With Canon Noel Battye.

With John Humphrys. Sue MacGregor.
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With the Rt Rev Jim Thompson.
Editor Jon Barton. LETTERS: Today. PO Box 2299. London W1A 1PY. FAX: (0171) [number removed]. E-MAIL: today@bbc.co.uk

By the Liberal Democrats.

Peter Sissons puts listeners' questions to Conservative Michael Portillo.
PHONE: [number removed]. Local call rates apply SIMULTANEOUS BROADCAST with BBC1

Today's news from 50 years ago.

With Sylvia Horn. From The Lady of Shalott to Maud, Kathleen Griffin considers women in Tennyson's works. Serial: The Portrait of a Lady (5). For details see Monday

Presented by Joanna Pinnock.
Producer Sandra Sykes. Repeated Sunday 8pm WRITE TO: The Natural History Programme, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

With Mark Whittaker.
Editor Chns Burns. PHONE: (0171) [number removed]to raise issues for investigation

Why are all the big supermarkets now experimenting with home delivery? Julia Eisner investigates. Producer Sheila Dillon
7.20pm

With Nick Clarke.
Editor Kevin Marsh

Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm

Repeated from Sunday 2.30pm

Laurie Taylor with lively debate.

Tim Marlow sees the sculpture of Duane Hanson. Plus an interview with the new director of the ICA, Philip Dodd. Producer Helen Garrison

By Madeleine Wickham , read by Patience Tomlinson. Amelia is a legal secretary ... or that's what her family think, until the tabloids publish photos of her, emerging naked from a lake with a famous pop star. Producer Christine Boar Repeat

With Charlie Le&Potter and Chris Lowe.
Editor Kevin Marsh. WRITE TO: PM Letterline, BBC Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA PHONE: (0171) [number removed]

Edi Stark returns with the magazine which delights in the glory of the garden. New regular contributor
Stephen Anderton exercises poetic licence with the daffodil; writer Anna Pavord reveals her spring passions; and Charles Stirton , director of the millennial National Botanic Garden of Wales, describes their progress. Producer Annie Malcolm
Repeated Sunday 9.00pm

Simon puts the knife in.
Rptd Monday 1.40pm

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With Chris Serle.
Producer Joy Hatwood. Rptd Sunday 3.30pm. PHONE: (0171) [number removed](24 hours) FAX: (0171) [number removed]E-MAIL: potw@bbc.co.uk

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a topical discussion in Barnack, Stamford, with Charles Kennedy , Liberal Democrat spokesman on European Union affairs; Dr Marjorie Mowlam , shadow Northern Ireland Secretary; Peter Lilley , Secretary of State for Social Security; and author Frederic Raphael. Producer Nadine Grieve
Repeated tomorrow 1.10pm

Five programmes which explore the way art and technology have intertwined over the past century of film.
4: Snakes, Funerals and 1.33-to-l
Director Fritz Lang once protested that widescreen was fit only for snakes and funerals, but Christopher Cook finds that film-makers have always sought to immerse their audiences in the total experience of cinema with new and improved screen processes. First broadcast on Radio 3

How the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia became the home of golf in America. Alistair Cooke explores the history of his beloved golf course.

With Alistair Cooke.
Repeated Sunday 9.15am

The Rake's Progress
Tim Marlow investigates how William Hogarth 's everyday story of London folk in the 1730s changed the course of British art history, drama and opera. Repeated from Saturday 7.20pm

With Robin Lustig. Editor Anne Koch

By LP Hartley, abridged in ten parts. 5: The Cricket Match
For details see Monday Repeat

The topical comedy sketch show. Producer Jon Rolph
Repeated tomorrow 6.25pm

With Patrick Hannan and his guests. Producer Hilary Green

The last of five programmes.
A Squawk from the Hole.
Joanna Pinnock watches seabirds at dusk on the island of Skomer.
Producer Grant Sonnex Repeat

By Sandra Cisneros , read in three parts by Rita Moreno.
3: Hatred leads to revenge. Repeat