with Judith O'Neill.
with James Naughtie and John Humphrys.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Mary McAleese.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament
Sandi Toksvig garners the best in conversation from around a table, around Britain and around the world.
Producer Jon Rowlands
The story of Britain from the Romans to the 20th century.
3: Caractacus - the First Sung Hero. With Peter Yapp and John Turner. For details see Monday
Jenni Murray meets the soprano singer Suzannah Clarke.
Serial: Monkey's Uncle (5) For details see Monday
Repeated from Sunday 2.00pm
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Gardeners' Question Time Factsheet, [address removed]
with Tasneem Siddiqi.
Second episode of Lucy Flannery 's sitcom about local government. With a monster raving loony as mayor, and the Labour Party in control after years of Tory rule, Chesbury is feeling a hurricane of change. With
Nelson David , John Duttine , James Grout , Rosy Fordham, Nick Hardy , Howard Lew
Lewis, Toby Longworth , Jan Ravens ,
Vivienne Rochester and June Whitfield. Producer Liz Anstee
with Nick Clarke.
Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm
A two-part play telling the true story of 19th-century heroine Caroline Norton. 2: Caroline has separated from her abusive husband at the cost of losing her children. Ten years later, she is still fighting to clear her name over the scandal caused by her friendship with the Prime Minister.
Written by Gillian Bevan , Helen Kluger and Tessa Peake-Jones
A Tight Assets Theatre production
Children's book historian Brian Alderson and bookseller Jean Hedgerjoin
Michael Rosen at the Hay Festival to value children's books of the past which listeners have kept and treasured. Producer Jill Burridge
with Daire Brehan and guests.
Quentin Cooper reads Carol Shields' novel The Box Garden and reviews this week's film releases, including Six Degrees of Separation.
Producer Edwina Wolstencroft. Rvsd rpt 9.30pm
by Grace Wynn-Jones. Going to the concert that night, Edmund's wife was composed. After 20 years as the fluent hostess who charmed her husband's clients, her conversation moved easily from pate to Rachmaninov. But no one had told her about the Frenchman, and how much can happen in the Interval. Read by Alexandra Bastedo. Producer Mairi Russell
with Jon Sopel and Linda Lewis.
Repeated from Monday 12.25pm
Aspersions on Caroline.
Repeated tomorrow at 1.40pm
with John Waite.
Editor Graham Ellis. Rptd tomorrow 9.05am WRITE TO: Face the Facts, BBC Broadcasting House. London W1A 1AA
Repeated from yesterday 11.30am
Johnny Vaughan asks the questions scientists and technologists would rather not answer. Today he tries to find out why, despite computers the size of office blocks and armies of forecasters, we still can't predict the weather.
A Union Pictures production. Rptd Sun 9.30pm
Naomi Gryn, daughter of Holocaust survivor Hugo Gryn, travels from Jerusalem to Washington to explore the ways in which the story of the Shoah is being retold for the future.
Revised repeat of 4.05pm
with Isabel Hilton.
by Marge Piercy. Part 3. For details see Monday
Ben Moor 's comedy of connections narrated by Oliver Postgate.
4: The Zoo. Today's programme traces the links between hurdling cattle, the Elephant's Lumberyard, gong beetles, alternative horticulture and the Llama movies of the early 60s. With Dan Strauss , Kerry Shale , Geoff McGivern , Fiona Allen and Ben Moor. Producer Jon Naismith
An album of forgotten sporting heroes. 4: Gertrude Trelawny Ferris.
Gerald Sinstadt tells the story of the all-round pioneering sportswoman. Written by Simon Bullivant Producer Richard Wilson
