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...
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More food? You're lucky to be here
The UK government has voiced its commitment to tackling the link between ill health and poverty, so why is it ignoring those most at risk - the children of refugees? ask Margaret Lawson and Elizabeth...