Producers Steve Peacock and Hugh O'Donnell
With James Whitbourn and his guest. Producer Norman Winter
With John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Harvey Thomas.
Sports news with Cliff Morgan. Producer Audrey Adams
Pete McCarthy with holiday reports from around the world.
Producer Eleanor Garland
Repeated tomorrow 10.45pm
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With Ned Sherrin and guests, including Patrick McNee , David Hemmings , and Mel and Sue. Producer Julian Mayers
Peter Riddell of The Times looks behind the scenes at Westminster.
Producer Tony Grant
Alison Mitchell with the latest news from the world of personal finance. Producer Frances Macdonald
Alan Coren , Jeremy Hardy and Francis Wheen join Simon Hoggart for a look at this week's headlines.
Producer Aled Evans
Repeated Monday 6.30pm
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a topical discussion with John Hume , John Taylor
and Baroness Denton. Repeated from yesterday
Producers Nadine Grieve and Anne Peacock LINES OPEN from 12.30pm
By Ewart Alexander.
1953: the Queen is crowned, and the dawning of a new era brings fresh hopes. with Richard Harrington , James Westaway and Lizzie Deane. Producer Foz Allan
David Nokes presents the series on stories from the margins of history. 4: Mother, Mother- the Devil's Bargain
. Three hundred and fifty years ago Margaret Moore confessed to witchcraft. A voice in the night, she explained, promised to protect her child if she surrendered her soul. But did she believe her own story? Historian Malcolm Gaskell investigates Moore's tale. Producer Abigail Appleton
Repeated tomorrow 8.30pm
Can living things be reduced to a series of chemical reactions? Peter Evans
investigates. Repeated Tuesday 8pm
E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk
With Jonathan Rugman. Repeated from Tuesday
Kate Saunders presents eight programmes about people who have had songs written for or about them. 5: She's Leaving Home. A 1967 newspaper article about teenage runaway Melanie Coe inspired a classic Beatles track. Thirty years later Coe tells her side of the story. Producer Joanna Rahim
Satirical sketch show. Repeated from yesterday
John Peel with more musings on the maze of family life. Producer Sally Flatman
Repeated Thursday 11.30pm PHONE: (0171) [number removed]
E-MAIL: offspring@bbc.co.uk * See John Peel: page 9
The Remembrance of Things Fast:
Memory, the Performer and the Painter The actor re-creates emotion through lines; the musician has no words for stepping stones; the dancer moves from one abstraction to another and the painter enables remembered-feeling to become visible. Sean Street looks at how artists work with memory. Producer Julian May
Repeated Friday 9.30pm
A look back at events in the news exactly 50 years ago, presented by Geoffrey Wheeler. A week in which the royal family returned from their tour of South Africa and Winston Churchill was honoured by the people of France. Editor Lindsay Leonard
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The last of five classic mysteries starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Dr Watson.
5: The Sussex Vampire. Holmes and Watson are confronted by the supernatural in one of their most terrifying cases.
Violinist Leonard Friedman Dramatised by Bert Coules
Director Enyd Williams Repeat
Brian Kay presents three pieces of music with a Cornish flavour.
Producer Peter Thresh
Writers, thinkers and clerics talk from the heart. This week Bruce Kent talks about the priority of peace. Producer Kathryn Pritchard
A semi-surreal farce by Gerald Vaughan-Hughes .
Steven Tandy , an out-of-work actor, is offered a rather unusual job - phenomenally wealthy John Jax wants to employ him as an ornamental garden hermit, "to flit, make us yearn, make us feel excluded from Arcady....". with Matt Zimmerman , Lorelei King and Kim Wall. Director Rosemary Watts Repeat
A five-part series exploring how certain people, places or things have assumed iconic status in Ireland.
4: The Pub. The Irish pub is famous for pints of the dark stuff, music and "craic", or good fun. The magic is being exported, with Irish pubs opening in Berlin, Moscow and Hong Kong. Producer Owen McFadden Repeat
Simon Armitage introduces poets Les A Murray and Kit Wright, in a performance from the Birmingham Readers and Writers Festival.
Written and read by Eva Tucker. Repeated from Monday
