6.40 Counting Atoms

7.05 Maths: Least Squares

7.30 Minerals under the Microscope

7.55 Education: After the Act

8.20 Ecology: Succession

8.45 Teletel

9.10 Working Mothers

9.35 Education: Old Dog, New Trick

10.00 The Sassetti Chapel, Santa Trinita

10.25 Antony and Cleopatra: Workshop

10.50 Understanding Modern Societies

11.15 Tin: A Case Study

11.40 Venice and Antwerp: The Cities Compared

12.05 The Rise of Scientific Europe

12.30 Oceanography: Currents

12.55 Managing the Managers

1.20 Mental Handicap: Moving On

1.45 Living Choices: Changing Places

2.10 Environmental Control and Public Health

2.35 Learning to Learn

An epic drama from India.
Kama is dead and Kunti mourns him. The time is finally coming for Duryodhana to face the music, but first he must face his mother.
(In Hindi with English subtitles. Repeated tomorrow at 12.40am on BBC1)

The story of Paul Bunyon , a man who became a north American folk legend.

FILM Starring
Gary Cooper
Dorothy McGuire
1862: a farm in Southern
Indiana. Despite the onrush of the American Civil War, life for the Quaker Birdwell family is seemingly uneventful. But as the country they love is gradually devastated by battle, Jess and his son Josh face a crisis - each must decide whether to take up arms or abide by their pacifist principles.
Producer/DirectorWilliam Wyler ● FILMS: pages 37-42

Highlights from last week's editions of The Late Show. • STEREO

With Moira Stuart.
Followed by Weather

Another chance to see the series of five programmes, first shown in 1976, about the life and work of Rembrandt van Rijn. The Self Portraits. Rembrandt was the first artist to make the self-portrait a major means of artistic expression. The late distinguished art expert Lord Clark examines the way
Rembrandt painted himself, from the image of vigorous youth to that of solitary old age, and reveals his life-long admiration for an artist he considered "one of the greatest painters who has ever lived". Producer Colin Clark (RptJ

A short film, starring Judy Campbell
Dorothea Fielding , now a forgotten old lady, was once a famous writer. Thrown back into notoriety when a publisher reissues one of her novels, she questions the relative values of public exposure and privacy.
Producer Brenda Reid
Director John Bruce
0 FILMS: pages 37-42

I Humorous and I touching portrait of the end of an era. Starring Steve Guttenberg Mickey Rourke
Baltimore, Christmas 1959: for five young men, the local diner has been a regular haunt - a place to make plans. As they meet there again at the end of the decade, each discovers it is time to face up to adulthood.
The film marked the directorial debut of Barry Levinson , whose new film Bugsy has just been released in Britain.
• TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888 • FILMS: pages 37-42

Last in the series of feature-length documentaries made by independent film-makers.
My Crazy Life!
Gang warfare in Los Angeles has recently been the subject of several features and documentaries, such as Boyz in the Hood. Most have attempted to present some form of social analysis, blaming the ills on social deprivation.
In their film about the strange phenomenon of Samoan street gangs in Los Angeles, French director Jean-Pierre Gorin and anthropologist Dan Marks decided to throw away the rule book, giving gang members access to the film-making process and allowing them to help script and structure the film. According to Marks: "The kids don't say, 'We're depraved because we're deprived.' From their perspective, they kill because it's fun."
Series editor Andre Singer • STEREO

FILM Satyajit Ray 's dramatic I portrayal of tension between the old and the new brings a wealthy industrialist, holidaying in the shadow of Mount Kangchenjunga, face-to-face with a young unemployed man who challenges his ideas. A Bengali film with English subtitles.
● FILMS: pages 37-42