A meditation for the beginning of a new day with Fr Wilfrid McGreal.

With Brian Redhead and John Humphrys. Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day With Jim Thompson.
8.40 Yesterday In Parliament

With Libby Purves and Brian Hayes. Producer Lucy Cacanas

Zephaniah. The prophet foretells the day of wrath.
Read by Mamta Kaash.

Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Clare Jenkins attends a night class on how to survive Christmas.
Story: Those Sailing Ships of His Boyhood Dreams. 3: Ruby's Big Night, read by folly James .

With John Howard.

by Sue Limb.
With

with Nick Clarke.

Monday by Jeff Young , last in the series of linked dramas by Liverpool writers.
Eddie, alias "Edward the Confessor", is a petty thief and seller of chocolates and bin bags. Separated from his wife and daughter, he searches after recognition. There's been a murder in town and, if nicking chocolates hasn't made him "someone", then maybe his next confession will.
Music by Sense of Sound Director Kate Rowland

The programme returns to the Madder Market Theatre, Norwich, to find out who will win the Children's Book Quiz.
Presenter Michael Rosen. Producer Jill Burridge

On the fifth anniversary of the bombing of the Pan Am flight 103, Gerry Northam examines the forensic evidence which points towards a political cover-up over Lockerbie.

In the last of the series Miles Kington discovers what makes people from the Czech Republic chuckle. Producer Anne-Marie Cole

Brian Sibley sees Soderbergh's latest film, King of the Hill, and Clint Eastwood's film, A Perfect World; and there's a visit to the Coliseum for Smetana's The Two Widows.
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

3: Arrivederti! "Swirsky came to see my mother and his moustache was at its most dangerous. My mother said quietly, 'Will she have it?'"

with Chris Lowe and Hugh Sykes.

Frank Delaney on language that is what it says.
7: A Drop of the Irish. Producer Simon Elmes

Martha wants her money back.

Roger Harrabin asks whether any of the world's religions have green thoughts in their hearts.

Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the GP's surgery.

As families book tickets for what is often their annual visit to the pantomime, Christopher Cook and Sean Street take their seats to hear the history of the pantomime dame.

In the last programme of the series, Miriam Marx Allen talks to Tony Staveacre about her father and introduces some of the letters that he wrote to her in the 1950s, when his career took off in a new direction through the radio series You Bet Your Life. At the time, Miriam was trying to make her own way in the world. Frank Ferrante provides the voice of Groucho.
Producer Susan Roberts

(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

Presented by Mark Gregory.

Part 8.

David Bean and Laurence Cantwell continue their travels, retracing the route they took as teenage cyclists in the summer of 1948. 3: We Never Hear the Skylark Now