Prelude in A minor, BWV569.

Alexei Sayle travels from Aleppo in northern Syria to Aqaba in Jordan. First shown on BBC2

With Kirsty Lang.
Followed by Weather

8/10 Irma Kurtz explores Damascus with local writers.

Natalie Haynes and Simon Woodruffe guest on the cerebral panel game.

3/3. Bill Paterson plays the 19th-century Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle , author of The French Revolution, in the last of these classic-text updatings. (AD)

4/6 Which book might have won the Booker Prize in 1925?

Jeremy Paxman and John Simpson contribute to a profile of the eminent journalist.

How Czechoslovakia drove out millions of Germans in 1945.

Assessing the impact of the president's death.