A performance of Haydn's rousing oratorio depicting the creation of the universe. The Northern Sinfonia orchestra and chorus under Thomas Zehetmair are joined by soloists
Rosemary Joshua , Thomas Walker and Michael George at the new Sage building in Gateshead.

Multi-award-winning romantic drama, whose star, Massimo Troisi , died the day after filming was completed. 1952: exiled Chilean poet Pablo Neruda
(Philippe Noiret ) travels to the island of Capri, where he is befriended by a shy postman, In Italian with English subtitles. Review page 65.

Exploring the life and work of the Victorian author of gothic horror. The Stalls ofBarchester is at 12.25am.

Dennis Potter's play exploring lost youth and innocence, set in Gloucestershire's Forest of Dean during wartime and first shown in 1979 as part of Play for Today. Colin Jeavons, Helen Mirren, Michael Elphick, Janine Duvitski, Robin Ellis, Colin Welland and John Bird star.
The Singing Detective is tomorrow 10pm
Anyone for Dennis 2: page 16

Robert Hardy stars in the last of four chilling MR James dramatisations. An ambitious cleric engineers the murder of an ageing archdeacon.
First shown on BBC1 Christopher Lee 's Fireside Tales is tomorrow at 11.45pm on Radio 2

: North Korea's win over Italy in the 1966 World Cup