When you are married to your business partner, it is difficult to leave your work at the office. But when your business is murder, it is a skill worth learning, says Adam James. Rebecca and Russell...
Could academics have prevented the BSE crisis? Before they were silenced by business and government, they might at least have tried, say Greg Philo and David Miller. Since the publication of the BSE...
It took ten years and more than 70 compilers. Richard Talbert explains the genesis and fruition of The Barrington Atlas . How do you divest the world of centuries of change and recreate the physical...
Pick of the week It’s a Shakespeare and Shaw week. On BBC2, Richard Eyre begins Changing Stages (Sunday 7.30), a six-part series about the theatre of the last hundred years, with the shadow...
University of Ulster Pro-Vice-Chancellors: Jim Allen , formerly dean of the faculty of social and health sciences, becomes Pro-Vice-chancellor for student support; Richard Barnett , formerly dean of...
Deadline: 01/12/2000
(All times pm unless stated.) Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time (9.00 am R4). Discussing evolutionary psychology, with Steven Rose and Nicholas Humphrey. Crossing Continents (11.00 am R4). Ugandan rebels....
Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences Deborah Cameron , professor in languages in education at the Institute of Education, University of London, has been elected to the Academy.
(All times pm unless stated.) Natural Design (8.00 am, repeated 11.00 am, 2.00, 5.00, 8.00. BBC Knowledge). The parallels between design in evolution and manufacture. Thinking Allowed (4.00 R4)....
Goldsmiths' College, University of London Sir William Utting has been appointed head of the college's council, having been a member since 1993 and the deputy chair 1995-999. He is president of the...
(All times pm unless stated.) Ian Hislop’s School Rules (3.00 am C4). A documentary series repeat on the last 100 years of British education – how the church, state and...
(All times pm unless stated.) Composer of the Week (9.00 am R3 and rest of week) is Gesualdo. Start the Week (9.00am R4). With Anthony Gottlieb on philosophy and science; plus Rachel Bowlby, Shula...
(All times pm unless stated.) In the Psychiatrist’s Chair (11.15 am R4). Percussionist Evelyn Glennie. The Book Show (11.30 am Sky News, repeated 8.30). Including Ion Trewin, editor of Alan...
(All times pm unless stated.) How to be President (10.30 am R4). Remembering the Carter vs. Reagan election. Private Passions (12 noon R3). Philosopher-politician Bryan Magee chooses the music. The...
Cambridge dons are polarised as never before - over bicycle racks. Historians have mounted a call to arms against umbrella-like racks installed at the school of divinity's new building opposite their...