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Anne McElvoy and guests discuss whether Osama Bin Laden is more powerful dead than alive and the importance of martyrs and icons in military and political history.

There's a review of Outside The Law, a movie about the Algerian struggle for independence, that caused a riot at last year's Cannes Film Festival.

Abbas Milani, Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University, has written a biography of the Shah of Iran who was toppled from power in 1979. He discusses the Shah and his legacy with Anne and Professor Ali Ansari, of the Institute of Iranian Studies at St Andrews University.

Anne considers the significance of flowers in Renaissance art with the author of a new book on the subject, Celia Fisher, and Professor Jerry Brotton of Queen Mary University.