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Last broadcast on Sun, 25 Oct 2009, 09:05 on BBC World Service.
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THE FORUM - A World Of Ideas - presented by BRIDGET KENDALL.
British queen of crime fiction and global bestseller, PD JAMES, gives her own views on the abiding popularity of the detective mystery and suggests that the ordered and moral world it evokes is a great comfort to a world vexed by seemingly insoluble problems.
We look at the problem of famine with Irish economic historian CORMAC O'GRADA, who offers guarded optimism about our ability to eradicate major famine in the near future as long as we remain vigilant to its causes.
And taking us back two thousand years, Danish literary scholar KARIN SANDERS brings us face to face with the mummified corpses of ancient sacrifice and explores the stories they tell us and the ones we tell about them.
RECORDING THIS WEEK'S FORUM
60 SECOND IDEA TO CHANGE THE WORLD
In our 60 Second Idea To Change The World KARIN SANDERS suggests we embrace the upside-down weirdness of Carnival to encourage tolerance. She encourages us to dress up as someone or something that is far from what we wish to be as a way to test our personal boundaries.
THIS WEEK'S ILLUSTRATION
Who murdered the starving bog body? By Emily Kasriel
IN NEXT WEEK'S PROGRAMME
How cannibalism has haunted the Western imagination with Romanian political scientist CATALIN AVRAMESCU.
Russian historian ROBERT SERVICE asks us to look anew at Leon Trotsky – was he a martyr or the architect of some of the worst Soviet atrocities?
And we hear from American academic DAVID KILCULLEN whose thoughts on guerilla warfare influenced US strategy in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Sun 25 Oct 200909:05
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