Summary: Mr Burns is a play about an America without electrical power, the end of everything in contemporary USA - when the TV programme The Simpsons has passed into folklore. Folk art has often been neglected in the story of British art but a new exhibition at Tate Britain attempts to set that right. British film Belle explores racial attitudes in 19th Century aristocratic circles through the story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy officer. In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman deals with betrayal, revenge, love, faith, science and war through the relationship between two men across Kabul, New York, Oxford, London and Islamabad. And we look at how the British newspapers are dealing with the World Cup - not the matches and the scores but their depiction of the host country, the preparations, atmosphere, heat and unrest.
