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10.30 Storytime: I Want My Dinner/Food
(ages 4-5) (Stereo)

10.45 The Experimenter: Light and Sound - Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
(ages 7-9)

11.05 Space Ark: Light and Sound: Communications
(ages 7-11)

11.15 In Living Memory: Kill or Cure
(ages 14-18)

11.35 Landmarks: Pakistan and Its People - the Swat Valley
(ages 9-12) (Stereo) (Subtitled)

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

12.15 Quinze Minutes Plus: Les Loisirs
(ages 11-13)

Esther Rantzen hears from people who will go to extraordinary lengths to save money. Her guests include a woman who uses old scraps of material to make underwear for her husband.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Presenter:
Esther Rantzen

For a growing number of children in inner cities exclusion from school has become a fast track to a life of crime.
Lennox Lewis, a Hackney boy, escaped this fate to become a world champion boxer and 18 months ago he donated £1 million to set up a college for young people. Henry Bonsu reports on an experiment giving a chance to those society has deemed out of control.

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Contributors

Reporter:
Henry Bonsu
Producer:
David Stevenson
Editor:
Alison Rooper

The series in which people talk frankly about business and managerial misjudgements. Former British Rail chairman Sir Peter Parker recalls the humiliating launch of the Advanced Passenger Train, which was nicknamed the Queasy Rider after passengers complained of travel sickness. Boxing promoter Frank Warren tells the story of his costly involvement with a multipurpose arena in London's Docklands criticised for being inaccessible.

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Contributors

Interviewee:
Sir Peter Parker
Interviewee:
Frank Warren
Producer:
Nick Mirsky

For thousands of sales reps travelling up and down the country a company car can often feel like a second home. Tiff Needell tests the comfort of the Mondeo and the Vectra and discovers how it feels to spend hours in a fleet car everyday. Quentin Willson reports on the startling statistic that over a million people are driving without insurance.

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Contributors

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

Thirty years after public fear led to a ban on research trials involving psychedelic drugs, scientists in America have struggled to make research on LSD respectable again. The potential for science is great, but the use of psychedelic drugs among US high-school leavers is increasing.

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Contributors

Producer:
Bill Eagles
Series Editor:
John Lynch

Crime writer Mike Phillips, Germaine Greer, Jim White and Mark Lawson discuss Tim Burton's film Mars Attacks!
(Stereo)

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Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Lawson
Panellist:
Mike Phillips
Panellist:
Germaine Greer
Panellist:
Jim White
Series Producer:
Mary Sackville West
Editor:
Michael Poole

Open University
12.30 Athens
(Repeat) (Stereo)
1.00 The Enlightenment
(Repeat)
1.30 Cultures of the Walkman

FETV Short Cuts
2.00 Effective Communication

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 Two Research Styles
(Repeat)
6.25 Looking at What Happens in Hospital
(Repeat)
6.50 Forecasting the Economy
(Repeat)

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