Producers Alasdair Cross. Ruth Kiely and Tessa Polniaszek
With His Holiness the Dalai Lama in conversation with Trevor Barnes.
With James Naughtie and Sue MacGregor.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
A four-part series on Parliament's outcasts.
2: The Rebel Life. What is it like to cross the threshold of party loyalty and live the rebel life? Matthew Parris finds out. Producer Michael Blastland
Andrew Neil invites his guests to air their passions and pet hates. Producer Julia Shaw
A look back to some of the events in the news exactly 50 years ago. Producer Tabitha Morgan
Series editor Gaynor Vaughan Jones
As part of the 50th anniversary Best of Health initiative, Jenni Murray introduces a live programme from Manchester Town Hall exploring British attitudes towards sex. With actress Polly James, agony aunt Jenny Cozens and MEP Arlene McCarthy.
Serial: Shirley Williams - Snakes and Ladders, a Political Diary. Shirley Williams's ten-part autobiography. 6: Members Only
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Repeated from Saturday 12.00 noon
With Lesley Riddoch.
Robert Robinson chairs the nationwide general knowledge quiz. Today's first-round contest comes from the North of England.
Producer Richard Edis. Rptd Wed 6.30pm
With Nick Clarke.
Repeated from Friday
A four-part drama series set in a West Midlands news agency.
2: Team Games. Sinclair is trying to blow wide open the private life of England rugby player Garry Bould. with Marc Finn , Susan Jeffrey. Marian Kemmer , Kim Durham , Alex Jones. Tamsin Heatley and Anne-Marie Francis. Music by Jeff Meams
Written by Mick Martin. Director Brian Lighthill
With Laurie Taylor. A brief military history of the exploits of Action Man.
Lynne Walker considers the new season of the Proms, which opens this week, and listens to the new release from Africa's most important diva - Oumou Sangare.
Producer John Boundy. Rvsd rpt 9.30pm
By Jonathan Treitel. Read by Alice Arnold. Producer Duncan Minshull. Rptd next Saturday
With Chris Lowe and Charlie Lee-Potter .
Andy Hamilton 's six-part comedy series set in Hell.
1: Satan is fed up with eternity. with Jimmy Mulville , Steven O'Donnell , Philip Pope. Penelope Nice and Jasper Jacob Producer Paul Mayhew-Archer Rpt
Elizabeth gets an offer.
Repeated tomorrow at 1.40pm
Simon Parkes looks at food in Atlanta. Producer Sheila Dillon Rpt
The third in the Five in July series of plays by some of the rising stars in new drama. By Gill Adams , winner of an Edinburgh Fringe First in 1994, for Off Out. Six schoolfriends, angered by the murder of their friend Sally and the meagreness of her burial, take decisive action. with Sarah Parks. Josh Richards , Maike Lynden. Josh Richards , Terry Chapman and Darren Walton Director Kate Rowland
In the last of the series, Leonard Barras reads two more of his unlikely stories. Producer Gillian Hush
Revised repeat of 4.05pm
With Robin Lustig.
To mark the bicentenary of the death of Robert Burns , Michael Mackenzie reads Eric Linklater 's comic novel about the discovery of a long-lost pornographic manuscript by the poet. Abridged in ten parts by Trevor Royle. Producer David Jackson Young
Richard Ford 's novel is abridged in 12 parts by John Scotney and read by Ron Berglas. Part 9. Producer Julia Butt
