Schubler Chorale.

Can comic Alexei Sayle make it from northern Syria to Jordan?
First shown on BBC2

[web address removed]

How did Hitler, Franco and Mussolini manipulate the game to political ends?

How has lain Duncan Smith fared as Tory leader? Report by Simon Hoggart.
(The Daily Politics Conference Special is tomorrow at 11.30am on BBC2)

Antony Sher stars in this dark comedy, the first of the week's programmes based on the work of author JG Ballard.

JG Ballard talks to critic Tom Sutcliffe about his life and works.

Films from the BBC archive anticipating the world of JG Ballard's 1973 novel Crash.

Ballard's interstellar sci-fi story, first broadcast in 1965. Donald Houston stars. (BW)

Golding's Lord of the Flies v Orwell's Animal Farm.