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A handful: http://www.myvue.com/latest-movies/info/film/bolshoi-ballet-pharaohs-daughter-recorded-live And only Shepherd's Bush in London. It may be £5 cheaper, but by the time I've paid transport costs there'd be very little in it. TimeOut's cinema search is now at http://www.timeout.com/london/film, but unfortunately it no longer seems to cover cinemas across the UK, only the London area.

But it's already been seen on BBC2 - at least, the first one has. I'm trying to recall the second one - have we seen it?

Charliechuck, it looks as though you are far from alone: https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=facebook+video+%22reported+for+nudity%22&meta=&gws_rd=ssl I don't know what the problem is, but perhaps reading some of these links may help you find out.

Thanks, Ian, that's what I thought.

Did they credit the company? I only glanced at it quickly in the shop, but couldn't work out from that who it was, so I'm pleased to know.

Couldn't see it advertised

So, the Bolshoi Pharaoh's Daughter is being re-shown on Sunday, and can I find anywhere in London showing it apart from Picturehouses, at £20? Nope. And I really don't feel like paying the price for a live broadcast so that they can just come in and put a DVD or whatever it is these days in the player. Has anyone found anything cheaper? No sign of any showings from Odeon, Vue, Curzon ...

I thought she'd done it? Or had been scheduled to? Or perhaps I'm imagining that? Looks as though they expect Ed Watson to have recovered from his foot operation by then. Either that, or they haven't got around to amending that bit of the casting.

Yes. I don't imagine *they'll* turn their noses up at the Coliseum.

Actually, forget that. He's apparently dispensing with the post-9.30 am off-peak cap all together. That means it would effectively cost me £10 simply to get up to London and back from zone 4. I'm disgusted

Well, I hope he simply went down to the foyer and asked if there was anywhere else he could move to. I'd hate to think of some poor innocent person having to miss out on the rest of the performance because of someone else's behaviour.

I'm sure it's not: I've heard several reports of drunken patrons over the last year or so.

Yes, but unfortunately there are only two Principals cast as Alice, and with a cinema broadcast I suppose the powers that be didn't want to put on anyone more junior. Lamb had the last broadcast too, didn't she?

Well, I've never been to an ENB performance (except those promoted by Raymond Gubbay) where cast sheets weren't freely available. Apart from anything else, isn't this the time of year when they usually ask for audience votes for favourite dancers on the back of them?

And there's at least one ROH regular who's a big motor-racing fan.

Good. Perhaps it'll be easier to follow the plans there.

Surely those weren't her only scheduled performances? I hadn't got any of them booked. Wonder whether Watson will be back in time to do White Rabbit?

But EVERYBODY has a contactless card now, don't they? Apart from those who are too impecunious to have a bank account which gives you a debit card, Nationwide customers, and so on ... And Oysters NEVER go wrong, do they? I just encountered a woman (Italian, I'd guess) this evening who'd just put a lot of money on her Oystercard only to find that it wasn't registering, and the bus driver wouldn't let her on the bus because she couldn't pay, and left her potentially stranded. Well, I'm sure she had money on her, but London buses don't take cash any more, do they? And this "one extra journey" thing where you're allowed to go up to one bus ride into debt if you haven't got enough money on your Oyster obviously doesn't work if the Oyster is malfunctioning. And all of those of you who actually use paper Travelcards (like me, at weekends - it works out cheaper) watch out: Boris Johnson has come up with a scheme to cut the peak-rate travel cap on Oysters, but he's going to pay for it by bumping the paper Travelcards up to £12.00!!! I think they're currently £8.90 for Zones 1-6. So you may want to get yourself an Oyster.

Thanks, Yaffa. Unfortunately, all the travel I'm planning on doing tomorrow would be covered by a friend giving me a lift, but I'll bear it in mind for the 28th. Gotta to stock up if Boris' plans to cut Oystercard peak payment caps come to fruition: METRO is implying that it will be at the expense of the off-peak cap, in which case my travel costs will SOAR! By the way, is anyone still *without* a contactless payment card? I run my business account off a Nationwide current account, and was looking forward to getting one when my debit card ran out last month, so I could stop messing around having to refund my personal account every time I went on business trips, but the new one's non-contactless as well Perhaps I could use this Mastercard and keep topping it up?

*What* summer programmes, Bruce? I'd assumed that the ROH would be closed so they can do all this reconstruction work. It's one thing to say the normal run of performances will continue during the works, but surely they must need the summers to do the major stuff?

I take it that doesn't work for The Times, though? Actually, I had a word with the librarian at our local library the other day. She told me you can access The Times online using your library card, but I can't remember the details now.

This is why I hate the Barbican Theatre - no central aisle, although admittedly there is at least enough room to get by (in the stalls at least) without people having to stand up. And the New Victoria Theatre in Woking is pretty bad on that score now - and I usually have to make a quick exit to catch a train. But that's why I've taken to sitting at the sides in Sadler's Wells: invariably when I used to sit in the middle, everyone else would just stay in their seats during the interval and I'd have to make my way past them. At the ROH, when I do the opposite and sit in the cheap seats by the wall in the Amphi, I reckon there's about a 50% that most of my row will decide to stay put during the interval and I'll have to push past them. There have even been times when I've returned to my seat immediately the 10-minute bell has sounded and found the entire row already seated. Sorry, but if you do that you must expect me to need to get past you. But really, the behaviour described above is rather beyond the pale. I understand that some people aren't very mobile (I have problems in that area too) and find it difficult to stand up or manage the steps, so may need to stay in their seats, but surely if you do that you should accept with good grace that other people do wish to leave the auditorium during the interval. After all, do most people want to be stuck in a seat for 3 hours solid? It's not as if you're in a train where you need to be a mindreader to know that the person next to you in the window seat is getting out at the next station.

My goodness, Jane, only one viewing? How disappointing. Yes, Pennefather had his own hair the other night, and it did indeed look a lot better. (Interestingly, I noticed that Francesca Hayward's Vera's hair was several shades darker than regulation, too, which looked more convincing.) What always bugs me with this production, though, is that Matvei, the footman, for no apparent reason also has the very golden blonde hair that Kolia has. It always leads my mind to speculate about a byblow from an extramarital affair somewhere, which I'm sure is totally inappropriate

So am I. But why the beginning of January? (It'll have to go on my birthday present list, then). Wouldn't it make more sense to have brought it out, say, in October so that people could buy it before they realised it was going to be on the TV? I mean, it was recorded at the end of April, so I'd have thought 6 months would be enough.

Hmm. Rather misleading of them to say top price tickets £12 when that only applies to the matinee: otherwise it's £25, which is a lot more than I ever pay for Rambert anyway. But thanks for posting, BBB.