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- An obsessively punctual comprehensive school headmaster sets out to give an important speech at the annual Headmasters' Conference.
- The various misadventures of Stephen Daker, a young doctor who works for the health centre of a modern British university.
- Velvet's orphaned niece Sarah follows her dream of Olympic glory with her horse Arizona Pie.
- Dr Robyn Penrose is a lecturer in English at Rummidge University. Vic Wilcox is the Managing Director of Pringle's, an engineering firm in Rummidge. They meet when Robyn is told by her Head of Department to "shadow" Vic as part of Industry Year. They are initially hostile to each other but gradually come to understand each other's point of view.
- A plumber named Benny tries to find his way around a university, and gets no sense out of the intellectuals who work and study there.
- Jonathan Meades investigates the life of the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner, and the writing of his largest work, The Buildings of England.
- Featuring contenders from the Midlands.
- Featuring contenders from the London area.
- In the Age of Reason, it was the rediscovery of the white columns and marbles of antiquity that made white the most virtuous of colours. For the flamboyant JJ Wickelmann and the British genius Josiah Wedgewood, white embodied all the Enlightenment values of justice, equality and reason.
- A look at the Shanghai Transrapid maglev train, the fastest public passenger train in the world. It reaches a speed of 268 miles per hour in its 19-mile, 7-minute trip from the city of Shanghai to Shanghai Pudong International Airport.