With the Rev Elfed ap Nefydd Roberts.
With John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Roy Jenkins.
Michael Buerk chairs a live investigation into 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
The news from 50 years ago. Foreign Office delegates arrive back in Britain from the Moscow conference with alcoholic souvenirs, but the Soviet wives of British servicemen are still stuck in Russia.
With Jenni Murray. There is a huge demand for places at secondary schools specialising in technology and languages. But how successful are these institutions? Diana Appleyard
investigates.
Serial: The Portrait of a Lady(19). For details see Monday
Insight and analysis from correspondents around the world.
With Mark Whittaker.
Chris Kelly presents the last of four programmes looking at the lives and works of admirable (and fictional) characters. He contemplates the achievements of East End fashion designer Umberto Plank, who recently died in a freak accident after slipping on a cultured pearl. Celebrities, including Annabel Giles and Professor Graham Norton , also recall the man who inspired the fashion world. with Mark Steel , Simon Greenall , Brian Bowles. Sally Grace and Rachel Atkins Producer Kathy Smith
With Nick Clarke.
Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm
By RJ Gallagher. Based on the true story of director John Huston and the making of the film The Red Badge of Courage, the play explores how studio politics, economics and jealousy had as much effect on the finished work as the technology of film production. With music composed by Andy Price. with Hilary Lyon , Michael Drew ,
Norman Cooley , John Nicholas and Lawmary Champion. Director Foz Allan Repeat
With Daire Brehan. Sue Elliot meets two women who love to play Scrabble but live 80 miles apart. They play at a motorway service station halfway between their homes.
Paul Allen reviews The Things We Do for Love, an Alan Ayckbourn play in Scarborough, and Mother Courage at Nottingham Playhouse.
Producer Olive Clancy. Revised rpt at 9.30pm
By Gillian Tindall , read by Nina Wadia. A young, prize-winning novelist is chosen to represent her country in an international competition. Producer Angela Dalton Repeat
With Nigel Wrench.
Nick Revell has written and stars in a six-part comedy serial which travels from the Andes to St Petersburg and a town in West Yorkshire. He encounters his 183-year-old father Obadiah, his
Bronte-obsessed ex-girlfriend and the morris-dancing survivalist militia.
1: To Begin at the End. In which the hero is seduced by the physical charms of the impossibly beautiful Natassia Fillipovna Karamazov. with Morwenna Banks. Joanna Brooks , Jonathan Kydd , Peter Gunn ,
Peter Serafinowicz and Chris Pavlo. Music by Paul Mottram. Producer Paul Schlesinger # See This Week: page 6
Lynda sacrifices a starring role. Repeated tomorrow 1.40pm
Chris Harbon takes his mother's ashes, concealed in a pink plastic carrier bag, to Gibraltar, where she grew up. He plans to bury her in the grounds of the cathedral where she was confirmed, but he also wants to find someone who remembers her so that he can throw some light on the strange and painful history of the secretive Molly.
Producers Ian Willox and Chris Harbon
A Separate Place
Frances Cairncross asks what the debate on children's rights tells us about the position of children in our society. Today's children wear adult clothes, watch adult programmes and sometimes commit adult crimes. Should they have more control over their lives, or would that destroy the family? Producer Ingrid Hassler
TRANSCRIPTS: available for purchase from
BBC NewsLine, PO Box 5080. London W12 6AJ PHONE: (0181) [number removed]for more information Repeated Sunday 4.15pm
The second of five episodes about Carter Brandon's epic journey through Wales, accompanied by Uncle Mort. Written by Peter Tinniswood.
(Repeat)
Presented by Frederick Dove. Producer Colin Hughes
FACTSHEET: send sae to factsheet No 17.
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Revised repeat from 4.05pm
Comprehensive coverage of results from around the country. Presented by James Naughtie.
SIMULTANEOUS BROADCAST with BBC
Radio 5 Live
* The night watchmen: page 20
