6.35 The Fabulous Perfect Spring
7.00 Modern Art: Van Gogh 7.25 The March of Aluminium 7.50
Venice and Antwerp - the Cities Compared 8.15 Physical
Chemistry: Reaction Mechanisms
8.40 Technology: Going Through a Phase 9.05 Biology Form and Function 9.30 Arts: What Is Music?
9.55 Science: Volcanic Iceland
10.20 Psychology: Child's Play
10.45 Chemistry: LookingGlass World 11.10 Technology: Light
Fantastic 11.35 Gender Matters: Women's Development

Laurie Mayer presents the political review for the region. • REGIONAL PROGRAMME

Historical melodrama starring
Margaret Lockwood
A servant girl's psychic powers lead her into trouble.
Director Bernard Knowles • FILMS: pages 37-42

A short film about stained glass.

The Opera Season continues with a highly acclaimed production of Debussy's great music drama. The story embraces a mysterious dream world in which Pelleas and Melisande play out a love triangle with tragic consequences.
With the Orchestra and Chorus of the Opera de Lyon
Conductor John Eliot Gardiner Television director Jean-Francois Jung • STEREO

Featuring Five Nations action with Wales v Scotland
France v Ireland
Scotland travel to Cardiff for the Lada Cars international; Ireland face France in Paris.
Executive producer Johnnie Watherston • STEREO

Second in the lively cultural mix of highlights from the first series. Featuring Curtis and Ishmael, Llewella Gideon and Collette Johnson.
Director/Producer Charlie Hanson

Top stories from the worlds of business and finance.
Editor David Nissan

Bird Nuts - the Magnificent Obsession. Why do birds exert such an extraordinary fascination over so many people? While 400 enthusiasts queue patiently in the Isles of Scilly just to glimpse a small brown bird blown off course by gales, an American house-builder constructs an ornate "condominium" for migrant swallows. Martin Wainwright reports on this strange obsession. Producer Oilys Breese
Series editor Mike Salisbury
• STEREO; TELETEXT SUBTITLES: p 888 • NATURE: page 14

The Public Eye and the Private Gaze
A short season about the work of the 17th-century Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn opens with the first of two documentaries presented by historian Simon Schama.
The Public Eye. The story of Rembrandt's early golden years, before his vision was touched by tragedy. By the age of 30, the miller's son had become one of the most celebrated artists in Europe, revolutionising painting in works like The Night Watch. (Part 2. The Private Gaze, can be seen next Sunday. The season continues with Rembrandt: Times Three Tuesday 7.40pm) • ILLUSTRATED GUIDE: send a cheque for £2.50, payable to BBCtv. to [address removed] • MUSIC AND ARTS: page 12

Action from this evening's Mexican Grand Prix in Mexico City, the second of the 16 races for the world championship, including live coverage of the final laps. Commentary by Murray Walker and James Hunt.
(Stereo)
Sport: page 9

A new BBC film starring
Anthony Andrews Bernard Hill
A new government takes power with a drastically reduced majority. But the ambitious young Home Secretary has a plan to bring the legal establishment to heel and bypass Parliament altogether. Anthony Andrews says of writer and barrister
John Cooper (who wrote the ITV series The Advocates): "John is writing about a world he knows intimately. It is a most original and exciting screenplay and extremely prescient in view of the current controversies surrounding the judiciary."
Producer Simon Passmore Director Jim Goddard
• STEREO; TELETEXT SUBTITLES: p 888 • DRAMA: page 4
• FILMS: pages 37-42

First showing on network television for
Robert Altman 's flamboyant comedy of teenage irreverence. Two teenagers create havoc in a middle-class suburb.
• FILMS: pages 37-42

Featuring Annie Lennox.