... ON YER Head, Son is a cry more often heard on the football terraces than in the theatre, but enter tainer Colin 'Fingers Henry hopes to change all that. He plans to mark the Mozart Bicentenary by performing the com poser's work as he attempts to break his own world record for playing the piano while standing on his head. Catch him in action on August 11 at the Overstone Solarium Lei sure Park ...

... GRAMPIAN Television, the ITV contractor for the North of Scotland, is to invest in a new feature film project to be shot in Edinburgh and Orkney. Blue Black Permanent will be produced by Viz Ltd and written and directed by independent film-maker Margaret Tait. UNITED Kingdon Indepen dent Broadcasting has submit ted three independent radio entries for the international annual broadcasting ...

... THE MASTER BLACKMAILER Granada two-hour film in Sherlock Holmes series. Cast includes: Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Robert Hardy, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies. Writer: Jeremy Paul, from a story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Director: Peter Hammond. Producer: June Wyndham Davies. Designer: Chris Truelove. Lighting cameraman: David Odd. Casting director: Carolyn Bart- lett. RED FOX London Weekend film, ...

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... JAMES Barber is to replace Val May as direc tor of the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre. Barber, cur rently general manager, has played a key role in the development of the theatre, setting up its first commercial nation al tour recently of The Importance of being Earnest, starring Pene lope Keith. MATTHEW Epstein will suc ceed Brian McMaster as gener al director of Welsh National Opera. McMaster leaves ...

... THURS, AUG15 THE MURPHY INITIATIVE by Niall Williams. Abbey, Dublin. Cast: Peter Banks, Brian Doherty, Peadar Lamb, Ray McBride, Marie Mullen, Aisling O'Sullivan, Jennifer Parsons. Director: Paul Mercier. Designer: Wendy Shea. Lighting: Tony Wakefield. Press: Sinead Gorby, Dublin 786458. HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR, solo performance by Peta Lily. Lyric Studio, Hammersmith to August 31. Director and co ...

... SEX and violence watch dog the Broadcasting Standards Council has upheld complaints made against BBCl's comedy revue Paramount City, Tyne Tees Television's Catherine Cookson drama The Black Can dle, Central Television's The Joe Longthorne Show and BBC Radio 4's weekly review Loose Ends. HIGH street retail group WH Smith is to retain its 19.5 per cent stake in Leeds-based 11 V' contractor ...

... ABERYSTWVTH Art* Centre THE SOUND OF MUSIC with Sheila Mathews, )oan Newman-Price, Maggie Beckit, Stephanie Jacob, Julia Howsoa, Graham James, Richard Cheshire, Tony NuttlU, Jane Ashby, Paul Manuel, Carys Rhys Jones, Ashley Wallington, Derek Cheveley. Music by Richard Rodgers. Lyncs by Oscar Hammerstein II. Directed by Richard Cheshire and Christopher Wren. Designed by Ray Lett Costumes by ...

... THE 13th Celtic Film and Television Festival will be held between April 6 and 10 1992 in Carmarthen, Wales. ROBERT Evans, a senior sculp tor and engraver from Barry, South Glamorgan, has been named as the winner of the BAFTA Cymru Award Design Competition. The winning de sign will be presented to the win ners at the ceremony at the Great Hall, University Union Card!flon November 30. CENTRAL ...

... THE NATIONAL TOP THIRTIES For week ending September 29 CHANNEL Average weekly viewing Share of Total Per Head (Hours/Minutes) viewing ALL/ANY TV 26:09 100.00 BBC 1 (INCLUDING BREAKFAST TIME) 8:46 33.S BBC2 3:08 12.0 i TOTAL/ ANY BBC 11:53 45.5 ITV (INCLUDING TV-am) 10:59 42.0 CHANNEL 4/S4C 2:42 10.3 TOTAL/ANY ITV 13:40 52.3 OTHER VIEWING 0:35 2.2 Show us your Bottom-ADRIAN EDMONDSON and RIK ...

... THURS, AUG 8 THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO Ul by Bertolt Brecht, translated by Ranjit Bolt. Olivier. Management: Royal National Theatre. Director: Di Trevis. A CHILD IN THE FOREST by David Goodland, adapted from the book by Winifred Foley. Everyman, Cheltenham to August 31. Cast: Angela Bain, Veda Warwick, Hilary Crane, Annie Sutton, Buffy Davis, Rebecca Wright, Karen Clegg, Owen John O'Mahony ...

... ?DEREK JACOBI has the title role, with Robert Lindsay as Henry II. in Jean Anouilh's Becket, which opens at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket on October 3. The new translation by Jeremy Sams is directed by Elijah Moshinsky and produced by Duncan C.Weldon. It plays pre-West End dates at Bradford, Bath, Newcastle, She ffield, Birmingham and Edinburgh. WREVOR EVE, Sarah Jane Fenton and Brian Protheroe ...