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10.30 Storytime: Stanley in the Dark/Reflections
(ages 4-5) (Stereo)

10.45 Teaching Today: Materials: Does It Hold Water?
(Stereo)

11.15 In Living Memory: Struggle
(ages 14-18)

11.35 Landmarks: Pakistan and Its People - Introduction to Pakistan
(ages 9-12) (Stereo) (Subtitled)

11.55 Techno: Food - Travel Food
(ages 11-14) (Stereo)

12.15 Quinze Minutes Plus: Au College
(ages 11-13)

Esther Rantzen talks to mothers and their partners about postnatal depression and the reluctance of many women to discuss the subject. Guests include actress
Denise Welch.

Contributors

Presenter:
Esther Rantzen
Guest:
Denise Welch

A university education used to be the preserve of a privileged minority, but now further education courses are more widely available. Over recent months, First Sight has been following Dr Mike Fitzgerald, the colourful vice chancellor of Thames Valley University, where history and law are taught alongside rock music and catering.

A phone-in follows immediately after the programme on BBC Radios Kent, Thames Valley FM and GLR.
If you would like to take part, call [number removed].
(Regional Programme: see variations below)

Contributors

Subject:
Dr Mike Fitzgerald
Producer:
John Barnes
Editor:
Alison Rooper

In the first of four programmes in which people talk frankly about business and managerial misjudgements former Milk Marketing Board chairman Sir Stephen Roberts discusses the dairy industry's failure to capitalise on the successful launch of Lymeswold cheese. The Catholic Herald's former editor Harry Coen describes how an article created a furore, and toy executive Bryan Ellis explains how he came to turn down the opportunity to manufacture Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Contributors

Interviewee:
Sir Stephen Roberts
Interviewee:
Harry Coen
Interviewee:
Bryan Ellis
Producer:
Nick Mirsky

Jeremy Clarkson assesses the flood of sports cars that have recently appeared on the market and decides which one should be top of an enthusiast's shopping list. Quentin Willson provides a guide to the second-hand BMW market for those wanting to get the most value from the 3 series.

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Contributors

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

A new series of Horizon on Thursday evenings begins with an update on the progress of young Thai orphans Dao and Duan, Siamese twin sisters whose separation was documented in an Emmy Award-winning edition shown in 1995.

See today's choices.
(Revised repeat) (Stereo)

Contributors

Producer:
Jon Palfreman
Series Editor:
John Lynch

Mark Lawson is joined by the literary and fiction editor of "The New Yorker" Bill Buford, Tom Paulin and Allison Pearson to discuss the week's cultural highlights, including the film version of Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible", starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder.

(Stereo)

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Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Lawsori
Panellist:
Bill Buford
Panellist:
Tom Paulin
Panellist:
Allison Pearson
Series Producer:
Mary Sackville West
Editor:
Michael Poole

Open University
12.30 Imagining New Worlds
A journey in Mexico.
(Repeat) (Subtitled)
1.00 Out of the Melting Pot
(Repeat)

FETV Short Cuts
2.00 Newsfile
Current affairs.

Languages
4.00 Suenos - World Spanish

Business and Work
5.00 The Small Business Programme
(Repeat)
20 Steps to Better Management - the Drama
(Repeat)
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Open University
6.00 Looking at What Happens in Hospital
(Repeat)
6.25 Using TV
(Repeat)

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