With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Frances Gumley.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament
Michael Buerk chairs an investigation into the moral questions behind the week's news. Witnesses face cross-examination from Dr David Cook ,
Janet Daley , Michael Mansfield QC and Dr David Starkey. Producer David Coomes
Today's news from 50 years ago. For details see Monday
Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Joan Smith takes the lid off such writers as Byron, Nora Ephron, Roald Dahl, Naomi Woolf and Agatha Christie to reveal a culinary pot of sex, politics and phobias. Serial: Perfectly Correct Written and abridged by Phillippa Gregory in 12 parts. Part one, read by Rebecca Front .
Producer Tony Grant
With Mark Whittaker.
Chairman Simon Brett challenges crime writers Simon Shaw and Margaret Yorke to solve the mystery of "the corpse in the car park". With Lee Simpson and Maria McEriane. Producer Ann Jobson
With Nick Clarke.
Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm
Commissioned as part of BBC radio's Young Writers' Festival, Roy Williams 's new play is about teenage rebellion that threatens to tear two families apart.
Director Pam Fraser Solomon
With Daire Brehan. Simon Hoggart begins a political novice's guide to
MPs in which each week he sketches a dishonourable profile of a recognisable type of Honourable Member. 1: The Used Car Dealer.
Paul Allen considers the work of Theatre Clwyd as a new production of My Sister in This House opens, based on a true murder story from France. Producer Jackie Christie
Revised repeat at 9.30pm
By Bryan MacMahon. Read by Ann Marie Horan. A token gift to a young girl has surprising consequences. Producer Roland Jaquarello
With Charlie Lee-Potter and Jon Sopel.
by the Labour Party.
The return of Clive Coleman 's comedy series set in the world of arts broadcasting.
1: Brian wants Arting About to cover the Verona Opera Festival, but new presenter Sheena would rather go to Birmingham for a country-and-western show. Does she have an ulterior motive?
Producer Jo Clegg
A dilemma for Susan.
Repeated tomorrow at 1.40pm
Six portraits of the great names in radio, TV and beyond.
3: Too Much of a Good Thing Is
Wonderful ... was Liberace's motto for life. But was something missing? Producer Matt Thompson
United We Fall
Ngaire Woods asks if the time has come to rethink the role of the UN and its functions.
Producer Jane Beresford
Repeated Sunday at 4.15pm
A four-part series in which old and new hands compare notes. 2: Pawn Brokers.
Producer Lucy Lunt
The programme for people with disabilities. Presented by Frederick Dove.
Producer Colin Hughes
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Revised repeat of 4.05pm
With Robin Lustig.
By Elaine Feinstein. Part 4. For details see Monday
Craig Warner's witty and irreverent six-part comedy set in 18th-century France. 2: Cause Celebre. How will the wily Beaumarchais contend with courtly crushes, rumours of war and a spot of illicit printing?
Director Marion Nancarrow
By E Annie Proulx. Part 4. For details see Monday
