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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 拢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...
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Agents of cooperation in border life
Ignorance has marred relations between Ireland's north and south, but a centre for cross-border studies is seeking common ground on both sides of the divide. Anne McHardy reports. In a windswept...
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On the trail of the killer that doctors forgot
In Britain it might keep your child off school, but in Malawi it is a killer. What turns a nasty virus into a deadly cancer? Geoff Watts reports on a medical mystery. Scenario one. Peter, a teenager...
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Latest international news
South African campus faces bankruptcy South Africa鈥檚 University of the North, which is owed more than R150 million (拢129,000) in outstanding tuition and boarding fees, faces bankruptcy...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES A 拢100m investment fund is being raised with the aim of commercialising technology research from four English universities. Chemists from the University of Nottingham believe they...
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Blunkett rules out top-ups
Education and employment secretary David Blunkett today confirmed the government鈥檚 position that there will be no top-up fees in the next Parliament. Mr Blunkett said: 鈥淚 have made my position clear...
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Hopeful Blair plugs access plan
In a wide-ranging speech setting out his government's case for re-election this spring, prime minister Tony Blair said today that there would be 拢2,000 bursaries for students from poor families, a...
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Daily TV & radio - Thursday
Melvyn Bragg 鈥 In Our Time (9.00 am R4). Humanism discussed, with Lisa Jardine and Tony Davis. The Material World (4.30 R4). The University of Pisa's research on people in love. The Jewish Journey (8...
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Latest international news
Demonstrators strip staff Demonstrators commemorated the first anniversary of the police raid that ended a ten-month occupation of the National Autonomous University of Mexico by blockading...
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Latest UK news
Laptop plan criticised by NUS Warwick University's proposal to require students to have laptop computers has been called 鈥渢op-up fees by the back door鈥 by the National Union of Students....