with Mary McAleese.

with John Humphrys and Anna Ford. Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Professor Charles Handy.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

with Libby Purves and birthday guest Tom Phillips , artist.
Producer Lucy Cacanas

Numbers. Part five.

Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Exotic, sensual and wickedly extravagant - Corinne Julius extols the orchid.
Serial: All Fall Down (10)

with John Howard.

John Le Carre 's story adapted in eight parts. Starring James Fox as Magnus Pym.
2: A distraught Mary Pym is under pressure to provide some clue as to the whereabouts of her missing husband.
Music: Max Harris
Adapted by René Sasilico
Producer John Fawcett Wilson

with James Naughtie.

Colin Douglas 's four-part drama serial on the history of the National Health Service as seen through the lives of two generations of Edinburgh doctors. 3: 1969-1979: The Long Surprise
Director Patrick Rayner

Nigel Barley shares his passion for African pots and the wealth of meanings they contain.
3: A Potter's Life.

Matthew Parris investigates intriguing letters that have no known reply.
2: A letter from Friedrich Nietzsche to his sister Elisabeth berates her for portraying him to be anti-semitic. However, he wasn't absolved of this imputation until decades after his death. Producer Julia Gillett

Brian Sibley with reviews of the week s new film releases, including Matthew Modine in Equinox, and an assessment of the career of the Italian director Roberto Rossellini. In the studio live music from Ethiopia. Producer Tim Dee
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

by Donna Tartt.
"He wanted to turn around and go back home. But how could you refuse a request like this? His doctor had told him about the little girl." Read by Harry Towb. Producer Duncan Minshull

with Chris Lowe and Linda Lewis.

Is this a new Clarrie?

First in a new series of the environmental magazine.

with Geoff Watts.

As British miners struggle to preserve their industry in the face of the government's determination to close pits, Christopher Cook visits the North of England Open Air Museum at Beamish in County Durham. Beamish vividly displays every aspect of a mining community in the North East in the years immediately before the First World War. Here, he explores what Peter Lewis , Beamish's Director, describes as "the pitmatic society" of 80 years ago.

3: Intellectual Exiles.
Professor Edward Said looks at intellectuals both as expatriates and as people on the margin of their own society and considers how exile inspires their thinking. Producer Anne Winder

(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with Nigel Cassidy.

with Robin Lustig.

Episode 10.

Last year Christina Dodwell spent three months travelling through Russia's remote Kamchatka Peninsula, recording her adventures and the stories and songs of the people she met.
2: From the Lower to the Upper World