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Like a closed book?

Cycling as a sport is fairly complex and if you’re not familiar with it and you start playing this game you’ll encounter major difficulties, frustration and further your understanding very little. The sport and the race are explained in basic terms via some text-based pages accessed via the main menu and whilst it’s great that this is included so as to open the world up to newcomers, it’s still not going to help a great deal. The nuances of road racing and the real-world complexity incorporated into the game ensure it will always feel like a closed book to many, unless perhaps you have an eidetic memory and can immediately reapply what you’ve read. But then the developers clearly recognise this and have focussed on making something engrossing and entertaining for the real fan.

- LE TOUR DE FRANCE 2013 - 100TH EDITION, TheDigitalFix.com, July 16, 2013.

2. Driving a London cab has long been a tradition in Jewish families — a legacy passed from grandfather to father to son and sometimes daughter (although 90 per cent of cabbies are men). So the news that Maureen Lipman is directing the stage premiere of her late husband Jack Rosenthal’s 1979 tour de force television play The Knowledge at the Charing Cross Theatre has been greeted with an enormous roar of affection for a lady that the London cab trade think of as one of their own.

It’s been 13 years since her husband died. Lipman is now “thrilled, excited and full of trepidation” about reviving this iconic play which follows four Londoners as they attempt the fearsome “Knowledge” — the process of becoming a London black-cab driver.