Arts & Ents

• Birdsong, BBC One

  Just before Birdsong (BBC One, Sunday, 9pm) started, there was a warning from the continuity announcer that "some viewers may find this distressing", which is an extraordinary thing to say before a drama about the First World War.

• Swallows And Amazons sets sail for the stage

  Come Tuesday night, the Swallows and the Amazons will have reached their moorings at Edinburgh's Festival Theatre.

• Head to the Fair City for classical delights

  After Glasgow's mini-series focusing on the piano at the end of last year, a project which brought top-drawer pianists including Llyr Williams, Andras Schiff and Mitsuko Uchida to the City Halls, I received a metaphorical nudge from a contact: "Don't forget about Perth." Well, we never do.

• Anna Barriball adds another dimension to her art

  Anna Barriball's art comes from the marks she industriously "traces" from the everyday surfaces she chooses to immortalise.

• A man of the people

  David Shrigley, I hazard the notion, seems a little young to be having a retrospective.

• The Captain's Collection, Tron Theatre, Glasgow

  Dogstar Theatre Company's revived show tells the story of Captain Simon Fraser, best known for his 1816 collection of Gaelic songs, The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles.

• Justin Currie, Mitchell Theatre, Glasgow

  IT was packed, but neither Currie nor his support Naomi Bedford were at ease in the library's auditorium.

• Louis Abbott and Scott Hutchison, Brel, Glasgow

  And lo, the singers of Admiral Fallow and Frightened Rabbit joined forces for one night, to bestow upon us their handsome psalms and their jokes and their beards and their homo-eroticism.