A Meditation for the beginning of anew day With Dick Williams.

With Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor. Retails as Monday plus:

with Charles Handy.

With Libby Purves and Brian Hayes.
Producer Lucy Cacanas

Obadiah and Jonah. June Barrie and Christian Rodska read from the Authorised Version.
Abridged by Sandra Willingham Producer Elizabeth Taylor

Introduced by Jenni Murray. Claire Jenkins unrolls the secret history of the stocking.
Serial: The Very Dead of Winter (8)

With John Howard.

Comedy by Sue Limb , starring Imelda Staunton as Izzy.
5: Up the Stick and Sick as a Parrot
Producer Jonathan James-Moore

with James Naughtie.

Sunday by Stephen Butchard , the third play in a four-part series of linked dramas by Liverpool writers.
Joe was a priest. Mary is his mother. Joe has taken work in a local bookies and become the topic of local gossip. Even a murder on the community's doorstep can't shift him from the spotlight.
Other parts played by members of the cast Music by Sense of Sound Director Kate Rowland

The Treasure Islands Children's Book
Quiz from the Madder Market Theatre, Norwich. Michael Rosen fires the questions about children's books old and new at authors Humphrey Carpenter, Kaye Umansky , Mary Hoffman and Chris Powling.
Producer Jill Burridge
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Last in the present series.

Miles Kington discovers what makes the Israelis laugh. "The difference between Jewish and Israeli humour is that Jewish jokes poke fun at themselves, whereas Israeli jokes poke fun at others." Producer Anne-Marie Cole

Brian Sibley looks at the new Mel Brooks movie, and picks the best of the year's movie books.
Producer Razia Iqbal (Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

by Esther Woolfson.
An exile from eastern Europe returns in search of his roots, but finds his footsteps constantly shadowed by a stranger. Read by Michael Elder. Producer Bruce Young

with Jon Sopel and Hugh Sykes.

6: Play It Again and Again, Sam. Must familiarity breed contempt? Frank Delaney celebrates the tired old cliche. Producer Liz Jensen

One flu over the pheasant's nest.

Information and entertainment from the programme which investigates all things green. Presented by Roger Harrabin.

Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care.

As the Government turns its attention to the question of law and order, Christopher Cook discovers that Henry II was concerned about what he saw as a "crime wave".

Miriam Marx Allen offers a glimpse of the compassionate and complex man behind the greasepaint moustache, and introduces letters that she received from her father while at Bennington College in Vermont. The letters touch on schoolwork, boyfriends, career choices, family feuds, problems with alcohol, politics, baseball and taxes. Frank Ferrante provides the voice of Groucho. Compiled and introduced byTonyStaveacre.
Producer Susan Roberts

(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

Presented by Martin Webber.

with Richard Kershaw.

Part 3.

In August 1947 two teenage boys wobbled their way north on a pair of battered bicycles to explore Yorkshire and Lancashire. Forty-six years later David Bean and Laurence Cantwell are reunited to retrace their travels and to see how things have changed.