With John Barton , Archdeacon of Aston.

With Anna Ford and John Humphrys.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Lionel Blue.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament
Editor Roger Mosey. LETTERS: Today, PO Box 2299, London [Postcode removed]. FAX: [number removed]. E-MAIL: today@.bbc.co.uk

Chris Dunkley returns with a newly bulging postbag of listeners' letters about BBC Radio.
A Testbed production. Rptd Sun 6.15pm
WRITE TO: Feedback. [address removed]. FAX: [number removed]

The history of Britain.
171: The Tolpuddle Martyrs For details see Monday

Novelist Stevie Davies tells Shahnaz Pakravan why, for her fifth novel, she's turned to Emily Bronte for inspiration. Short story: Aubade: the Maggots of Enlightenment by Fiona Cooper. Read by Liza Ross and abridged by Julie Batty.

Presented by Joanna Pinnock. Producer Simon Roberts
Rptd Sun 8.00pm. WRITE TO: The Natural History Programme, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Chris Choi presents reports on consumer and social affairs.
Editor Huw Marks. PHONE: to raise issues for investigation [number removed]

Presented by Derek Cooper. Producer Sheila Dillon
Repeated Monday at 7.20pm

With Nick Clarke. Editor Kevin Marsh

Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm

By Margaret Kennedy , dramatised in two parts by Louise Paige. Repeated from Sunday 2.30pm

With Laurie Taylor and guests.

Tim Marlow considers the history of British art- as presented in a new television series. Plus Niamh Cusack in As You Like It- the first production in the Royal Shakespeare Company's new season at Stratford. Producer Anthony Denselow

By Kate Pullinger.
"Toby used to tell other kids that we were orphans, but I've never had trouble telling people that my father is in prison." Read by Michelle Collins.

With Chris Lowe and Charlie Lee-Potter .
Editor Margaret Budy. WRITE TO: PM
Letterline, BBC Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA. PHONE: [number removed]

Presented by David Stafford. Producer David Prest

It's good to talk.
Written by Caroline Harrington. Director David Ian Neville. Editor Vanessa Whitburn Repeated Monday at 1.40pm
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Presented by Chris Serle.
Producer Jane Ray. Repeated on Sunday at
3.30pm

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a topical debate in Stockton-on-Tees with panellists Lord Holme of Cheltenham, the Liberal Democrats' Northern Ireland spokesperson;
Genista Mclntosh , executive director of the Royal National Theatre; Estelle Morris MP, a member of Labour's education team; and Steven Norris MP, undersecretary of state for the Department ofTransport. Producer Nadine Grieve.
Repeated tomorrow at 1.10pm

Charles Wheeler concludes the series in which journalists who have won the James Cameron Memorial
Prize recount the experiences that have most affected them while covering world events. Wheeler talks about his coverage of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising as a producer for the BBC's Panorama.
Producer Julian Wilkinson Rpt

The life and work of columnist Erma Bombeck, "America's only woman humourist", and writer of "At Wit's End", is remembered by Alistair Cooke.

By Alistair Cooke.
Repeated Sunday at 9.15am

Striking Image
Repeated from Saturday 7.20pm

With Robin Lustig. Editor Rod Liddle

By A E Housman. Final part. For details see Monday

Sally Grace , Toby Longworth and the team take a sharp pencil and poke it in the eye of the week's news.
Producer Jane Berthoud. Rptd tomorrow 6.25pm

With Patrick Hannan and his guests. Producer Hilary Green

By Aidan Mathews. Part 5. For details see Monday