'You could say that what I display is failure, what has not been achieved'

Alice Jones' Arts Diary

The titan of University Challenge reckons it’s time the BBC stopped treating audiences like idiots

Plus: OMG –WTF is this TPM thing? And, Paul Noble: genius squared with madness

Millions of households face interference to their television signal, or could even lose it altogether, as mobile phone companies switch on thousands of 4G masts in the coming weeks.

High-speed mobile networks are being rolled out across the nation this month

Former Beatle Ringo Starr is to publish a book of his own photos, including previously unseen images of the Fab Four.

Mud (130 mins, 12A)

The Village, Sun, BBC1 // Young Margaret: Life, Love & Letters, Sat, BBC2

Michael Winterbottom's biopic of Soho porn and property baron Paul Raymond (Steve Coogan) is a Janus-faced affair. On the one hand, it's a bit of a romp.

There's something about the Zen-garden aspect of John Cage's music that lends itself particularly well to these interpretations by the Italian harpist Floraleda Sacchi. The instrument is especially effective in the more obviously “beautiful” pieces such as “Dream” and “In a Landscape”, where the undulating, intertwining figures have the same serene intensity as on piano, but are less overtly soothing, always poised on a sharper edge.

A south London tourist board is challenging the Lake District's claim to the name. So did it bring out the poet in John Walsh

Hundreds will queue overnight to buy postcard-size artworks that could be worth tens of thousands

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