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Leonardo DiCaprio in Body of Lies and Bill Bailey on stage

Leonardo DiCaprio in Body of Lies; Bill Bailey on stage; a remake of the classic tv series Survivors; Malcolm Gladwell explores the secret of success.

Joining Tom Sutcliffe on this week's panel are:

Panel:
D D Guttenplan – writer and historian
Alkarim Jivani – critic
Bridget Kendall – diplomatic correspondent for the Â鶹Éç

Body of Lies
Body of Lies is director Ridley Scott's fourth collaboration with actor Russell Crowe. Crowe plays a CIA veteran who operates from the safety of a laptop at home and is running field agent Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio) who is on the trail of an emerging major terrorist organisation operating out of Jordan.

Body of Lies is released nationwide this Friday, certificate 15.

War and Medicine
This exhibition examines the continually evolving relationship between warfare and medicine, beginning with the disasters of the Crimean War in the 1850s and continuing through to today’s conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Subjects covered include the pioneering plastic surgery techniques first developed during World War I to treat disfiguring facial wounds through to the recent controversies surrounding Gulf War Syndrome and the diagnosis of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

War and Medicine is at Wellcome Collection until 15 February 2009.
Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
Admission is free.

Bill Bailey
The stand-up comedian, musician and actor, known for appearing on the tv shows Never Mind the Buzzcocks and QI, presents his stage show Tinselworm.

Tinselworm is at The Gielgud Theatre in London until 30 November.
The DVD of Tinselworm is available now on the Universal label.

Outliers - The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell, author of the best-selling books The Tipping Point and Blink, investigates what makes people successful.

Outliers is published by Allen Lane.

Survivors
Â鶹Éç One presents a re-imagining of the classic Seventies Â鶹Éç drama series, based on the novel by Terry Nation.

Set in the present day, this 6-part series focuses on the world in the aftermath of a devastating virus which wipes out most of the world's population. What would we do? How would any of us cope in a brave, new world where all traditional 21st-century comforts have disappeared?

Survivors Episode 1 is at 9.00pm on Sunday 23 November on Â鶹Éç One

45 minutes

Broadcast

  • Sat 22 Nov 2008 19:15

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