I just luurve these little guys...

...Trilobite cookies!

Introducing a whole new science: paleoconfectionary. As the author says: "These cookies are the result of my most recent research into what ancient trilobites would have tasted like if primitive biochemical processes were based on jam/chocolate/cookie molecules". Which, as we all know, they actually were!

Set your radio timers to...

...record this: His Dark Materials. The whole of Philip Pullman's wonderful trilogy is being dramatised for Radio 4...

Broadcast dates are the 4th, 11th and 18th of January 2003.

(Please note, there are spoilers in the BBC news story)