... BBC television's Screen Two drama Enchanted April has scored three Oscar nominations. Joan Plowright has been nom inated for best support ing actress, Peter Barnes for his screenplay, and Sheena Napier for her costume design. The 65th Annual Academy Awards will be presented in Los Angeles on Monday, March 29. WEST Yorkshire Broadcasting, the Independent Local Radio group which owns the Aire FM ...

... MEMENTO Mori, BBC2's Screen Two adaptation of Muriel Spark's novel, this week picked up six nominations for the BAKTA Awards, which will be made next month. Other BBC programmes named more than once included hospital drama Casualty and the Performance production of Ibsen's A Doll's House. David Rcnwick's sitcom One root In The Grave faces its most serious challenge from Jennifer Saundcrs' ...

... |OUT OF TOWN ABERDEEN Hit Majty' English Shakespeare Company ALNWICK Alnwick Playhouse Animal Farm (5- 6) BARNET Old Bull Art* Centra Call Blue Jane (5 6) BASINGSTOKE Central Studio The Coal Dust Affair (4 5l BATH Theatre Royal lolanthe BARROW Forum 28 Brideshead Revisited (13) BELFAST Grand Opera House Opera Northern Ireland Lyric Players Theatre The Tempest BIRMINGHAM Alexandra Aspects Of ...

... SADLER'S Wells is app ointing an artistic pro ducer to to develop a nat ional and international programme for the main house, Lilian Baylis Theatre and education and community work. Director Stephen Rem ington moves up to chief executive. MANCHESTER Airport is backing Manchester's City of Drama 1994 celebrations. The massive drama festival will receive £300,000 from the Airport, whose World ...

... FAIRPORT Convention began their winter tour this week, with a date tonight (February 4) at the Empire, Sunder- land. Other bookings are at Tunbridge Welis, Birmingham, Cam bridge, Canterbury, Swindon, Cullompton (Verbeer Manor), Gravesend, High Wy- combe, Leamington Spa, York, Lowestoft, Leicester (University), Southport (Arts Cen tre), Chesterfield (Winding Wheel), Brad ford, Rhyl, Oxford, ...

... Snaps AMKLIA Freedtnan is leaving Bath Festival after nine years as artis tic director to join the Philharmonia as pro gramme adviser. CITIKS, towns and regions of the UK arc being invited to put in bids to host the next stages of the Arts Council's Arts 2,(100 initiative. Opera and Music Theatre will be celebrated in 1997. 1998 is the year of Photography and the Electronic Image and 1999 ...

... |OUT OF TOWN ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE TameeMe Hippodrome Vienna Festival Ballet ...

... ?BILL KENWRIGHT brought his production of Robin Prince of Sherwood, seen on tour recen tly, into the Piccadilly this week, with a cast headed by Mike Holoway, Liz Curnick, Anne Smith, Peter Lawrence and Peter Howarth. who is also the writer of the musical with Rick Fenn. ?MURDER IS EASY, an adaptation by Clive Exton of an Agatha Christie novel, opens at the Duke of York's on February 23, ...

... ahu, tne .association oi British Orchestras, ho lds its annual conference this year at the Swallow Gosforth Park Hotel, Newcastle upon Tyne from February 12 to 14. The event is sponsored by Northern Arts. LONDON Palladium Theatre hosts a St Valentine's Day Gala in aid of the Ralph Bates Pan creatic Cancer Research Fund on February 14. Dear Ralph, which honours the late Ralph Bates, will ...

... ?ADRIAN NOBLE'S production of Hamlet, with Kenneth Branagh in the title role, begins the new sea son at the Royal Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-Avon on March 18, playing a limited six-week season In other leading roles are Richard Bonneville, David Bradley, Rob Edwards, Jane Lapotaire, Richard Moore, Jonathan Newth. Joanne Pearce, Clifford Rose and John Shrapnel. ?THE STUTTGART Ballet pays its ...

... RUNNING Late, the Screen One film inde pendently produced for BBC1 by Cinema Verity in association with Peter Bowles Productions, has won a Golden Gate Award in the 36th San Francisco International Film Festival. THE BRITISH Film Institute and BAFTA will lointly hold a commission of inquiry' into the future of the BBC on March 10 and 1 1 at London's National I-ilm Theatre. The event will be ...

... THURS, FEB 18 SIDE BY SIDE BBC1 comedy series (8.30 9.00 pm) Cast includes: Louisa Rix, Gareth Hunt, Julia Deakin, Alex Walkinshaw, Mia Fothergill. Writer: Richard Ommanney. DIZZY HEIGHTS BBC1 chil dren's comedy series (4.30 5.00 pm) Cast includes: Alan Heap, Mick Wall, Kate Robbins, John Bleasdale. FRENCH AND SAUNDERS BBC2 comedy series (9.00 9.30 pm) Cast includes: Dawn French, Jennifer ...