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10.30 Storytime
(ages 4-5)

10.45 Teaching Today: Electricity - Does It Work?

11.15 Zig Zag: Weather - World Weather
(ages 7-9)

11.35 Pathways of Belief: Islam
(ages 7-9)

11.50 Job Bank: Design and Technology Teacher
(ages 14-19) (Subtitled)

12.00 Job Bank: Beauty Therapist
(ages 14-19)

12.10 English File: In Context - Of Mice and Men
(ages 11-16)

Mireille Johnston looks at the countryside of the Dordogne and Perigord regions as she continues the Cook's Tour of France, and Caroline Righton delves into the BBC archive and picks out the best in travel, food, history and culture.
(Repeat)

Contributors

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

The African savannah is home to the ground hornbill, a comical looking bird which has a thundering call. The birds hunt in packs, stalking the savannah for snakes, hares and tortoises, but they also have a gentle side - they are sociable, form tight family units, play together and continually treat each other with affection.
(Repeat)

Live cove rage of the first quarter-final in the 25th Masters from Wembley Conference Centre. The winners of this knockout stage progress to the final four and a guaranteed cheque of at least £40,000. Introduced by David Vine, with commentary by Clive Everton, Ray Edmonds, John Virgo and Dennis Taylor.
(Digital widescreen)

Contributors

Presenter:
David Vine
Commentary:
Clive Everton
Commentary:
Ray Edmonds
Commentary:
John Virgo
Commentary:
Dennis Taylor

Wembley Conference Centre should entertain a capacity crowd of 2,700 tonight for the start of the second quarter-final of the 25th Masters. Introduced by David Vine.
(Digital widescreen)

Contributors

Presenter:
David Vine
Commentary:
Clive Everton
Commentary:
Ray Edmonds
Commentary:
John Virgo
Commentary:
Dennis Taylor

Not all fox hunters ride horses and race around the countryside with horns and packs of dogs.
Some use their guns to kill their prey on city streets and in suburban gardens. This week's report asks if the thousands of foxes living in the suburbs should be viewed as pests.
(Subtitled)
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Contributors

Producer:
Karen Ruka
Executive Producer:
John Samson

To coincide with the release of the latest airfares and hotel prices relating to breaks for the turn of the millennium, this final episode in the series looks at the best places in the world to spend the new-year countdown, including New York, the Mediterranean and the Thailand island paradise of Phuket. The series will return in the summer.
(Digital widescreen)

Contributors

Producer:
Fiona O'Sullivan
Series Producer:
Karina Brennan

In the last of this repeated series, Jeremy Clarkson climbs aboard a spectacular yacht, inspects a Swedish Stealth warship, races locals in swamp buggies in Florida, and takes a ride on a life-sized mechanical elephant in Shropshire.
(Repeat)

Contributors

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

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

In the early sixties, a Cheshire farmer discovered a human jawbone in afield. The find remained a mystery until last summer when archaeologists dug up the field and found the graves of medieval landowners.
Last in the series; a new series will be shown next year.
See today's choices.
Website: [web address removed]

BBC Book Offer: Meet the Ancestors (RRP £17.99), written by Julian Richards to accompany the series, is available for £15.99 including P&P. To order call [number removed] or send a cheque, payable to RT Offers, to: [address removed]

Contributors

Presenter:
Julian Richards
Producer:
Sian Griffiths
Series Producer:
Ian Potts

Ten years after a ban was imposed on selling ivory, there is an abundance of elephants in parts of Africa. As politicians meet in Geneva this week to decide whether to lift the ban, Horizon travels to Africa to report on the effect that rising elephant numbers are having on humans and the environment.
See today's choices.
(Digital widescreen) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Producer:
Adrian Pennink
Series Editor:
John Lynch

Dougie Donnelly introduces highlights of the fifth day of the Masters which has seen the completion of the first two quarter-finals.
(Digital widescreen)

Followed by Skiing Forecast

Contributors

Presenter:
Dougie Donnelly

Repeats are not indicated.

Open University
12.30 Athens - Democracy for the Few
1.00 Cultures of the Walkman
(Subtitled)
1.30 They Did It Their Way

Further Education
2.00 Customer Care

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

Teacher Training
5.00 Central Bureau Teaching with Foreign Languages: Part 2
5.30 The Bridge

Open University
5.45 Bajourou - Music of Mali
(Subtitled)
6.10-7.00am Global Media

BBC Two England

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