Ms Merridale unpicks the contradictory accounts of what happened on the border.
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As she unpicks Lear's layers, at points she seems to inhabit him.
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It also unpicks a pension reform so that some workers will be able to retire at 62.
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Most interesting of all, in pulling colours apart at the seams, "The Secret Lives of Colour" unpicks some stubborn stereotypes.
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He vividly recreates the lives of the emperors, sultans and princes who grappled with the EIC, and unpicks their rivalries and alliances.
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"Africans in America", a two-part exhibition at the Goodman Gallery Johannesburg and the Johannesburg Art Gallery, unpicks its geographical, historical, cultural, political and economic associations further.
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In his new film, writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson ("There Will be Blood", "Magnolia" and "Boogie Nights") unpicks and refashions these well-worn tropes into something new.
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Ms Saini unpicks some of the most influential studies that have framed women as gentle, caring and empathetic and men as strong, rational and dominant—differences attributed to biology and evolution.
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In examining each case study, Foroohar unpicks how the tech giants slowly but surely started to betray their founding principles, from Google's old mantra "Don't be evil" to Mark Zuckerberg's vision of creating "communities" around the world.
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A widely reported article in 2011 in Pediatrics, a medical journal, claimed that merely hearing swear-words made children aggressive, but this conclusion was based on a long string of debatable assumptions that Mr Bergen unpicks with gusto.
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Penelope has been waiting for ten years for the return of her husband, Ulysses, King of Ithaca. In the meantime she has been besieged by suitors for her hand in marriage. She promises she will choose between them once she has finishing weaving a shroud for her father-in-law, Laertes, but every night she unpicks the day's work. Ulysses arrives at the palace disguised as a beggar and is recognised by his old nurse Euryclea.
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First broadcast: 9:00 pm, 7 Oct 2014 on BBC Two Brian charts our story from apes to the birth of civilization and ultimately to the stars. Beginning in Ethiopia, Professor Brian Cox discovers how the universe played a key role in our ascent from apeman to spaceman by driving the expansion of our brains. But big brains alone did not get us to space. To reveal what did, Brian heads out of Africa, to the ancient city of Petra in Jordan, where he unpicks the next part of our story – the birth of civilization – and then on to Kazakhstan, where he witnesses the return of astronauts from space and explains what took us from civilization to the stars.
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