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|  | | Defying any attempt to pigeonhole her skills and talents Mariella combines her television and radio career with that of a prolific journalist.
Over a fifteen-year TV career she has continued to impress both audiences and critics with her friendly, accessible and intelligent screen presence. Her projects run the gamut from current affairs to movies and the arts.
As a journalist she is currently the film critic for Harpers And Queen and has a weekly dilemma column in The Observer Magazine, while her book reviews and travel pieces appear regularly in the press. She has also been a member of the Booker-Mann Prize panel.
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| | Listen to Wilbur Smith interview
This Week on Open Book:
An interview with best selling author Wilbur Smith and his new book Blue Horizon.
Tip on speed reading with speed reading guru Tony Buzan, our studio guest who will be reading War and Peace during the course of the programme.
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Image from Professor Mazur's book: Fig 32: Diagram on top of page 177: "the three cube roots of -1"
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| Interview with Professor Barry Mazur about his new book Imagining Numbers which asks whether you can feel the way in which the imagination works whilst exploring the square root of minus one.
Puzzle Competition based on Imagining Numbers:
The square root of half the number of a swarm of bees is gone to a shrub of jasmin; and so are eight ninths of the whole swarm; a female is buzzing to the one remaining male; that is humming within a lotus, in which he is confined, having been allured to it by its fragrance at night. Say, lovely woman, the number of bees.
Email your answers to the Open Book address below. Two copies of Imagining Numbers are available as prizes.
Also interviews with physicist John Gribben and poet Jo Shapcott.
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