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THE sound of hammering and sawing became a familiar backdrop to the grim horrors of the Nuremberg trials. Nothing was ready. Courtrooms had not been built, there were no defence lawyers for the accused Nazi war criminals, while the Soviets, anxious to hide Stalin’s war crimes, dragged their feet. NUREMBERG (RADIO 4, 2.15PM), Jonathan Myerson’s brilliant series, is well-researched and totally galvanising.

REVENANTS haunted medieval Europe. According to folklore, these ghouls were buried corpses that rose from their graves and wandered the land, unable to enter Heaven because of their past sins. In her excellent continuing series A HISTORY OF GHOSTS (RADIO 4, 2.45PM), Kirsty Logan

(pictured) looks at accounts of the ‘reawakened’ dead.

OUR eyes, according to Charles Darwin, are organs ‘of extreme perfection’. Aeons of evolution, tweaks and adaptations have turned light-sensitive proteins into complex structures that allow us to see and interpret our surroundings. For this week’s CROWDSCIENCE (BBC WORLD SERVICE, 8.30PM), Marnie Chesterton looks at the evolutionary history of the human eye, and discovers that our ability to recognise images has developed over many generations.