TV & radio guide - Monday
Start the Week (9.00 am R4). Slovenian sociologist Slavoj Zizek is among Paxman's guests. » Composer of the Week (9.00 am R3 and rest of week) is Monteverdi. The Real Captain Bligh (11.00 am R4). The...
Start the Week (9.00 am R4). Slovenian sociologist Slavoj Zizek is among Paxman's guests. » Composer of the Week (9.00 am R3 and rest of week) is Monteverdi. The Real Captain Bligh (11.00 am R4). The...
SATURDAY January » Breaking the Seal : Domesday (9.30 am BBC2). The Open University begins a re-run of its series on archives, first broadcast last year, with the Domesday Book. Verdi Day (from 9.00...
Chasing Shadows

As the Labour Party quietly celebrates its centenary, Gordon Marsden finds continuities between Labour old and new. Anniversaries are tricky affairs. Certainly they give an opportunity to highlight...
The Albert Memorial
Form Follows Finance - The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940
Delhi: the Built Heritage
Emperors of Dreams
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a hard-boiled novel (and film) about Los Angeles: " It was one of the mixed blocks over on Central...
A Visitor Within
Medicine in the 20th Century
Welcome to the first of this term’s staff-graduate seminars. Regrettably, our advertised speaker, Doctor G. R. Clinker, is unable to deliver his paper on global communications because of maintenance...
As Gary Comstock, the eminent bioethicist and philosopher, so perceptively notes ("Make plans on the hoof", Research, THES, December 22), the precautionary principle can lead to diametrically...
Miles Russell writes that the increasing privatisation of bodily functions "can be linked to higher degrees of civilisation" ("Studying the passed", Research, THES, January 12). How "civilised" is it...
Contrary to the impression conveyed in the interview with Kevin Bales ("Slavery on our doorstep", THES, January 19), the existence of and increase in modern-day slavery together with the reasons for...