Panel: D D Guttenplan – writer and historian Alkarim Jivani – critic Bridget Kendall – diplomatic correspondent for the BBC
Body of Lies Body of Lies is director Ridley Scott's fourth collaboration with actor Russell Crowe. Crowe plays a CIA veteran who operates from the safety of a laptop at home and is running field agent Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio) who is on the trail of an emerging major terrorist organisation operating out of Jordan.
Body of Lies is released nationwide this Friday, certificate 15.
War and Medicine
This exhibition examines the continually evolving relationship between warfare and medicine, beginning with the disasters of the Crimean War in the 1850s and continuing through to today’s conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Subjects covered include the pioneering plastic surgery techniques first developed during World War I to treat disfiguring facial wounds through to the recent controversies surrounding Gulf War Syndrome and the diagnosis of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
War and Medicine is at Wellcome Collection until 15 February 2009. Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE Admission is free.
Bill Bailey
The stand-up comedian, musician and actor, known for appearing on the tv shows Never Mind the Buzzcocks and QI, presents his stage show Tinselworm.
Tinselworm is at The Gielgud Theatre in London until 30 November. The DVD of Tinselworm is available now on the Universal label.
Outliers - The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell, author of the best-selling books The Tipping Point and Blink, investigates what makes people successful.
Outliers is published by Allen Lane.
Survivors
BBC One presents a re-imagining of the classic Seventies BBC drama series, based on the novel by Terry Nation.
Set in the present day, this 6-part series focuses on the world in the aftermath of a devastating virus which wipes out most of the world's population. What would we do? How would any of us cope in a brave, new world where all traditional 21st-century comforts have disappeared?
Survivors Episode 1 is at 9.00pm on Sunday 23 November on BBC One.
A complete three-series DVD box set of the classic Seventies series of Survivors will be released on BBC DVD on 24 November 2008.
Orion publishers are republishing the novel by Terry Nation on 27 November 2008. ISBN-13: 978-1409102649
Viewers can catch up on every episode of Survivors at any time during the series, using the new "Series Stacking" function on BBC iPlayer.
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