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10.25 Watch: Festivals and Celebrations
(ages 6-7) (Stereo)

10.40 Around Scotland: Bruce's Scotland: A Nation Again
(ages 10-12)

11.00 How to Make Your Own Video Report

11.15 Teaching Today: IT for Primary Schools

11.45 The Science Collection: Kill or Cure
(ages 16+)

12.10 The Geography Programme: Oases in the Desert: Part 2
(ages 11-16)

Marti Caine looks at schools around the turn of the century and Valerie Singleton follows a pensioner campaigning for improved state pensions.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Reporter:
Marti Caine
Reporter:
Valerie Singleton

Starring Patrick Stewart

En route to a seminar on Risa, Geordi is kidnapped and brainwashed. While a double replaces him at the conference, he is subjected to mind-altering experiences designed to transform him into a killing machine.

Contributors

Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
Patrick Stewart
Commander William Riker:
Jonathan Frakes
Lt Commander Data:
Brent Spiner
Dr Beverly Crusher:
Gates McFadden

The fourth of seven torturous experiences of everyday life.

Mark Lamarr asks about the perils of the Highway Code and racing driver Damon Hill tells how he turned left, left and left again instead of right but still managed to pass his motorbike test. Jo Brand's examiner was so big she thought her car could not cope with them both.

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Lamarr
Guest:
Damon Hill
Guest:
Jo Brand

Trading places this week are a pupil from a select private school and one from an inner-city comprehensive, a real-life Working Girl and her boss, and a carefree cocktail waiter and a father of five. With Lily Savage.

Contributors

Presenter:
Lily Savage [Paul O'Grady]
Producer:
Ian Tonge
Series Producer:
Neil Crombie

A compelling study of personal ambition versus the good of the state. Animated in the familiar drawn cartoon style but in the bold and traditional Russian manner.

Contributors

Screenplay:
Leon Garfield
Director:
Yuri Kulakov
Series Editor:
Martin Lamb
Series Editor:
Penelope Middelboe
Caesar:
Joss Ackland
Brutus:
David Robb
Mark Antony:
Jim Carter
Cassius:
Hugh Quarshie
Calphurnia:
Frances Tomelty
Portia:
Judith Sharp
Casca:
Peter Woodthorpe
Narrator/Octavius:
Andrew Wincott
Soothsayer/Trebonius:
Dillwyn Owen
Cinna/Decius:
Tony Leader

Documentaries by film-makers from around the world.

Life is good for the baby lar gibbon. As the youngest member of a close-knit family group, it is cared for by mum and dad. They even sing to protect it, for gibbons proclaim their living space, rich in the foods needed by their growing young, with loud piercing duets. But when baby reaches its big brother's age it faces the dilemma common to adolescents the world over - when is it time to leave home?

Musical monkeys: page 31

Contributors

Producer:
Sarah Cunliffe

Third of six travel documentaries featuring leading writers and performers.

Juliet Stevenson crosses Morocco tracing the journey of one of her favourite authors, the wild and passionate Isabelle Eberhardt.
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(Stereo) (Subtitled)

Followed by Tales from the Quilt
Stories connected with the huge quilt made as a stunning tribute to those killed by Aids.

Contributors

Presenter:
Juliet Stevenson
Producer:
Celia Lowenstein
Series Producer:
Alan Bookbinder

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