with David Melling.
with James Naughtie and Sue MacGregor.
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Oliver McTernan.
Former Secretary of State for Energy Tony Benn draws on his private diary tapes to recall how in 1977 the Windscale nuclear complex came to the edge of catastrophe. Producer Keith Jones
with Melvyn Bragg and guests. Producer Ruth Gardiner
Michael Rosen with the first in a series of sparkling performances featuring the pick of the country's children's Poets - who appeared earlier this month at the BBC Poetry Festival in Bristol. Producer Viv Beeby
Jenni Murray celebrates post-war British cookery, with Jocelyn Dimbleby , Sophie Grigson , Prue Leith, Marguerite Patten and Claudia Roden. And Stephanie Cole reads Para Navidad from Elizabeth David 's
An Omelette and a Glass of Wine . Editor Sally Feldman
with Libby Purves. What should pre-school education consist of and who should pay? Penelope Leach and Sir Christopher Ball discuss their vision of the future.
Nick Yapp joins the Punch and Judy Professors from all over the country as they gather in Covent Garden to celebrate the 332nd birthday of Mr Punch. He also traces his history and looks at some of the music and literature he has inspired Producer Ronni Davis
with John Howard. Editor Ken Vass
Robert Robinson chairs the nationwide general knowledge contest.
First Round - Midlands and East Anglia. Bob Thompson (printer); Bill Stratton (project manager); Steve Evans (company director); and Steven Havercroft (systems consultant).
Producer Richard Edis
A detective series by Michael McStay , with Stephen Thorne as Inspector Coleman and Joe Dunlop as Sergeant Astor.
3: No Harm Done. No one in Southampton has any reason to be proud of the Gantry Estate, least of all the people who live there.
Music by Stephen Wartieck. Series producer Jane Morgan
Call Gerry Anderson on [number removed]. Editor Sharon Banoff
Paul Vaughan visits an important exhibition of Henry Moore sculptures in Yorkshire and talks to the clarinettist Nicholas Cox. Producer John Boundy (Revised repeat at 9.30pm)
by T Coraghessan Boyle, read by William Hootkins.
Producer Duncan Minshull
The return of the undisputed antidote to panel games, with Barry Cryer , Graeme Garden , Willie Rushton , Tim Brooke-Taylor and Humphrey Lyttelton in the chair.
Eddie's caught out.
J R Jones's play is set in 1945 in a place where, people say, there is no boundary between magic and reality - the wild coast of Pembrokeshire.
Pan pipes by Brendan O'Malley. Director Jane Dauncey
You're more likely to die of an accident at home than at work; be killed on the roads than in the air; and get cancer from x-rays not nuclear power. But most of us go on behaving according to our feelings about risk, rather than to the reality of risk itself. Geoff Watts investigates. Producer Peter Croasdale
(Revised repeat of 4. 05pm)
by Sebastian Faulks.
On a rainy night in the 1930s, Ann Louvet arrives at the Gare de Janvilliersto take up her job as waitress at the Hotel Lyon d'Or. Read in six episodes by Michelle Newell. Abridged by Catherine Czerkawska. Producer Sue Wilson
In the last of the series, Bel Mooney talks to John Cleese about the grey area between belief and unbelief. Producer Malcolm Love
In the last of the series, Harry Hill and family introduce guests from the world of doctors and nurses, Nana Hill (82) in a C5, and a "blockbusting" guest!
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