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with a look ahead to
It's Your School.

9.35 English Resources: The Poetry of Protest: 9.55 English Study Texts: An introductory programme to Under Goliath.

with Hedli Niklaus.

with This Family Business. More about the Parenting Project plus It s Your School. Phone-in on [number removed]93. (Local telephone rates apply)

Throughout the week
Maggie Philbin and guests look at what's going on in schools and at how parents can get more involved. Today: standards in education, particularly in reading and English language.
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Simon and the Squad

2.30 World Report: 2.45
Personal View: 3.05 Outlook;
3.30 The Poisoned Cup:
4.05 Science in Action

by Elizabeth Laird. Read in ten parts by Jacquetta May. 1: Iraq, 1984. Tara's Kurdish family are threatened by Saddam Hussein 's secret police. Abridged by Elizabeth Bradbury

by April de Angelis.
The second of two parts.

Pop columnist Linda Duff stands in for Fanshawe.

Orson Welles's curious object - A Pair of Spectacles