[INFO] Media Watch Update 28/2/01 - 9/3/01

[Keith Doxey <ukha.diyha@xxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

Here is the latest Media Watch.

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Wednesday 28 February
12.30am BBC 2
The Programmers: The history of computing - from hardware and
software to programming, and the people who devised the code to make them
work
12.30pm BBC 2
Working Lunch: The latest business, consumer and workplace news
from across the country
7.00pm BBC 1
Tomorrow's World: Scientific innovation with Peter Snow and
Philippa Forrester
9.00pm Radio 4
Flesh and Chips: Sue Nelson charts the rise and rise of the
cyborg - from the development of robotic arms for amputees to cockpits that
can read their fighter-pilots' minds - now that the human-machine hybrid is
no longer confined to the realm of science fiction


Thursday 1 March
12.55am BBC 1
Watchdog with Anne Robinson (Repeat)
1.20am BBC 1
Tomorrow's World: Scientific innovation with Peter Snow and
Philippa Forrester. (Repeat)
12.30pm BBC 2
Working Lunch: The latest business, consumer and workplace news
from across the country
8.30pm Radio 4
In Business: Dot-Com Survivors  - Peter Day finds out how
some internet companies have managed to stay in business while others have
failed
9.000pm Radio 4
Leading Edge: Cutting-edge science stories. Geoff Watts visits
two universities to find out how scientists are using Darwin's theory of
evolution to give everything from super-computers to robots genetic
programming


Friday 2 March
2.35am ITV
Cybernet: A round-up of the latest computer and video-games
news
12.30pm BBC 2
Working Lunch: The latest business, consumer and workplace news
from across the country
7.00pm BBC 1
Watchdog with Anne Robinson


Saturday 3 March
6.30am BBC 2
Never Mind the Quality?: How digital television and the World
Wide Web will change broadcasting forever
12.04pm Radio 4
Money Box: Latest news from the world of personal finance


Sunday 4 March
8.40am BBC Knowledge
Work Predictions: No Work  - Series in which leading
thinkers suggest how the working environment will change over the next
decade. This programme looks at the future of unemployment and whether new
technology means that millions of workers will no longer be needed. The
world's leading work experts give their visions of a workless world
(Repeated at 12.40pm, 4.40pm, and 8.40pm)
8.00pm Channel 4
Hanging on the Phone - The Story of BT: This documentary traces
the history of British Telecom, since its very beginnings as part of the
GPO, through its privatisations in 1984 after the Telecommunications Act,
and examining the challenges it currently faces because of the market place
by the internet and the mobile-phone revolution
9.00pm Radio 4
Money Box: Latest news from the world of personal finance
(Repeated from Saturday)
9.30pm Radio 4
In Business: Dot-Com Survivors  - Peter Day finds out how
some internet companies have managed to stay in business while others have
failed (Repeated from Thursday)


Monday 5 March
2.30am ITV
Cybernet: Internet news
12.30pm BBC 2
Working Lunch: The latest business, consumer and workplace news
from across the country
3.00pm Radio 4
Money Box Live


Tuesday 6 March
9.40am BBC Knowledge
Work Predictions: 21st Century Office  - Series in which
leading thinkers suggest how the working environment will change over the
next decade. With a look at the work space of the future, attempting to
discover if our homes will become more like offices, or if our offices will
be more like homes (Repeated at 12.40pm, 3.40pm, 9.40pm and 12.40am)
10.20am BBC Knowledge
Tools of the Trade: The Desk  - Series about people at
work, reflecting the changing and diverse relationships between people and
work. This film shows how the office desk reflects the personality of its
occupant - bringing a personal touch to the face of corporate blandness.
Plain or fancy, the desk is a fortification against the onslaught of the
working day (Repeated at 1.20pm, 4.20pm, 7.20pm and 10.20pm)
12.30pm BBC 2
Working Lunch: The latest business, consumer and workplace news
from across the country
4.00pm Radio 4
Shop Talk: Heather Payton and guests discuss how business and
technology shapes the world around us


Wednesday 7 March
12.30am BBC 2
Whose Web Is It Anyway?: As the big software companies fight
to control the World Wide Web, this programme considers whether its
inventor can protect his dream
6.30am BBC 2
Groupware - So What?: How the increasing reliance on computer
systems to move information around will affect the business world
12.30pm BBC 2
Working Lunch: The latest business, consumer and workplace news
from across the country
7.00pm BBC 1
Tomorrow's World: Scientific innovation with Peter Snow and
Philippa Forrester
9.00pm Radio 4
Flesh and Chips: Sue Nelson charts the rise and rise of the
cyborg. She meets the researchers who are working towards putting a silicon
chip on every shoulder and a data port in every head


Thursday 8 March
12.15am BBC 1
Watchdog with Anne Robinson (Repeat)
12.45am BBC 1
Tomorrow's World: Scientific innovation with Peter Snow and
Philippa Forrester. (Repeat)
9.00am Radio 4
Money Box Budget Call: Vincent Duggleby and his guests answer
calls about how yesterday's Budget will affect people's finances
12.30pm BBC 2
Working Lunch: The latest business, consumer and workplace news
from across the country
4.30pm Radio 4
The Material World: Quentin Cooper talks to Dr John Jefferson
and Dr Tim Spiller about quantum computers, which would harness the quantum
characteristics of single atoms to process information. While researchers
are convinced that this is the future of computing, huge questions remain
about how to go about building such a machine and about what materials
could be used
9.30pm Radio 4
Money Box Budget Call: Vincent Duggleby and his guests answer
calls about how yesterday's Budget will affect people's finances (Shortened
repeat from 9am)


Friday 9 March
1.50am ITV
Cybernet: A round-up of the latest computer and video-games
news
12.30pm BBC 2
Working Lunch: The latest business, consumer and workplace news
from across the country
7.00pm BBC 1
Watchdog with Anne Robinson


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