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' Drama starring Loretta Young Veteran editor Grace Guthrie has spent a lifetime building up the reputation of her fashion magazine, but her work is put in jeopardy as an abrasive young executive arrives on the scene.
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Contributors

Editor:
Grace Guthrie
Director:
Peter Levin

In his message for the Jewish New Year, Chief Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks visits the Middle East and asks if belief in God brings peace or war.

(Repeated at 11.35pm on BBC1) (Stereo)

Contributors

Presenter:
Dr Jonathan Sacks
Producer:
John Kirby

Jancis Robinson continues her series exploring the relationship between ourselves and what we eat.

This programme investigates how the supermarkets balance the running of lucrative businesses with providing the nation with good quality, healthy food. Do shoppers take enough responsibility for what they eat - or have they relinquished it to the food retailers?

Contributors

Presenter:
Jancis Robinson
Producer:
David Akerman
Executive Producer:
Jane Ellison

Country and traditional singers and instrumentalists from Scotland, Ireland and North America in performance on Scotland's west coast. Hosted by fiddle players Aly Bain and Jay Ungar and featuring US singer Emmylou Harris.

(First shown on BBC Scotland) (Stereo) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Fiddler/Presenter:
Aly Bain
Fiddler/Presenter:
Jay Ungar
Singer:
Emmylou Harris
Producer:
Mike Alexander
Producer:
Douglas Eadie

In tonight's edition, Tiff Needell gets behind the wheel of a 200mph dragster. Jeremy Clarkson compares the new Nissan Skyline coupe with the original, which he reckons is one of the best cars he has ever driven, and Quentin Willson evaluates the Citroen Saxo.

Contributors

Presenter:
Tiff Needell
Presenter:
Jeremy Clarkson
Presenter:
Quentin Willson
Producer:
John Wilcox
Series Producer:
Jon Bentley

The series ends with a look at a group of women in San Francisco who want to pass as men. To achieve this, they inject themselves with male hormones and, in spite of the risks, are delighted with the changes in their bodies.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Executive Producer:
Jonathan Drori
Series Producer:
Hilary Clarke

Drama about how the onset of schizophrenia affects 19-year-old Ian and those who love him.
(First shown as part of the States of Mind season)
(Repeat)

Followed by Video Nation Shorts

Contributors

Writer:
Joe Penhall
Producer:
Richard Fell
Director:
Mike Barker
Ian:
Andrew Lancel
Mum:
Anita Dobson
Dad:
Tim Woodward
Samantha:
Nicola Stephenson

Host Mark Lawson, Germaine Greer, and Tony Parsons discuss Beryl Bainbridge's novel Every Man for Himself and the film of John Grisham's thriller Time to Kill.

Followed by Weatherview

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Lawson
Panellist:
Germaine Greer
Panellist:
Tony Parsons
Series Producer:
Mary Sackville
Editor:
Michael Poole

Open University
12.30 Developing World
(Repeat)
1.00 Childbirth and Contraception
(Repeat)
1.30 Modern Art
(Repeat)

Summer Nights
2.00 The Art of Craft Essentials
(Repeat)

Business and Work
4.00 Business Matters
(Repeat)
4.30 Business Matters
(Repeat) (Subtitled)
5.00 A Force to Be Reckoned With
(Repeat)
5.30 The Business
(Repeat)

Open University
6.00 Cell Biology
(Repeat)
6.25 Hardwick Hall
(Repeat)
6.50 The Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice
(Repeat)

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