Artists often struggle to turn a profit from their creations due to a lack of understanding of business, says Sarah Cassidy

Deeply depressed and chronically ill, Ruth Womak was considering taking her own life - but then salvation came from a most unexpected quarter. Ian Nash reports on the new social climbers

Chalk Talk

Chloë Hamilton ventures into its glossy interior to meet the first intake

1. DK Speak French in Just 15 Minutes a Day

A revolution in the way people are learning is sweeping through further-education colleges. Ian Nash visits a school that is changing the face of the classroom.

Ed Cooke insists he can use his techniques as a memory expert to help novices learn even the hardest tongues. He challenges Enjoli Liston to learn 100 Mandarin words in two days.

We might like to think we live in a classless society, yet increasing numbers of adults are signing up for lessons in elocution. Jeremy Sutcliffe finds out why they're doing it.

It's not every day that a former student stops you in the street and recites a poem about plant hormones which they learnt 15 years ago. But when your name is Richard Spencer and you have a following in Australia, the USA and Europe, it is perhaps hardly surprising.