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John Nash, the Nobel prize-winning US mathematician whose life inspired the film "A Beautiful Mind" - has died in a car accident. Fellow game theorist Professor Olivier Gossner of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris remembers 'a genius'.


'Beautiful Mind' mathematician John Nash remembered

Meet Bushra, a young woman in Sanaa who teaches girls to ride a bike. "It feels like freedom; nothing can stop us"  Bashra tells Ben James.  

Let's Ride a Bike .., in Yemen

From the Thurber Prize-winning author of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker comes a pioneering collection of Black humor from some of the most acclaimed writers and performers at work today

A critic explores the paradox of finding community in “the dozens” while grieving. A violent town ritual causes an all-too-familiar moral panic. An email thread between friends on why we need an updated Green Book but for public toilets. All across the nation, “Karens” become illegal overnight. These are just a few of the hilarious worlds contained in Damon Young’s groundbreaking anthology featuring the best, funniest, and Blackest essays, short stories, letters, and rants.

With words that roast, ignite, and burn while connecting to and coalescing around a singular thesis, That's How They Get You emphasizes how and why Black American humor is uniquely transfixing. This is a mixture of not just observational anxieties and stream-of-consciousness lucidities but also acute political clarity about America. Edited and with an introduction by Damon Young, the critically acclaimed author of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker, the collection features new material from an all-star roster of contributors, including Hanif Abdurraqib, Mahogany L. Browne, Wyatt Cenac, Kiese Laymon, Deesha Philyaw, Roy Wood Jr., and Nicola Yoon.

Listen to a clip from THAT'S HOW THEY GET YOU edited by Damon Young, excerpt read by André Santana

Listen to the first chapter of VERITY VOX AND THE CURSE OF THE FOXFIRE by Don Martin, narrated by Jennifer Hale

(Chapter 1) Verity Vox and the Curse of the Foxfire by Don Martin, narrated by Jennifer Hale

Richard Upshall lives in Dubai and was inside the hotel when the fire took hold. He told the BBC Newsroom what happened.

BBC interview with eyewitness inside Dubai fire building

Had the great honor to record this instrumental jazz tune with two of Iran's greatest musicians recently, Yashar Khosravi on saxophone and Reza Tajbakhsh on piano and bass.

Calm - Instrumental Jazz song by Yashar Khosravi and Reza Tajbakhsh

I Took A Pill In Ibiza X Boom Mashup #APLL

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Paul Johnson, director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies, asks if the time has come for the government to break pledges made to pensioners. He charts how the average income of senior citizens has risen and is now higher than that of the rest of the population. "We are in a position we never intended," he says. "One generation has lucked out and generations coming after are not only doing much worse, but paying for the older generation." He asks whether the government can and should sustain the "triple lock" which makes the state pension rise much faster than other benefits. And he argues that the inequality between generations is now entrenching inequality within generations.
Producer: Helen Grady

Interviewees:
Torsten Bell, the Resolution Foundation
Angus Hanton, the Intergenerational Foundation
Baroness Ros Altmann, former pensions minister
John Kay, economist
Joanne Segars, Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association
Baroness Onora O'Neill, philosopher
Frances O'Grady, Trades Union Congress
Ben Page, Ipsos MORI. Published on October 3, 2016.

Breaking Promises

Is the island of Ireland where Brexit will matter most? Edward Stourton visits Londonderry, right on the Irish border, to explore what's at stake as the UK leaves the EU. Some locals fear the border across Ireland - as the EU's new external border - will harden, causing great practical and economic difficulty and even threatening the Northern Ireland peace process. Others say change the will matter far less, and that peace is now guaranteed. While people in Derry ask anxious questions, we'll hear too how policy makers in London and Dublin face a particular challenge in making Brexit work. 
Producer: Chris Bowlby. Published on October 17, 2016.

Brexit and Northern Ireland

Should we place more trust in prisoners to help them change their lives? "Trust is the only thing that changes people," says Professor Alison Liebling, the director of the Prisons Research Centre at the University of Cambridge. But, asks Lucy Ash, how can we encourage trust in prisons that are overcrowded, often understaffed, and blighted by rising rates of violence? Prisoners are locked up because they broke trust, and on the wings distrust, rather than trust, is an essential survival skill. 

And yet Professor Liebling's latest evidence surprisingly shows that ultimately it is only staff-prisoner relationships built on trust that ensure better outcomes. "Values grow virtues", she argues. Treating prisoners with the same values as other people - dignity, respect, trust - will help them turn their lives around. 

Producer: Arlene Gregorius

(Image: A knife with a blunted point, chained to a work surface. Credit: Rene Hut, of the Dutch Ministry of Justice). Published on October 31, 2016.

Trusting Inmates

Ein Wochenstart ohne 90+2 ist möglich, aber sinnlos! Die Aluhut-Träger eures Vertrauens - Schlütenmann und Zandelmeier - pflügen gewohnt investigativ durch den vorletzten Spieltag der Bundesliga-Saison und stellen die einzig relevanten Fragen: Relegationsmafia HSV? Schläft der Wettergott im Wolfsburger Trikot? Und steuert ausgerechnet Uli Hoeneß heimlich mit seinem Smartphone die Anzeigetafel des Vierten Offiziellen? Außerdem verleihen wir Christian Streich den Titel "Bester Mensch aller Zeiten".

[90+2] Folge 71: Die Dino-Verschwörung

Für die letzte 90+2-Ausgabe der Saison schaut Schlüter extra in Leipzig vorbei und stattet Zander einen Überraschungsbesuch ab. Erst wird gemeinsam das Relegationsrückspiel geschaut, dann zum Abschluss wirklich jedes Thema beackert, das auf der Straße liegt. Freut euch auf einen ganz besonderen Rückblick und die besten Intros der Bundesliga-Saison 2016/2017!

[90+2] Folge 73: The Rest Of The Best Vol. 2

Ein letztes Mal wenden sich Alex Schlüter und Benni Zander an ihre treue 90+2-Fangemeinde, denn es gibt Neuigkeiten zu verkünden! In Zukunft dribbelt sich die doppelte Speerspitze der deutschen Sportberichterstattung nämlich im Amazon-Podcast "Zweierkette" durch den Bundesliga-Spieltag. Frei nach dem Motto: Nach dem Podcast ist vor dem Podcast...

[90+2] Folge 74: Draufgehalten

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Learning English  Lesson Fifty One (Giving Your Opinion)

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Analysis makes sense of the ideas that change the world. What made Islam political, whether the Government can make us go green, why we think the market in human organs is repugnant are just some of the subjects the series tackles. With thought-provoking and expert presenters, Analysis aims to make the world of policy and ideas both interesting and surprising.

Breaking Promises

BBC Radio 4 Analysis