Indian Mutiny • Jimi Hendrix • Political comedy & theatre (5min • 8min • 11min)

(1) Alkarim Jivani reviews the blockbuster movie The Rising, an epic tale of friendship, love, loss and betrayal set against the backdrop of the Indian Mutiny of 1857, starring Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan. Jivani is television editor for the London arts and entertainment magazine Time Out. (2) Host John Wilson talks to Charles R. Cross, author of a new biography of Jimi Hendrix, entitled Room Full Of Mirrors. (3) Political and religious themes are common at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, as well as in a new play, The Prayer Room, by Scottish-Asian playwright Shan Kahn. Concluding the programme is a piece on films adapted from novels. (Clip available thru August 18th.)