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 Vicky Costick.

Former Labour Cabinet Minister Tony Benn recalls life at the heart of government. Producer Keith Jones

with Melvyn Bragg and guests, including Mario Vargas Llosa and Murray Gell-Mann. Producer Ruth Gardiner

An Anthobgy of Spiritual Verse. A selection of poetry on the theme of doubt. Producer Jocelyn Boxall

Introduced by Jenni Murray. Marya Burgess joins the Society of Women Writers and Journalists for their centenary celebrations. Serial: The Diaries of Sylvia Toumsend Warner. The third of five readings by Irene Sutcliffe. In 1949, Sylvia Townsend Warner's lover, Valentine Ackland , resumed her affair with another woman. Abridged by Pat McLoughlin. Editor Sally Feldman

Commentary from Lord's on the final day's play in the Second Test between England and New Zealand. Including at
1.00 The World at One as FM

Producer Tim Bowler. LINES OPEN from 10.00am

with John Howard. Editor Ken Vass

First Round- North West of England. Jim Banks (British Council officer); Phil Cocker (retired lecturer); Rob Hughes (surveyor for Valuation Office Agency, Inland Revenue); John Clarke (university lecturer). Producer Richard Edis

with James Cox.

Paula Wilcox is private-eye Rosie Monaghan in Alan McDonald 's series. 2: Softies. It's not easy finding a missing wife when the husband is "one card short of a full deck". With Malcolm Ward , Deborah Berlin. Suzannah Corbett. Tom Bevan. Dominic Traynor , Tina Gray and Teresa Gallagher Music by Peter Howell. Director Tracey Neale

Phone Gerry Anderson on [number removed]. Editor Sharon Banoff

As the Royal Opera House resounds to a new production of Verdi's Egyptian epic, Aida, Paul Vaughan finds out if it's a triumph with the critics; and one of the century's greatest musicians, violinist Jascha Heifetz , is remembered by his son. Producer Lore Windemuth (Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

by Clare Boylan. The park is a pleasant escape for her, in spite of the attentions of the old man. Read by Gillian Bevan. Producer Duncan Minshull

with Chris Lowe and Linda Lewis.

Can Debbie bank on a loan?

(Revised )

by Peter Roberts.
Provence, 1213: a crusade is descending with unbelievable ferocity to destroy the Cathar heresy. A troubadour finds himself embroiled in a battle which is not his.
Other parts played by Andy Hockley and Roger Hume.
Director: Nigel Bryant.

Daphne Glazer remembers her mother, "a little firebrand", who opened her own chemist's shop in 1920s Sheffield. Producer Gillian Hush

(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with Janet Cohen.

Howard Fast 's story about a modest American family who become victims of the nightmare tactics of McCarthy's FBI agents. 1: First Tiling
Abridged by Pete Morgan. Producer David Benedictus