With Professor Akbar Ahmed.
With James Naughtie and Sue MacGregor.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Lavinia Byrne.
Steven Norris MP, former Transport Minister, reads his memoirs.
Producers Sheila Fox and Nadine Grieve
Melvyn Bragg is joined by poet and critic Tom Paulin and by the political writer Ben Pimlott.
Producer Olivia Seligman
A look back at the news of 50 years ago. Producer Laura Craig Gray
Series editor Gaynor Vaughan Jones
50th Anniversary Week. To celebrate the programme's 50th anniversary,
Jenni Murray hosts a quiz about women live from the BBC Radio Theatre. Team captains Edwina Currie MP and Clare Short MP are joined by Diana Quick ,
Janet Street-Porter , Genista Mcintosh and Marina Wamer. Serial: Broadcasting a Life: the Autobiography of Olive Shapley. Stephanie Cole reads from the life story of a broadcasting pioneer who first presented Woman's Hourin 1949.
Abridged in five parts by Gillian Hush. Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie WEB SITE: http://www.bbcnc.org.uk/ radio/radio4/womans_hour/index.html
* Polly Toynbee : page 14; The hour that lasted 50 years: page 26;
Competitions and giveaways: pl31
With Vincent Duggleby.
Producer Frances Macdonald UNES OPEN 10am
Rory McGrath chairs the panel game. With team captains Tony Hawkes and Stephen Frost.
Producer Jon Naismith
Repeated Wednesday at 6.30pm
With Nick Clarke.
Repeated from Friday
Tom Wilkinson stars as jazz-loving DI Charlie Resnick in the first of a two-part dramatisation of John Harvey 's novel. Two violent robberies force
Resnick to relive painful memories of ten years ago.
Director David Hunter Repeat
Laurie Taylor and guests with topical discussion and lively features.
Lynne Walker reviews The Witch of Exmoor, the first new Margaret Drabble novel in five years, in which she unravels the story of a family whose comfortable life is violently disrupted.
Producer John Boundy. Revised repeat at 9.30pm
By Damon Runyon.
Read by Kerry Shale .
Producer Viv Beeby Repeated Sunday 12.30am
With Charlie Lee-Potter and Nigel Wrench.
Repeated from Saturday 12.25pm
Usha tries to no avail.
Repeated tomorrow at 1.40pm
* Face Behind the Voice: page 12
Derek Cooper explores the world of genuine Lancashire cheese. Repeated from Friday
Clare Mclntyre 's play about single parenthood stars Carolyn Pickles and Alex Jennings as Sam and Lorcan, whose relationship over the years is analysed in minute and ironic detail. Their 11-year-old son Ben is a gifted young cellist, whose further education is the cause of their latest fallout. with Keith Drinkel , Ioan Meredith , Colleen Prendergast and Alice Arnold. Director Cherry Cookson
Andras Sugar , for many years one of Hungary's best-known television personalities, talks to Misha Glenny about some of the dilemmas he faced as a journalist under Communism. Producer Clare Csonka
Revised repeat of 4.05pm
With Robin Lustig in London and Isabel Hilton at the Conservative Party Conference in Bournemouth.
In the first of four programmes, touring actor Timothy West reads letters written over 30 years to his wife Prunella Scales , starting with weekly rep in the 1960s.
Producer Michael Earley Repeat
What if all of us could live longer?
Who would look after us? And would we be better off? Decision-makers from politics, religion and healthcare debate the question as Sarah Dunant presents them with the last hypothetical scenario in the series. Producer Ariane Koek
The last in a series of classic travels.
Wrecks and Death. James Hamilton
Paterson contemplates the powers of the deep from Jonah to witchcraft in the South China Seas. Read by Tim Piggot-Smith .
Producer Duncan Minshull Repeat
The true story of rock enigma Nico, written and read in eight episodes by her keyboard player, James Young. Part 6.
Producer Paul Kent
