Summary: Controversial film Blue is the Warmest Colour is a story of two young lesbians who fall in love and the lengthy explicit sex scenes have caused consternation. And since its release the two actresses have said that they feel exploited. A new book from Granta allows present day authors to imagine interviews with artists who - long ago - shuffled off this mortal coil. Is this merely a vanity project for the authors to stretch their skills or can it offer some sort of insight into the mind and working of their dead heroes? A new exhibition marking the centenary of Dylan Thomas's birth has just opened in the Cardiff showing Peter Blake's interpretation of Under Milk Wood Earl Lipton is a New Yorker who has created a cabaret show about being made unemployed. No Place To Go is at the Gate Theatre in London. Jim Al-Khalili's new series on BBC4 explores what 95% of what the universe is made up of. Can even he explain to a layman what dark matter is?
