Summary: Simon Russell Beale plays Shakespeare's monarch King Lear in the latest production at The National Theatre in London. Inside Llewyn Davis is The Coen Brothers look at the folk music scene in New York's Greenwich Village. Jonathan Lethem's latest novel -Dissident Gardens - chronicles a similar period and location; three generations of a New York migrant family steeped in radical politics. Programmes on television about food are an increasingly popular genre. Two new programmes, Restaurant Man and My Kitchen Rules - are hoping they can create a show with enough of a new twist to grab the attention of gastronomic couch potatoes. And a new exhibition at London's Design Museum, In The Making, considers items that are on their way to completion - have you ever wondered what an unwound French Horn looks like?
