8.20 British Aerospace: Improving
Performance in a Changing Climate. How has the company responded to increasing competition? 4417783 8.45 Women in Science and Technology
9.10 Opening Up Technology. First of four programmes on invisible technologies, including examination gradingand the numberO.

Marvi New series First of a five-part drama set in modern Pakistan. A girl from a poor rural community struggles to fulfil herfather's dreams, and challenges the feudal system to retain her honour. In Urdu with English sub-tities.
Producer/Director Sultana Siddiqui. .......

Concluding Ken Burns 's acclaimed TV history of the American Civil War. 5: War Is All Hell. In 1865 General
Sherman marched his troops through
Georgia, setting ablaze the state at the heart of the doomed Confederacy.
Revised rpt .......................................

Journey to the Centres of the Brain
4: The Seven Ages of the Brain. Dr Susan Greenfield shows how the brain is shaped and changed, from before birth to old age. The final lecture. The Mind's /. tomorrow at 1.15pm Producers Richard Melman and William Woollard Executive producer Caroline van den Brul
BOOKLET: for a booklet based on the lectures please send a cheque for £ 3.50. payable to BBC Education, to: [address removed]

Placido Domingo presents this documentary in which fellow stars, family and friends discuss the turbulent private life of the tenor and Hollywood star. Lanza died at 38 having brought opera to a mass audience in films such as That Midnight Kiss, The Toast of New Orleans and The Great Caruso, in which he played the great Italian tenor Enrico Caruso.
With a Song in My Heart.... a Tribute to Mario Lanza tomorrow at 7.00 pm Stereo .................

The season of classic 50s musicals continues with this musical version of Colette's story about a young girl growing up in Paris during the 1890s.
Starring Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan

Gigi is being schooled carefully by her grandmother and aunt, but there are other influences which affect her life-like the dashing Gaston Lachaille , and the delights of ice-skating, romance and champagne. Winner of the Oscar for best film of its year, the film has decor and costumes by Cecil Beaton and a score by Lerner and Loewe.
(Carousel is on Holiday Monday at 6.00pm)

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A special end-of-year edition of the programme, featuring highlights of the Top of the Pops Christmas show, the festive number one, and a look back at the year's best music videos, including performances by the Rolling Stones, REM and Bruce Springsteen.
Stereo

A musical drama about the human race's abuse of the planet, intended as a requiem for the 20th century. Libretto and design by artist Ralph Steadman, and starring Ben Kingsley Michael Hordern, Ian Holm "The Plague Demon is within us all, declares narrator Ben Kingsley. "The Moon flower reminds us what we have to lose. Filmed in Salisbury Cathedral and featuring 200 singers, performers and dancers, the struggle is between an evil Plague Demon who stalks the earth destroying its resources, and a rare, pure Amazonian Moon flower which blossoms only once a year, at midnight. At stake, as the century closes, is the future of the world. The soloists are John Williams (guitar), Kym Amps (soprano), Eamonn O'Dwyer (treble), Richard Studt (violin) and Roger Chase (viola), with music composed and conducted by Richard Harvey. Choreography by Laurie Booth.
Producer Douglas Rae; Director Robin Lough

Final film in the series of magical and mysterious tales.
Starring Jon Finch
Powerful and eminent men are dying, and the only clue to their deaths is the enigmatic Maisie Blue. For Detective Margrave, Maisie's arrest becomes a personal and professional quest.

By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In three parts, with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte in a new translation by Tony Britten and Nicholas Broadhurst.
Part 3
Figaro is supposed to be marrying
Susanna tonight - so why is she flirting with his boss? And how can he find a fast way out of his contract to marry the battleaxe Marcellina?
Director Nicholas Broadhurst ; Director/Producer
GeoffPosner Stereo ..........................

In his off-the-wall documentary series, investigative reporter Michael Moore and his team covered entertaining and bizarre stories not on the agenda of other TV factual programmes. Now Moore chooses his favourite items from the series - which ranged from
Merrill Markoe's investigation into the prescription of "wonder drug" Prozac for pets with personality problems to Moore's own report on life in Kuwait since the Gulf War.
Producer David Mortimer ; Executive producers Kathleen Glynn and Michael Moore

First of a two-part film made of the 25th anniversary rock concert held this year in New York State. Bands featured include Crosby, Stills and Nash, Traffic, the Allman Brothers, Salt 'n' Pepa and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Continues after Jools Holland. See today's choices.

Second part of the music festival highlights, including performances by the Band, Jimmy Cliff , Nine Inch Nails and the Neville Brothers.