成人快手

American singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega emerged as a leading figure of the folk music revival of the early 1980s, and has sold seven million albums and received seven Grammy Award nominations since. As she tours the UK and releases the first of four new thematic albums, she discusses her career and inspirations and explains why she is the "mother of the MP3".

Benedict Cumberbatch stars in a major new National Theatre staging of Terence Rattigan's 1939 play After the Dance, set amidst the wealthy socialites of the 1920s. Peter Kemp reviews.

The winner of this year's Orange Prize, for fiction written by a woman, is announced by chairman of the judges Daisy Goodwin

The Royal Academy Annual Summer Exhibition, now in its 242nd year in London, is the world's largest open submission contemporary art exhibition and features work by both emerging and established artists, this year including Yinka Shonibare, Gillian Ayres and Tracey Emin. Mark Lawson meets coordinator Stephen Chambers.

Producer Nicki Paxman.