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: B is for Body
(ages 14-16)

12.00 Job Bank: Telephone Engineer
(ages 14-19)

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

Contributors

Presenter (English File):
Alan Davies

1.10 The Antiques Show
Francine Stock goes in search of treasure troves.
(Repeat)

Then at 1.40 The Arts and Crafts Show
Caroline Righton meets a leather bookbinding expert, plus tips on how to repair a child's bedroom quilt.

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):
Caroline Righton

Sue Barker introduces more coverage from Melbourne as the Australian Open tournament commences day four. Last year, America's Williams sisters captured the headlines with their second-round clash, before Venus, at the age of 17, was defeated by compatriot Lindsay Davenport in the quarterfinals

Contributors

Presenter:
Sue Barker

Trafalgar Square was the venue for tens of thousands of revellers seeing in 1999. For dozens of consultants planning for next year's millennium mayhem, this was the last chance to monitor the crowds. Tom Symmonds reports.
(Subtitled)
(Regional Programme: see variations in panel on left)

Contributors

Reporter:
Tom Symmonds
Producer:
Neill Angier
Executive Producer:
John Samson

Juliet Morris takes a journey on the spectacular Settle to Carlisle railway, cutting through the Yorkshire Dales and into Cumbria's Eden Valley. And Fi Glover explores the Californian city of San Francisco.
(Digital widescreen) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Presenter:
Juliet Morris
Reporter:
Fi Glover
Producer:
Fiona O'Sullivan
Series Producer:
Karina Brennan

Archaeologist Julian Richards profiles ancient forebears using modern forensic techniques.

Last summer the skeletons of a woman and three young children were uncovered at a newly discovered stone-age temple in Dorset. The bones and teeth reveal the extraordinary tale of these Neolithic wanderers who may have made the ultimate sacrifice over 5,000 years ago.
See today's choices.
BBC Book: Meet the Ancestors by Julian Richards, from bookshops, price £17.99
Website: [web address removed]

Contributors

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

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

Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of all psychiatric illnesses, but it's a disease that has perplexed scientists, along with bulimia, for many years. Horizon examines some of the ground-breaking research into these eating disorders.
See today's choices.
(Digital widescreen)
BBC Video and Book: Fighting Fat, Fighting Fit video, £10.99, and book including health advice and recipes, £4.99
BBC Actionline: phone [number removed] for free and confidential help after the programme until midnight: Ceefax: page
Website: [web address removed]

Contributors

Producer:
Liesel Evans
Series Editor:
John Lynch

Tom Paulin, Allison Pearson and Ian Hislop join host Mark Lawson to review the Monet exhibition at the Royal Academy, and the film Hilary and Jackie, about the cellist Jacqueline du Pre.
(Mad about Monet is next Monday on BBC1)

Followed by Skiing Forecast

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Lawson
Panellist:
Tom Paulin
Panellist:
Allison Pearson
Panellist:
Ian Hislop
Series Producer:
Mark Bell
Editor:
Michael Poole

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 Hotel Hilbert
1.00 The 1997 Election: Traditions, Failures and Futures
(Subtitled)
1.30 Rousseau in Africa: Democracy in the Making

Further Education
2.00 Communication and Media

Creative Arts
4.00 Talent 2000

Teacher Training
5.00 Working Together: Foreign Language Assistants
5.30 Go Higher: Getting into Higher Education

Open University
5.45 Questions of National Identity
6.35-7.00am Designer Rides: The Jerk and the Jounce

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