With Canon Noel Vincent.
With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With the Rev Roy Jenkins.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament
With Libby Purves and guests. Producer Ronni Davis
The news of exactly 50 years ago. For details see Monday
Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Serial: The Transit of Venus (10) For details see Monday
Repeated from Sunday 2.00pm
FACTSHEET: send A5 sae marked 2/97 to Gardeners' Question Time Factsheet, [address removed]
With Lesley Riddoch.
Created by Jim Eldridge and written by Paul Copley. Starring
Karl Howman as Mr Sims and James Grout as Mr Beeston.
7: Financial Times. Who'd be a crime reporter? Young Rafat learns the hard way.
Producer John Fawcett Wilson
Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm
Tony Mulholland's three-part serial. 1: Ambition. It's 1991, and Pat Brown
's burning desire is to stand as a Conservative candidate. She couldn't possibly have foreseen the obstacles that would stand in her way. After all, she is a woman. with Richard Mitchley. Michael Lumsden. Judy Bridgland , Roger Hume. Norman Bird , David Holt and Pat Quayle
Director Nigel Bryant Repeat
The second of a six-part series in which leading Irish women writers reflect on the idea of "Mother
Ireland". 2: Eavan Boland on women, poetry, and the idea of the nation. Producer Ian Kirk-Smith
With the recent rash of Hollywood film adaptations of Shakespeare, another famous name pitches their version of a Shakespeare play to a major studio.
Paul Gambaccini sees The
Preacher's Wife starring
Whitney Houston and The Quest with Jean-Claude Van Damme and reads the ultimate guide to low-budget film-making.
Producer Beaty Rubens Revised repeat 9.30pm
By Gail Hughes. Even though flamingos live in Africa, Ellie's sure she's seen them near the prairie town where she lives. Read by Buffy Davis. Producer Jocelyn Boxall
Repeated from Monday
Lights out at Lower Loxley. Repeated tomorrow 1.40pm
John Waite on the trail of your complaints.
Producer Mervyn Retcher. Repeated tomorrow at 9.05am. WRITE TO: Face the Facts. BBC Broadcasting House. London W1A 1AA. E-MAIL: FTF@bbc.co. uk.
John Tusa discusses the lessons and highpoints of the 20th century with historian Christopher Cook and writer Michael Ignatieff , who will be presenting the next series of 20/20 which starts next week.
Producer David Herman Repeat
June Knox-Mawer tells the story of Alfred Sadd - a young missionary in the South Pacific whose carefree life ended in an astonishing act of bravery during the Japanese invasion. Simon Jones reads from Sadd's letters.
Producer Julian Hale Repeat
James Lovelock talks to Barbara Myers about his controversal Gaia Hypothesis. Producer Sandy Raffan
Repeated Sunday 9.30pm
Revised repeat of 4.05pm
With Isabel Hilton.
Nigel Williams 's black comedy abridged in ten parts by Georgina Brown. Part 3.
For details see Monday
The Cheese Shop Present The Butter Factor Sketches, songs and jokes with Gerard Foster , Dave Lamb , Gordon Southern, Tim Verrinder , Ben Ward and Richard Webb. Producer Gareth Edwards
Michael Fenton Stevens and Kerry Shale star in the last of a four-part guide to Yiddish. Based on the book by Leo Rosten. Adapted by Jeremy Front . Producer Diane Messias Repeat
By Helen Dunmore. Part 6. For details see Monday
