With the Rev Dr Gordon Gray.

With Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Tony Burnham.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

A topical phone-in. Producer Anne Peacock
LINES OPEN from 8.00am

The story of Britain from the Romans to the 20th century.
112: The New Hanoverians - Death,
Gin and Daniel Defoe For details see yesterday

There are over 100,000 ramblers in this country. Today, Jenni Murray talks to one of them, Kate Ashbrook , Chairperson of the Ramblers'
Association. Serial: Mother of Pearl (4) For details see yesterday

Presented by Geoff Watts.
Producer Toby Murcott. Rptd Sun 10.15pm

Russell Davies returns with a six-part series of the programme about words and the way we speak.
Primary Colors. As America embarks on the long and winding road to the White House, this programme samples the colourful language of stateside politics. Producer Simon Elmes

With Nick Clarke.

Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm

Calling Mission Control. In the second of four programmes, Dr John Gribbin looks at the figure of the space traveller, from Jules Verne 's French gentlemen tourists to the heroes and heroines of current fiction.
Producers Sara Davies and Sally Marmion

Perlman is one of the greatest violinists in the world. Last year, Paul Vaughan visited him in his New York apartment as he celebrated his 50th birthday. Rpt

WithDaireBrehan.
Pete Sylvester considers how the wearing of suits has imposed such ridiculous uniformity at work. Editor Sharon Banof
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Paul Vaughan reviews Graham Swift 's latest novel, Last Orders, and reads some new authors' first novels.
Producer Nicki Paxman. Rvsd rpt 9.30pm

By Ivy Bannister.
Marie finds herself pregnant at 42 and begins the difficult business of transforming her toy-boy lover into the father of her child.
Read by Julia Dearden. Producer Pam Brighton

With Chris Lowe and Jackie Hardgrave.

Lucy Flannery 's six-part sitcom about local government.
2: 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 Rpt

David considers Life.
Repeated tomorrow at 1.40pm

The last of a four-part series on the origins and the results of recent public policies.
Personal Pensions. Ten years ago,
Norman Fowler reorganised the nation's pensions. But many were sold the wrong policies or should not have bought them at all. Paul Lewis judges the Fowler reforms: success or failure? Producer David Dickinson. Rptd Sat 5.00pm

With Peter Evans.
Producer Anne McNaught

In My Own Time by Nina Bawden.
"Your son is nothing but a shell". Nina Bawden tells the story of her schizophrenic son's troubled life and the repeated failure of the health system in dealing with his illness. Producer Mairi Russell Rpt

With Tony Barringer. Producer Karen Turner
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Revised repeat from 4.05pm

With Isabel Hilton.

By Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Part 7. For details see yesterday

The week's events in the media.
Repeated from Sunday 11.15am

Nicholas Farrell reads the second episode of J G Ballard 's classic adventure.
For details see yesterday