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- 2 cats devise plans to occupy their time. Every plan has some basis in science and presenters explain these principals.
- Miscellaneous series of original broadcasts for schools.
- A lesbian Don Juan, a suffragette and a 17th-century Italian painter are just two of ten remarkable women who speak to us in this drama documentary - an intimate portrait of their lives and a woman's view of history.
- A school history series for seven to nine year old's. An art gallery security guard, (Terry Deary) learns about the wives of Henry VIII. Each of the episodes follows the wives' portraits coming to life and telling the story of their lives and being married to Henry VIII. Adrian Kennedy and Lee Chapman star as Henry VII and other characters.
- English chef Gary Rhodes travels Britain, and while visiting a locale creates dishes using only local ingredients, often only those found in a larder or pantry.
- A documentary highlighting the lives of children from both the UK and Rwanda who suffer from the HIV/AIDS virus.
- How not to do a a business meeting, everything and anything goes wrong for these hapless workers.
- "Anne Lister, an outwardly conventional gentlewoman living in Halifax at the beginning of the last century, had a secret life that would have shocked local society. Her diaries, written in such a complex code that they were not deciphered until the 1980s, reveal that she was really a lesbian Don Juan." (Radio Times, 30/4-6/5/1994).
- "The remarkable story of two women who became the subjects of experiments by men. Dr James Barry was born a girl but lived most of her life disguised as a man. And Hannah Cullwick, a working class woman turned into a high-class lady". (Radio Times, 21/5-27/5/1994).
- "The drama documentary series about the lives of extraordinary women continues with a look at two pioneering journalists. In 1858, Victorian editor Bessie Parks founded the first newspaper run by women for women. Fifty years later, Emilie Peacocke became one of the first women reporters to work in Fleet Street". (Radio Times, 7/5-13/5/1994).
- "Seventeenth-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi has been remembered more for being a loose woman than a talented artist. At the age of 17, she was raped, and the record of the trial reveals how her reputation as a woman and a painter was ruined." (Radio Times, 14/5-20/5/1994).
- "The only two British women to write first-hand accounts of slavery: Mary Prince, who was born into slavery in 1788 and left her owners after moving to London, and Lady Maria Nugent, the wife of a slave owner in Jamaica in 1801'. (BBC Active, video synopsis, 2005).
- "In 1912 Sarah Benett, aged 52, and 54-year-old composer Ethel Smyth shared neighbouring cells in Holloway Prison. Their crime was breaking windows - a tactic used by suffragettes to draw attention to their fight to win votes for all women. Sarah Benett's recently discovered diary sheds light on their remarkable tale". (Radio Times, 21/5-27/5/1994)
- Map Messages, Sally Gray swaps maps made by the schools in the previous episodes, takes away the details and challenges the pupils to learn more about where each other lives.