with Canon John Young of York Minster.

with Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with David Stone.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Michael Buerk chairs a live investigation into the moral questions behind the week's news. Witnesses face cross-examination from Janet Daley , Rabbi Hugo Gryn , Edward Pearce and Dr David Starkey. Producer David Coomes

Part 3 of John Milton 's poem. For details see Tuesday

Jenni Murray meets the Brazilian author Lya Luft.
Serial: Knowledge of Angels (8) For details see Monday

Producer Tony Grant

withTasneemSiddiqi.
+ See Face behind the Voice: page 14

Sophie Grigson , panellists Clarissa Dickson-Wright and Nigel Slater , with special guest Marguerite Patten OBE , are in Betty's Tea Room, Ilkley. A Partners in Sound production

with Nick Clarke.

Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm

An outsized comedy by Deborah Freeman. Janet discovers that fat is more than a feminist issue when she meets Paul, a very thin poet.
Director Michael Fox

with Gerry Anderson.

Paul Allen sees a collaboration of theatre and dance at the National Theatre - Alice's Adventures
Underground, and reviews Mail Order Bride at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. Producer Adrian Washbourne Revised repeat at 9.30pm

by Virginia Woolf, read by June Barrie. Every friend had been left some little token of her affection - and for her husband there was the diary.... Producer Viv Beeby

with Linda Lewis and Hugh Sykes.

How to Meet the Challenge of the 21st Century. The ultimate part of the controversial series written by and starring Jeremy Hardy , with Debbie Isitt and Gordon Kennedy. A Pozzitive production

Ruth's on the war path.... Repeated tomorrow at 1.40pm

Personal Trauma and the Fate of Nations. A remarkable number of rulers throughout Europe and beyond have, at various moments of their lives, been deemed" mad". In the first of two programmes Vivian Green and Christopher Cook trace the connections between madness and kingship from the days of the Roman emperors to modern times, analysing the ways in which mental instability has affected the rulers themselves and the people they governed. Producer John Knight

Too Much for the Poor? Fear of welfare dependency and calls for lower taxes challenge the post-war assumption that redistribution is the proper job of government.
Andrew Dilnot asks to what extent we still believe in taking from the rich and giving to the poor.
Producer Ingrid Hassler. Rptd Sunday 4.15pm

Last of the series that mixes music, poetry, interviews and archive material. The charismatic former chairman of Premier Consolidated Oil,
Roland Shaw , taps into the power of oil. He meets some of the wildcatters of the oil business, talks to Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Yergin , author of The Prize, a history of oil, and looks into the future of the king commodity. Producer Dinah Lammiman

Presented by Kati Whitaker. Producer Marlene Pease
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Revised repeat of 4.05pm

with Robin Lustig.

9: The Pursuit of Peace. Prince Bharat returns to the Palace of Ayodhya and is confronted by his mother, Queen Keikeyi. For cast see Friday

Simon Armitage steps into the high-energy, fast and furious arena of a new kind of performance poetry with its roots in rap and rhythm. Producer Sara Davies