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Mike Fanning lost his livelihood, his home and his family when the effects of the civil war in Yugoslavia wrecked his import/export business. He slipped from low-paid labour into long-term unemployment, poverty and homelessness before slowly rebuilding his life.
(Stereo) (Subtitled)
(Postponed from 13 August)

Contributors

Subject:
Mike Fanning
Producer:
Mike MacCormack
Executive Producer:
Debbie Christie

Since the revolution and subsequent American trade embargo, spare parts for cars have been a rarity in Cuba, forcing the people to display remarkable ingenuity.
Jeremy Clarkson meets a couple who cook up brake fluid and make their own car bonnet.
(Repeat) (Stereo)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeremy Clarkson
Director:
Dennis Jarvis

Juliet Morris sees the rugged beauty of the Peloponnese, a formerly inaccessible mainland peninsula in Greece now reachable by plane.
Simon Calder and Fi Glover explore the Scottish island of Mull on contrasting budgets. And an unmarried Londoner forgoes a holiday in the sun for a group trip to the wilds of Iceland.

Contributors

Presenter:
Juliet Morris
Presenter:
Simon Calder
Presenter:
Fi Glover
Series producer:
Andrea Michell

The interior-design challenge programme. Three dentists and a doctor - all based in Sheffield - swap their white coats for overalls and attempt to transform each others' homes under the guidance of designers Linda Barker and Graham Wynne, and carpenter Andy Kane.

Contributors

Designer:
Linda Barker
Designer:
Graham Wynne
Carpenter:
Andy Kane
Presenter:
Carol Smillie
Director:
Nick Vaughan-Barratt
Producer:
Ann Hill

Jonathan Miller runs a series of six workshops in which he aims to make opera more accessible to the general public. He begins by analysing the ensemble.
See today's choices.
Andrew Duncan interviews Jonathan Miller: page 14

Followed by Weatherview

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Miller
Director:
Patrick Uden

Open University
12.30 Mining for Science
1.00 Mantegna The Triumphs of Caesar
1.30 Greenberg on Art Criticism

Summer Nights
2.00 The Art of Craft: Collections 1: Handmade

BBC Focus
4.00 Italia 2000
(Rpt)
4.30 Royal Institute Discourse
5.30 RCN Nursing Update: Unit 73 - the MRSA superbug

Open University
6.00 Richard II: Politics, Patriotism and Authority
6.25 Chardin and the Still Life
(Rpt)
6.50-7.15am King Cotton's Palace

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