Programme Index

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10.30 Storytime
(ages 4-5)

10.45 The Experimenter
(ages 7-9)

11.05 Space Ark
(ages 7-11)

11.15 Zig Zag
(ages 7-9)

11.35 Lifeschool: A is for Alcohol
(ages 14-16)

12.00 Job Bank: Laser Technician
(ages 14-19)

12.10 English File: The Globe Theatre: the Audience
with Alan Davies.
(ages 11-16)

Contributors

Presenter (English File):
Alan Davies

1.10 The Antiques Show
Francine Stock reports on the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair. Plus a look at classic caravans from the sixties.
(Repeat)

Then at 1.40 The Arts and Crafts Show
Novel ideas for creating storage space in a girl's bedroom plus new printing techniques. Presented by Will Hanrahan.

Videoplus code for 1.10-1.40pm
Code for 1.40-2.10pm
Code for 1.10-2.10pm (not PDC)

Contributors

Presenter (The Antiques Show):
Francine Stock
Presenter (The Arts and Crafts Show):
Will Hanrahan

Musical. Aspiring musician Edvard Grieg needs funds to continue his studies. A fellow student tries to convince her father to put up the money.
(1970, U)
See Films: pages 52-58 **

Contributors

Director:
Andrew L Stone
Edvard Grieg:
Toralv Maurstad
Nina Grieg:
Florence Henderson
Therese Berg:
Christina Schollin
Rikard Nordraak:
Frank Porretta

US science-fiction series.

The creation of Dr Link, Adam is a sophisticated and powerful robot. Yet one day he runs amok, leaving behind a trail of death and destruction.
(Repeat)

Contributors

Thurman Cutler:
Leonard Nimoy
Adam:
Jake McKinnon
Mina Link:
Cyndy Preston
Detective Barclay:
Eric Schneider

Is the high street, with its small shops and community spirit, becoming a rarity in the modern consumer world? The current-affairs series charts attempts by businesses to stem the spread of supermarket chains and asks if small can still be beautiful.
(Subtitled)
(Regional Programme: see variations in panel on left)

Contributors

Producer:
Ray Hough
Executive Producer:
John Samson

Juliet Morris heads east to Bali, the Indonesian island that is much more affordable than it once was. Simon Calder spends 48 hours in the Spanish city of Bilbao, a popular destination since the opening of the £65m Guggenheim Museum. And a family from Oxfordshire trades places with a Californian clan.
(Digital widescreen)
Holiday supplement: pp 67-82

Contributors

Presenter:
Juliet Morris
Reporter:
Simon Calder
Producer:
Fiona O'Sullivan
Series Producer:
Karina Brennan

Formidable modes of transport tried out by Jeremy Clarkson this week include the largest moving object ever made, the Jahre Viking supertanker. He also steps on board the 17,500mph space shuttle, and rides on a Class One off-shore powerboat capable of speeds of 150mph.
(Repeat)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeremy Clarkson
Producer:
Richard Pearson
Producer:
Andy Wilman

Archaeologist Julian Richards profiles ancient forebears using modern forensic techniques.

When developers dug up the car park behind a Winchester hotel, they turned up a Roman cemetery. Included in the find was a lead coffin containing a well-preserved skeleton.
See today's choices.
Website: [web address removed]
BBC Book: Meet the Ancestors by Julian Richards, from bookshops, price £17.99

Contributors

Presenter:
Julian Richards
Series Producer:
Ian Potts
Executive Producer:
Caroline van den Brul

The second in a new Horizon trilogy of documentaries on the nation's weight and health.

As the search goes on to find drugs with the power to cut down appetite by resetting control mechanisms in the brain, new research uncovers the powerful food ingredients that could win the slimming war.
See today's choices.
(Digital widescreen)
BBC video and book: Fighting Fat, Fighting Fit video, £10.99, and book including health advice and recipes, £5.99

Contributors

Producer:
Tessa Livingstone
Series Editor:
John Lynch

Author and historian Thomas Pakenham visits the huge Bowthorpe Oak in Lincolnshire.
(Repeat)

Then Suspended in Time
Mother Patricia Levin expresses her anger at missing her daughter's birth while in a coma.

Contributors

Presenter:
Thomas Pakenham
Producer:
Rob Payton
Executive Producer:
Clare Paterson
Speaker (Suspended in Time):
Patricia Levin

Tom Paulin, Tony Parsons and Germaine Greer join host Mark Lawson to review this week's cultural highlights, including Glamorama, the new novel by Bret Easton Ellis, and the RSC production of A Winter's Tale.

Followed by Skiing Forecast

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Lawson
Panellist:
Tom Paulin
Panellist:
Tony Parsons
Panellist:
Germaine Greer
Series Producer:
Mark Bell
Editor:
Michael Poole

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 A University without Walls
1.00 Lost Worlds
1.30 Making Contact

Further Education
2.00 English for Speakers of Other Languages

Creative Arts
4.00 Career Moves

Teacher Training
5.00 Central Bureau
5.30 Go Higher

Open University
5.45 Women, Children and Work
Child care.
6.35-7.00am Asthma and the Bean

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