The dialogue is clever and pithily delivered, and never slips into frothiness even when the narrative does. Juno’s role as “the cautionary whale” is brilliantly played by Ellen Page, who actually looks like she could be 16.

Fellini depicts the world of movie-making with a sense of exasperation, and Guido’s encounters with needy actors, wheedling producers and thoroughly useless hangers-on are often far more surreal than the ‘fantasy’ episodes.

We bring to your attention the arrival of a new phenomenon – circus/1980’s revival chic.

The play is in essence a tragedy, so don’t expect a bundle of laughs but you can expect to be well engaged in what is by nature a complex story.

There are many things in life that we, as humans, are forced to endure with equanimity: the weather in Britain, the impossibility of losing weight without doing exercise, and Noel Edmonds. One of the things I refuse to bow down to, however, is ready-made pastry.

The music industry has to come to terms with the idea that things will have to radically change in the future and this may even mean accepting that recorded music as a commercial product is doomed.

Following a highly successful electro night last term, the Idioteque team took things up another notch by inviting several members of London-based hip-hop group Foreign Beggars to headline a hip hop/dub night.

Marling is anything but just another female singer-songwriter. Her beautiful alt-folk album, tinged with blues and country, is reminiscent of greats such as Joni Mitchell.

There’s a dynamism in the room as he deftly switches between instruments. His 24 years belie a natural wisdom and creativity far beyond his age.

A four-piece from Texas, Explosions In The Sky are one of the best-known proponents of the post-rock style.

The new single from Boy Kill Boy’s second album Stars and the Sea marks a departure from previous hits ‘Back Again’, ‘Suzie’ and ‘Civil Sin’.

The single itself is a punchy example of indie pop at it’s finest. Envy & Other Sins have been compared to The Feeling, which seems slightly unfair as there is a lot more intelligence in their music.

If you’d told me that the next big thing from DFA Records planned to utilize the “unique” vocals of Antony Hegarty, I would have imagined that it would have a produced a similar reaction to Robert Oppenheimer sharing his summer vacation plans with Ghandi.

Jennifer O’Mahony interviews Sir Crispin Tickell on the night of the 2008 Kennedy Lecture

Sir Crispin Tickell, the environmentalist and academic, visited the University to deliver the 2008 Kennedy Lecture, hosted by the New Generation Society, on the subject of “Challenges to the Human Future: Prospects and Hazards”. Jenny O’Mahony interviewed him.