6.50 Maths: Scalings and Powers 7.15 The Nigerian Civil War 7.40 Statistics: Regression
8.05 Chile in the International
System 8.30 The Baby's in Your Court 8.55 The Impact of Industrialisation 9.20 Physics: Gaseous Diffusion 9.45 Stowe and Stantonbury 10.10 Nitrate in Drinking Water 10.35 Iron Making and Bridge Building
11.00 Environment: Forest
Futures 11.50 Education:
Measures of Success 12.15
Cast in the Right Mould 12.40 Looking Again at Large
Samples 1.05 The Comflake Story 1.30 Modem Art:
Beckmann 1.55 Pieter Bruegel and Popular Culture 2.20 Oceanography: Rockall

A 93-part epic from India. 54: In their last year of exile, the Pandavas are forced to live incognito at the court of King Virat. Life is hard enough for everyone, but for Arjuna it is especially difficult.
(In Hindi with English subtitles. Repeated tomorrow at 12midnight on BBC1)

Saturn the Ringed Planet Patrick Moore explains what can be seen of Saturn, now well in view during the hours of darkness, low in the southern sky. He also gives the latest results from the spacecraft that have studied Saturn at close range.
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Mind My Corpuscles
It is generally known that blood is categorised by a number of different blood groups related to the red corpuscles. But the white corpuscles can also belong to different groups. Before a transplant operation can proceed, careful checking must be done to ensure that the donor and the recipient belong to the same tissue group of white corpuscles.

Live from the Kirov Opera, Leningrad, this unique
Anglo-Soviet collaboration presents Sergei Prokofiev 's epic in a new production by Graham Vick to mark the centenary of the composer's birth. The opera is based on Tolstoy's novel and combines the vast panorama of Russian society as it faces Napoleon's invasion with the love story of Prince Andrei Bolkonsky and the young Natasha Rostova. Presented by Robert Lloyd , who scored a personal triumph when he sang Boris Godunov at the Kirov last year.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Kirov Opera, conductor Valery Gergiev
Designers Timothy O'Brien (sets) Vatentina Komolova (costumes)
Television director Humphrey Burton Producer Peter Maniura
Executive producer Dennis Marks
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A five-part series which traces the journey of Irish music to America and back.

Emigrant musicians took Ireland's dance music across the Atlantic. In America, it has influenced a host of diverse traditions, from bluegrass to country to rock. Featuring De Danann, Yehudi Menuhin, James Begley, Steve Cooney, Mark O'Connor,
Paddy Clackin and Ricky Skaggs.

A Hummingbird production for BBCtv in association with RTE
Book: same title, is available from retailers, price £10.99.
Music: featured in the series is issued on CD, cassette and LP.

Self-made documentaries about people's lives.
Sweet S A. Last year,
Fritz Joubert and his black British wife Jenni left London to try starting a new life in South Africa. Fritz had fled his country six years ago to avoid being conscripted into the South African Defence Force.
His return could lead to imprisonment; certainly he would have to face his father who had disowned him because of his marriage. Their diary records the problems they face as they decide if a 'new' South Africa is to be their chosen home.
Producer Bob Long
Series producer Jeremy Gibson
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With Moira Stuart.
Followed by Weather

The series of dramas by one of television's most distinctive directors continues with a film that won the Prix Italia in 1984. Made in Britain by David Leland.
Trevor is a 16-year-old jobless skinhead. He's intelligent, articulate and aggressive - and absolutely determined to follow his own rules.
Producer Margaret Matheson

Lancashire v Worcestershire
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