The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective. Followed by Weather. 1930 http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/whatson/prog_parse.cgi?FILENAME=20081013/20081013_1900_4544_3504_30 1900 Timeshift Novelist Andrew Martin presents a documentary examining how the train and the railways came to shape the work of writers and film-makers. 2030 http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/whatson/prog_parse.cgi?FILENAME=20081013/20081013_1930_4544_3508_60 1930 5/15 Quiz show presented by Victoria Coren in which patience and lateral thinking are as vital as knowledge, and connections need to be made between apparently unconnected things. 2100 http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/whatson/prog_parse.cgi?FILENAME=20081013/20081013_2030_4544_3507_30 2030 The Genius of the East Four-part series about the history of mathematics, presented by Oxford professor Marcus du Sautoy. 2200 http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/whatson/prog_parse.cgi?FILENAME=20081013/20081013_2100_4544_3505_60 2100 Storyville Roman Polanski is certainly admired and respected as one of the world's great film directors, but his reputation has been forever tarnished by his public conviction for having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor some 30 years ago and his subsequent flight from the United States to avoid jail. 2330 http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/whatson/prog_parse.cgi?FILENAME=20081013/20081013_2200_4544_3513_90 2200 First of two films by director Gerry Troyna, following three typical Indian Railways employees as they face the annual battle to keep trains running during the monsoon season. 0020 http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/whatson/prog_parse.cgi?FILENAME=20081013/20081013_2330_4544_3514_50 2330 5/15 Quiz show presented by Victoria Coren in which patience and lateral thinking are as vital as knowledge, and connections need to be made between apparently unconnected things. 0050 http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/whatson/prog_parse.cgi?FILENAME=20081013/20081014_0020_4544_3499_30 0020 The Genius of the East Four-part series about the history of mathematics, presented by Oxford professor Marcus du Sautoy. 0150 http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/whatson/prog_parse.cgi?FILENAME=20081013/20081014_0050_4544_3501_60 0050 Timeshift Novelist Andrew Martin presents a documentary examining how the train and the railways came to shape the work of writers and film-makers. 0250 http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/whatson/prog_parse.cgi?FILENAME=20081013/20081014_0150_4544_3500_60 0150 The Genius of the East Four-part series about the history of mathematics, presented by Oxford professor Marcus du Sautoy. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/whatson/prog_parse.cgi?FILENAME=20081013/20081014_0250_4544_3503_60 0250