6.40 Understanding Space and Time 7.05 Maths: Scalings and Powers 7.30 Runningthe Country
7.55 A Cancer in the Family 8.20 Changing Britain, Changing World
8.45 Statistics: Regression 9.10 Education: Measures of Success
9.35 Physics: Phonons 10.00 Film and Video Makers 10.25 Cast in the Right Mould
An English family swap their home for one in California.
A unique performance of Puccini's opera, live from Rome and starring Placido Domingo, given in the exact locations and at the times of day specified in the libretto.
This "live film", was conceived and produced by Andrea Andermann, who has masterminded major musical events around the world and was assistant director on Zeffirelli's Tosca. It is directed for television by Brian Large, who worked on the famous "three tenors" concert from Rome in 1990. Cinematography is by Bertolucci's and Coppola's cameraman Vittorio Storaro.
The first act takes place in the church of Sant' Andrea della Valle in Rome. Act 2 can be seen at 8.40pm, Act 3 at 6.00am tomorrow, and the complete opera will be repeated on Channel 4 tomorrow night.
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12.05 Designing Production
12.30 Nitrate in Drinking Water
12.55 Pieter Bruegel and Popular Culture 1.20 The Tonga People of the Zambezi Valley 1.45 Seasonal Affective Disorder 2.10 The
Cornflake Story 2.35 Environment: Danish Energy
Hampshire v Kent
Further live coverage.
Television presentation Alan Griffiths and Mike Adley
(Highlights at 12.40am) ●STEREO
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With Moira Stuart.
Followed by Weather
Documentary series on Christopher Columbus, to mark the 500th anniversary of his landing in the Americas. An Idea Takes Shape
Tonight's programme follows Columbus to Portugal, where he worked as a mapmaker and ship's officer, to Africa, where he learned about the profitable trade in gold and slaves, and to the Madeiras, where he found evidence of lands to the west.
Presented by Mauricio Obregon. Producer Tom Friedman
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This live performance of Puccini's opera continues with Act 2, set in the Farnese Palace in Rome. Placido Domingo, who stars as Cavaradossi, comments: "It's a long-time dream for me to be able to do
Tosca in the three places where it actually happened.... this will be a revolution for the world of opera. I'm proud and happy to be the guinea pig for this innovation."
(For full details seeAct 1 at 3 1.00am. Act 3 can be seen at 6.00am tomorrow, and the complete opera is on Channel 4 at
8.30pm tomorrow) OSTEREO
A Real World Recorded. For a week during the summer of 1991, over 70 musicians and record producers from around the world gathered in a converted watermill in rural
Wiltshire, home to
Peter Gabriel 's Real World recording studios. The aim was to produce eight albums in seven days, culminating in a concert given for local villagers, and to encourage the musicians to forge a variety of partnerships. This film captures the week's recording and performing activity. The musicians include Jah Wobble and Sinead O'Connor. Series editors Nigel Finch , Anthony Wall
A Tribute/Real World production for BBCtv
Series that gives cameras to young people to record their lives. Raging Bullock. For Ben May , living in Peckham and boxing mad, adolescence is not an angst-ridden phase full of problems, it is simply an extended training session on the road to a professional boxing career.
At the age of 15, he has already been boxing for seven years and is the British ABA champion at his weight. For him there is no dilemma - boxing is much more than a punch-up, it is a highly developed skill which demands dedication. It also represents his only chance to "earn bundles". Producer Tony Steyger
Series producer Bob Long
* SUGGESTIONS: if you would like to make a teenage diary, write to Teenage Diaries, Community Programme Unit. Wood Lane , London W 12 2 7RJ.
Continuing a season of films directed by or featuring Woody Allen
A homage to Humphrey Bogart with Allen playing an insecure film critic who constantly calls on the shadow of Bogart for advice on how to treat women.
Screenplay Woody Allen Director Herbert Ross
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Hampshire tKent
Highlights of the Benson and Hedges Cup final from Lord's. • STEREO
Coverage of the Bell's Scottish Open, from Gleneagles. (Coverage of The Open starts on Thursday at 10.55am)
