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Tom Sutcliffe and his guests the writers Susan Jeffreys, Don Guttenplan and Miranda Sawyer review the week's cultural highlights including Bridesmaids.

Bridesmaids is the latest film from the successful American producer Judd Apatow which differs from his previous gross-out comedy hits in that it stars and is written by women. Kristen Wiig - who co-wrote the film with Annie Mumolo - plays Annie whose life, already on a downwards trajectory, gets worse when her best friend announces that she is getting married and asks Annie to be her maid of honour.

Trevor Nunn was in the frame to direct the first professional production of Tom Stoppard's 1966 play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, but it didn't pan out. 45 years later he's finally directing the play at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London. Samuel Barnett and Jamie Parker star as the two minor characters from Hamlet who are at a loss as to how they should fill the time between their brief engagements with the action at Elsinore and are no longer sure that they have any free will of their own.

Cain is the final novel by the Nobel Prize winning Portuguese author Jose Saramago who died last year. The book retells the story of Adam and Eve's fratricidal son, revisiting key moments from the Book of Genesis and framing these events as an ongoing argument between Cain and God.

Rene Magritte: The Pleasure Principle is an exhibition at Tate Liverpool which brings together some of the Belgian surrealist's best known works alongside paintings from his Vache period - a looser, wilder style which includes cartoonish figures - and some of his commercial work for fashion houses and magazines.

In the 大象传媒2 series Secrets of the Pop Song, songwriter and producer Guy Chambers investigates what goes into a great pop song via a series of three collaborations. He writes a ballad with Rufus Wainwright, teams up with Mark Ronson to create a breakthrough hit and tries to create an anthem with The Noisettes.

Producer: Torquil MacLeod.