Carrying the flame across the divide
Once Upon Another Time
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Windows on ancient claims
Paul Cartledge on a work to inspire students of classical cartography. "Biography/ Is different from Geography./ Geography is about maps,/ While Biography deals with chaps". So ran the original and...
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Native sons take on native tongues
African Languages - African Voices - Introduction to African Linguistics
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The death cry of the world's little languages
Vanishing Voices
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Two's company for Norse
The Phonology of Norwegian
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Truth in the silence of mushrooms?
Biolinguistics
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Novel trips of infant tongue
Understanding Children with Language Problems
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Sacred texts of law put under stress during changing times
Transitional Justice
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Pushing the legal peanut forwards
Ethics into Action - Rattling the Cage
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Charity or char: is the choice yours?
Engaging Reason
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Colossal adventures in India's judiciary
Human Rights and the Rule of Law
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TV & radio guide - Friday
Novel Russia (11.00 am R4). Contemporary Russia through the themes of Anna Karenina . Culture Fix: Kitsch (1.30, also 4.30, 7.30 BBC Knowledge). The brief history of an idea. Goodbye Village, Hello...
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Higher Channels
Pick of the week Ten years ago playwright David Hare complained about "the idea that is now very popular... that Bob Dylan is just as good a poet as Keats." Former Cambridge Prof. Christopher Ricks...
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Amnesty on the theory behind abuse and atrocity
The Oxford Amnesty Lectures, which have raised more than £80,000 for Amnesty International, began in 1992 and are one of the world's leading name-lecture series. Each series is published in book form...
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A case of right over might
Can a country ever justify military intervention in another country's affairs? Only in extreme cases such as Rwanda, argues Tzvetan Todorov, when there is evidence of genocide. The military...