With James Whitbourn and guest. Producer Kathryn Blennerhassett

With Sue Mac Gregorand John Humphrys.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Gabrielle Cox .

With Cliff Morgan.
Producer Audrey Adams

Travel news with Anne Gregg. Producer Dave Harvey
For information sheets send a sae to
Breakaway. [address removed] Repeated tomorrow at 10.45pm

With Ned Sherrin.
Producer Jon Rowlands

Anne Applebaum of the Evening
Standard looks behind the scenes at
Westminster.
Editor Jane Robins

BBC correspondents around the world take a look at their host countries. Producer Tony Grant

Producer Tim Bowler

Simon Hoggart lets Alan Coren of the Times, Francis Wheen of the Guardian and comedian Mark Steel loose on the week's strangest stories.
Producer Aled Evans. Rptd Monday 6.30pm

Jonathan Dimbleby presents a topical discussion from Littleover in Derbyshire with panellists Ann Leslie , special correspondent for the Daily Mail; Dr Gerald Malone MP, Minister of State at the Department of Health; Professor David Marquand , Principal-Elect of Mansfield College, Oxford: and Dawn Primarolo MP, Shadow
Treasury spokesperson. Repeated from yesterday

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Producers Nadine Grieve and Anne Peacock LINES OPEN from 12.30pm

By Dodie Smith. This new dramatisation of her famous novel is broadcast to commemorate the centenary of Dodie Smith 's birth. Amanda Root and Helena Bonham Carter play sisters Cassandra and Rose Mortmain, living in complete poverty in a ruined castle in Suffolk. with Ann Beach. Robert Harper. Patience Tomlinson, Jonathan Adams and David Timson. Dramatised by Dawn Lowe-Watson . Director Cherry Cookson
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The topical series which explains the history behind the headlines. Mark Urban explores events of the past which put the present into perspective. Editors Archie Baron and Neil Cameron Repeated tomorrow at 8.30pm

Professor Lewis Wolpert , a developmental biologist from
University College, London, reviews the week's scientific discoveries.
Producer Paula McGrath. Repeated Tuesday at 8.00pm. E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk

Simon Dring rides into Sweetwater, Texas, for a taste of life in the snake pit of American politics. Repeated from Tuesday

Last of the series in which Phil Smith tests the views of the man in the street.
Producer Gillian Hush

Repeated from yesterday

Circus Folk. In the last decade, Britain's big tops have had to win over animal rights activists and have faced stiff competition from foreign circuses.
Robert Robinson finds out if that old circus magic is still there.
ProducerBruce Whitney Low. Rptd Thur 11.30pm

Speaking of Rivers
The father of the Harlem Renaissance,
Langston Hughes was the greatest black writer of his generation.
Saxophonist Courtney Pine , poet Fred D'Aguiar and composer Mark Anthony -Turnage tell Brian Morton of how they continue to be inspired by this man.
Producer Erika Wright. Rptd Friday at 9.30pm

Martyn Wade 's play presents Grimes as a much darker and more sinister figure than the hero of Benjamin Britten 's opera set in a 19th-century Suffolk fishing village. The death of young boys in Grimes' care is investigated by the poet
George Crabbe , whose poem The Borough was the inspiration for the opera. with Richard Pearce , Gavin Muir , David Jarvis , Elaine Claxton , Tina Gray ,Deborah Berlin and Neville Jason. Director Cherry Cookson Rpt

Presented by Brian Kay. Producer Patrick Lambert

Presented by Alison Leonard.

A new continent has been discovered-by all accounts a traveller's paradise, but a fragile one. So who should be responsible for it? In the last of the series, Robert Elms chairs the debate on what to do with this mythical land. Producers John Dryden and Rebecca Nicholson PHONE: (0171) [number removed]

Hadyn Price continues his quest to find the ultimate champions.
The School. In the last programme, he visits women who saved their school, by getting pregnant. Producer Haydn Price

Brian Kay looks at Tchaikovsky's life. Repeated from Tuesday

First of a four-part comedy drama series by Christopher Fitz-Simon , set in Ballylenon, Co Donegal. with John Hewitt , Gerard McSorley ,
Charlie Bonnar and Ciara McKeown. Music arranged and performed by Stephanie Hughes Director Eoin O'Callaghan Rpt

By Muriel Spark.
Read by Jane Wittenshaw. Repeated from Monday