Mr Hitchcock makes our day

It's such as shame that when theatre types turn films into stage musicals they always pick sensitive films for sensitive people. Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Dirty Dancing, Billy Elliot: you know the score. Why is there no musical based on The Guns of Navaroneor Kiss Me Deadly?

Well, Robyn Hitchcock, the eccentric British songwriter, has been commissioned to write a musical based on the Clint Eastwood/Dirty Harry classic Magnum Force. "It's a film that seemed to be on all the time when I was on tour," Hitchcock says. "By the fifth time I saw it, I became addicted to it. It's taken a very strange hold on my life."