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- An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.
- 1930's London. Two sisters - Madeleine and Dinah - One marries Rickie, the other falls in love with him. He begins an affair which is to have repercussions throughout their lives.
- Writer and critic A.N. Wilson revisits the life and work of poet Philip Larkin. Featuring readings by Larkin himself, including The Whitsun Weddings, Arundel Tomb and Aubade.
- In the annals of crime, perhaps no name evokes terror more than that Jack the Ripper. Although this anonymous killer committed his gruesome murders more than a century ago, his name lives on. This program goes to England to investigate the murder of five women, which took place in 1888 and have gripped the collective psyche ever since. Most frightening of all is the fact that murderer was never caught, or even identified. Criminologists present their theories on the identity of the infamous killer. Never-before-released photographs graphically display the vicious work of Jack the Ripper's knife.
- Choirmaster Gareth Malone is taking on a challenge unfamiliar to him: increase the literacy of British boys, who, at elementary school levels, lag far behind girls. This literacy includes reading, writing and speaking, the latter which Gareth believes is the key to the other two. His eight week assignment will take place at Pear Tree Mead Elementary & Nursery School in Harlow, Essex, where he has been hired to teach the thirty-nine year 5 and year 6 boys three days a week, the other two days per week where the boys will return to their co-ed classes with their regular teachers. This job is despite Gareth having no formal training in education. After speaking to professional educators, Gareth believes what he has to do is threefold: make what the boys see as work, fun; add a sense of competition into the learning process; and add a sense of risk into the learning process. Gareth learns that the boys have a variety of reasons for their on-the-surface disinterest in the subject, from fright, to frustration, to boredom to simple dislike. Gareth has to get the school's head teacher, Chris Thurgood, on board with whatever his proposals, which may end up seeming unconventional. Chris' task for Gareth is to increase the boys' reading level by six months. With Chris' approval, Gareth takes two major measures: take the learning to a more appealing locale, namely outside; and have a competition against the school's girls, namely in a debate, on topics of interest to the student body as a whole. The latter event may backfire on Gareth if the boys lose, winning which to Gareth is not the goal.
- Christopher Plummer invites the audience into the world of great playwright, George Bernard Shaw, at his home with fellow actors and an actress playing St. Joan.