First shots from a cinematic canon
BFI Film Classics Series
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Real life concerns
For Documentary
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Too personal to live up to its subject's just deserts
Lawrence of Arabia
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Mobilising the movie-makers
The British at War
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The disease that won't die
The White Death
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Grandad, we love you
Erasmus Darwin
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A mission to display and convert
Nature's Museums
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Profound and entertaining demonstrations that the eyes have it
A Natural History of Vision
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Values in scientific ventures
Mystery of Mysteries
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The sad tale of Einstein's blinkered polar partner
Einstein's German World
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First Impressions
This week's competition comes from a novel that is true, up to a point: " While still a young man, John Courtney Boot had, as his publisher proclaimed, 'achieved an assured and enviable position in...
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Higher channels
John Davies scans the schedules for programmes of academic interest. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Politicians experiencing first-hand what they pontificate about - that's the idea...
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Why learning to destroy is learning to enjoy
Once the realm of techie males, engineering is at last attracting female students. And it's all thanks to an aggressive TV show, Robot Wars. Anne Sebba reports When Mike Duke, senior lecturer in...
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The building of a time machine
Charles Babbage staked everything on his attempt to build the first computer, and lost. Overcoming similar problems, Doron Swade is about to meet the Babbage challenge 150 years on A few years ago a...
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A new stage in Greek tragedy
When Fiona Shaw played Electra in 1982, the audience was moved to tears. Can we learn more from such a performance than we can from studying a play's text? Jennifer Wallace reports on an emerging...