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Knocked Up
Already a hit in the US, Knocked Up tells the story of perenially stoned Ben - played by Seth Rogen. He has a one night stand with beautiful up and coming television presenter Alison – Katherine Heigl - and her resulting pregnancy comes as a shock to them both. Judd Apatow, one of the makers of last year's hit The 40 Year Old Virgin, directs and co-stars.

Coming Round the Mountain
Award winning novelist Mark Haddon's first tv drama explores the adolescent angst of two brothers as they struggle with spots, hormones, girlfriends and parents.

The Importance of Music to Girls
Lavinia Greenlaw's memoir of her childhood and adolescence is written in very short chapters, each built on a piece of music. She charts her changing musical tastes from traditional folk dancing and madrigals to the shockingly outrageous.

The Importance of Music to Girls is available now

Snow
This week's cultural choice is Louis Macneice's 1934/5 poem:

Snow

The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was
Spawning snow and pink roses against it
Soundlessly collateral and incompatible:
World is suddenner than we fancy it.

World is crazier and more of it than we think,
Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion
A tangerine and spit the pips and feel
The drunkenness of things being various.

And the fire flames with a bubbling sound for world
Is more spiteful and gay than one supposes—
On the tongue on the eyes on the ears in the palm’s of one’s hands—
There is more than glass between the snow and the huge roses.

Louis MacNeice

Snow is included in many poetry anthologies, available from bookshops

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
For the last seven years the Serpentine gallery has invited a major architect, often working in partnership with an artist, to create a temporary pavilion beside the gallery. The Serpentine invites us to see these pavilions both as serious works of art, and as grown up play spaces. This year's is the inspiration of the Danish artist Olafur Eliasson and the Norwegian architect Kjetil Thorsun.

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