With John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Lavinia Byrne.
By Plaid Cymru.
Peter Sissons puts listeners' questions to Conservative Michael Heseltine. PHONE: [number removed] (local call rates apply). Lines open from 8.00am
SIMULTANEOUS BROADCAST with BBC1
The news of 50 years ago today, presented by Geoffrey Wheeler. Against scientific advice, the government plans to clear a huge area of East
Africa for the cultivation of peanuts.
Kathryn Harrison , whose latest book deals with her incestuous affair with her father, talks to Jenni Murray about the ethics of making money out of the past.
Serial: The Portrait of a Lady (8). For details see Monday
Repeated from Sunday 2.00pm
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With Lesley Riddoch.
Arnold Bennett 's classic novel, set in the thirties, dramatised in four parts by Peter Ling. 2: There is the threat of a takeover at the hotel. with Janet Maw. Joanna Monro. John Hartley. Stephen Thorne. Mark Bonnar and Sean Baker. Director Enyd Williams
With Nick Clarke.
Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm
A series of three plays. 2: Sid Vicious by Sue Teddern. Tip, an unkempt reminder of Patricia's punk past, turns up on her doorstep 18 years later.
Director David Hunter Repeat
With Michael Rosen. Odysseus, Anansi, King Arthur - are classical heroes still cutting it? Julia Eccleshare looks at modem retellings of myths and legends. Producer Jill Burridge
With Daire Brehan. Anna MacNamee meets Jackie Stewart and his son
Paul, who have joined forces to run a Formula One racing team.
PaulGambaccini looks at the new film
The Saint, with Val Kilmer in the role of Simon Templar , and also reviews
Woody Allen 's latest, Everyone Says I Love You.
Producer Edwina Wolstencroft
Revised repeat at 9.30pm
By Marika Cobbold , read by Cathy Sara. Amanda's saintly behaviour is a credit to all who know her, but there is an ulterior motive for her virtue.
Producer Louise Grealish
With Chris Lowe and Nigel Wrench.
By the Natural Law Party.
Repeated from Monday 12.25pm
Janet lets Lynda down gently. Repeated tomorrow 1.40pm
The fourth in a six-part series which goes behind the scenes at the West Yorkshire Coroner's Court. Producer Susan Mitchell
Four programmes in which Michael. Oliver investigates the impact on music of 20th-century political regimes. 2: Russia. The effects of Stalin and the other Communist dictators were perhaps stronger and lasted longer in Russia than in other countries.
Producers Tracy Ross and Fiona Shelmerdine
A woman who loves animals, a sex-mad computer whizz, a piano-tuner and an imaginative child are all blind. Never having encountered an elephant, they talk about what kind of a beast it might be. When they are given the opportunity to touch one at London
Zoo, each person has a very different reaction. Presented by Kim Normanton. Producer Matt Thompson
An eight-part environmental series.
4: Patenting. With urgent and growing concern over the patenting of genetic forms, Mark Whittaker looks at the minefield of patenting laws and the struggle to create an equitable protective framework. Producer Sera Lefroy-Owen Repeated Sunday 9.30pm
Revised repeat from 4.05pm
With Isabel Hilton.
By LP Hartley, abridged in ten parts. 8: Going to War
Repeat For details see Monday
11.00 The Skivers
Last instalment of the comedy sketch show written and performed by Nick Golson and Tim de Jongh, with Peter Bradshaw and Sally Phillips. Patrick Allen once more takes on the role of announcer, and the special guest is Phillip Schofield.
Producer Jon Naismith Repeat
11.30 Doon Your Way
The last radio showcase for comedy actress Doon Mackichan. With Pam
Ferris, Lesley Sharp , Phil Cornwell , Anne Rabbit and Alistair McGowan.
Producer Jon Magnusson Repeat
By Charles Johnson , read by Charles Robinson. A university professor encounters a world of drugs, sex and racial exploitation.
Producer Pam Fraser Solomon Repeat
