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10.30 Storytime: Ella and the Rabbit
(ages 4-5)

10.45 The Experimenter: Types of Materials - XP's New Shorts
(ages 7-9)

11.05 Space Ark: People - Types of Materials
(ages 7-11)

11.15 Zig Zag: Tudor Life: Food - Housewife's Story
(ages 7-9)

11.35 Turning Points: Alcohol Misuse - Emma's Story
(ages 11-13)

12.00 Job Bank: Hotel Worker
(ages 14-19)

12.10 English File: Shakespeare Shorts - A Midsummer Night's Dream
(ages 11-16)

Bob Langley takes a look at the wildlife that inhabits Robin Hood's Bay on the northern Yorkshire coast. There Roger Key uncovers some cliff-top beetles, while woodsman Jim Waterson assesses the sycamore

Contributors

Presenter:
Bob Langley
Reporter:
Roger Key
Reporter:
Jim Waterson

Twenty years on from the birth of the first test-tube baby, Lowri Turner talks to women about the latest infertility treatments and the extraordinary lengths to which they have been prepared to go to in order to conceive.
(Subtitled)

Contributors

Presenter:
Lowri Turner

Just 15 when he committed suicide, Michael had appeared to be a happy, popular boy and his death was totally unexpected by those who knew and loved him. His case is not unique. With children as young as five making attempts to take their lives, tonight's programme asks why suicide could soon become the leading cause of death among young people.
(Regional Programme: see variations in panel on left)

Contributors

Producer:
Neill Angier
Executive Producer:
John Samson

This last programme of the current series explores the future of computers in aviation - will they be able to cope with the so-called Millennium Bug?
Fenella George flies over the South Seas and Julian Tutt takes a trip in the Bell 47 Sioux, the helicopter that revolutionised front-line medical support in the Korean war.

Contributors

Presenter:
Fenella George
Presenter:
Julian Tutt
Executive Producer:
Peter Hylton Cleaver

Alfa Romeo are hoping to put past design problems behind them with their new saloon models. Tiff Needell test-drives the latest offering-the Executive Express-which goes on sale in Britain early next year and replaces the much-loved, if slightly quirky, 164.
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Contributors

Presenter:
Tiff Needell
Producer:
Chris Richards
Editor:
Jon Bentley

For 30 years scientist John Ostrom has asserted that birds evolved from predatory dinosaurs - a theory that has been hotly disputed. Tonight's documentary looks at recently discovered fossils of feathered dinosaurs in China, which could validate Ostrom's argument, and uses computer animation to bring the velociraptor and archaeopteryx back to life.
See today's choices.
Wallace and Gromit's Pick of the Week: page 42

Contributors

Producer:
Andrew Thompson
Series Editor:
John Lynch

Continuing the series of profiles about wine-trade aficionados, presented by Jancis Robinson.

In 1966 he became the first auctioneer of wine at Christie's and now, at 70, he travels the world, writing, lecturing and tasting wine.

Contributors

Presenter:
Jancis Robinson
Subject:
Michael Broadbent
Producer:
David F Turnbull
Executive Producer:
Edward Mirzoeff
Executive Producer:
Nicholas Lander

Tom Paulin, Germaine Greer and Ekow Eshun join Mark Lawson to review Jim Carrey's new film The Truman Show and Jane Smiley's novel The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidia Newton.

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Lawson
Panellist:
Tom Paulin
Panellist:
Germaine Greer
Panellist:
Ekow Eshun
Producer:
Mark Bell
Editor:
Michael Poole

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The Leisure Site
A selection of programmes to entertain as well as educate.
12.30 Personal Passions
12.45 The Celebrated Cyfarthfa Band
1.15 Cyberart
1.20 Bajourou - Music of Mali (Subtitled)
1.50 Open Late

Further Education
2.00 Art and Design

Teaching Film and Media
4.00 Film Education: The Truman Show
4.30 Film Education: Mulan

Teacher Training
5.00 Windows on the World
5.30 Go Higher: 3

Open University
5.45 Quality Care
6.10-7.00am Just in Time?

BBC Two England

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