Richard Miles

If you're the sort of person who gets tired of incessant cell phone chatter and texting, there is a place for you: The National Radio Quiet Zone in Appalachia - 13,000 sq. miles where cell phones and WiFi are strictly forbidden, to prevent interference for radio telescopes. Correspondent Richard Schlesinger reports on this haven of quiet.

The F Word: Season 3: Episode 6 -- Tonight Gordon travels to Scotland to herd wild buffalo and create the first-ever Scottish Buffalo Mozzarella. In the restaurant he puts IAN 'Beefy' BOTHAM's taste buds to the test in the wine-tasting all celebrity wine-makers fear: The Cliff Richard Celebrity Wine Challenge; plus the food snob with the big gob JANET STREET PORTER challenges Gordon to take nose-to-tail eating one step further as she persuades him to sample a new superfood - blood; and we get the latest news from Beckingham Palace where Gordon's lambs Charlotte and Gavin have been staying as guests of Posh and Becks.This week's brigade of passionate amateurs is four Desperate Housewives from Nottingham who cook a mouth-watering three-course meal of broad bean risotto with scallops, pork chops served with apple and raddichio and a courgette tempura, and a delicious dessert of cherry samosas.The recipes are so simple everyone can cook them at home, but how will the brigade manage cooking fifty portions in the restaurant? Will they do better than last week's team of Estate Agents who proved to be the worst kitchen brigade by miles?

The Great Pyramids of Giza are one of the most iconic images in the world, but 19 miles south of modern-day Cairo lies the Saqqara plateau, Egypt s oldest pyramid complex. Follow NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel to Egypt, where he journeys through a network of underground tunnels beneath the Step Pyramid of Djoser.

Insight on why the corporate profits are starting to show some weakness and should be looked over the jobs data, with Ed Keon, Quantitative Management Associates at Prudential Financial; Richard Bernstein, Richard Bernstein Advisors; Miles Nadal, MDC Partners chairman/CEO, and CNBC's Steve Liesman.

Imagine devoting your life to the exploration of a region of the world so formidable, so intimidating that few people ever visit it. Imagine months of travel in frigid, incapacitating temperatures capable of taking your limbs. Imagine seeing only vast expanses of ice for miles. Now imagine parts of this region no longer exist. This isn t your imagination. This is the reality of world-renowned polar explorer Will Steger. While we debate the validity of global warming, Steger has carved out an uncommon perspective about this phenomenon one that is more than 40 years in the making. A legend at age 63, Steger s achievements place him among the best in exploration alongside Jacques Cousteau, Charles Lindberg, Amelia Earhart and Robert Peary as he has completed some of the most significant polar expeditions in history: the first person to reach the North Pole via dogsled without resupply a traverse of Greenland that remains the longest unsupported dogsled expedition in history the first dogsled traverse of Antarctica the first dogsled traverse of the Arctic Ocean in one season Steger has received countless awards and distinctions throughout the years but he knows his Arctic achievements are null unless he can rally the next generation of leaders to embrace environmental activism and preserve one of the world s most fragile ecosystems. Enter Sam Branson, son of Virgin Group mogul Sir Richard Branson. Steger is galvanizing the next generation of leaders to advocate for the environment and has compiled an international team of 20-something adventurers to give us an Arctic close-up of global warming. The younger Branson an adventurer, musician and author who joined Steger s 2007 expedition to Baffin Island is one member of an impressive team that includes two National Geographic Young Explorer grantees, an Iditarod competitor, a Polar historian and two international record-holders in kite-skiing who hail from Norway, Great Britain, Canada and the United

Nightlight impresario Sacco enjoys life in the fast lane, but even she's never done it quite like this--going 165 miles per hour at the Richard Petty Driving Experience in Las Vegas.

Staines is just a quick train ride from the glamorous center of London, but for those who live there, the drab suburb can seem a million miles away. Local boys Hard-Fi reflect this world in their dark, dub-pop about suburban clubbing, isolation and coming up skint at the cash machine. Maybe that s why the DIY energy of their debut album, Stars of the CCTV, struck such a chord at home with fans and critics. Fresh from a tour of the US, Hard-Fi frontman Richard Archer sat a spell in the mtvU Hot Seat to talk hotel golf, ribs and how Kiefer Sutherland ruined his life.

Nov. 28: President Obama, has agreed to save 187,000 square miles in Alaska for the preservation of wildlife. Msnbc's Richard Lui talks with conservation biologist Reese Halter.

CNN's Richard Quest on 'Up in the Air,' the new George Clooney film about a frequent flyer collecting as many miles as possible.