with Brian Redhead and John Humphrys. Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Canon Paul Bates.
by Lisa St Aubin de Teran , abridged and read by the author.
1: Under the Tidemark with My Mother. "Travelling is like flirting with life...." Producer Alison Hindell
Chairman Michael Buerk. Witnesses face cross-examination from Edward Pearce , Janet Daley , Rabbi Hugo Gryn and Professor Roger Scruton. Producer David Coomes
Martyn Wiley sees some reflections from his own past.
5: Paperbackman. Producer Dave Sheasby
Judges. 7: The Outlawing of Benjamin.
Introduced by Jenni Murray. Libby Spurrier on the social history of the beach hut. Serial: Jasmine (6)
with Tasneem Siddiqi.
Gill Pyrah challenges a panel of literary guests in the well-read quiz. Today's guests are Sarah Dunant , David Profu mo, Jeremy J Beadle and Arthur Smith. The reader is Gareth Armstrong. Producer Gareth Edwards
with James Naughtie.
David Stafford's wry comedy about showbiz, eternal triangles and the Eurovision song contest stars Deborah Findlay and Neil McCaul as June and Gary Knight - 60s songsters staging a comeback in a summer season one wet British August.
The boys in the band: Trevor Allan Davies. Bobby Worth. David Stafford
Director Marilyn Imrie
[number removed]A guest goes against the grain and challenges conventional views on subjects which concern everyone. This week: "Counselling screws you up." Ann Marie Hourihane awaits your calls. Producer Hilary McLennan
Reviews of Alan Ayckbourn 's Time of My Life and Michael Frayn 's intimate new play Here. Also performance from the cabaret show For the Love of Money. Presented by Paul Allen. Producer Anthony Denselow (Revised repeat at 9.15pm)
by Helen Campbell.
"I hated visiting my mother - well, not her, the house really, the chaos, the shabbiness, the half-done tasks." Read by Lynn Cahill. Producer Pam Brighton
4: The Sea. Why did Turner paint it so often - was it its timeless majesty, or because he couldn't draw hands properly? Such questions are answered in this New Age comedy show. Starring Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. With Carla Mendonca , Armando lannucci and the voice of Tom Baker. Producer Sarah Smith
Sid and Kathy go hunting.
John Clare , the "peasant poet" born 200 years ago, was first courted then shunned by the literary establishment. Today, ironically, he's compulsory reading on the National English Curriculum. Andy Croft , with contributions from Melvyn Bragg , William Mclllvaney , Rebecca O'Rourke , Mogg Williams and others, claims the same distrust of the untutored voice still prevails among publishers and critics today. Producer Dave Sheasby
A six-part series by Colin McLaren. Three centuries of English family life through diaries and letters of the time. Interpreting the material are historians Ralph Houlbrooke , Linda Pollock and Roy Porter. Narrated by Lesley Dunlop. 2: The Estate of Childhood
Fiddle music by Rosemary Fumiss
Producer Louise Purslow
Presented by Ted Harrison. Producer Marlene Pease
PHONE: [number removed](Mon-Fri 10.00am-5.00pm)
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Nigel Cassidy.
Part 9.
with Derek Jacobi as the King and Carolyn Backhouse as Shahrazad.
A hunt for a lost arrow leads prince Ahmed into a magical adventure of sorcery and transformation.
Chairman Brian Hayes. First round: news programmes PMand Today do battle.