Programme Index

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9.00 Cats' Eyes: Forces: Floating and Sinking
(ages 5-7) (S)

9.15 Cats' Eyes: Forces: Natural Forces
(ages 5-7) (S)

9.30 Writing and Pictures: The Big Question
(ages 6-7) (S)

9.45 Watch: Famous People: Samuel Pepys
(ages 5-7) (S)

10.50 Numbertime: Numbers up to 100: Patterns of Five
(ages 5-7) (S)

11.05 Watch Out: Night Life
(ages 7-11) (S)

11.20 Megamaths: Tables: Big Numbers
(ages 7-10) (S)

11.40 Look and Read: Spywatch: Captured
(ages 7-9) (S)

12.00 Space Ark
(ages 7-11) (S)

12.10 Science Zone: Living: Smooth Running
(ages 9-11) (S)

An update on the day's events in Parliament, with Diana Madill, plus the chance to question the politicians by phone.
(S)
Contact Details: phone [number removed] (calls charged at the local rate), fax [number removed] or e-mail [email address removed]

Contributors

Presenter:
Diana Madill

A special edition of First Sight for BBC Rail Week. With overcrowded carriages and congested tracks, the railways are bursting at the seams, yet rising demand for seats suggests worse is to come. Will the rail industry plough back its soaring profits to ease passengers' pain?
(S)
(Regional Programme: see panel on left for variations)

Contributors

Producer:
Geoff Griffiths
Executive Producer:
John Samson

Sea Survival. The sea can be as cold as the Arctic and as hot as the desert, with no water fit to drink. Mears finds out how shipwreck victim Steve Callaghan spent 76 days adrift in a life raft and survived by spearing fish. See Choice. Producer Martin Pailthorpe ; Series producer Dick Colthurst (S) (W)

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Callaghan
Producer:
Martin Pailthorpe
Producer:
Dick Colthurst

The motor magazine looks at the future for cars that still run on unleaded petrol, views bargains to be had in the world of classic cars, and tests the new duel-fuel Honda Insight. Presented by Kate Humble and Quentin Willson.
(S) (W)
Magazine: £3.20 from newsagents Website: [web address removed]

Contributors

Presenter:
Kate Humble
Presenter:
Quentin Willson
Producer:
John Wilcox
Series Producer:
Julie Clive

Floyd Ballantyne runs Europe's biggest children's holiday company, but how will he cope when he swaps his corporate headquarters for a job looking after the youngsters? Will 40-year-old Ballantyne acquit himself well in a job that is usually done by 18-year-old students?
(S)
Website: [web address removed]

Contributors

Subject:
Floyd Ballantyne
Producer:
Daniel Barry
Series Editor:
Robert Thirkell

This film tells the extraordinary story of the Black Scholes mathematical formula, which seemed able to remove the risk from playing the money markets. The scientists who discovered it joined forces with dealers on Wall Street to form LTCM, the super-company that traded billions. But when it all went badly wrong, LTCM collapsed and almost brought down the entire global economy.
(S) (W)
Website: [web address removed]

Contributors

Producer:
Malcolm Clark
Series Editor:
Bettina Lemer

Tony Parsons, Tom Paulin and Natasha Walter join host Mark Lawson to discuss this week's cultural events.

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Lawson
Panellist:
Tony Parsons
Panellist:
Tom Paulin
Panellist:
Natasha Walter
Series Producer:
Mark Bell
Executive Producer:
Mary Sackville West

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Open Science
12.30 Final Frontier
12.45 What Have the Seventies Ever Done for Us?
1.00 Earth and Life: Cosmic Bullets
(S)
1.30 Healthy Futures: Whose Views Count?
2.00 Talking Buildings
(S)
2.30 Right Simulators and Robots
(S)
3.00 Nerves

Key Skills
3.30 Study Skills: Information Research

Languages
4.00 Make Japanese Your Business

Working In the Community
5.00 Enterprise Skills
5.30 Voluntary Matters: Using the Money Wisely

Open University
6.00 Biosphere 2
(S)
6.30 Hubbard Brook: the Chemistry of a Forest
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