9.15 Childcare and Parenthood: The First Vital Months
A look at the families featured in the previous programme.
The babies have now arrived. How is everyone coping?
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9.38 Past Thirteen: Choices in the Third Year: What to Choose
'For me it was one of the first most important decisions of my life.'
Two fifth-formers look back to the time when they made third-year option choices. They describe how they went about making their decision, what advice they received from friends, teachers and parents, and how their choices have turned out in practice.
10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Dibs wants to join in on Cosmo's game with Jeni Barnett - but they won't let him. Meet the number 5 and the song 'Five in a bed'. Book: Alex and Roy
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10.15 Music Time: The Sleeping Beauty: 1
Some tunes from Tchaikovsky's ballet music are linked with characters and events from the story. Presented by Jonathan Cohen and Helen Speirs
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10.38 History File: British Social History: Richard Arkwright and the First Factories
Max Mason visits Cromford in Derbyshire to see where part of the new world began.
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11.0 Zig Zag: Patterns Hold the Key
Sir John Snow spotted a pattern of disease in Victorian Soho. It led to the conquest of cholera.
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11.22 Thinkabout: In the Air
When the children's kite gets stuck up a tree, it brings down more than they bargained for.
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11.40 General Studies: Bias in the News?
For more than ten years the Glasgow Media Group has been finding evidence of bias in television news. Greg Philco of Glasgow University has been invited to select extracts from news coverage of the miners' strike to support his case. Alastair Hetherington, Professor of Media Studies at Stirling University, presents an opposing view. Chairing the discussion is Nick Ross.
12.5 pm The Effective Manager: The Deep End
First part of a dramatised trilogy about the problems facing Lewis Jones in his first managerial job.
A BBC/Open University production
12.35 The Rise and Fall of King Cotton: 4: The Ruthless King
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1.5 Play Tennis: 3: Are You Ready?
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1.38 Casebook Scotland: 8: Changing Leisure
The 'leisure boom' in Scotland.
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2.0 Words and Pictures: Trog and His Axe
The Trog family have a problem trying to pull a tree down.
The Quickerwits advise them to make an axe.
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2.18 Tutorial Topics
Living with a Handicap
Twelve-year-old Alistair Jordan's thoughts and feelings about being in a wheelchair.
Asian Girl
Perminderpal Gill, a 13-year-old Sikh girl born in Britain, weighs up the pros and cons of living in two cultures.
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2.40 Religious Studies: Why Because?: 3: But is it True?
This is one of the questions children often ask when they hear a story. There are three sections in this programme: a creation story; a modem story of temptation; and a battle between good and evil.
