February 2019 Issue Robert Mayhew Eight Billion & Bust The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World By Paul Morland Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline By Darrell Bricker & John Ibbitson LR
April 2017 Issue Roderick Matthews Growing Pains Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation: The Relentless Invention of Modern India By Adam Roberts LR
September 2016 Issue Robert Mayhew Seven Billion and Counting How Population Change Will Transform Our World By Sarah Harper LR
February 2003 Issue Allan Massie 25 Million and Counting Adventures and Exiles: The Great Scottish Exodus By Marjory Harper LR
October 2013 Issue Eric Kaufmann Too Many People? 10 Billion By Stephen Emmott Population 10 Billion By Danny Dorling Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth By Alan Weisman LR
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'Fiona Shaw, in Jonathan Miller’s production, is the best shrew I have seen. She starts off in a mustard yellow dress with a mustard sharp tongue.'
From the archive, Kate Kellaway on a 1988 production of 'The Taming of the Shrew'.
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From the archive, Paul Foot on Tony Benn's diaries.
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