If you want to find out more about this year's Reith Lecturer Wole Soyinka, his work and the issues he has discussed in the series, there's a number of Open University courses, external websites and books to choose from.

Open University Courses

AA316, The Nineteenth-Century Novel - if you are interested in learning more about the uncanny, as discussed in The Changing Mask of Fear, you will find material on this in this course.

A300, Twentieth Century Literature: Texts and Debates is a new course which explores a number of issues relevant to these Reith lectures. In particular it contains a study block on the Nigerian poet, Christopher Okigbo; a study block on Manuel Puig's novel about political imprisonment in South America, Kiss of the Spider Woman; and an extensive study of literary prizes, including the Nobel.

A211 Philosophy and the Human Situation gives a broader background on philosophy and explores the basics of human thought, samples work from a range of philosophers across history and considers a number of philosophical questions. Rather than offering up a potted survey, it engages in detailed discussion of parts of them and is designed to show philosophy as an active enquiry.

U213 International Development: Challenges for a World in Transition - if you're interested in a course which considers the gap between the nations, explores the challenges for a world facing hard choices with sustainability, inequality and technology all considered, and gives a historical context to the current problems.

DU301 A World of Whose Making? offers an innovative perspective on International Studies. The course provides an introduction to the background influences on world affairs, and then turns to consider three big questions: How can we best understand and explain the structures of the international system as a whole; what are the forces for continuity and transformation in the current international order; is it changing, and if so, how? And what agencies are likely to shape the future of the international order?

Web links

Soyinka's Nobel Lecture, 1986
The announcement of Soyinka's Nobel Prize

UK on Terror Alert - coverage from BBC News
Madrid Attacks - coverage from BBC News

Jon Silverman asks why The War on Terror has failed to engage the public in the way the IRA campaigns did.

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