8.05 Science Preparatory Maths: Graphs 6540712 8.20 Developing World: Towards a Better Life 5428996 8.45 Traffic Futures: Models or Muddies? 7681267 9.10 British Car Transplants 8819847 9.35 Women in Science and Technology

A season of Asian cultural shows.
10.00 Chanakya Continuing the epic saga set in 4th-century India. In Hindi with English subtitles. Stereo.................[number removed]
10.40 Video Byte Pop videos from the UK, India and Pakistan. Stereo .....[number removed]
10.50 Network East Today, a look at the Asian comedy scene. Presented by Sujata Barot and Sanjeev Bhaskar.
11.20 Bollywood or Bust! The second semi-final in the Asian movie quiz. Hosted byMoDutta. Stereo........................[number removed]COMPETITION LINE: [number removed] (calls cost 39p per minute cheap rate, 49p per minute at all othertimes. Line open until midnight Wednesday).

Including reviews of The American President, starring Michael Douglas , and Unstrung Heroes, directed by Diane Keaton. Shown last Monday on BBC I

The double life of Frank Pearson - charity fund raiser by day and dragqueen by night.

Series on Britons who move abroad.
Today, a Suffolk family and a jockey who emigrated to Germany. Rpt.........54227118

Crime caper, opening this week's Saturday Matinée, and first in a double bill starring
Frank Sinatra
Two American fishermen net more than they bargained forwhen they attempt the impossible - robbing a luxury liner. Director Jack Donohue (1966)
♦ See Films: pages 65-74 *

Saturday Matinée continues with this "Rat Pack" comedy, the second in a double bill starring
Frank Sinatra
Also starring Dean Martin
Gangster Guy Gisbome becomes king of the underworld in 1920s Chicago. But a band of good-natured hoods is out to cause him trouble. Showingin widescreen format. Director Gordon Douglas (1964)
♦ See Films: pages 65-74 **** # See Barry Norman : page 62

Esther Rantzen talks to cross-dressing men.

Today's guests debate the status of women in the nineties.
(Stereo)

Highlights from Thursday's Top of the Pops and some hits from the past.
(Stereo)

The sheepdog trials series from Tindale Tarn in Cumbria, featuring the first semi-final in the singles and the start of the brace championship, in which the handlers run two dogs at once. Introduced by Robin Page , with commentary by Gus Dermody. Director Ian Russell ; Producer Joy Corbett

Presented by Jennie Bond.
(Subtitled)

Weather Suzanne Charlton

Chechnya: a Russian Nightmare Terror still reigns one yearafter
President Yeltsin ordered the bombing of Chechnya's capital, Grozny. The city is under armed occupation, gunfire rages at night, and while ordinary people try to rebuild theirshattered lives and homes, others continue to disappear into Russian camps.
Assignment entered Chechen-held territory and gained access to
President Dudayev in his hideout. He warns that if the Russians don't leave his country, his fighters will take the terror back to Russia.
Producer Jeremy Bristow ; Editor Keith Bowers

A series of provocative films about contemporary art and culture. Children of the Revolution
The story of a group of classical music students of the Beijing Central Conservatory who grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution. From being dedicated students of Bach and Beethoven, they became Red Guards devoted to class struggle, then suffered years of exile and hard labour before ending up, against all the odds, as players in some of China's leading orchestras. The film is presented by Anxi Jiang - a piano student at the Conservatory - and centres on her experiences and those of her mother and several of her classmates.
Tonight's programme was filmed entirely in China and includes a wealth of Chinese peasant music, revolutionary songs, western classical compositions and music from the Beijing Opera.
(PDC 8.05-9.25 7033151)

A comedy drama starring Tom Wilkinson, Ronald Pickup.

The Home Secretary's plans for a prison privatisation programme are scuppered when three maximum security inmates escape.

(See today's choices)
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Writer P.J. O'Rourke and comedian Craig Charles join Paul Merton and Ian Hislop in the satirical news quiz. Hosted by Angus Deayton.
(Shown yesterday)
(Stereo)
(PDC 10.20-10.50 302335)

Francis Coppola 's vivid evocation of Prohibition
America, set around Harlem's dazzling nightclub scene, starring
Richard Gere , Gregory Hines
In 1928, jazz musician Dixie Dwyer saves the life of Dutch Schultz and suddenly becomes part of the mobster's world of bootleg liquor, racketeering and escalating violence. (1984)
♦ See Films: pages 65-74 ***
(PDC 11.55-2.05 99752977)

Jools is joined by Van Morrison, The Charlatans, Buju Banton, Paul Brady, Tori Amos and Maura O'Connell.