A very quick note: Presented by Brian Cox, Wonders of the Solar System[1] is being repeated over the next few weeks, from six to seven Sunday evenings. Well worth catching, either on BBC two or on BBC iplayer. I'm a bit late with this but even coming in halfway through its very accessible, and Cox manages to be clear on some quite complex ideas without dumbing them down. I hope to have 'Rise of the Oligarchs' up in the next week.

All the best.

John Freeman

[1]http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qyxfb