick Hornby joins will to talk about his first novel in five years "Funny Girl".

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Funny Girl is out now and published by Viking.

Writer Richard Bean's new play "Great Britain" has beenÌýdescribed as an anarchic and foul-mouthed satire about the press, the police and the political establishment. One of the stars of the show, Robert Glenister joins Will to chat about it.

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"Great Britain" is on at The Theatre Royal, Haymarket and is taking bookings until 10th January 2015.

The EFG London Jazz Festival returns for its 22nd year and Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3, and for the first time, Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2 will be on hand to bring the capital's biggest city-wide music festival to audiences across the UK, jazz expert Jez Nelson tells us more about it.

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The festival begins today and finishes on 8th December 2014

Solomon and Marion, a touching tale of post-Apartheid South African society was a hit at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival, and now returns to form part of The Print Room’s opening season in their new venue at The Coronet. Actress and star of the play, Dame Janet SuzmanÌýjoins Will.

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"Solomon And Marion" runs at The Coronet until 29th November 2014

Matt Wolf theatre critic for The International New York Times gives us all the news from Broadway.

IT'S ONLY A PLAY

Terrence McNally revival set in and around the world of Broadway with an all star line up including Nathan Lane,ÌýStockard Channing, Rupert Grint, F Murray Abraham, Matthew Broderick andÌýMegan Mullaley.

THIS IS OUR YOUTH

Michael Cera from the film JUNO and Kieran Culkin (younger brother of Macaulay) in aÌýrevival of Kenneth Lonergan'sÌýplay about privileged New York slackers facing a day (and night) of reckoning.Ìý

THE REAL THING

Third Broadway version of Stoppard's 1982 play starringÌýEwan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal in their Broadway debuts.

INDIAN INK

This Stoppard play is happening offÌýBroadway,Ìýand hasÌýsuperb leading performances from Romola Garai and Rosemary Harris.

STICKS AND BONES

AnotherÌýoff Broadway revivalÌý of defining Vietnam-era play by David Rabe and with a cast headed by Holly Hunter and Bill Pullman.

Few artists inflame debate like Allen Jones. Celebratory, satirical and boldly inventive, his work embraces popular culture and has in turn influenced everything from design to film and fashion.

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Allen Jones' exhibition opened yesterday atÌýBurlington Gardens, The Royal Academy and runs until 25th January 2015.

THE IMITATION GAME

Director: Morten Tyldum

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Charles Dance, Matthew Goode, Mark Strong, Tuppence Middleton, Allen Leech, Tom Goodman-Hill, Rory Kinnear, Steven Waddington

A nail-biting race against time following Alan Turing (pioneer of modern-day computing and credited with cracking the German Enigma code) and his brilliant team at Britain's top-secret code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
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The Imitation Game is out now and rated 12A

THE DROP

Director:Ìý Michael Roskam

Cast: Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, James Gandolfini, Matthias Schoenaerts, John Ortiz, Ann Dowd, James Frecheville

This film takes an inside look at organized crime's use of local New York City bars as money-laundering 'drops'. When lonely Brooklyn bartender Bob Saginowski uncovers a drop of a different sort in the form of a battered pit bull puppy that he rescues from certain death, he comes into contact with Nadia, a mysterious woman hiding a dark past.

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The Drop is out now and rated 15

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HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DVD & BLU-RAY)

Director:Ìý Dean DeBlois
Cast: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Kit Harington, Cate Blanchett, Djimon Honsou, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller

Set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons, and based on the book by Cressida Cowell, the action comedy tells the story of Hiccup, a Viking teenager who doesn't exactly fit in with his tribe's longstanding tradition of heroic dragon slayers. Hiccup's world is turned more upside down when he encounters a dragon that challenges him and his fellow Vikings to see the world from an entirely different point of view.

How To Train Your Dragon 2 is out now and rated PG

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22 JUMP STREET – DVD/BluRay Release

Director: Phil Lord, Chris Miller
Cast: Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Ice Cube, Dave Franco, Nick Offerman, Peter Stormare, Amber Stevens, Rob Riggle, Richard Grieco, Libby Blanton

After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question more »their partnership. Now they don't have to just crack the case - they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship. If these two overgrown adolescents can grow from freshmen into real men, college might be the best thing that ever happened to themÌý

22 Jump Street is out now and rated 15