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TUESDAY NIGHT
* In The Experiment - which recreates a celebrated project at Stanford University in America in 1971 - a group of volunteers are assigned the roles of either prisoners or guards and asked to live on a mock-up of a prison set. The original American experiment was abandoned when it seemed that serious violence might break-out so a series of safeguards was in place for this British recreation. Experiment or exploitation?
The Experiment starts on BBC2 at 9pm tonight.
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* No Man's Land - which won this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film - is unusual in featuring dialogue in three different tongues: Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian. Danis Tanovic's darkly comic film follows three separate groups - soldiers, UN peace-keeping forces and journalists - during a bizarre incident in the 1993 Bosnian War. A Serbian soldier uses a mine to booby-trap what seems to be the body of a Bosnian fighter. But the land-mined soldier then recovers consciousness, forcing his Serbian opponent and another captured Bosnian soldier to co-operate because a single movement from the human bomb will kill them all.
No Man's Land is released at selected cinemas around country this Friday: certificate 15
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* The pictures in a new biography of Chet Baker cover a performing career of around 30 years but in the final images the face of a man in his fifties could be taken for an eighty-year-old. This was the result of drugs and a 1966 drug-related beating in which he lost his upper teeth: a part of the body as important to a trumpeter as a hamstring to a footballer. Fourteen years after Baker's death a new book, Deep In A Dream,remembers Chet Baker.
James Gavin book Deep In A Dream is published by Chatto & Windus in hardback.
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* Amazon has been appointed official entertainment supplier to the England Football team. Books made available to the players include Roy Jenkins' biography of Churchill, Class War by Chris Woodhead, How To Be A Gardener Vol 1 by Alan Titchmarsh and Spies by Michael Frayn. The lists were compiled after advice from the psychologist Dr Aric Sigman on the types of relaxation needed although he did not make the actual selection of titles. Front Row asked him what makes a world cup winning book?
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ON WEDNESDAY'S PROGRAMME
The new musical created by Ben Elton from the songs of Queen and an interview with Star Wars director George Lucas.
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RELATED LINKS
The Experiment - the official BBC website
The Stanford Prison Experiment - Read about the original Zimbardo/Stanford Experiment
No Man's Land - the film's website
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