Until thursday on BBC iplayer - The lives of others
The Lives of Others is an award-winning political thriller set in 1980s East Germany. Captain Wiesler works for the Stasi, the secret police, and is asked to keep surveillance on a playwright, Georg Dreyman, whose loyalty to the party is under question. During the surveillance Weisler is slowly drawn into Georg's life and begins to question his own ideals
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The Koestler, Again
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Art submitted to the Koestler competition is offered for public sale, and
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across...
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Government....
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incr...
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From the really quite gripping made-for-TV, torn-from-the-headlines DC
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THE PRESS F...
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For those who like their eggs with soldiers, this full-scale tank is an
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Challenge...
save or consume?
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SAVE OR CONSUME?
Hal Pepinsky, pepinsky@indiana.edu, pepinsky.blogspot.com
February 21, 2012
I’ve just listened to a program on whether people in my pa...
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out in ...
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Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 9 July 2011 Since I was a teenager,
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I perform...
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*Update 13.02.12: **more detail on this story published in StarTribune (via
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" There was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools
because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they
stoppe...
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and Johnson, jailed for 12 months for helping arrange £4.5 million worth of
bribes...
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Home Page
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OBJECT challenges ‘*sex object culture*’ – the sexual objectification of
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