Jeremy Vine curates this week's show

Keira Rathbone is an artist with a unique talent. Her works involve using a typewriter as a drawing instrument, a discipline that has evolved over a ten year period, creating work that is stunninghly complex as well as being beautiful and absorbing.

In a sodden tent at a '70s festival, the teenage Mark Ellen had a dream. He dreamt that music was a rich meadow of possibility, a liberating leap to a sparkling future, an industry of human happiness - and he wanted to be part of it. Thus began his 50-year love affair with rock and roll. From his time at the NME and Smash Hits to Radio One, Old Grey Whistle Test, Live Aid, Q, Select, Mojo and The Word magazines, he's been at the core of its evolution, and watched its key figures from a unique perspective. This personal memoir maps out his eventful journey, it tells stories and settles scores. It charts the peaks and disappointments. It flags up surprising heroes and barbecues the dull and self-deluded.

Rock Stars Stole My Life by Mark Ellen is out now

Earlier this week, Jeremy took a trip to a poetry slam in North London, and he was really impressed by some of the people that he saw there.

One poet in particular stood out after performing a really moving piece called "Tonight Matthew". Her name is Sara Hirsch, and she is the current UK Slam Champion.

1) MEDEA at the National Theatre

Helen McCrory returns to the National to take the title role in Euripides’ powerful tragedy, in a new version by Ben Power with music written by Will Gregory and Alison Goldfrapp. Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she’s left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his family for a new life, Medea faces banishment and separation from her children. Cornered, she begs for one day’s grace. It’s time enough. She exacts an appalling revenge and destroys everything she holds dear.

Medea is on at the National Theatre and runs until September 4th.
 

 
2) SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE at the Noel Coward Theatre
 
Promising young playwright Will Shakespeare is tormented by writer’s block until he finds his muse in the form of passionate noblewoman, Viola De Lesseps. Their forbidden love draws many others, including Queen Elizabeth, into the drama and inspires Will to write the greatest love story of all time, Romeo and Juliet.
Based on the Oscar-winning screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, Shakespeare in Love has been adapted for the stage by Lee Halland is directed by Declan Donnellan.

Shakespeare In Love is on at The Noel Coward Theatre and tickets are on sale until 25th October
 
 
3) A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at the Young Vic

Gillian Anderson is Blanche DuBois, Ben Foster is Stanley and Vanessa Kirby is Stella in Tennessee Williams’ timeless masterpiece.
As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.

A Streetcar Names Desire is on at The Young Vic and runs until 19th September.

Art is full of bad characters, in fact, bad characters make good artists. Jeremy's all-time favourite painter, Caravaggio was a violent man who was always getting into fights. Philip Larkin, the poet was pretty unsavoury, but people still read his poems. So why do we decide we don't want art made by bad people?

A PROMISE

Director: Patrice Leconte
Starring: Alan Rickman, Rebeccas Hall, Richard Madden

A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's protégé. Separated first by duties and then by the war, they pledge their devotion to one another.
 

A Promise is out now and Rated 12A

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (3D)

Director: James Gunn
Starring: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Lee Pace, Michael Rooker

From Marvel, the studio that brought you the global blockbuster franchises of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers, comes a new team--the Guardians of the Galaxy. Brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade the ever-persistent Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits--Rocket, a gun-toting raccoon; Groot, a tree-like humanoid; the deadly and enigmatic Gamora; and the revenge-driven Drax the Destroyer. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate stand--with the galaxy's fate in the balance.
 

Guardians of the Galaxy is out now and rated 12A
 

MOOD INDIGO

Director:  Michel Gondry
Starring:  Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou

The surreal and poetic tale of Colin (ROMAIN DURIS), an idealistic and inventive young man, and Chloé (AUDREY TAUTOU), a young woman who seems like the physical embodiment of the eponymous Duke Ellington tune.
Their idyllic marriage is turned on its head when Chloé falls sick with a water lily growing in her lung. To pay for her medical bills in this fantasy version of Paris, Colin must go out to work in a series of increasingly absurd jobs, while around them, their apartment disintegrates and their friends, including the talented Nicolas (OMAR SY), and Chick (GAD ELMAHLEH) – a huge fan of the philosopher Jean-Sol Partre – go to pieces.
 

Mood Indigo is out now rated 12A
 

DVD/Blu-Ray release:  NOAH

Director:  Darren Aronofsky
Starring:  Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Anthony Hopkins

A man is chosen by his world's creator to undertake a momentous mission before an apocalyptic flood cleanses the world.

The DVD & Blu-Ray of “Noah” is out now and Rated 12A

As a child Helen MacDonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge. Then she fills the freezer with hawk food and unplugs the phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals.

Helen MacDonald went on to write a fascinating and very beautiful book called "H Is For Hawk".