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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: Weather - Seasons
(ages 7-9)

11.35 Lifeschool: H is for HIV
(ages 14-16)

12.00 Job Bank: Digital Media Developer
(ages 14-19)

12.10 English File: In Context - To Kill a Mockingbird
(ages 11-16)

Caroline Righton looks at the north Atlantic coast of France and Mireille Johnston discovers the cuisine of Brittany on the Cook's Tour of France.
(Repeat)

Contributors

Presenter:
Caroline Righton
Presenter (The Cook's Tour of France):
Mireille Johnston

Drama, inspired by actual events, starring Gena Rowlands, Tyne Daly

The well-heeled world of Pat Foster falls apart when her husband's sudden death destroys her financially. Pat then forms a bizarre friendship with a homeless woman.
(1991)
See Films: pages 56-62 ***

Then Comic Relief the Launch
Stars preview this year's Comic Relief charity campaign.
For fund-raising pack details see tomorrow's listing after Parkinson

Contributors

Director:
Claudia Weill
Unknown:
Gena Rowlands
Unknown:
Tyne Daly

Beginning another chance to see the first series from 1995.

Captain Picard arrives at Deep Space Nine, a space station wrecked by its former occupiers, the Cardassians.
(Repeat)

Contributors

Commander Benjamin Sisko:
Avery Brooks
Odo:
Rene Auberjonois
Major Kira Nerys:
Nana Visitor
Chief O'Brien:
Colm Meaney
Dr Julian Bashir:
Siddig Elfadil
Jadzia Dax:
Terry Farrell
Quark:
Armin Shimerman
Jean-Luc Picard:
Patrick Stewart
Kai Opaka:
Camille Saviola

Despite popular protest, the days of London's world famous Routemaster double-decker buses and the conductors that run them are finally numbered. For many, it's not just a bus but a social service that will be lost.
This report joins commuters and crews aboard one of the buses' busiest, most colourful routes.
Subtitled
Regional programme: see variations in panel on left

Contributors

Producer:
Ian Lilley
Executive producer:
John Samson

Juliet Morris seeks winter sun on the island of Jerba, off the Tunisian coast, and goes on a desert safari in the northern Sahara. Jim White and his family take a 48-hour break in the Irish city of Cork. A couple from the Isle of Skye exchange homes with two people from Cape Town, South Africa.
(Digital widescreen)

Contributors

Presenter:
Juliet Morris
Reporter:
Jim White
Producer:
Fiona O'Sullivan
Series Producer:
Karina Brennan

Jeremy Clarkson shoots the rapids in New Zealand aboard a 100 mph jet boat, enthuses about the world's finest model Ferrari, and watches B-52 bombers being destroyed at the US Air Force "graveyard", resting place of 5,000 war planes in Arizona.
(Repeat)

Contributors

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

Archaeologist Julian Richards profiles our ancient forebears using modern forensic techniques.

When Jill and Brian Bushnell wanted to build a garage for their bungalow near Salisbury in Wiltshire, it emerged that their property was built over the site of a graveyard dating from the fifth and sixth centuries. The skeleton of a man was recovered and tests began to find out whether he was a Saxon or a native Briton.
See today's choices.

BBC Book: Meet the Ancestors by Julian Richards, from retailers, price £17.99 Website: [web address removed]
House of the Dead: page 7

Contributors

Presenter:
Julian Richards
Interviewee:
Jill Bushnell
Interviewee:
Brian Bushnell
Series Producer:
Ian Potts
Executive Producer:
Caroline van Den Brul

Doctors fear that one day the influenza virus will mutate to become as lethal as the so-called Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, which killed up to 50 million people worldwide. Science has never identified the virus and no one knows why it was so deadly. But last year an expedition of experts journeyed to the Arctic Circle to to exhume the graves of seven victims of the 1918 flu in the hope of solving the mystery.
See today's choices.

Contributors

Series Editor:
John Lynch

Mark Lawson is joined by Tom Paulin, Natasha Walter and Diane Roberts to review this week's cultural highlights including Hideous Kinky, the new film starring Kate Winslet.

Followed by Skiing Forecast

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Lawson
Panellist:
Tom Paulin
Panellist:
Natasha Walter
Panellist:
Diane Roberts
Series producer:
Mark Bell
Editor:
Michael Poole

Repeats are not indicated.

Open University
12.30 A University without Walls
1.00 Hard Rock Cafe
1.30 Looking at What Happens in Hospital

Further Education
2.00 Hospitality and Catering
a study of the industry.

Languages
4.00 The French Experience 17-20
(with subtitles)

Teacher Training
5.00 Central Bureau: Teaching with Foreign Languages: Part 1
5.30 The Bridge: Leaving Primary School

Open University
5.45 Valued Environments, Environmental Values
6.35-7.00am A Different Way of Learning

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