With John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Gabrielle Cox.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament
Michael Buerk chairs the first in a series of live analysis on the moral questions behind the week's news. Witnesses face cross-examination from 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
Jenni Murray talks to the writer
Joanna Briscoe , whose new novel gets under the skin of plastic surgery. Serial: Every Man for Himself (9). For details see Monday
Producer Tony Grant
With Charlotte Smith.
The first of six more editions of the panel game in which chairman Simon Brett challenges crime writers
Tim Heald and Jessica Mann to solve the mystery of A Murdered Reputation.
With Lee Simpson and Maria McErlane. Producer Ann Jobson
With Nick Clarke.
Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm
By Greg Cullen. Twelve years ago, the miners returned to work after a year-long strike. But at Tower colliery in South Wales, they refused to take defeat lying down. with Laurence Allan , Jennifer Hill ,
Brian Hibbard. Tessa Gearing, Siriol Jenkins. Eirlys Bellin, Jonathan Chapple and Phil Rowlands Director Alison Hindell Repeat
Daire Brehan with guests.
Miriam O'Reilly talks to two men who seemed destined to spend their lives serving God, until they chose the highpressure world of big business instead.
Paul Allen follows Kathryn Hunter 's creation of a female King Lear in Leicester, and hears a first performance of Roger Garfitt 's Bordersongs - poems engraved in glass, reflecting the story of the Marches. Producer Chris Eldon Lee
Revised repeat at 9.30pm
By Diana Hendry. On the day the sailor came to tea, Jocelyn's life changed for ever. Read by Kate Beckinsale. Producer Sara Davies
With Charlie Lee-Potter and Chris Lowe.
By the Liberal Democrats.
Topical comedy, written by and starring Jeremy Hardy. Also starring Meera Syal and Gordon Kennedy. Producer David Tyler
Hayley finds her dream home. Repeated tomorrow 1.40pm
Six new investigations whose starting-point is a piece of intriguing documentary evidence.
4: The Art of the Impossible. George Fischer investigates how in the late eighties the covert political and diplomatic initiatives of a few reform-minded Hungarian Communists played an unforeseen but essential part in the fall of the Berlin Wall. German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscherand Hungarian Prime
Minister Miklos Nemeth recollect their secret meetings and negotiations. Producer Louise Greenberg
Growing Doubts
While economic debate turns toward encouraging growth and worrying less about inflation, Peter Kellner examines the rise and fall of economic orthodoxies and asks if we really know what works. Producer Michael Blastland
Repeated Sunday 4.15pm
Six writers reflect on enduring themes drawn from the narrative of Christ's suffering. 2: The novelist Nigel Williams. Producer Norman Winter
Presented by Frederick Dove. Producer Colin Hughes
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Revised repeat of 4.05pm
With Robin Lustig.
By Paul Theroux (4). For details see Monday
The second in a six-part serialisation of Stephen King 's chilling novel, dramatised for radio by Gregory Evans. with Stuart Milligan , Helen Horton , Alice Arnold and Mark Bonnar. Original music composed by David Chilton and Nicholas Russell-Pavier . Director Gordon House
John Guerrasio reads the first part of Nik Cohn 's short story, abridged in two parts by Paul Kent. Producer Paul Kent
