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Introduced by Hazel Irvine.

1.35 Ice Hockey
With the Superleague's Challenge Cup final just a fortnight away, Bob Ballard and Simon Crosse tell the stories behind the semi-finals.

2.05 The Insider's Guide to the Olympics
This month's guide features freestyle wrestler John Melling, who is hoping to qualify.

2.20 Rugby League: Salford City Reds v Warrington Wolves
Live coverage of this Challenge Cup quarter-final. Salford will be looking to Martin Offiah to inspire them once more, while Lee Briers has been the Wolves man on form.
2.20-4.15 (not PDC)

4.15 Speed Skating
From Sheffield, the World Short Track Speed Skating championships.

5.10 Rugby League Draw
The semi-final draw.
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Contributors

Presenter:
Hazel Irvine
Reporter (Ice Hockey):
Bob Ballard
Reporter (Ice Hockey):
Simon Crosse
Subject (The Insider's Guide to the Olympics):
John Melling
Commentator (Rugby League):
Jon Champion
Commentator (Rugby League):
Joe Lydon
Commentator (Speed Skating):
Paul Dickenson
Producer:
Sharon Lence
Editor:
Michael Cole

Shares in high-tech companies have undergone astonishing price rises, even though few of them make profits, while investors have been turning away from more traditional blue-chip companies, even though they may be making a lot of money. This trend, as Nils Blythe reports, leaves the latter companies vulnerable. Is the old economy being destroyed by an irrational enthusiasm for the new? Presented by Maya Even.
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Contributors

Presenter:
Maya Even
Reporter:
Nils Blythe
Editor:
Diarmuid Jeffreys

The old meanderings of Africa's Zambezi river have created numerous watering holes in the Mana Pools National Park, and herds of elephant, buffalo, eland and impala gather around them to graze on the soft green grass. But once the short rainy season ends and in the long dry season that follows, the grass withers and the pools turn to mud, forcing the animals that live in and around them into a perennial conflict as they try to satisfy their food and water needs.
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Contributors

Producer:
Philip Richardson
Producer:
Lynne Richardson

Four days of canine endeavour culminate with the announcement of the winner of the best in show title, a category that annually attracts 21,000 top pedigree dogs. Live coverage from the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham is introduced by Gaby Roslin, with commentary by Peter Purves, Jessica Holm, Frank Kane and Wayne Cavanaugh, and reports from Shauna Lowry.
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Contributors

Presenter:
Gaby Roslin
Commentator:
Peter Purves
Commentator:
Jessica Holm
Commentator:
Frank Kane
Commentator:
Wayne Cavanaugh
Reporter:
Shauna Lowry

One year after NATO's bombing campaign, Allan Little takes a challenging look at the reasons for the war in Kosovo, examining why - and how - the West used force to pursue what was outwardly presented as a moral crusade against ethnic cleansing. In fact, he argues, it was an act of revenge on Slobodan Milosevic and was prompted in part by guilt over the West's failure to intervene in time in Bosnia. The West, he says, made a series of near-catastrophic miscalculations and the air campaign was not simply about defeating Milosevic but about saving the credibility of the NATO alliance. See Choice.
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Website: [web address removed]

Polly Toynbee's view of the documentary: page 16

Contributors

Reporter:
Allan Little
Producer:
Tom Giles
Producer:
Aidan Laverty
Editor:
Peter Horrocks

Drama set in the sixties and seventies starring Christian Bale and Emily Watson.

Advertising executive Chris Lloyd lives in suburbia with his family. But the arrival of Toni, his free-living friend from schooldays, causes him to doubt the choices he has made in life.
Widescreen.
(1997, 18) **
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Films: pp 64-68

Teach yourself Emily Watson: page 59

Contributors

Director:
Philip Saville
Chris Lloyd:
Christian Bale
Marion Lloyd:
Emily Watson
Toni:
Lee Ross
Annick:
Elsa Zylberstein
Henri:
null Rufus
Dave:
Jonathan Aris
Mickey:
Ifan Meredith
Joanna:
Amanda Ryan
Jacques:
Boris Terral
Punk girl:
Lucy Speed
Commuter:
Bill Thomas
Commuter:
John Wood

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National Test Revision
2.00 Key Stage 3: Bitesize Revision - Maths 1 including whole numbers and fractions.

Languages
4.00 Make Japanese Your Business

Working for Local Government
5.00 Teleworking and Managing Change - implementing change in the workplace.

Open University
6.00 Quality Care
6.30 How We Study Children
Making sense of play.
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