with Father Eamon Martin.
with Peter Hobday and John Humphrys. Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with David Stone
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament
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Repeated from yesterday 7.20pm
Make Migration Work. In the last of the series, Peter Tomkins , for ten years head of the Immigration Service, argues that the British people do not know the truth about immigration and that a more realistic policy is needed. Producer Anna Parkinson
Repeated Sunday at 7.30pm
Part 39 of John Milton 's epic poem. For details see yesterday.
Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Serial: Knowledge of Angels (3)
Producer Tony Grant
with Tasneem Siddiqi.
Sophie Grigson. panellists Clarissa Dickson-Wright and Nigel Slater , with special guest eighth-generation Billingsgate fish merchant Simon Newnes , field questions from the Loch Fyne Oyster Bar in Argyle at the start of the oyster season. A Partners in Sound production
Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm
DEUTSCHE ROMANTIK
Experience 24 hours in the life of a city in this programme by Dave Gorman , Ian Baskerville , Janet George , Cheryl Martin , Ann-Marie Frater and Matthew Dunster. It digs beneath Manchester's skin with tales of madness, robbery, birth - and a donkey in a high-rise flat. With Noreen Kershaw , Lemn Sissay and Jimmy Hibbert. Director Nandita Ghose
with Gerry Anderson.
Paul Allen considers the Israeli
Theatre Season in Manchester as it gets into full swing, and talks to conductor Stephen Cleobury.
Producer Beaty Rubens. Revised repeat 9.30pm
by Ravinder Randhawa.
Shimrie makes a nostalgic journey back to a place and family she had once angrily rejected.
Read by Sakuntala Ramanee. Producer Pam Fraser Solomon
with Chris Lowe and Linda Lewis.
How to Be a Father - Part 2. Written by and starring Jeremy Hardy , with Debbie isitt and Gordon Kennedy. A Pozzitive production
Food for thought.
Repeated tomorrow at 1 40pm
"There may well be life-forms beyond our planet and they may well have their poetry." This Arthur C Clark quote prompted Ian McMillan to go in search of that small band of British sci-fi poets, a group with a strangely low-key status in view of the massive imaginative possibilities of their subject matter. It's a quest with surprises ... Producer Dave Sheasby
The 'C' Word. Community is the new buzzword of British politics. For Labour, it is about revitalising public services and emphasising personal responsibilities; Conservatives talk of opted-out schools and community policing. Geoff Mulgan examines the philosophical origins of the search for community.
Producer Nicola Meyrick. Rptd Sun 4.15pm
Six programmes mixing music, poetry, interviews and archive material.
5: Courtenay Rattray. director of the Jamaican Trading Company, presents his view of the banana industry. In California, bananas are
Ken Bananister 's life - he collects anything banana-like from across the globe. Competition is intense between banana producers in the Caribbean and Latin America - the row over European subsidies is set to run and run. What will that mean for the industry and the people whose livelihoods depend on it? Producer Dinah Lammiman
Presented by Ted Harrison. Producer Marlene Pease.
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10.00am-5.00pm
Revised repeat of 4.05pm
with Robin Lustig.
The story of Ram of Ayodhya.
4: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times. The demon rakshasas Marich and Subahu have created an illusion to confuse the young Prince Ram. For cast see Friday
Twelve Bar Bessie. Poet Jackie Kay introduces a sequence of her poems inspired by the American blues singer Bessie Smith and read by Eartha Kitt. Presented by Simon Armitage. Producer Julian Wilkinson
