THE COURT OF LAST RESORT
Radio 4, 11am
“You can get away with killing a hundred thousand people more easily than killing one,” said Mary Robinson, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in 1998. “We don’t deal well with mass murder.” And so the International Criminal Court was set up. One would have thought that defendants would be choking the docks of the ICC in The Hague. But no — to try them, first you have to catch them. Joshua Rozenberg illustrates the ICC’s difficulties with the story of a particularly nasty bunch in northern Uganda called the Lord’s Resistance Army.
NATURE
Radio 4, 9pm
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Lionel Kelleway returns with a nine-part series of the programme that hangs out in uncomfortable places in the teeming rain so you don’t have to. And to begin with — the robin, right up there in the pantheon of best-loved British birds. Did you know that they got their cheery red breast because they carried fire to Earth for humans to enjoy, and scorched their fronts in the process? True. OK, maybe not true. David Harper, who has been studying robins for 25 years, gives Kelleway the factual lowdown.