... THE BOLSHOI OPERA comes to Glasgow next month to appear at a specially created venue in the Scottish National Exhibition Cen tre, which will hold 5300 people and is costing £500.000. The com pany will be presenting two pro ductions, Rimskv-Korsakov's Mla- da (August 3 to 6) and the Maid of Orleans, by Tchaikovsky (August 10 to 12). Following this season, the Bolshoi Opera will give three ...

... IN PRODUCTION GO IN AND OUT OF THE WINDOW 60-minute children's musical fantasy. Production company: NVC Arts in co-production with Metropolitan Museum of Art. Writer/director: Keith Cheetham. Music: Nash En semble. Producer: Fiona Morris. Lighting camera: Norman War wick. Production designer: Errol Bryant. Costumes: Daria Gibson. McGILLOWAY'S WAY six-part series for Ulster Television. ...

... NEW SERIES FRI, JULY 6 THE GREAT NORTH SHOW Granada and Yorkshire six-week arts documentary series (10.35pm) Series editor: Colin Bell. THE ENCIRCLED SEA Channel 4 ten-pan documentary series (8.30- 8.55pm) Production company: Third Eye Pro ductions. Producer/director: Geoffrey Haydon. Commissioning editor: Gwynn Pritchard. SAT, JULY 7 THE SAINT London Weekend drama series for ITV network (8.00 ...

... SHOWCALL WHO'S WHERE OVERLAP No. 69 Overlap rules: Enter answers clockwise. Each starts with the last letters never fewer than 2 nor more than 3 of the preceding answer (thus CONE NEST ESTEEM would be entered as CONESTEEM and the answer to the illustrated clue overlaps the first. This week's clues: Hang without trial, mob-style (5): Seat (5): Ventilated (5): Make less (6): US coin of small ...

... NEW SERIES THURS, JULY 26 THE EARTHDWELLERS' GUIDE Central environmental series for ITV network (1.30 pm) Presenters: Anne Davies, Rob Whitehouse. Producer: Adam Perry. FRI, JULY 27 THIS WAY OUT TVS arts, leisure and entertainment magazine, regional only (10.40 pm) Production company: Clark Productions. Presenters: Simon Mayo, Paddy Haycocks, Samantha Norman, Fiona Pethick. TRAILBI.AZERS HTV ...

... i THURS, JULY 19 MORTE D'ARTHUR by Sir Thomas Malory, dramatised by David Free man. Lyric, Hammersmith. Cast: Jacques Bourgaux, Linda Coggin, Belinda Davison, Joe Dixon, Lucin- da Galloway, Vernon Gudgeon, David Hobbs, Mark Lewis Jones, Robyn Moore, Emma Richler, I Katharine Rogers, Cengis Saner, Trevor Sellers. Robert Swann, Chris Tranchell. Director: David Freeman. Designer: David Roger. ...

... NEW SERIES THURSJULY 19 PERTHYN S4C interview series (7.30pm) Presenter: Beti George. SAT, JULY 21 STARS IN YOUR EYES Granada light entertainment series for ITV network (6.35pm) Presenter: Leslie Crowther. Executive producer: Dianne Nelmes. Producer: Jane Macnaught. Director: Robert Khodadad. Musical director: Ray Monck. PICK OF THE PILOTS London Weekend light entertainment series for ITV ...

... THE NATIONAL TOP THIRTIES For week ending July 8 Individuals viewing BBC1 (Millions) 1 BBCWORLDCUP90 (WED 18.33) 16.69 2 NEIGHBOURS (WED 13.31/17.36) 15.91 3 NEIGHBOURS (THU 13.30/17.36) 15.71 4 EASTENDERS (THU/SUN) 14.82 5 NEIGHBOURS (MON 13.30/17.36) 14.66 6 NEIGHBOURS (FRI 13.29/1736) 14.54 7 NEIGHBOURS (TUE 13.29/17.37) 13.89 8 BBC WORLD CUP FIN AL 13.08 9 EASTENDERS (TUE/SUN) 12.77 10 BBC ...

... FORTHCOMING SHOWCASES GREAT WESTERN ENTS SHOWCASE (BrtstoT Area) at Lawrence We ston Social Club. Lawrence Weston Bristol on September 23rd I9902prrv 8pm Ticket only Tel: 037361666 JME Group of Companies SHOWCASE Monday Tuesday 15th 16th October 1990 at Butllns (Somerwest World). Minehead. Tel: 0272 844777 PREMIERE PROMOTIONS SHOWCASE Tuesday 16th October 1990; at Ferneham Hall. Fareham. Hants ...

... THURS, JULY 26 KING LEAR by William Shakespeare. Lyttelton. Manage ment: Royal National Theatre. Cast: Sam Beazley, Nicholas Blane, David Bradley. Richard Bremmer, David Collings, Brian Cox, Susan Engel, Clare Higgins, Colin Hurley, Derek Hutchinson, Peter Jeffrey, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Helene Kvale, Phil McKee, Ian McKellen, Stephen Merchant, Eve Matheson, Richard O'Callaghan, Bruce Purchase, ...

... THE BULANDRA Theatre of Bucharest's production of Hamlet, with Romania's leading actor Ion Caramitru in the title role, plays six performances in the Lyttelton from September 20 to 26. The performances of the play, which ran for five years in Bucharest before the December revolution, will be in Romanian, with no simultaneous translation. THE RENAISSANCE Theatre Company is presenting its produc ...

... BARB Ratings THE national TOP THIRTIES For week ending July 15 Individuals viewing BBC1 (Millions) 1 NEIGHBOURS (MON 13.31/17.36) 16.25 2 NEIGHBOURS (TUE 13.30/17.37) 14.52 3 NEIGHBOURS (WED 13.30/17.36) 14.43 4 NEIGHBOURS (FR1 13.29/17.36) 14.08 5 NEIGHBOURS (THU 13.29/17.36) 13.57 6 EASTENDERS (THU/SUN) 12.56 7 EASTENDERS (TUE/SUN) 12.46 8 HEAVEN CAN WAIT 10.99 9 BLACKADDER/THIRD 10.10 10 ...