| Behind Enemy Lines | ...On the 8th August 1991 the British journalist, JOHN MCCARTHY, was freed in Beirut by the militant group, Islamic Jihad, after more than five years in captivity. Now Patron of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, John presents Behind Enemy Lines, a documentary which sheds light on the experiences of other survivors of captivity; hostages, civilian detainees, and prisoners of war, conflict and conscience.... |
| Discovery [world Service] | ...In the second part of Numbers that Made the World, designer and engineer, Cecil Balmond, explores numbers as patterns. He unravels the human instinct to find numerical nuances in the universe, beginning with a visit to Boston in the US to talk to Dr Mario Livio, author of ‘Is God a Mathematician?’. He meets Professor Mandelbrot, the man who discovered the psychedelic beauty of fractals in the 1970s, and former-hostage, JOHN MCCARTHY, reveals how he turned to calculations in desperate moments during his captivity.... |