A roundup of business from the Lords and Commons by the BBC's parliamentary team.
(Some Daytime on Two programmes are aimed at teenagers and may be unsuitable for the very young.)
Assessment and testing at four key stages. How are schools learning to cope with the new demands and working towards achieving a sound whole school policy?
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A French magazine series for beginners.
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A miscellany series for young children.
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A look at the kinds of work which are involved in these two jobs.
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When Sammy gets a new calculator she takes it to school, hoping it will help her make some new friends. Instead it sparks off a chain of events which increases her sense of isolation and presents her with some difficult choices.
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How confident are today's young technologists in building bridges - on a much smaller scale? (R)
Fill It Up
followed by If the Shoe Fits
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A look at approaches to interior design for a chain of clothes shops and a hospital chapel.
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Steel workers and their families in Novokuznelsk, west Siberia, reveal their anxieties about the medical problems caused by the toxic gases from the steel works.
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A variety of conversations, some recorded by teachers and some specially filmed, on the process of talk.
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Animation. Explorers Charlie, Lewis and Arnold set off on another expedition, this time to discover why the mountain moans.
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followed by You and Me: Larry's Story
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From Stowmarket in Suffolk. Introduced by Hugh Scully.
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Weather followed by Westminster Live
Prime Minister's questions and other Parliamentary highlights of the day.
Presented by Vivian White.
Commentary by Brian Curtois.
Synonym: shallcrepu Meaning: funereal
Answer in today's programme. Three wordsmiths take on Bryan the computer in another edition of the popular word game.
Umpired by Paul Coia.
Today's presenters. Jeffrey Archer and Paul Boateng , agree to differ on two controversial political issues.
Sylvester Stallone returns to his most famous role in Rocky Vand Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a Kindergarten Cop.
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The live education magazine. In France today, education is la priorité des priorités. Mary Follain looks at how the government is trying to change century-old traditions in French primary schools. In Britain the education of children with special needs is protected by law: Mike Baker asks if that law is being observed. And poet
Wendy Cope revisits the scene of her education.
With Jackie Spreckley. Studio director Kristin Mason
Editor Bernard Adams
Starring Sidney James, Kenneth Williams
India, 1895: in the North West Frontier province the villainous Khasi of Kalabar plans a rebellion against the governor, Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond. Only the presence of that dreaded Highland regiment the Third Foot and Mouth, also known as the Devils in Skirts, can foil the Khasi's dastardly plot.
Films: pages 29-34
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The Big Snit. A classic cartoon from the National
Film Board of Canada.
By Charles Dickens.
Dramatised in eight episodes by Arthur Hopcraft.
Starring Diana Rigg Denholm Elliott
4: Richard's intended engagement to Ada has perturbed Jarndyce, who considers it hasty.
Producers John Hams and Betty Willmgale
Director Ross Devenish (R) ● PICTURE STORY: page 73 * CEEFAX SUBTITLES
The cult radio comedy now on television written and performed by Steve Punt , David Baddiel Hugh Dennis , Rob Newman Steve Punt visits the Canaries, David Baddiel is off to the Seychelles, Hugh Dennis checks out paragliding in California and Rob Newman rents a cottage in Cumbria. So there's no programme. Director/Producer Marcus Mortimer
Around Midnight
A journey through Leeds from dusk to dawn. For most of us, when night falls, the day is over. But Yvonne still has blood and vomit to clear up, Denis has gags to crack and Terry and Eddie 'the lug' are off searching for water leaks. Producer John Alexander
Senes editor Caroline Pick
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Lord Kitchener made them compulsory for the British in the First World War. The Nazis used them to persecute racial groups. And in the Cold War their forgery became a cottage industry.
Documentary: page 8
Picture Story: page 73
(Ceefax subtitles)
With Francine Stock.
The arts and media show.
