Programme Index

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10.30 Storytime
(ages 4-5)

10.45 The Experimenter: Plants and Animals
(ages 7-9)

11.05 Space Ark: Plants and Animals
(ages 7-11)

11.15 Zig Zag: Environment: Water, Air and Land
(ages 7-9)

11.35 Pathways of Belief
(ages 7-9)

11.50 Mad about Music
(ages 11-16)

12.10 English File: Throwaways: Episode 2
(ages 11-16)
Dramatised by Ian Strachan

Contributors

Dramatised by (English File):
Ian Strachan

1.10 The House Detectives
Juliet Morris and her team visit a house in Lincolnshire to trace some treasure believed to have been hidden in a secret cellar.
(Repeat)

Then at 1.40 Hart-Davis on History
A search for ghosts in Chester.

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

Contributors

Presenter (The House Detectives):
Juliet Morris

Another chance to see an edition of the series in which Adam Hart-Davis journeys around the country to celebrate the unsung heroes of science. Tonight he travels across the Mersey to look at the life of the inventor of Meccano, Frank Hornby, plus other visionaries including Arthur Doodson, who perfected a way to predict tides.
(Repeat)

Contributors

Presenter:
Adam Hart-Davis
Producer:
Paul Bader
Executive Producer:
Jonathan Drori

The series that puts the nation's aspiring Arthur Daleys to the test as two teams of three people have to make their fortune in a business that they know nothing about, with only £1,000 to help them on their way.

This week the contestants have only four days to organise a night's entertainment which will attract enough paying guests to fill a nightclub. With Adrian Chiles.
(Digital widescreen) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Presenter:
Adrian Chiles
Director/Series Producer:
Shauna Minoprio

Another chance to see last year's episode on the phenomenon of bog-bodies. When human remains were found in a Cheshire peat bog in 1983, archaeologists used the latest tools of forensic science to establish the identity and cause of death of the Iron-Age murder victims. From the murky world of peat bogs and Celtic ritual sacrifice to high-tech science, startling conclusions emerged.
(Repeat) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Producer:
Philip Martin
Series Editor:
John Lynch

Mark Lawson is joined by Allison Pearson, Tom Paulin and Tony Parsons to review this week's cultural highlights, including the film Beloved, directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover.

Followed by Skiing Forecast

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Lawson
Panellist:
Allison Pearson
Panellist:
Tom Paulin
Panellist:
Tony Parsons
Series Producer:
Mark Bell
Editor:
Michael Poole

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 Housing - Business as Usual
1.00 From a Different Shore - an American Identity

Further Education
2.00 The Key to...: Study Skills
Tips on studying.

Teaching Film and Media
4.00 But Is It Any Good? - Evaluating Film
4.30 Reading Movies

Teacher Training
5.00 Teaching Today Special: Secondary Maths

Open University
5.45 Visioning in Action
6.10-7.00am Lifestyles, Work and the Family

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