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10.30 Storytime: Lullabyhullabaloo!
(ages 4-5)

10.45 The Experimenter: Forces - on Your Bike
(ages 7-9)

11.05 Space Ark: Forces - Transport Safety
(ages 7-11) (Stereo)

11.15 Moving to English: Thomas Edison and the Light Bulb
(age 8) (Stereo)

11.35 Landmarks: Britain since 1930 - the Hungry Thirties?
(ages 9-12) (Subtitled)

12.00 Testament: the Bible in Animation: Abraham
(ages 7-13)

Contributors

Writer (Testament):
Nigel Forde

In the second of three special editions focusing on election issues, First Sight asks three famous Londoners for their future vision of the capital. Will commuter chaos deteriorate? Will the gap widen between the haves and the have-nots? Does London need a new authority? Mike Embley chairs a debate with leading party candidates from the South East.

A phone-in follows immediately after the programme on BBC Radios Kent, GLR,
Southern Counties and Thames Valley FM. To take part, call [number removed]. (Regional Programme: see variations in panel on left)

Contributors

Chair:
Mike Embley
Producer:
Rosamund Jones
Editor:
Alison Rooper

Chef Ken Hom visits Chichester, West Sussex, to cook Thai-style prawns with lemon grass for actress Jean Boht and her husband, the composer Carl Davis. In Newcastle he prepares Cantonese-style chicken wings with oysters for a team of ice hockey players and meets John Cleese on the Jersey set of his latest film Fierce Creatures.
(Repeat) (Stereo) (Subtitled)

Followed by Video Nation Election Shorts

Contributors

Presenter/Chef:
Ken Hom
Guest:
Jean Boht
Guest:
Carl Davis
Guest:
John Cleese
Series Producer:
Kate Kinninmont

In the Swinging Sixties Roger Moore cruised the streets of London as The Saint in his white Volvo P1800. Will the new C70 coupe turn heads in the nineties in the same way? Quentin Wilson visits America to find out. Plus, Jeremy Clarkson drives a limited edition Vauxhall Vectra, a £27,000 road-going version of the British
Touring Car championship model.
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Contributors

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

In a London hospital a man's cancer is held at bay by injecting it with bacteria. In an American laboratory a mouse thrives with a rat's heart beating inside it. These experiments are part of a revolution in modern medicine. The movement's chief proponent is Polly Matzinger, who tells Horizon the story of her unusual life, and the inspiration behind her idea for the Danger Model - the result of her belief that the body's immune system responds to danger and not simply foreign bodies.

Contributors

Subject:
Polly Matzinger
Producer:
Michael Mosley
Series Editor:
John Lynch

Tony Parsons, Tom Paulin and Alison Pearson join host Mark Lawson to discuss the week's cultural highlights, including the Woody Allen film Everyone Says I Love You and the play Tom and Clem at the Aldwych Theatre, London.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Lawson
Panellist:
Tony Parsons
Panellist:
Tom Paulin
Panellist:
Alison Pearson
Series Producer:
Mary Sackville West
Editor:
Michael Poole

Two animations in which dancers move to music by Monteverdi and Ravel. Bolero, by Mario Cavalli, uses computer-generated images, while Klaartje Schrijvers's Chiome d'Oro, is a hand-painted animation.

Followed by Weatherview

Contributors

Director (Bolero):
Mario Cavalli
Director (Chiome d'Oro):
Klaartje Schrijvers

Open University
12.30am Insights into Violence
(Repeat)
1.00 Just in Time?
(Repeat) (Stereo)

FETV
2.00 Application of Number

Languages
4.00 Speaking Our Language 1 and 2; Famously Fluent 1 and 2

Business and Work
5.00 The Small Business Programme
(Repeat)
20 Steps to Better Management - the Drama
(Repeat)

Open University
6.00 The North Sea
(Repeat)
6.25-7.15am Environment
(Repeat)

Learning Zone Guide: [number removed]

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