Daily TV & radio guide - Friday
I Have a Right to... (7.30, repeated Saturday 1.30 am World Service). Rebel groups and human rights: Rageh Omaar investigates. Visit the I have a right to ... website. Beckett on Screen (9.30 R3)....
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United in a weak state
As the US goes to the polls, political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset argues that it is Europe's destiny to become 'Americanised'. Mandy Garner reports. It is hard to believe, in the current...
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Pass the scalpel and a pencil
What does a writer-in-residence do at a medical school? Carol Clewlow, who will do the job at Newcastle, reflects on what she can offer and what she can gain. One of the surprises in the recent...
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It really was murder at the office today, darling
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...
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While talk might be cheap, silence is deadly
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...
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The ancient world meets modern cartography
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...
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Higher Channels
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...
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Higher education appointments
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...
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Research Networks in Mathematics
Deadline: 01/12/2000
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Daily TV & radio guide - Thursday
(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....
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Higher education awards & prizes
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.
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Daily TV & radio guide - Wednesday
(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)....
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Higher education appointments
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...
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Daily TV & radio guide - Tuesday
(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...
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Daily TV & radio guide - Monday
(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...