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6.40 Organic Chemistry: It's Only Plastic
7.05 Maths: Modelling Drug Therapy
7.30 Venice and Antwerp: Forms of Religion
7.55 Images: the Surface of Mars
8.20 Biology: Plant Growth Regulators
8.45 Build a Better Business: Selling
9.10 Ecology: Controlling Pests
9.35 Geology: From Snowdon to the Sea
10.00 Richard II: Character of a King
10.25 Mechanics: Work and Energy
10.50 Women Artists: Outside In
Three women artists, from very different backgrounds, talk about their life and work.
11.15 Putting IT in its Place
11.40 Working with Systems: Diagrams
12.05 Testing Teachers?
A look at two very different approaches to staff development through the experiences of teachers.
12.30 Open Advice: the Quiet Revolution
Andy Kershaw reports on how universities are preparing students for the world of work.
12.55 Modern Art - Jackson Pollock
A debate between art historian T.J. Clark and art critic Michael Fried about the meaning of Pollock's work
1.20 Genetics: Patterns of Evolution
1.45 Learning for All: a Community College
Following the experiences of Dawn, a wheelchair user, as she leaves special school to go to college. (Subtitled) 2.10 Introduction to Psychology: Autism
2.35 Picturing the Modern City
What can be learnt about modern city life from the work of early photographs and films?

Contributors

Presenter (Open Advice):
Andy Kershaw
Subject:
Jackson Pollock
Contributor (Modern Art):
T.J. Clark
Contributor (Modern Art):
Michael Fried

Further live coverage of the third day's play from the Oval.
Action from the English Open in Coventry.
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Further live coverage of the World Athletics Championships from Stuttgart.
Timetable
6.35 3,000m steeplechase final
6.55 Women's 4x400m first round
7.15 Men's 4x400m first round
Kenya are favourites to win the steeplechase - Moses Kiptanui was world champion in Tokyo, and in Barcelona Matthew Birir took Olympic gold. Introduced by Desmond Lynam.

Contributors

Unknown:
Moses Kiptanui
Introduced By:
Desmond Lynam.

The extraordinary history of everyday objects.
The Light Bulb. The most popular source of artificial light had its early detractors. Yet the design proved so successful that it has been little changed in the past 100 years. Producer Peter Simpson
Series producer Peter Grimsdale

Contributors

Producer:
Peter Simpson
Producer:
Peter Grimsdale

Dancing with the Incas
A look at the most popular sounds of the Andes - Huayno and Chicha music - seen through the lives of professional musicians and ordinary people.
American film-maker John Cohen spent six months in Peru, often filming in areas under the control of the Shining Path guerrilla group. This is a portrait of a people faced with political and economic turmoil yet still managing to survive. Series editors Nigel Finch and Anthony Wall

Contributors

Unknown:
John Cohen
Editors:
Nigel Finch
Editors:
Anthony Wall

Wet Dreams
Gabriel Davies dreams of surfing in Hawaii but has to make do with the polluted waves off England's north-east coast. But now he has an unexpected invitation to compete in South Africa.
His video diary captures the struggle to balance his sporting passion with the need to get his A-levels as insurance for the future.

Contributors

Producer:
Gabe Solomon
Series Producer:
Bob Long

Another chance to see this three-part drama by Guy Hibbert. It combines soap-opera storylines with a surreal imagination to tell a story of families, sexual politics and children.
Starring Paul McGann Josette Simon
1: Immaculate Conception. When big-hearted Joe discovers the pain infertility is causing his brother Paul, he suggests to Paul's wife that he act as secret sperm donor.
Producer Hilary Salmon Director Pedr James

Contributors

Unknown:
Guy Hibbert.
Unknown:
Paul McGann
Unknown:
Josette Simon
Producer:
Hilary Salmon
Director:
Pedr James
Joe Thompson:
Paul McGann
Frankie Thompson:
Josette Simon
Linda Thompson:
Gwyneth Strong
Paul Thompson:
Philip Davis
Jean Thompson:
Doreen Mantle
Bill Thompson:
Allan Surtees
Aunt Peggy:
Judy Cornwell
Peter Dobson:
Bernard Horsfall
Rosemary Dobson:
Brigit Forsyth
Nigel Dobson:
Noah Huntley

Biographical drama starring Ken Ogata Yukio Mishima was a controversial Japanese playwright and novelist obsessed with Samurai ethics and militarism. This re-creation of his life combines dramatisations of Mishima's early life and of his work with the dramatic events of one day. In English and Japanese with English subtitles. Director Paul Schrader (1985)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Ken Ogata
Unknown:
Yukio Mishima
Director:
Paul Schrader

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