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6.15 Pure Maths: Reflecting on Conies

6.40 Maths Methods: Newton's Law of Motion

7.05 Maths: Trigonometric Formulas

7.30 Introduction to Psychology: Two Research Styles

7.55 The Enlightenment: Reason and Progress

8.20 Learning for All: Under the Walnut Tree
(Subtitled)

8.45 TV - the Technological impact

Comedy and entertainment show. The Pineapple
Chunks go on a blind date and, in Weird
News, Ken Mansfield is off in search of the Loch Ness monster. Plus, in the comic soap opera I Hate This House, David is persuaded to record a pop song.

Contributors

Unknown:
Ken Mansfield

The series from 1983.
Jonah tries to help with a ballot on flexi-time. With Lee Sparke ,
Alison Bettles , Nadia Chambers, Mark Burdis , Mark Baxter , Peter Moran and Lisa East.
Written by Barry Purchese

Contributors

Unknown:
Lee Sparke
Unknown:
Alison Bettles
Unknown:
Mark Burdis
Unknown:
Mark Baxter
Unknown:
Peter Moran
Unknown:
Lisa East.
Written By:
Barry Purchese

Highlights of the Pilkington Cup quarter-finals. Cup-holders Bath are at home against Northampton, last year's runners-up Leicester are away to Sale, Harlequins face Wakefield and Wasps play Exeter. Plus a look ahead to next Saturday's internationals: Ireland v France, and Scotland v Wales. Presented by John Inverdale.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Presenter:
John Inverdale
Editor:
Gerard Lane

Ocean Drifters
The open ocean is a mysterious world teeming with remarkable life-forms. This programme, photographed by Rodger Jackman , follows the journey of a baby loggerhead turtle from the Florida beach where it hatches, out into the Atlantic. It drifts in the Sargasso Sea then is swept along on the Gulf
Stream, where it encounters strange, transparent planktonic creatures and jellyfish - part of the ocean's web of life, the floaters and the swimmers. Narrated by Tony Soper. Executive producer John Sparks

Contributors

Unknown:
Rodger Jackman
Unknown:
Tony Soper.
Producer:
John Sparks

Last of a seven-part series for independent travellers. South of France
Magenta DeVine and Simon O'Brien look into racism and rap in Marseilles. They hook up with the cowboys of the Camargue, and in Antibes, resort of the rich and famous, find out how to get aboard one of the £20 million yachts.
In Nice, Magenta has dinnerwith some canine companions, and Simon unearths a racketeering problem in the playgrounds - so serious that the National Guard has been called in. Producer Rod Parker ; Series producer Clare Pizey

Contributors

Unknown:
Magenta Devine
Unknown:
Simon O'Brien
Producer:
Rod Parker

Britain's £460 billion personal finance business has traditionally rested in the hands of well-known life companies, but mis-selling scandals have left the reputations of many big names in tatters. Now they are under fresh attack as Richard Branson and others start selling financial products direct to the customer.
David Frank investigates whether direct selling will now become the norm. Plus, in a report postponed from 12 February, Tom Maddocks looks at the increase in the counterfeiting of banknotes and what the financial authorities are doing to fight the forgers.
Presented by Francine Stock.
Transcript: for a transcript of this programme, price £20.00, please write to: [address removed] (Telephone [number removed])

Contributors

Presenter:
Francine Stock
Reporter:
David Frank
Reporter:
Tom Maddocks
Producer:
Alison Turner
Editor:
Jane Ellison

As Pret-a-Porter opens in Britain, Moving Pictures asks director Robert Altman whether he is going out of style. Plus
Mel Gibson reveals his passion for
Beethoven with his production of Immortal Beloved, and there's a look atthefilm version of Michael Crichton 's novel Disclosure. Crichton's
Westworld is shown at 11.00pm. Presented by Howard Schuman. See today's choices.
Series director Michael Martin ; Series editor
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Contributors

Director:
Robert Altman
Unknown:
Mel Gibson
Unknown:
Michael Crichton
Presented By:
Howard Schuman.
Director:
Michael Martin

A review of the week's events in the trial of the American football star OJ Simpson. Presenter Sue Ellicott follows the evidence and arguments in court and discusses new developments in the case which, according to the judge, Lance Ito, is putting on trial the US criminal justice system itself.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sue Ellicott
Defendant:
OJ Simpson
Judge:
Lance Ito
Series Producer:
Janey Walker

Second of a four-part documentary series investigating what drove the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
In 1949 Europe was divided by the barbed wire and minefields of the Iron Curtain. But for Stalin there were new horizons to the east in recently-founded communist China. Eyewitnesses describe the one and only meeting between Mao Tse-tung and Stalin, and reveal how the fierce rivalry between their two countries turned them from allies into enemies in just ten years.

Contributors

Series Director/Producer:
Daniel Wolf

Thriller starring Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin and James Brolin
The futuristic holiday resort of Delos, with its three theme-park "worlds", offers its clients anything they want. For $1,000 a day, they can even kill - and they can do it over and over again. But in this fantasy world of robots, things begin to go terrifyingly wrong. (1973) FILM REVIEWS pages 45-52

Contributors

Director:
Michael Crichton
Gunslinger:
Yul Brynner
Peter Martin:
Richard Benjamin
John Blane:
James Brolin
Medieval knight:
Norman Bartold
Chief supervisor:
Alan Oppenheimer
Medieval queen:
Victoria Shaw
Banker:
Dick van Patten
Ariette:
Linda Scott
Miss Carrie:
Majel Barrett

A comedy fantasy. The ghost of an old Italian New Yorker returns to try to seduce his grandson's girlfriend.
Written and directed by PJ Pesce Stereo..

Contributors

Directed By:
Pj Pesce
Grandpa Valenti:
Matteo Cannizzaro
Vinny Valenti:
Frank Vincent
Heather Juergensen:
Kelly White
Michael Valenti:
Pj Pesce

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