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

10.45 The Experimenter: Plants and Animals: The Alien Tree
(ages 7-9)

11.05 Space Ark: Plants and Animals: Inside Plants
(ages 7-11)

11.15 Zig Zag: Geography: Kenya
(ages 7-9)

11.35 English File: Shakespeare Shorts
(ages 11-14)

11.55 Lifeschool: Q is for Queen
(ages 14+)

12.20 Showcase

The new Toyota Avensis enters a fiercely competitive market where sales reps and families are the main customers. Jeremy Clarkson asks whether the Avensis is good enough to win a share of this sector, and looks at the other contenders. And Vicki Butler-Henderson tries out the Peugeot 106 Rallye.
(Repeated on Saturday in Menzone)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeremy Clarkson
Presenter:
Vicki Butler-Henderson
Producer:
Chris Richards
Editor:
Jon Bentley

Following a year in the life of Tesco and its Banbury store.

May 1997: as the country goes to the polls, new chief executive Terry Leahy prepares to take over from chairman Lord MacLaurin. The advertising department tries to tap into the Zeitgeist by basing its campaigns on political slogans, while dry-goods manager Norman Green is looking towards an interview for a management job with the company's Hungarian arm.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Subject:
Terry Leahy
Subject:
Norman Green
Director:
Robert Letts
Series Producer:
Jill Nicholls

Dr Graeme Mather dedicated his entire working life to proving that clouds could be made to rain through human intervention.
After 30 years of searching, he believed he had achieved the breakthrough that could end droughts.
See today's choices.
(Postponed from 19 February) (Stereo) (Subtitled)
Web Site: [web address removed]

Contributors

Subject:
Dr Graeme Mather
Series Editor:
John Lynch

Madonna's first album in three years, Ray of Light, comes under consideration as Mark Lawson is joined by Tom Paulin, Suzanne Moore and Thomas Sutcliffe to review the week's main cultural highs and lows.
(Stereo)

Followed by Skiing Forecast

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Lawson
Panellist:
Tom Paulin
Panellist:
Suzanne Moore
Panellist:
Thomas Sutcliffe
Series Producer:
Janet Lee
Editor:
Michael Poole

Open University
12.30 Housing: Business as Usual
1.00 From a Different Shore: An American Identity

Further Education
2.00 Working with Others
Developing team skills.

Teaching Film and Media
4.00 Film Education: Anastasia - Searching for History
4.30 Film Education: Fairytale

Teacher Training
5.00 Central Bureau
5.30 Teaching Today: Special 8

Open University
5.45 One Fact, Many Facets
6.10-7.00am Lifestyles, Work and the Family

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