TV & radio guide - Thursday
» The Routes of English (9.00 am R4). Last in Melvyn Bragg’s series debates the rise of "Estuary English", with English Prof. John Wells, Lynda Mugglestone and Ben Elton. Woman’s Hour (10....
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TV & radio guide - Wednesday
» The West (8.35 am BBC2). Final episode, "One Sky Above Us", takes us to 1914 and the transformation of the USA’s West. Choir of the Year Final (12 noon BBC2). Extracts from the performances of...
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TV & radio guide - Boxing Day
Omnibus: Up in Flames (4.05 am World Service, repeated Thurs 2.30). Why did Venice’s Fenice opera house burn down in 1996? Michael Dibdin investigates, using his fictional detective Aurelio Zen to...
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TV & radio guide - Christmas Day
Composer of the Week (9.00 a, R3 and rest of week) is Tchaikowsky. A Short History of the Fork (11.00 am R4). Instrument of civilisation or tool of the devil? Joe Farrell (Strathclyde University) on...
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TV & radio guide - Christmas Eve
Two Thousand Years (11.00 am ITV). Christianity in the third century AD. Desert Island Discs (11.15 am R4). Astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell. 5 Live Report (12 noon R5). "Experimenting with Us". Drug...
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TV & radio guide - Saturday
» The West (10.15 am BBC2). "Fight No More Forever, 1874–1877". Today’s episode includes Custer’s defeat at the hands of the Sioux. The final two episodes are on Tuesday and Wednesday...
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Latest international news
Rebels kill six on Chechen campus Five students and a lecturer were killed when rebels fired grenades at Grozny University in Chechnya. The rebels’ target was Russian soldiers, one of whom...
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Latest UK news
Scots exam appeal deadline Scotland education minister Jack McConnell has set January 10 as the deadline for submitting final appeals in the wake of the Scottish Qualifications Authority’s...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES The discovery of fragments of dinosaur protein in ancient fossils by scientists at Newcastle University could provide insights into evolution Diary entry on Tony Blair's stated wish...
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The Open University has been allocated 500 of 775 new training places aimed at tackling the shortage of secondary school teachers in key subjects. Students will be able to do flexible postgraduate...
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Laurie Taylor
Roger? Yes, mother. Enjoying the goose? You don't mind that we haven't had turkey this year? Not at all. What are these? Prunes, Roger. Prunes in Armagnac. Don't you like them? Oh yes, very nice....
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TV & radio guide - Friday
Truman (9.00am BBC2). Last of three-part biography of the US President. The Civil War: The Arts of Death (10.00 am History Channel). It’s 1862, and part four of Ken Burns’s much-praised epic....
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Higher Channels Christmas / New Year Special
Belatedly marking the fiftieth anniversary of his death, Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain (Saturday 8.05 C4), is an excellently straightforward introduction to the work of an...
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Latest international news
Israel accused of dumping toxic waste Israel has denied claims by Syrian students that it has dumped toxic waste in the occupied Golan Heights. The students, who sent a message to United Nations...
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Latest UK news
Disability bill cost vastly underestimated It could cost universities £250 million to comply with proposed disability and special educational needs legislation. Baroness Warwick,...