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How will increasing urban population affect London's skyline?
Voice of the Listener and Viewer have voted Start the Week Best Radio Programme in their 2005 Awards. Start the Week also won in 1994 and is only the second programme to win the award twice.
Andrew Marr has also won the Best Contributor To Radio Award.
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They are young, educated and opinionated. They are not only rejecting the consumerist perils of modern life, but they are encouraging others to do the same. The Neo-Croms (short for neo-Cromwellians) are also called New Puritans and this trend has been identified and named by trend forecaster JAMES MURPHY.
The world is entering an urban age. For the first time in the history of humanity, more than half of the Earth's population will soon live in urbanised areas. PROFESSOR RICKY BURDETT discusses the future of our cities and how their design and buildings should contribute to the economic, social, political and cultural processes that shape city life. The Urban Age Conference in London takes place on 12-13 November.
Narcissism is normally seen as a negative trait - those who suffer from it are vain, self-obsessed and selfish. But MARGOT WADDELL, psychoanalyst in the Adolescent Department at the Tavistock Clinic, thinks differently. Narcissism, she argues, has an important role to play in our development, for teenagers it is a crucial way of dealing with the loss of childhood and the oncoming responsibilities of becoming an adult. Margot's lecture, Narcissism - An Adolescent Disorder?, is at the Institute of Psychoanalysis on 25 November.
According to the historian, DAVID STARKEY, Henry VIII changed the course of English history. He discusses how the private character of the king shaped public events. David will be delivering the annual HarperCollins Biography Lecture on The Private Life of Henry VIII at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Queen Mary, University of London on 9 November.
Next week:
A A Gill - the English
Ian Hislop - Remembrance
Nasrin Alavi - the real Iran
Julian Fellowes - new film
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