Programme Index

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10.30 Watch: Ourselves - Me and My Friends
(ages 5-7)

10.45 Science Zone: Types of Material - Criminal Solutions
(ages 9-11)

11.05 Space Ark: Types of Materials - Water in the Home
(ages 7-11)

11.15 Megamaths: Three Times
(ages 7-9) (Subtitled)

11.35 Watch: Music - the Songcatcher: The Shell
(ages 5-7)

11.50 History File: Black Peoples of the Americas
(ages 11-13)

12.10 Belief File - Issues: Belief and Abortion
(ages 14-19)

Jayne Middlemiss and Jamie Theakston with the latest pop news. This week Bjork shows off her home town of Reykjavik in Iceland and the Beastie Boys are shown on tour in San Francisco.

Contributors

Presenter:
Jayne Middlemiss
Presenter:
Jamie Theakston
Guest:
null Bjork
Subjects:
The Beastie Boys
Executive Producer:
Paul Smith
Producer:
Angela Ferreira

The education consumer magazine looks at the current obsession with target-setting and asks if children are being put under excessive pressure simply to improve the status of their school. Plus an investigation into the use of genetically modified food in school canteens.
Presented by Martin Bashir.

Contributors

Presenter:
Martin Bashir
Senior Producer:
Hilary Rosen
Series Producer:
Sandy Smith

Christopher Sykes visits Hilton Park in County Monaghan, Ireland, the home of the Madden family for over 200 years. Today the house is a hotel renowned for its food, the key ingredients of which come from its lake and its 18th-century herb garden.
Sykes helps to prepare a meal of soda bread, pike quenelles and a potato, cheese and herb terrine, finishing with the castle puddings of his childhood.

Contributors

Presenter:
Christopher Sykes
Director:
Richard Lightbody
Producer:
Caroline Turner

The first of ten programmes in which Delia Smith demonstrates the basics of good cooking.

This week's edition concentrates on eggs, from boiling, poaching and scrambling them to using them in such recipes as egg and lentil curry and wild mushroom tartlet with poached quail's eggs.
See today's choices.
Cracking the art of eggs: page 44

Contributors

Presenter/Cook:
Delia Smith
Series Producer:
David Willcock
Director:
John Silver

It is accepted in American history that the Pilgrim Fathers were a group of religious separatists who founded the first permanent colony at Plymouth, Massachusetts, after sailing to the New World to avoid oppression. As tonight's programme reveals, not only were the Pilgrims not the first European immigrants to America, but their journey very nearly ended in disaster and initial attempts to establish a colony were met with death from exposure, disease and starvation.

Contributors

Series Editor:
Laurence Rees
Producer:
Jonathan Gill

A dramatised documentary exploring the implications of the millennium on computer-based technology, as software in many computers will be unable to recognise the year 2000.
Unless steps are taken, a huge man-made disaster could result.
(Repeat)
Factsheet: phone [number removed] (calls cost 50p per minute)
Website: [web address removed]

Contributors

Director:
Nigel Levy
Executive Producer:
Bryn Higgins

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open Science
Selected programmes exploring different aspects of science.
12.30 Earth and Life - above the Volcano
1.00 Rocky Shores: Life on the Edge
1.30 The True Geometry of Nature
(Subtitled)

Schools
2.00 Special Needs

Languages
4.00 Espana Viva 9-10
(Subtitled)

Business and Training
5.00 Career Moves: 18

Open University
5.45 The Restless Pump
6.10 Duccio: the Rucellai Madonna
(Subtitled)
6.35-7.00am Virtual Democracy

BBC Two England

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