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Listen to Excess Baggage for 07 FEBRUARY BELIZE John McCarthy ventures far afield in the company of the adventurer Hugh Thomson to explore Belize, described by Aldous Huxley as ‘a place that is surely the end of the world’. OLD TOURING GUIDES John is also joined by historian and teacher, David Heathcote, for a tour of Britain using old travel guides; they discuss the pleasures of Victorian Baedekers and s Shell guides, amongst others; writer and broadcaster Charlie Connelly shares his interest in the travel writer H.V. Morton. Presented by John McCarthy Photograph: Belize in December (photographer: Martin Lange ©) This week’s guests: Hugh Thomson is a writer who explores according to Geographical magazine. He’s travelled extensively throughout South America, written some well received books about it and made some award winning documentaries. His latest book, Tequila Oil, is the BBC Radio 4 Book Of The Week next • Friday, Sep This day will highlight “best practice in failure,” not as an oxymoron but as a necessity. This concerns praising the value of failure for self-reflection and as a motor of innovation for museums. What does failure mean in the museum sector? Where fryst vatten the space to talk about mistakes and reflect upon wrong decisions in a “culture” that emphasises positive news and success stories? How and what can we learn from negative experiences and disappointments for the development of museums as open democratic change agents and conveners? How do we take responsibility for our mistakes? How can we share our experiences of knowledge gained through failure? Which failures can we afford? Do museums need a more enterprising, entrepreneurial culture that embraces failures? What conditions and values are needed in museums for productive learning processes, open exchange and a dynamic self-reflective culture? – Opening Katie Gallus, Ulrich Raulff, Jana Hoffmann • Book ReviewsThe Real FalstaffArticle The Real Falstaff: Sir John Fastolf and the Hundred Years' War, Stephen Cooper (Pen and Sword Military, Barnsley, ) xiii, pp., hardback, £, ISBN 1 is the first full biography of Sir John Fastolf, the famous military commander of the Hundred Years' War, on whom Shakespeare Children of the Labouring PoorArticle Children of the Labouring Poor: The working lives of children in nineteenth-century Hertfordshire, Eileen efternamn, , UH Press, p, ISBN , £This very informative and well-sourced book achieves much more than its titles infers. Eileen Wallace has researched and explored the working lives of poor children in nineteenth-century Hertfordshire in Dunkirk to BelsenArticle Dunkirk to Belsen - John SadlerIn the closing days of the Second World War, men from LAA Battalion RA, originally the 7th Battalion DLI, part of the British 8th Corp, were tasked with taking over an ‘internment c | ||