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Deal alert: Free Doctor Who app for iPad

You can download "Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time" app for free from iTunes today.

Photo: Noel Neill as Lois Lane

1940s Superman fan club items

Avengers movie picture gallery

Some stills from the upcoming Avengers film.

Deal alert: Game of Thrones season one DVD $29.99

Today on Amazon, Game of Thrones: The Complete First Season is $29.99 on DVD. Regularly $59.99.

Rare Superman movie serial stills

iPad app spotlights George Harrison's guitar collection

The Guitar Collection: George Harrison is a $9.99 app created with the help of the late guitarist's son Dhani that spotlights the different instrument the former Beatle owned and played over the years.

Sounds pretty nifty:

The app, which is authorized by the George Harrison estate and developed by Bandwdth Publishing, works like a miniature showroom and includes digital replicas of seven of the guitars.

Images of George Harrison’s 12-string Rickenbacker 360/12, or the Fender Stratocaster he painted in DayGlo colors and named Rocky, can be manipulated and rotated from every angle; numbered details show the modifications he made to the instruments and, in accompanying audio files, Harrison tells stories of how he acquired the guitars (like the Gretsch Duo Jet he says he bought from a sailor in Liverpool for about £70 in 1961).

Users can see every Beatles or solo track Harrison used the guitars on and play them through the app. (Songs already in your iTunes library can be played in full; otherwise you’ll hear a short excerpt.)

There's a preview here.

BBC Radio this week

Click the links to stream the following shows:

Fantastic Tales

Series of stories about magic, horror and fantasy

Fear on Four

Series of horror and suspense tales, hosted by the Man in Black

Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel

The Marx Brothers' lost radio shows recreated. Stars Michael Roberts as Groucho Marx.

Hercule Poirot - Murder on the Orient Express

Hercule Poirot's train drives into a snow-drift, when a passanger is found murdered

Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World

Spoof documentary series starring Tom Baker along with Stewart Lee and Richard Herring

Nineteen Ninety-Eight

Orwellian sitcom starring Robert Lindsay

The Goon Show

Classic material from one of the all-time radio comedy greats

The Lost Special

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story of the disappearance of a train en route from Liverpool.

Thrilling Stories of the Railway

Detective stories written by Victor Whitechurch

Blues to the Bone: The Life of Etta James

Candi Staton presents the story of the great R&B singer.

When Rock Chicks Ruled
Sally Boazman explores the rise of female singer/songwriters in the 60s.

Photo: Twiggy

Trailer for new documentary on American superheroines

Here's a peek at a new documentary now on the festival circuit.

Info:

WONDER WOMEN! THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICAN SUPERHEROINES traces the fascinating evolution and legacy of Wonder Woman. From the birth of the comic book superheroine in the 1940s to the blockbusters of today, WONDER WOMEN! looks at how popular representations of powerful women often reflect society's anxieties about women's liberation. WONDER WOMEN! goes behind the scenes with Lynda Carter, Lindsay Wagner, comic writers and artists, and real life superheroines such as Gloria Steinem, Shelby Knox and others who offer an enlightening and entertaining counterpoint to the male dominated superhero genre.