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Evening Times, August 29, 2005

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Drama a Play, a Pie & a Pint, Oran Mor

ORAN Mor 's popular lunchtime theatre series reconvenes today after its summer break. The welcome return of its autumn programme of weeklong innovative new works is just as tantalising as the beverages and savoury pastries which accompany it.

10 Things to Do This Week Street Treats for Franz Fans

1. POP - Franz Ferdinand, Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, Tue- Wed. Glasgow's stylish four-piece are still the hottest band of the moment. With a raft of material to showcase from new album You Could Have It So Much Better, which is due out in early October, Alex Kapranos and his crew will be on fire for these two sold-out dates in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle.

Music My Latest Novel, King Tut's

MY Latest Novel have come a long way since forming in a tree house in band member Gary Deveney's back garden. The five-piece Glasgow band bring violin and percussion into their unique music equation and can add playing the King Tut's stage at T in the Park to their gig list.

Preview Wait Until Dark, Theatre Royal Susie's Left in the Dark

FROM criminal dressing on screen to outwitting crooks on stage, actress Susie Amy is clearly keen to avoid typecasting. The former Footballers' Wives star plays resourceful blind woman Suzy Henderson in Frederick Knott's cleverlycrafted thriller Wait Until Dark - a role made famous by Audrey Hepburn in the acclaimed 1967 film.

Games

X-Planes 8, Horizon Simulation, PC Windows/ Linux Mac GBP34.99 Website: http: //www. horizon simulation. com Put it this way. Learning to fly real planes costs thousands - and unless you sign up to the military, you'll never get your hands on Phantom fighters or Harrier jump jets - let alone the space shuttle. But they are all available on X-Plane 8. It's not a game, more a full-blooded simulation of more than 40 of the classiest flying machines around. Brilliant. Rating: 95-per cent

Critic's Choice

GREATEST TV COCK-UP MOMENTS, five, 9pm FORMER 'It' girl and jungle star Tara Palmer-Tomkinson hosts a countdown of the top 50 television blunders. From introducing the wrong guests, fluffed lines, streakers and celebrity pratfalls, to badly behaved animals and giggling fits, the show lists some of the most embarrassing moments ever captured on camera.