Producers Richard Sanders and John Harvey

with Rev Peter Read.

with Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday.
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rabbi Lionel Blue.

It's American presidential inauguration time again. Mark Steyn plumbs the archive, and looks for the traits that make a bona fide vice-president. Producer Noah Richler

with Melvyn Bragg and guests.
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown
Stereo

Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil by C S Lewis, in 15 episodes.
With Gerald Harper as Screwtape, who continues to instruct his nephew,
Wormwood, in the niceties of luring patients into the Kingdom of "Our Father Below". Episode 3.
Producer Claire Campbell Smith

with Jenni Murray.
Following several grave miscarriages of justice,
Wendy Bamaby considers the need to shift the attention of forensic scientists from prosecution to defence.
Serial: When's It Coming Out?
Written and read by Maureen Lipman.
Final part: Swiss Roll Call. Abridged and produced by Pat McLoughlin
Editors Clare Selerie and Sally Feldman

with Vincent Duggleby.
Producer Robert Mackenzie. .Lines open from 10.00am

with Linda Lewis. Editor Ken Vass

by P G Wodehouse. Starring
Griff Rhys Jones
5: The Return of Battling
Billson Ukridge 's failed champion, Battling Billson, turns from pugilist to evangelist. With Robert Bathurst ,
Adam Godley , Simon Godley , Dougal Lee. Rebecca Front and Julian Dutton
Adapted by Julian Dutton
Producer Sarah Smith. Stereo

with Nick Clarke.
Editor Roger Mosey

In Martyn Read's rollicking comedy set in 1770, Sir Morton Makepeace devises a play, but his characters disrupt the plot and threaten the building of his Folly.
(Stereo)

A series in which six very different disabled people talk frankly to Peter White about their lives.
3: The broadcaster Maggie Woolley has lived with deafness all her life her father was deaf, she became deaf at the age of 18, and one of her daughters is deaf. It sounds tragic, but in conversation with Peter White she says, "Being deaf isn't terrible - there's an exciting deaf world out there to explore."
Producer Ronni Davis. Stereo

Paul Vaughan reviews the premiere recording of John Adams 's opera The Death of Klinghoffer, looks under the wraps of the new Frank Lloyd Wright gallery at the Victoria and Albert museum, and discusses what happens to books when they are remaindered.
Producer John Goudie. (Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

Special Report by Allan Massie.
"Hilary didn't realise for some minutes that the dog was dead. He merely thought how well trained it was to sit correctly on the bar stool like that...."
Read by Nigel Anthony.
Producer Duncan Minshull. Stereo

with Valerie Singleton and Wendy Austin.

George is feeling the pressure. Stereo

with Derek Cooper.

Red Sky at Night
Set in the mining village of Eastwood in the Erewash
Valley in 1911, Nick Ward 's play is a story of love and lost desire and is inspired by D
H Lawrence 's early writings.
Music: Richard Heacock
Trumpet Nick Thompson Director Nick Ward
Producer Marilyn Imrie. Stereo

(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with Roger White. Stereo

with Richard Kershaw. Stereo

Mr Olim by Ernest Raymond. Read in ten parts by Ian Holm. Part 6.
Abridged by Mike Seabrook Producer Sarah Kilgarriff

A six-part adaptation of Evelyn Waugh 's novel. 3: In which
Paul Pennyfeather exchanges the primitive horrors of the Llanabba school for the futuristic nightmare of King's Thursday ...
Adapted by Jeremy Front Producer Lissa Evans