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The listener can create up to 90 billion storylines, the BBC claims, by switching between Radio 3 and 4 or by clicking between three streams on the internet to choose the way the three plays come together.The actors Douglas Hodge, Sophie Okonedo and Miles Anderson have recorded the different plays, which are being edited for broadcast on Radio 3 and 4 on 18 and 19 April. They will be available online for a month after transmission.Nick Fisher, the writer, said the project had been hard work but fun. “In some ways, it’s the same as writing anything and holding together a good narrative line,” he said. Mr Fisher wrote out the storylines on three different colours of paper, as well as on his computer, to try to ensure that the plays worked whichever way the listener chose to move at 21 junctions, which will be flagged up as decision points.The stories follow three characters, a professional gambler, a computer programmer and a professor, who come together in a game of roulette. Mr Fisher said: “I would be foolish to say I’m confident that every permutation will work. If somebody changed at the last minute that might be quite a strange experience, but it should still hold together.”The idea of an interactive play was dreamt up four years ago by a BBC journalist, Harshad Mistry, when he was exploring uses of digital radio.

He said: “The opportunity of having multiple audio streams got me thinking of a non-linear narrative in which a listener could navigate through in real time. It’s an interesting idea, but the real proof of the pudding comes down to the script and delivery of it This is a really compelling story.”. A lesbian teacher forced out of her job by a “campaign of harassment” by pupils yesterday took her battle for compensation to the Court of Appeal. A lesbian teacher forced out of her job by a “campaign of harassment” by pupils yesterday took her battle for compensation to the Court of Appeal.
Employment tribunals ruled that although Shirley Pearce did suffer abuse when children called her “lezzie shit” and “nasty dyke”, it was not because she was a woman and the case was therefore not covered by the Sex Discrimination Act.Laura Cox QC, representing the teacher, said claims for injury to feelings led to awards “at the highest level” but her client was denied compensation because it had been decided she had not been treated differently than a man in the same situation.

Ms Cox said the Act should be understood as “sex” meaning “sexual orientation”.Ms Pearce, 53, who was a science teacher at Mayfield Secondary School in Portsmouth, was subjected to a campaign of sexual harassment for five years, a tribunal ruled in 1997.Ms Cox said: “This was homophobic abuse in the school and outside her home by individuals and groups shouting out.The school was well aware of the extent of the harassment and knew it was continuing.”The hearing was adjourned.. Nicholas Geoffrey Lempri? Hammond, Hellenist and historian: born Ayr 15 November 1907; Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge 1930-54, Senior Tutor 1947-54, Honorary Fellow 1974-2001; Lecturer in Classics, Cambridge University 1936-54; DSO 1944; Headmaster, Clifton College 1954-62; Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek, Bristol University 1962-73, Pro-Vice-Chancellor 1964-66; President, Hellenic Society 1965-68; FBA 1968; Chairman, Managing Committee, British School at Athens 1972-75; married 1938 Margaret Townley (two sons, two daughters, and one daughter deceased); died Cambridge 24 March 2001. Nicholas Geoffrey Lempri? Hammond, Hellenist and historian: born Ayr 15 November 1907; Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge 1930-54, Senior Tutor 1947-54, Honorary Fellow 1974-2001; Lecturer in Classics, Cambridge University 1936-54; DSO 1944; Headmaster, Clifton College 1954-62; Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek, Bristol University 1962-73, Pro-Vice-Chancellor 1964-66; President, Hellenic Society 1965-68; FBA 1968; Chairman, Managing Committee, British School at Athens 1972-75; married 1938 Margaret Townley (two sons, two daughters, and one daughter deceased); died Cambridge 24 March 2001.
Warrior, sportsman, schoolmaster, long-distance walker ­ N G L. Hammond looked (and was) anything but the stereotype of the scholar. But this man of tireless enthusiasms devoted most of his long life to the study of Greek history, and it was for this that he saved his greatest passion.