Producers Alasdair Cross , John Harvey and Ruth Kiely
with Abdal Hakim Murad , Muslim writer and publisher.
with James Naughtie and Peter Hobday.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Richard Harries.
4: Stuart Simon looks back over nearly 20 years with Radio 4's File on 4. A Bell Radio production
Melvyn Bragg talks to mathematical physicist Frank Tipler , who has a scientific case for the existence of God. Producer Ruth Gardiner
A new spiritual anthology. Unknown Bards, read by Eve Karpf ,
Colin McFariane , Jack Klaff and Dona Croll. Producer Pam Fraser Solomon
Introduced by Jenni Murray. Serial: Who Will Run the Frog
Hospital? (5) by Lorrie Moore. Read by Shelley Thompson and abridged in seven parts by Meg Clarke.
Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie
Producer Sarah Pennells
UNES OPEN from 10.00am
with Daire Brehan.
Second semi-final of the music quiz conducted by Ned Sherrin.
Producer Jo Clegg. Rptd Wednesday 6.30pm
with Nick Clarke.
Repeated from Friday
A four-part detective series by Nigel Baldwin , set in Amiens, 1791. David Calder plays Lt Gen Lacroix , trying to police France despite the Revolution. 1: Friends in High Places. A girl is murdered while Robespierre is in town.
Original music by Paula Gardner performed by Mark Edwards. Jeanette Masocchi , Ron Parry and Paula Gardner. Director Alison Hindell
with Laurie Taylor.
Nathalie Wheen sees a new production of Richard Strauss 's shock opera Salome at Covent Garden, and Immortal Beloved, a film about
Beethoven starring Gary Oldman. Producer Edwina Wolstencroft
Revised repeat at 9.30pm
Five stories from the BBC's annual collection, published this week.
1: Poor Old Man 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 Rpt
with Chris Lowe and Linda Lewis.
Barry Took chairs the topical game show. With Alan Coren , Francis Wheen , Ian Hislop and Andrew Rawnsley.
Repeated from Saturday 12.25pm
John's sworn to secrecy. Repeated tomorrow at 1.40pm
Presented by Derek Cooper.
Every family has secrets, but in Elizabeth Mansfield's play Anna's revelations to her sister Kath will force her to unlock the cupboard and face the skeletons.
Music composed by Anthea Gomez Director Sue Wilson
The last of four programmes charting the music historian's tours of Europe in the 1770s, with Timothy West as Charles Bumey. Dr Bumey hears
Frederick the Great play the flute, and defends the music of C P E Bach. Producer Gwen Hughes Rpt
Revised repeat of 4.05pm
with Robin Lustig.
Don Marquis 's story about Archy, a poet reincarnated as a cockroach, abridged in eight parts. 6: Archy continues his nightly forays on the typewriter, relating his observations on a world of insects and Mehitabel the cat. Archy is played by John Guerassio and Mehitabel by Eartha Kitt , with the voice of Jack Klaff. A Rewind production
