With John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
Peter Sissons puts listeners' questions to Liberal Democrat Charles Kennedy. PHONE: [number removed]. Local call rates apply SIMULTANEOUS BROADCAST with BBC1
With Jenni Murray.
Serial: The Portrait of a Lady (A). For details see Monday
Reports from around the world. Producer Tony Grant
With Mark Whittaker.
Chirs Kelly looks at the people he most admires. In the first of four programmes, he explores the lesser-known facts concerning a fictional American president. Producer Kathy Smith
With Nick Clarke.
Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm
A musician and his market-trader wife accept an invitation to buy the stage costumes of a seventies pop legend. Dominic Power's chiller sees them caught in a Gothic underworld where both the living and the dead are too close for comfort.
Pianist Paul Jones. Director Michael Fox
With Daire Brehan. Ian Peacock considers the spirit of time by trying to have enough fun to work out whether time flies while he is doing it.
Paul Allen reviews a new play at the Dundee Rep, A Greater Tomorrow, about Scots volunteers who fought in the Spanish Civil War. And, on the 80th anniversary of the burial of Edward Thomas , a fresh look at his poetry and its influence.
Producer Julian May. Revised repeat at 9.30pm
By Margaret McAllister. An 86-year-old spinster has trouble sleeping. A sharp cry from her niece's bedroom disturbs her. She reflects on other broken nights, more than half a lifetime ago, in Africa, when she fell in love once and for ever with a man who could never be hers. Read by Daphne Oxenford. Producer Melanie Harris Repeat
With Charlie Lee-Potter and Chris Lowe.
By the Labour Party.
The fourth episode in a new six-part series for comedian Harry Hill. With Burt Kwouk, Edna Dore, Al Murray, Martin Hyder, Matt Bradstock and Peter Serafinowicz.
Susan is worried about her future. Repeated tomorrow 1.40pm
A four-part series which uses the clues gleaned from gardens of different religious cultures to explore our ideas of paradise.
4: The Memory Garden. If paradise is a memory, then just whose memory is it? Noah Richler visits California, Utah and Arizona, and discusses the very idea of paradise with evolutionary psychiatrist Anthony Stevens , sociobiologist Walter Burket , and the director of Kew Gardens, Sir Ghillian Prance.
Music by Jeremy Peyton-Jones Producer Noah Richier
The Public Purse
In the second of the special general election programmes, Peter Kellner chairs a discussion between politicians from the major parties and Andrew Dilnot , Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, on Britain's economy. What are the real questions about tax and public spending, and how do the parties measure up? Producer Michael Blastland.
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BBC NewsLine, PO Box 5080. London W12 6AJ. PHONE: (0181) [number removed]for more information Repeated Sunday 4.15pm
In the second of her three talks about life at the Job Club, Sara Monk gets a day's work as a supply English teacher in the local comprehensive school - and begins to wish she never had. Producer Mark Burman
Presented by Frederick Dove. Producer Colin Hughes.
FACTSHEET: send sae to factsheet No 14, [address removed] PHONE: [number removed]
Revised repeat from 4.05pm
With Robin Lustig.
By LP Hartley, abridged in ten parts. 4: On Spooning
For details see Monday Repeat
By Steve Hennessey. Tom, a schoolboy, hatches a plan to run away from home to watch whales in their native waters. But his plans go awry when he meets two sinister characters. with John Jardine. Director Michael Fox Repeat
Repeated from Saturday 6.50pm
By Sandra Cisneros , read in three parts by Rita Moreno.
2: Passion turns to hatred.
Repeat
