While our closest animal relatives have been swinging from the trees, humans have built a world that is vastly more complex. What are the defining features that have allowed us to do this? Are we special, and separate from all other animals, or are we just an especially successful mammal?
'The outcome of the battle for agricultural control in India may just dictate the future of the earth.' Peter Proctor is 78. He has a glass eye and is partially deaf. He can’t stomach hot, spicy food, sings opera obsessively and off-key and has left the comforts of life in suburban New Zealand to live and work in India. He is also quietly determined to save the world.
Militant Islam enjoyed its first modern triumph with the arrival in power of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran in 1979. In this series of three programmes, key figures tell the inside story.
