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Join us for a night of speed dating, where body language is under scrutiny.

The British public was outraged by the MP's expenses scandal - but this had virtually no impact on the way they voted in the 2010 general election - why ever not?

The illegal drugs trade is worth $321bn dollars a year worldwide. An increasing number of high-profile activists, including former presidents and UN officials, are calling for an alternative to the failed 'war on drugs'.

The Mars rover Curiosity found evidence that water once flowed on Mars. Now there is also evidence of organic compounds on the Martian surface. Astrobiologists are getting excited....

In this 4th Huston lecture, British film theorist Laura Mulvey analyses the relationship between stillness and the moving image in cinema, drawing on Rossellini's Journey to Italy.

Lord Leveson's inquiry into the culture, practice and ethics of the British press will report on 29 November. Angela Phillips looks at what motivated the tabloids to get stories by hacking phones and considers the options for reform.

In the nineteenth century, dramatic discoveries and new theories were turning the world upside-down. And much of this groundbreaking scientific research was conducted, at home, by scientific families like the Herschels.

A portrait of French film-maker, Jean-Luc Godard - director of Breathless and Weekend, writer for Cahiers du Cinema and one of the creators of the French New Wave.

It is a hundred years since the Titanic sank. Out of 2224 passengers and crew, only 722 survived. In his book, Titanic, the last night of a small town, social historian John Welshman has developed a new narrative based on the accounts of 12 of the survivors. Here he explains how he approached the task.

In the second podcast in our series on Belief and Non-Belief, author Francis Spufford suggests that despite everything Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense in the 21st century, and explains what he and Sarah Palin have in common.