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A five-time Olympic medallist who spent 40 years as a sports coach and goodwill ambassador in Africa is to be celebrated for the USA's Black History Month in February with a double episode of the Global History of Sport in the Cold War podcast – along with a new take on the “world’s greatest boxer”, Muhammad Ali.

"Egypt: Faith after the Pharaohs" is one of the British Museum's first exhibitions to explore inter-faith relations. One of the exhibition's Curators, Dr Elisabeth R. O'Connell, will present an evening of discussion in Cambridge on Monday 1 February.

The Faculty of English will host a day of readings and discussions from the great American novelist David Foster Wallace, on Tuesday 12 January.

Faculty of English academic Dr Sarah Dillon is to become a literary detective in a new Sunday Feature series on BBC Radio 3 exploring great works of literature and how they came to be written.