"The country’s dramatic recent history provides both powerful content and an eager and engaged audience for Of All The People In All The World."

Off all the people in all the world gets a briefing outing in Bucharest

Russ L's 'Lots Of Things To See And Do In The West Midlands' for the month picks out the best music, theatre and fighting events around, so you dont' have to. A lot of Book Festival picks, and a plug for <a href="http://www.thericeshow.com">“Of All The People In All The World” </a> which Russ reviews as:<br/><br/>"acclaimed by many (including me) to be The Actual Best Thing Ever."

"It should be compulsory for all politicians, local and national. In fact, we should try to get all delegates at next week's Tory Party conference to take an hour out of their drinking schedule - sorry, busy conference diary - to nip over to the Jewellery Quarter and see it."

Sara Gee on thericeshow

Andy Mabbett, of the Birmingham Bloggers group, has been working on this since we visited the show on Tuesday. Nice job Andy.

"Its current work is witty, at times over-whelming and always thought-provoking. It is well worth going out of your way to see it. " -

Visual artists love statistics. Remember the vast population models at Pentagram’s Global Cities show at the Tate Modern last year, which were themselves preceded by artist Abigail Reynolds‘ card representations of violent crime statistics? Well now the world is being broken down and totted up again, in a new show in Birmingham that uses grains of rice to represent the 6.7 billion of us on the planet. Stan’s Cafe theatre company are behind Of All the People in All the World, a touring exhibition where a whopping 112 tonnes of rice has been used to replicate a whole range of statistics.

The edible planet
Every grain of rice in these pictures represents someone, somewhere, in the world. Lyn Gardner visits a mind-boggling show in Birmingham