TV & radio guide - New Year's Eve
5 Live Report (12 noon R5). "No Room at the Infirmary". Can the NHS cope this winter? Sounds American (12.15 R3). What makes (North) American music sound American? Two Thousand Years (12.30 ITV). The...
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Highlights of the New Year Honours List
Baroness Blackstone , minister of state, at the Department of Education and Employment has been made a privy counsellor. Among the new knights are Leszek Borysiewicz , professor of medicine...
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TV & radio guide - Saturday
Theodore Roosevelt (8.55 am BBC2, also Sunday 8.10 am). Two-part documentary of US president. Private Passions (12 noon R3). Robert Skidelsky, politic is academic (and Lord) chooses music. Longitude...
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TV & radio guide - Friday
Brendel in Performance (12.05 BBC2). Alfred Brendel playing Schubert, Haydn and Mozart. » Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (12.05 C4). Fourth of Kevin Warwick’s five lectures on robotics. Mozart...
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Higher Channels New Year
FRIDAY December 29 Brendel in Performance (12.05 BBC2). Alfred Brendel playing Schubert, Haydn and Mozart. » Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (12.05 C4). Fourth of Kevin Warwick’s five lectures...
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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...