A dose of the Celtic medicine men
The Druids
The Druids
The Journal of Economic Methodology
The Faber Book of Science
Cultures of Natural History
In the mid-1600s, two determined Quaker women left their husbands and children behind and set out for Rome. Their extra-ordinary mission was to convert the Pope. Instead they found themselves...
Architect Richard Rogers has a vision of greener, healthier British cities; a vision the powers-that-be do not share. Kam Patel talked to him about Britain's disregard for culture. If an architect's...
The Films of Akira Kurosawa
Marina Warner's position outside mainstream academia may have served her well, says Elaine Williams What is a woman from Vogue doing taking on the Church?' That's what the critics were saying. You...
Astrophysicist Trinh Xuan Thuan (below) tells Stella Hughes about himself and the cosmos. Cosmic spaghetti, galactic sponges and time machines may all sound rather frivolous, but for the purveyor of...
Simon Targett talks to the irreverent historian of landscape and descendant of Lithuanian loggers, Simon Schama. Simon Schama never knew Sir Percy Winfield. The old Cambridge lawyer had been dead ten...
Kam Patel talks to Richard Dawkins, the zoologist who believes that one day pigs could be made to fly. Richard Dawkins laughs a little as he recalls a recent conversation he had with a colleague. The...