Presented by Jeremy Cherfas. Producer Steve Peacock

with James Whitbourn and guest. Producer Janet McLarty

with John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Mary Louden.

Sports news with Cliff Morgan. Producer Matthew Allen

Holiday news with Sandy Gall. Producer Jill Thomas
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Presented by Ned Sherrin. Producer Will Saunders

Producer Tony Grant

Presented by Alison Mitchell.
Producer Kurt Barling. Rptd Monday 6.30pm

For the last in the series, Barry Took is joined by Alan Coren , Andy Hamilton , Jeremy Hardy and Joanna Coles to take a look back at the week's news. Producer Aled Evans. Rptd Monday 6.30pm

with Ivor Crewe , Professor of Government at Essex University; Donald Dewar MP, Shadow Social
Security Secretary; Dr Ann Robinson , Director General, National
Association of Pension Funds; and the Rt Hon Sir Nicholas Scott MP. Repeated from yesterday

Producers Anne Peacock and Nick Utechin LINES OPEN from 12.30pm

Dave Sheasby's play is based on a real event. On a dark, cold November day in 1950, Pablo Picasso came to Sheffield for a World Peace Conference. What was the effect of his visit?
With Ian Masters , Becky Hindley and Jonathan Keeble. Director Janet Whitaker

The history magazine examining the background to today's news. Officers at the Police Federation Conference demand that the police be armed.
Mark Urban discovers they once were. A Takeaway production. Rptd tomorrow 8.30pm

Presented by Peter Evans.
Producer Toby Murcott. Rptd Tuesday 8.00pm

Reporter Julian O'Halloran. Repeated from Tuesday

Nigel Cassidy investigates the curious development of familiar products.
1: The Teasmade. While Germany and Japan were forging ahead as economic powers, British industry was perfecting a machine that sat by the bedside and made a nice cup of tea. Producer Neil Koenig Revised

A satirical look at the news with Sally Grace , Toby Longworth and guests. Repeated from yesterday

Can sensitive men be speed junkies? Tom Robinson attempts to rescue motor racing from its macho image.
Producer Nick Ware. Rptd Thursday 11.30pm ANSWERPHONE: (0171) [number removed]

Damien Hirst : "More 'Billingsgate' than Botticelli...."
He has chainsawed cows in half, pickled sharks and sheep, been shortlisted for the Turner Prize, given up smoking, and he's just become a father. As a major new exhibition of his work opens in London, and with another soon to open in New York, Louisa Buck wonders whether the controversial artist's formaldehyde days are over.
Producer Jerome Weatherald. Rptd Fri 9.30pm

by John Peacock. With James Beattie as Tim, James Aubrey as David, and Sally Dexter as Rachel.
The Pied Piper is everywhere in Hamelin and 14-year-old Tim finds himself curiously disturbed by the legend and what lies behind it.
With Elaine Claxton , James Taylor and the people of Hamelin. Music composed by Stephen Boxer and played by Brian Gulland Director Jane Morgan

Presented by Brian Kay. Producer Anthony Sellors

Led by the Rev Tony Burnham , General Secretary of the United Reformed Church.

In the last of the series,
Simon Armitage introduces poetry from
Roger McGough and music from Alan Price recorded at the Riverside
Studios in Hammersmith.
Producer Paul Dodgson

Melvyn Bragg presents a series of six programmes which puts fictional villains in the dock.
1: Writer Will Self argues that King
Kong was not a marauding monster, but an expression of our own animal nature.
Producer Sara Conkey

Richard Baker talks to the duo pianists Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow and introduces extracts from their recordings. Repeated from Tuesday

Last in the series of traditional stories of love, magic and mysteries. With
Derek Jacobi as the King and Carolyn Backhouse as Shahrazad.
The Dream ofBaba Abdullah. In a final attempt to save her life, Shahrazad invites the King not merely to hear the final story but to enter it with her - or return alone.
Music by Sue Harris and Steafan Hannigan Adapted by Colin Haydn Evans Director Nigel Bryant Rpt