The story of how an estimated 100,000 people were killed when an American B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. The film Hiroshima, Mon Amour is at n.40pm.
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Jonathan Ross , Lord Hattersley and Patrick Moore pay tribute to the godfather of science fiction, currently enjoying a revival in popularity thanks to the new War of the Worlds movie.
Recounting the friendship between physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg and their historic work together, which led to the invention of the atomic bomb. Michael Frayn 's drama Copenhagen follows.
Michael Frayn's play, staged at the National Theatre in London in 1998, in which physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg meet at the height of the Second World War - a conflict that sees them on opposing sides, despite their earlier collaboration on crucial work that led to the atomic bomb's invention. Daniel Craig stars.
Famed theoretical physicist Michio Kaku 's whirlwind tour of quantum mechanics.
Atmospheric drama about a French actress having an affair with a Japanese architect and recalling a former lover at the same time. In French with English subtitles. Review page 50. (BW)