1,000 Years of Spoken English
Melvyn Bragg presents a 12-part history celebrating 1,000 years of the spoken language of Britain, from the first to the second millennium. 1: Home. How we think of - and the words we need and use to describe - our patch. Bragg travels to his home town of Wigton in Cumbria to listen to locals talk about their idea of home. Producer Simon Elmes. Repeated at 9.30pm (R)
9.30 The Olive
In a new five-part series, Natalie Wheen interweaves the ancient history and legend of this gnarled tree with the story of one year in the life of her own small olive grove on the Greek island of Lesbos. 1: The Tree. She looks at some of the very oldest trees on the grove and talks with her neighbours about the history of this and other groves on the island. Producer Paul Kobrak