Sentence examples for middle of the programme from inspiring English sources

If you're wondering what the hell something called The Tale of Mr Tumble is doing bang in the middle of the programme for this year's Manchester international festival, in a nutshell, Mr Tumble – or rather his creator Justin Fletcher – is basically the Moriarty of children's television.

And yet it turns out that slap-bang in the middle of the programme's usual this-country's-gone-to-the-dogs, hanging's-too-good-for-'em phone-in rant-fests is a small oasis of calm and thoughtfulness.

But London's bigger spending power than Edinburgh has, arguably, made for a slightly middle-of-the-road programme.

Europe's premier middle-distance race will be run at Chantilly next month with the builders, Bouygues, in the middle of the rebuilding programme, but it had been thought everything would be ready to return to the Paris venue next year.

In Austria, prospective teachers receive substantial training in accounting and must even pass a knowledge test in business administration as an admissions requirement at the beginning and/or in the middle of the master's programme (in Graz and Vienna).

The MoJ is in the middle of a programme of severe budget cuts and central to achieving the 26% savings is ensuring the prison population of England and Wales can be stabilised and, ultimately, brought down.

In the middle of a programme that started with Boulez and Berg, and ended with Liszt, Pollini performed Stockhausen's Piano Pieces VII, VIII, and IX.

He is a familiar figure at conferences, not because of his clout but because, stuck in the middle of a programme of soporific company pitches, he can rouse a laugh and a thought from an audience.

The home secretary is in the middle of a bold programme of reform that may be a big part of the long-term answer.

The company is in the middle of a £1bn programme to improve ageing IT and distribution systems that began life in 2009.

There are people talking about the supernatural right there in the middle of the BBC's flagship news programme every working day.