Media Watch Update Thursday 15 March to Friday 23 March

[Keith Doxey <ukha.diyha@xxxxxxx>]

Media Watch Update Thursday 15 March to Friday 23 March



Thursday 15 March
4.30pm Radio 4
The Material World: Quentin Cooper discusses the Charter for
Science and Engineering with Dr David Giachardi, Sir Richard Sykes and Prof
Roland Clift. The charter is intended to focus politicians' minds on the
importance of the scientific community to Britain's social and economic
health
7.00pm BBC 1
Watchdog with Anne Robinson
8.30pm Radio 4
In Business: Phoney Profits  - Peter Day asks what will
happen next in the telecoms industry, as the ballooning debts of telephone
companies make it almost impossible for them to earn money
9.00pm Radio 4
Leading Edge: Cutting-edge science stories with Geoff Watts. He
uses a computer simulation to discover the potential consequences of giving
Dublin a new airport, while Claudia Hammond discovers that, in New Zealand,
there are exactly 104 accidents among privately piloted flights every year


Friday 16 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


Saturday 17 March
6.30am BBC 2
Cybersouls: Exploring the idea that, with the facility to talk
across continents and enter virtual realities, the human body could
eventually become redundant
9.00am BBC 2
Day of a Thousand Beats: In the UK, only one in three people
work from nine to five. Times have changed, or are we changing time?
12.04pm Radio 4
Money Box: Latest news from the world of personal finance


Sunday 18 March
8.40am BBC Knowledge
Work Predictions: Technology  - Series in which experts
forecast how the working environment will change over the next decade. This
programme looks at how in the future drugs could make the dullest work a
pleasure, and how a chip implanted in the brain could provide instant job
training (Repeated at 12.40pm, 4.40pm, and 8.40pm)
9.00pm Radio 4
Money Box: Latest news from the world of personal finance
(Repeated from Saturday)
9.30pm Radio 4
In Business: Phoney Profits  - Peter Day asks what will
happen next in the telecoms industry, as the ballooning debts of telephone
companies make it almost impossible for them to earn money


Monday 19 March
2.40am 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 20 March
8.00am BBC Knowledge
The Money Programme: The Great Dot Con  - Stories from the
world of business and work. This edition looks at the rapid rise and fall
of
the dotcom companies. Nils Blythe reports on how the value of internet
company shares was relentlessly inflated by the very people who were
supposedly giving impartial advice to investors. While millions of small
shareholders have lost their savings, financial advisors have made huge
bonuses (Repeated at 11.00am, 2.00pm, 5.00pm, 8.00pm and 12.00am)
9.40am BBC Knowledge
Work Predictions: Knowledge Workers, Talent Workers  -
Series in which leading thinkers suggest how the working environment will
change over the next decade. This edition finds out about the knowledge
economy, as well as changes in manufacturing. Experts forecast where jobs
of
the future will come from, and whether we will need to work at all
(Repeated
at 12.40pm, 3.40pm, 6.40pm, 9.40pm and 12.40am)
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 21 March
12.30pm BBC 2
Working Lunch: The latest business, consumer and workplace news
from across the country
7.00pm BBC 1
Live Lab: Peter Snow and Philippa Forester present a programme
to celebrate National Science Week, in which mass experiments are conducted
with the help of viewers


Thursday 22 March
12.45am BBC 1
Watchdog with Anne Robinson (Repeat)
1.15am BBC 1
Live Lab: Peter Snow and Philippa Forester present a programme
to celebrate National Science Week, in which mass experiments are conducted
with the help of viewers (Repeat)
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
9.00pm Radio 4
Leading Edge: Cutting-edge science stories with Geoff Watts. He
finds out about photonics, the next big thing in Silicon Valley, from David
Miller, Professor of Electronic Engineering at Stanford University


Friday 23 March
1.55am 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
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