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10.30 Words and Pictures
(ages 5-7)

10.45 Watch
(ages 5-7)

11.00 Look and Read
(ages 7-9) (Subtitled)

11.20 Zig Zag
(ages 7-9) (Subtitled)

11.40 Landmarks
(ages 9-11)

12.00 Job Bank
(ages 14-19)

12.10 History File
(ages 14-16)

Contributors

Writer (Look and Read):
Jim Eldridge

The weekday history strand.

1.10 War Walks
Professor Richard Holmes visits Battle, East Sussex.
(Repeat)

Then at 1.40 Hart-Davis on History
Today, a search for King John's jewels, and an American connection in Lincolnshire.

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

Series Guide: for a 48-page colour series guide send a cheque for £4, payable to BBC Education, to: [address removed]

Contributors

Presenter (War Walks):
Professor Richard Holmes
Presenter (Hart-Davis on History):
Adam Hart-Davis
Producer:
John Thirlwell
Executive Producer:
Paul Bader

Ross Kelly and Anna Ryder-Richardson challenge today's celebrity panellists John Craven and Lesley Waters to match houses to their owners.

Contributors

Presenter:
Ross Kelly
Presenter:
Anna Ryder-Richardson
Panellist:
John Craven
Panellist:
Lesley Waters

Each year greyhound racing attracts four million spectators and £1.5 billion of bets. The stakes are high, and the sport is policed by a small team of stewards whose job is to eliminate cheating, doping and the ill-treatment of the dogs.

Contributors

Producer:
Kavita Shewaram
Executive Producer:
Richard Klein

An accident in a rail tunnel is one of the emergency services' worst nightmares. On 7 December 1991 two trains carrying nearly 300 people collided in the four-mile long Severn Tunnel, and it took rescuers two hours to reach the victims. This reconstruction examines what went wrong. Narrated by John Nettles.
(Digital widescreen)
Website: [web address removed]

Contributors

Narrator:
John Nettles
Director:
Edward Blum
Producer:
Colette Right

Antony Worrall Thompson prepares to celebrate St Patrick's Day with a hearty Irish stew, Darina Allen serves up a warming onion and thyme soup, and Paul and Jeanne Rankin cook for their local fire station's charity day. With Chris Kelly.
Senes producer Elaine Bancroft ; Executive producer Tim Hincks Repeated on Saturday Digital widescreen WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/foodanddrink E-MAIL: [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Antony Worrall Thompson
Unknown:
Darina Allen
Unknown:
Jeanne Rankin
Unknown:
Chris Kelly.
Producer:
Elaine Bancroft
Producer:
Tim Hincks

Last in the four-part drama starring Ray Winstone, Mark Strong, Phil Davis

Terry, Alan and Graham need to tie up some disturbing loose ends - but the full truth about their friendship has yet to emerge. Contains swearing.
See today's choices.
(Repeated on Friday at 11.20pm)
(Digital widescreen) (Subtitled)

[Photo caption] A Roman tragedy? Phil Davis, Ray Winstone and Mark Strong get a nasty shock in Births, Marriages and Deaths

Births, Marriages and Deaths 9.00pm BBC2
When poor, put-upon Graham says to Terry of Alan: "I'd wind the clock back even further and never have sat next to him in the dinner hall", you know the end is in sight for our bumptious anti-hero. Terry turned on him last week, but to no avail. Alan still arrives on the doorstep demanding to know why Terry hasn't turned up for work.
As the carefully seeded plots all burst forth, things take an even darker turn than in the three previous bleak episodes. This is involving drama, as you realise when you find yourself pleading with the characters to take a different course of action. The ending is strange in the extreme, but it's certainly no neat cop-out.

Contributors

Writer:
Tony Grounds
Producer:
Greg Brenman
Director:
Adrian Shergold
Alan:
Ray Winstone
Terry:
Mark Strong
Graham:
Phil Davis
Becky:
Emily Corrie
Josh:
Mark Letheren
Frank:
Ronny Quirke
Billy:
Aaron Keeling
Peter:
Robert Goodale
Colin:
Michae Tucek
Alex:
Maggie O'Neill
Laura:
Frances Shergold
Molly:
Tessa Peake-Jones
Mr Lorimer:
Eric Allan
Site foreman:
Tony Grounds
Mr Astill:
Jimmy Gardner
Pat:
Michelle Fairley

Clive Anderson hosts the political panel game in which Jeremy Hardy and Graeme Garden use wit to win votes, with the help of comedian Fred MacAulay and comic actress Rebecca Front.
(Repeated on Saturday)
(Digital widescreen)

Contributors

Presenter:
Clive Anderson
Team captain:
Jeremy Hardy
Team captain:
Graeme Garden
Panellist:
Fred MacAulay
Panellist:
Rebecca Front
Producer:
Richard Osman
Series Producer:
Anne Marie Thorogood

Two more films exploring life for young people in today's Britain.

Bees
A group of London Jewish girls live for clothes, hair and make-up-but fall out during a summer holiday to Cyprus.

Straight outta Swansea
Rivalry exists between two opposing groups of Welsh rappers.

Contributors

Series Producer:
Gerard Barry

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 The Palazzo Pubblico, Siena
(Subtitled)
1.00 Crossing the Border
1.30 Maarten Van Heemskerck - Humanism and Painting

Schools
2.00 Science

Languages
4.00 Make French Your Business: Part 2
French at work.

Business and Training
5.00 Skills for Work

Open University
5.45 A Change of Key?
6.10 Scotland in the Enlightenment
6.35-7.00am The Impressionist Surface

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