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Channel 4 - Pet Rescue - Featuring animals looking for a home.
Living TV - Most Haunted - Ghost hunting programme. Interviews, information on locations, spook search, ghost stories, chat and competitions.
BBC - I Love the 1960s - Series examining the decade that brought the world the Beatles, Habitat and The Magnificent Seven. Includes show highlights, year by year guide and video clips.
BBC - Joy of Text - Show dedicated to SMS text messaging. Includes facts and figures, recent texts listing and video clips.
ITV - Metroland - Programme offering the opportunity for new directors to bring original views of London to Carlton Television. Includes show details and video archive.
Factual Programmes on the BBC - Contains comprehensive listings and descriptions, including air dates and episode guides.
ITV - City Survival Guide - Complement to the short programmes on surviving life in London. Provides additional show information and lists of links to useful organisations.
BBC - Revision - Complement to the Bitesize TV revision guides.
BBC - Voices from the Archive - Features classic recordings of interviews with 20th century writers, artists, political activists, musicians and philosophers.
Living TV - I'm Famous and Frightened - Features a group of celebrities investigating and experimenting with the paranormal. Profiles, location information, competitions and background stories.
We must become the change we want to see. -- Gandhi Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. -- Alfred Hitchcock People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. -- Otto von Bismarck "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde Factual Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. -- Socrates Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje Factual Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. -- Anonymous The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short Factual Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Factual "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -- Anonymous "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Factual Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Factual "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. -- Anne Sullivan "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson Factual May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -- Eddie Rickenbacker He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West Factual I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals... -- G. K. Chesterton Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- Boies Penrose, 1931 "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Factual Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. -- Samuel Johnson It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins Factual The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example. -- Anon. There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) Factual This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Factual If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machi If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Factual "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- Ovid "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Factual The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -- Joan Borysenko All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Factual The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity. -- Albert Einstein You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will Factual Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional convi Factual Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. -- Thomas Edison Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin Factual I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. -- Carol Leifer If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald Factual Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Factual "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille Ball If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous Factual When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student Factual
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