ARTS / And What's More . . .

Following his hugely successful My Night with Reg, the BBC have commissioned playwright Kevin Elyot to adapt Alan Hollinghurst's notorious bestseller The Swimming Pool Library . . . Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee are teaming up for the first time in 21 years to co-present Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror . . . Julia Somerville (ITN News), Margi Clarke (The Good Sex Guide) and Judy Finnigan (This Morning) are, bizarrely, up for Best Female Presenter at the Royal Television Society Awards . . . Elaine Paige, who pulled out of Piaf 'due to vocal strain', is 'furious' over claims that she quit without telling the management . . .