Motley Fool Money - Motley Fool Money: 06.10.2011

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon challenges Fed Chief Ben Bernanke. Hewlett-Packard attempts to challenge Apple's iPad. Big banks lose a big vote in Congress. And Hasbro introduces a heavy metal version of Monopoly. Plus, Pawn Stars star Rick Harrison makes the case for silver over gold and talks about his new book, License To Pawn: Deals, Steals, and My Life at the Gold & Silver.

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Start the Week - 06/06/2011

Andrew Marr talks to the historian Jane Shaw about the story of Mabel Barltrop: she was renamed Octavia by her followers who believed she was the daughter of God. The theatre director, Jonathan Kent, brings the last non-Christian ruler of the Roman Empire to the stage, in the little known Ibsen play, Emperor and Galilean. Ziauddin Sardar gives his take on the Qur'an, drawing contemporary lessons from this Sacred Text on everything from power and politics, to sex and evolution. And Ross Perlin exposes the world of unpaid work, in his investigation into the deals done in the name of internships.

Producer: Katy Hickman.

Start the Week - 06/06/2011

Andrew Marr talks to the historian Jane Shaw about the story of Mabel Barltrop: she was renamed Octavia by her followers who believed she was the daughter of God. The theatre director, Jonathan Kent, brings the last non-Christian ruler of the Roman Empire to the stage, in the little known Ibsen play, Emperor and Galilean. Ziauddin Sardar gives his take on the Qur'an, drawing contemporary lessons from this Sacred Text on everything from power and politics, to sex and evolution. And Ross Perlin exposes the world of unpaid work, in his investigation into the deals done in the name of internships.

Producer: Katy Hickman.

World Book Club - Val McDermid – A Place of Execution

Acclaimed British writer Val McDermid discusses her page-turning crime novel A Place of Execution.

A taut psychological suspense thriller told through two overlapping and interlocking narratives, A Place of Execution takes place both in the present day as well as 1963 rural England with two different investigators exploring the disappearance of a 13 year old girl who vanished without a trace on a bitterly cold winter's afternoon.

This is not a cosy novel but one that confronts us with brutal realities and stirs up uncomfortable reactions, gripping the reader up to the very last page and its stunning conclusion.