• TELLING the story of the breeding ground for some of America’s best music, Muscle Shoals will enjoy a one-off screening at Southampton’s Harbour Light Picturehouse on Tuesday.

Alicia Keys, Aretha Franklin, Bono, Clarence Carter, Etta James, Gregg Allman, John Paul White, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Percy Sledge, Rick Hall and others bear witness to Muscle Shoals’ magnetism, mystery and why it remains influential today.

Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America’s most creative and defiant music.

Under the spiritual influence of the “Singing River” as Native Americans called it, the music of Muscle Shoals has helped create some of the most important and resonant songs of all time.

Muscle Shoals is the directorial debut from Greg Camalier.

  • THERE’S another chance to see the first ever cinema broadcast from the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Commencing an exciting new season of three RSC plays, the sellout production of Richard II, stars David Tennant in the title role under the direction of RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran.

Richard is King, ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years.

Richard II (Encore) is at Everyman Cinema in Winchester on Sunday.