TV and radio blogRadioA formula for the perfect voice?A study claims to have found an equation for the most pleasing male and female voice. Listen to the results here and let us know what you thinkResearchers claim to have worked out a formula to find the perfect human voice. The study, which asked people to rate 50 voices then analysed the results, found a combination of Mariella Frostrup, Dame Judi Dench and Honor Blackman makes up the perfect female voice, while the most appealing male voice is a mixture of Alan Rickman, Jeremy Irons and Michael Gambon.

OpinionAnn Widdecombe This article is more than 13 years oldAnn Widdecombe just got sexyThis article is more than 13 years oldVictoria CorenAnn Widdecombe may be a virgin, but by putting dance ahead of the pope the ex-MP has shown an admirable lust for lifeAnn Widdecombe has never seemed more human. Or, some might say, human. Just kidding; that always looked like flesh and blood to me. Suspicions of robotism are a standard joke about any right-wing MP, given extra currency because Miss Widdecombe is a virgin.

The state drawing room with its Jacobean ceiling in Boston Manor House. Photograph: Chris Redgrave/Historic England ArchiveThe state drawing room with its Jacobean ceiling in Boston Manor House. Photograph: Chris Redgrave/Historic England ArchiveHeritage This article is more than 6 months oldJacobean manor house in west London readies for public openingThis article is more than 6 months oldBoston Manor House in Brentford, which dates back 400 years, has received a six-year restoration costing £6m

ScienceMeet the real Dr StrangeloveHad Edward Teller, the father of the H-bomb, trusted the Russians the cold war might have ended sooner, writes Peter GoodchildI first met Edward Teller, the Hungarian-born physicist and father of the H-bomb, while researching a television series about Robert Oppenheimer. Teller was seen as the embodiment of Dr Strangelove, the eponymous scientist in Stanley Kubrick's classic black comedy, and though he hated the association, it seemed appropriate enough.

BooksObituaryNigel NicolsonDistinguished publisher and biographer dogged by the shadow of his famous parentsThe publisher, editor, biographer and sometime politician Nigel Nicolson, who has died aged 87, laboured in the shadow of his famous and turbulent parents, the diplomat Sir Harold Nicolson and the writer and gardener Vita Sackville-West. Although, like his elder brother, the art historian Ben Nicolson, he managed to carve a distinguished career for himself, this background was something of an ordeal, both professionally and emotionally, and, for a man of such obvious talents, Nigel Nicolson remained all his life considerably underrated.