Monday 09:00-09:45
Rpt: Mon 21:30-22:00
Setting the week's cultural agenda.
02 January 2006
Peter and Dan Snow will present a programme on BBC TWO called Whose Britain Is It Anyway? PETER SNOW , broadcaster, reporter and author, talks about the astonishing discoveries that he made and reveals that 90% of the population live on just 10% of the land. Whose Britain Is It Anyway? will be broadcast on 10 January at 9.00pm on BBC TWO.
Photo-journalist NICK DANZIGER has travelled all over the world taking pictures, making documentaries and writing travel books, but it is to Afghanistan that he feels drawn back, again and again. It featured in his first book, Danziger's Travels, and in his first documentary, War, Lives and Videotape, and now he is due to give an illustrated lecture on this troubled country on behalf of Afghan Aid . Nick Danziger's lecture will take place on 10 January at the Royal Geographical Society in London.
Language is the main way we communicate. Humans take it for granted. But why do babies babble and how do sounds become speech? And what gives birth to a language or causes it to die? PROFESSOR DAVID CRYSTAL , the world's foremost authority on language, answers these questions in How Language Works , published by Penguin.
Today sees the closure of Barkers in Kensington, with another House of Fraser store, Dickens and Jones , following suit later in the month. So is the high street changing? EVELYN WELCH , Professor of Renaissance Studies, talks about our shopping habits - and she explains how we are more like our ancestors than we realise.
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