Monday 09:00-09:45
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Setting the week's cultural agenda.
16 January 2006
ARMANDO IANNUCCI is a man who knows a thing or two about comedy - as an actor, director, producer and writer of shows on both radio and television, such as I'm Alan Partridge , The Day Today and, most recently, the withering political satire The Thick of It , which has just started on BBC 2. So it seems appropriate that, as the new Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media at Oxford University, he should be using his lectures to talk about the future of TV comedy.
An Education Bill will be published in the next few weeks, but nobody knows quite what it will contain after the White Paper on which it will be based encountered massive opposition from Labour MPs, including former Secretary of State for Education ESTELLE MORRIS . She will be speaking at the Compass conference, Can we have a Comprehensive Future for Education , on 19 January.
For the past twenty-five years, MICHAEL MOORCOCK has been writing a masterpiece of modern fiction. His new book, The Vengeance of Rome , is the finale to his quartet of books exploring the roots of the Holocaust. Michael Moorcock discusses his book, the Holocaust and living with an anti-hero. The Vengeance of Rome is published by Jonathan Cape.
Medicines contribute hugely to the health of the nation, and most of us would take the pills if our doctor prescribed them, but what is the background behind these medicines? Who says they are safe? Who sets the price? And who decides the development of new drugs, and for what illnesses? JACKY LAW's new book, Big Pharma , looks into the big business of the pharmaceutical industry and how this influences what we get prescribed. Big Pharma is published by Constable.
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