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Philip Dodd talks to theatre impresario Cameron Mackintosh about his new musical Betty Blue Eyes and the role of the musical in British theatre life.

Andrew Dickson joins Philip to review a new production of Monteverdi’s baroque opera, The Coronation of Poppea. With a libretto by Mark Ravenhill and a new song by Michael Nyman, how well does it translate to the small stage of London’s King’s Head Pub?

Philip talks to science writer James Gleick about his new book about the information age – what’s the difference between information and meaning?

And there’s discussion of Tate Modern’s retrospective of the Surrealist painter Joan Miró – from his roots in Catalonia and the Spanish Civil War to his great abstract paintings of the late 1960s and early 1970s with Brad Lochore