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| 2001 - Heaven And Hal | ...NICK BAKER investigates the future of intelligent machines like HAL, the computer in `2001: a Space Odyssey'. He talks to Arthur C Clarke and the experts who claim that machines will be able to think, feel and, if we're not careful, rule.... |
| And Here's The Tape To Prove It | ...Devon-born naturalist NICK BAKER has the adventure of a lifetime when he encounters the pink-toed tarantulas and man-eating piranhas of the Amazon.... |
| Archive Hour, The | ...NICK BAKER takes a personal look back at over 70 years of radio broadcasting for children at home, at school and in the car. He recalls how - like millions of others - he span around the school hall in his underwear to find a space during `Music and Movement'.... |
| Debt To Society, A | ...NICK BAKER finds out who gets selected for this kind of punishment and joins them as they serve their sentences, clearing overgrown parks, and finds out how their lives have been changed.... |
| Fixing Families | ...NICK BAKER joins workers of the Dundee Families Project on a unique and controversial scheme to help families whose antisocial behaviour has brought them to the verge of eviction from their council homes.... |
| Gypsy In My Soul | ...NICK BAKER explores the music of the gypsies. Contributors include the Gipsy Kings and the Taraf de Haidooks (1/2).... |
| Ha Ha | ...NICK BAKER investigates subjects and their teaching as a source of comic material.... |
| Heart And Soul [world Service] | ...... |
| Home Thoughts | ...In the first of a five-part series, NICK BAKER shadows staff on magazines and newspapers whose readers live in Britain, but have strong ties abroad. `Brushstrokes', published in Liverpool for the Chinese community.... |
| Kids In Committee | ...NICK BAKER follows the progress of the Liverpool Schools Parliament, made up of under-16s, which has been promised a voice on Liverpool City Council.... |
| Lifestory | ...NICK BAKER tells the story of TV cook, Fanny Cradock. Notoriously outspoken, she regularly offended studio guests and became an object of national parody. But Fanny Cradock hid the truth of an unhappy childhood, two previous marriages and a serious accident that left her badly scarred.... |
| Making History | ...NICK BAKER presents the programme which explores ordinary people's links with the past.... |
| Nature | ...`The Hound of Spring'. NICK BAKER visits Cornwall to salute the arrival of spring and to find out whether the season is getting earlier each year. There is also a chance to help with the forthcoming series of `Springwatch'.... |
| Odds Against | ...SBH:Bob Borzello interviewed about his campaigns against racist and sexist reporting in British newspapers. With comments from his wife & Ken Morgan of the Press Council. Interviewer: NICK BAKER.... |
| Onion And The Apple, The | ...NICK BAKER experiences a week in the life of the Onion, America's favourite satirical magazine which started in the midwest but moved to New York at an unfortunate time.... |
| Pillories Of The State | ...In six programmes, Dr Phil Hammond examines common perceptions of British institutions. 4: The Education System. With contributions from NICK BAKER, Richard Warne and Steve Lamacq.... |
| Question Of Support, A | ...NICK BAKER talks to the people who man computer helplines and explores their role in a growing industry.... |
| September Watch | ...After observing the progress of spring, naturalist NICK BAKER enjoys the highlights of summer as he spies on a family of swallows in a farmyard, hunts grasshoppers and crickets in the dunes, watches dragonflies skim over a pond and wades among the heather with the bees.... |
| Shanghai Scouse | ...NICK BAKER accompanies the Liverpool delegation visiting Shanghai to sign the sister-city agreement and examines the links that bind the two cities. Featuring the story of the Shanghai sailors stranded in Liverpool since the 1940s and a knife-edge football match between teams from the two cities.... |
| Six Silver Strings | ...NICK BAKER examines the international trade in vintage guitars built to play popular music, and searches for the first instrument worth a million dollars.... |
| Sons And Mothers | ...Are new men born or made? NICK BAKER explores the often uneasy relationship... |
| Soundtrack | ...SBH:A montage documentary looking at the use of firearms in Britain. Incl. comments from a gamekeeper, members of a gun club, West Midlands Police Firearms Unit, a bank robber & a security guard. With act. of shooting & firearms training. Presenter: NICK BAKER. Producer: Andrew Parfitt.... |
| Spring Watch | ...In six programmes, NICK BAKER follows the advance of spring from Land's End to John o'Groats, guided by the calls, questions and sightings of the audience. His quest begins on the south coast.... |
| This Must Be The Place | ...In the first of six programmes, NICK BAKER uses the BBC radio archives as a route map of changing Britain. 1: `Filey 1946'. Billy Butlin's third and favourite camp, once the largest holiday complex in the world, is now known to the locals as `Little Beirut'.... |
| Trouble In Tots' Tv Land | ...NICK BAKER examines the world of younger children's television.... |
| Wednesday Documentary, The [world Service] | ...NICK BAKER embarks on a global journey - an ambitious project to draw a map round the world, using Internet Cafes to guide him.... |
| Whistling Up | ...Time was that Britain was a nation of whistlers. NICK BAKER talks to whistlers professinoal and amateur, including the prince of pursed lips, Ronnie RONALDE. A musical celebration of an under-rated oral pastime.... |
| Wireless Wise | ...David Hatch with the radio quiz that delves into the BBC sound archives, written by NICK BAKER.... |