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programme about meditation on bbc2 tonight

Alternative Therapies 

Mon 31 Mar, 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm  60mins  3/3. Meditation

Millions of people are using meditation to help not just their minds, but also their bodies. But what is meditation and why are so many people drawn to it? What does science say about how it might work and whether it can actually help?

In the final, and most personal, film in the Alternative Therapies series, Professor Kathy Sykes investigates the ancient practice of meditation. It's a journey that leads her to examine her innermost feelings, and one which takes her to meet scientists working at the very frontiers of knowledge about how the brain functions.

The film begins in the foothills of the Himalayas where Kathy learns basic meditation from Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard. She also travels to the US where she learns how her body physically responds when she is meditating.

 

cranford

Starts Sunday 18 November 2007, 9pm, BBC One

Judi Dench, Philip Glenister, Francesca Annis and Michael Gambon star in Elizabeth Gaskell's five-part period drama which follows the small absurdities and major tragedies in the lives of the people of Cranford.

Something to look forward to!

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brian haw wins channel 4's most inspiring political figure award 2007

The Parliament Square peace protestor, Brian Haw, has won the
UK's Channel 4's 2007 award for the Most Inspiring Political Figure.

Mr Haw attended the ceremony on 7 February hosted by
Channel 4, in association with the Hansard Society. He gave
a rousing acceptance speech before an invited audience of
Members of Parliament, Peers and journalists.

The award ceremony will be broadcast on Channel 4 at 7pm
on Saturday 10 February and repeated on 13 February.

On Vox: music and the end of an era

42 - not just The Answer but also the age of Top Of The Pops - and tonight we've just watched the last one. This show was so much part of my life when I was younger - it started when I was eighteen - though I have to admit that, in later years, there were some styles of music that I didn't like at all. Well, that's to be expected.

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insurgency

BBC2 programme: Sun 2 Apr, 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm 60mins

The chilling image of a ten year old boy holding a Kalashnikov
on the streets of Baghdad. Orphaned during the invasion of
Iraq, he is now a sentry for one of Abu Musab al Zarqawi's
al Qaeda cells. The carnage of a bomb in a Baghdad café.
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A gift from the West

So, was this what the invasion of Iraq was for?

Her Dark Viewing Habits

So now I can come out of the closet.

Heard on Radio 4 this morning, the wonderful Philip Pullman
on why he watches 'Neighbours' every day. Because of the stories.

OK, OK, I haven't written a best selling novel yet......

BBC Question Time

BBC Question Time tonight is being screened from Florida - panel includes
Michael Moore and a former speech writer for Bush.. BBC1 10.45pm.

Simplistic view of terror scares around the world.

Media under fire for 'false reality' :

One of Britain's leading documentary makers has attacked television's obsession with Islamic terrorism, claiming it has done nothing to dispel myths surrounding al-Qaeda and is too willing to take the government line on the 'high' level of the threat.

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ER actress plays down age remarks

Actress Alex Kingston has said parting comments about TV show ER, in which she claimed producers thought she was too old to stay, were "tongue in cheek".

Kingston, who plays surgeon Elizabeth Corday in the US drama, said statements she made were "taken out of context".