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Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Horror in a rabbit hutch
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics just concluded that researchers should find ways to avoid experimentation on animals. 'Green and Pleasant', last week's Fear on Four on BBC7 (which first aired in 1991) suggested a rather more blood-curdling means of persuading them. A missing cosmetics manufacturer is being kept hostage by an animal rights terrorist - she's just had acid dripped in her eyes and been irradiated by heat lamps, but is now about to face her worst nightmare...
A drink-soaked former-Trotskyist popinjay
George Galloway has become quite a hero in the UK after his performance at the US Senate last week. Some are comparing him to Cicero in his oratory skills and biting rhetoric. As Radio 4's Broadcasting House reported last weekend, he called Iraq War defender Christopher Hitchens "a drink-soaked former-Trotskyist popinjay".Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Wogan the Scab
Terry Wogan was one of the few BBC presenters who showed up for work yesterday. Passing his striking colleagues in the picket line, he explained on air that he's a freelancer so doesn't get paid if he doesn't work. Does he expect us to believe he needs the money that badly?
The terror of Hoodies
Bea Campbell tells Phil Adams about the recently reelected British Labour government's obsession with controlling yobs, particularly those dressed in hooded sweatshirts.
Irritable Male Syndrome
Is there such a thing as male menopause, or 'andropause'? Psychotherapist Jed Diamond thinks so, and he also postulates an 'irritable male syndrome' (aka Grumpy Old Men), caused by reduced levels of testosterone. Natasha Mitchell explores the evidence in the ABC's All In The Mind.
