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- A documentary on the life of actress Carol White, the lead in the 1960s BBC drama 'Up The Junction'.
- Christopher Hitchens investigates whether Mother Teresa of Calcutta deserves her saintly image. He probes her campaigns against contraception and foeticide and her questionable relationships with wealthy religious and political leaders.
- The spoof arts magazine show presents a drama exploring the short cuts television takes in its treatment of art. Lucrezia Borgia, one of the most glamorous women of Renaissance Italy, discusses her role as patron of Italian art.
- Jonathan Meades attacks the myths and culture surrounding vegetarianism.
- Robert McKee dismisses Orson Welles film, Citizen Kane as a mish-mash of stylistic excess and clichéd content.
- Terry Eagleton critiques poet Philip Larkin. Larkin is considered a darling of the post-war British poetry scene. Terry Eagleton accuses him of being racist, emotionally stunted and lugubrious.
- A documentary that follows a woman through her pregnancy.
- A documentary that looks at the escapist world of hotels and boarding houses.
- Dramatised scenes from Errol Flynn's life.
- A tribute to the long-running cult 1960's spy adventure series.
- Russell Davies questions Laurence Olivier's position as the pre-eminent actor of our times.
- There are over 50,000 words of slang in common usage today. Lexicographer Jonathon Green points out that most of them come from sex, drugs and music.
- Germaine Greer launches an attack on the cult of youth. She argues that the obsession with youth has led to a morbid fear of aging at a time when old people outnumber the young.
- Cosmo Landesman accuses comedians of the nineties of becoming a force for political reaction 'the court jesters of the chattering classes'. He argues that politicians now wield the weapon of humour which was once turned against them.
- Rory Bremner argues that having set herself up as a satirist on suburban values, Dame Edna now personifies the same values that she once abhorred.
- Rock critic Sean O'Hagan argues that the Rolling Stones are a burnt-out collection of middle-aged men who have failed to mature or find a late style. He also suggests that they have become the opposite of much of what they once stood for.