Summary: Jeremy Paxman presents a BBC series commemorating the centenary of the outbreak of World War 1. Juliet Stevenson is performing Samuel Beckett's Happy Days - buried up to her neck in a mound of earth - at London's Young Vic Theatre. Canadian author Dan Vyleta has just published his third novel set in immediately post-war Vienna, The Crooked Maid. Scott Cooper’s new film Out of The Furnace, starring Christian Bale, Woody Harrelson and Willem Dafoe in a grim tale of rustbelt America. The first major retrospective of Turner Prize winning artist Martin Creed, at the Hayward Gallery in London; do our reviewers think the lights turning on and off and the stacked boxes will baffle, delight or intrigue the visiting public?
