John Bridcut's new feature-length documentary about the pleasures of Delius, described by Radio Times as 'this superb film', will be shown on BBC Four on Friday 25 May at 7.30pm.

This musical and psychological portrait of the composer Frederick Delius explores the multiple contradictions of his colourful life through the eyes of performers and experts in  several different countries.  It concentrates on his early life in Yorkshire and Florida, and his glory years in France and Scandinavia.

Delius: Composer, Lover, Enigma features performances by the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra in Denmark, conducted by Bo Holten; Schola Cantorum of Oxford; and Philippe Graffin (violin) and Marisa Gupta (piano).

After its premiere last year, Rostropovich: the Genius of the Cello is being repeated on Friday 8 June on BBC Four.  Nobody in history has done more for the cello than 'Slava' Rostropovich, and this film traces his extraordinary career through the dying days of the Soviet Union.  At first Moscow's darling, then its pariah, Rostropovich propelled the cello from the concert platform to the world stage.  This film features interviews with his family, colleagues and former pupils, as well as previously unseen footage from the premiere of Britten's Cello Symphony in Moscow in 1964, and was described by David Nice of www.theartsdesk.com as 'a towering model of its kind'.

The Faber Pocket Guide to Britten has attracted enthusiastic reviews since it was published in November 2010.  Intended for both enthusiasts and musical explorers, it covers the nooks and crannies of Benjamin Britten's life and music which other books often overlook, with chapters on his cars, his pets, his homes, his ailments.  There is a year-by-year account of his life, and a piece-by-piece account of all his music, capped with collections of witty, affectionate, sometimes cruel quotes: 'What They Said About Britten', and 'What Britten Said About Them'.  At 440 pages, it is a bit of a tight squeeze into the average pocket.

In 2007, the newly-constituted BBC Trust published a report on 'safeguarding impartiality in the 21st century'.   Written by John Bridcut with the help of a steering group from inside and outside the BBC, it was entitled From Seesaw to Wagon Wheel.  Its main contentions were:

• impartiality should reflect all shades of opinion, rather than merely diametrically-opposing views
• impartiality should apply across every part of the BBC's output, not just news and current affairs
• impartiality will not necessarily be found on the centre ground
• impartiality often presents opportunities as well as challenges.