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Miranda Sawyer presents tonight's edition of the newly extended Culture Show which, again, comes from Albert Square in Manchester, the heart of the Manchester International Festival.

Tonight, the show looks at the collaboration between award-winning film-maker Adam Curtis, theatre company Punchdrunk and Damon Albarn. It Felt Like A Kiss tells the story of dark dreams and desires in Sixties America. The unique theatrical event unfolds over five floors of a deserted multi-storey office block and blends documentary footage with fairground ghost train horrors.

Art critic Alastair Sooke puts himself through a four-hour live art experience curated by artist Marina Abramovic at the Whitworth Gallery. Dubbed the Godmother of Performance Art, Abramovic's work can be both shocking and bizarre. This is her first show in the UK. Will it work? Will it hurt? Is it art? One of the artists in her show made his name by living in a cage for a year...

The show also follows Zaha Hadid as she converts the Manchester Art gallery into a new chamber music hall, scientifically designed to be the perfect setting for the solo works of Bach. To test it out, violinist Alina Ibragimova gives a performance.

Miranda Sawyer talks to Rufus Wainwright about his first opera, Prima Donna – a collaboration with Opera North – which receives its world première on Friday 10 July in Manchester.

A panel of cultural critics debates the highlights of this week's Manchester festival offerings, including a special collaboration between Elbow and the Halle Orchestra.

Finally, Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo bring a new recurring film strand to The Culture Show. It's the same blend of film erudition and banter, with audience participation, that has made their award-winning weekly radio show one of the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s most popular podcasts. This week, with school term finishing for summer, Kermode and Mayo discuss the pros and cons of movies set in schools.

The programme can be seen again on Saturday 18 July.

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Candida Coulter (Ruby Wax) is involved in a turf war as Taking The Flak continues

The Americans are coming, as ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two's biting news satire continues.

When US network news legend Candida Coulter (played by Ruby Wax) cascades into Karibu, flanked by her long-suffering cameraman and producer, the American invasion of the conflict-torn African country begins. A turf war for talking heads breaks out between Coulter and her arch-rival, ´óÏó´«Ã½ correspondent David Bradburn. However, with bribery, exploding pineapples and power-outages, it is anyone's guess which national news reporter will get to file their story first.

Ruby Wax is Candida Coulter and Martin Jarvis is David Bradburn. Taking The Flak also stars Doon Mackichan as Jane Thomason, Bruce Mackinnon as Harry Chambers, Joanna Brookes as Margaret Hollis, Lydia Gitachu as Grace, Damian O'Hare as Rory Wallace, Lucy Chalkley as Samantha and Sean Power as Candida's cameraman, Chip.

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On the eve of the 138th Open Championship, Gary Lineker looks ahead to the next four days as Turnberry hosts the event for the first time in 15 years.

Ireland's Padraig Harrington hopes to secure a third successive Open title and, in doing so, join Tom Watson, Greg Norman and Nick Price on the roll of honour at the South Ayrshire course.

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Edith Bowman, Reggie Yates and Nick Grimshaw present musical highlights from the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Three InTimate Stage at T In The Park 2009.

The acoustic stage was a new introduction this year and featured one-off acoustic performances from some of the festival's top-name acts – as well as special collaborations between musicians.

All performances on this stage were performed exclusively for the ´óÏó´«Ã½ audience across the weekend, giving armchair music-lovers the chance to see some unique footage from the comfort of their homes.

This highlights programme gives those who were soaking up the festival atmosphere at T In The Park the chance to catch up on some fabulous acoustic performances from behind the scenes at the festival.

More top festival moments and highlights are available at bbc.co.uk/tinthepark.

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Dr Pippa Moore (Vicki Pepperdine), Sister Den Flixter (Joanna Scanlan) and Nurse Kim Wilde (Jo Brand) are Getting On with it

Pippa is preparing her research paper while Den and Kim deal with a male referral, as the comedy starring Jo Brand, Vicki Pepperdine and Joanna Scanlan and devised and written by the cast, directed by Peter Capaldi, continues.

However, it's Ivy, a problem patient, who dominates the day. Aggressive and unpleasant, she sets a chain reaction in motion that sees Hilary in tears and Kim in trouble.

Elsewhere on the ward, life and death continue as normal. But, with MRSA a factor, losing a patient could have a bigger significance.

Vicki Pepperdine plays Doctor Pippa Moore, Joanna Scanlan plays Sister Den Flixter, Jo Brand plays Nurse Kim Wilde, Patty Bee plays Ivy and Ricky Grover plays Matron Hilary Loftus.

Getting On, a darkly funny, tough and compassionate drama that follows the daily lives of the medical team as they go about their routine tasks, is part of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Four's Grey Expectations season of programmes dedicated to understanding life's twilight years.

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