With the Rev Roger Hutchings.
With John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Cristina Odone.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament
Producer Bruce Whitney Low LINES: open from 8am
The news of 50 years ago today, with Geoffrey Wheeler. Mrs Margaret Sanger Slee , the founder of birth control clinics in America, flies in to
Britain to tell European women to stop having babies for the next ten years. Producer Lynne McCadden
Jenni Murray talks to Northumbrian pipe player Kathryn Tickell. Serial: A Many Splendoured Thing. Part 7. For details see yesterday
Smoking, drinking and over-eating can all lead to ill health. Geoff Watts investigates why, in spite of all we know, we continue to overindulge. Producer Julia Durbin
Repeated Sunday 10.15pm E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk
With Lesley Riddoch.
Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz. Exchanging quotations and anecdotes this week are Patrick
Barlow, Barry Cryer , Ruth Dudley Edwards and George Melly. The reader is Patricia Hughes. Producer Chris Neill
With Nick Clarke.
Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm
Jessica Townsend 's irreverent comedy in which a London-Irish family spend the run-up to their patriarch's burial destroying his reputation, only to be faced with his resurrection.
Director Cathryn Horn
The third of four conversations in which Robert Dawson Scott invites a performer to look back on a considerable musical challenge. Few actresses dare to take a one-woman show into the fiercely competitive world of West End theatre. Maria Friedman
gathered songs by the likes of Jacques Brel , Stephen Sondheim and even Kate Bush to create By
Special Arrangement. She reflects on the pressures of taking the stage alone, night after night. Producer John Goudie
With Daire Brehan. Louise Rennison retraces the oldest pilgrimage in the world, from Puenta del Reina to
Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Editor Nadine Grieve
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E-MAIL: Afternoon.Shift@bbc.co.uk
Paul Vaughan reads Grace Notes - Bernard MacLaverty 's first novel since Cal- and celebrates 100 years of the Tate Gallery.
Producer Jerome Weatherald Revised repeat at 9.30pm
By Xi Xi, translated by Eva Hung , read by Su-Lin Looi. The wonders of the world's most astonishing city are fleetingly revealed.
Producer Pam Fraser Solomon
With Kevin Bocquet.
Six comedies in which hapless broadcaster Roy Mallard sets out to give an impression of the day-to-day business of ordinary occupations.
4: The Estate Agent. Mallard takes more than a professional interest in one of his interviewees. With Chris Langham as Roy Mallard , and Sally Phillips. Written by John Morton
Producer Paul Schlesinger Repeat
Lynda works on her atmosphere. Repeated tomorrow 1.40pm
Major issues, changing attitudes and important events at home and abroad. Reporter Mark Whitaker. Producer Kim Barrington Repeated Saturday 5pm
With Peter Evans.
Repeated from Saturday 4.30pm
Kinky Friedman - author of a series of detective novels featuring a stetson-wearing, cigar-chomping private eye who is more than just his namesakemeets the creators of four other notorious private investigators - Sara Paretsky , Sue Grafton , James Crumley and Lawrence Block. Last in series.
Producer Wendy Pilmer
Peter White with news, views and information for visually impaired people. Producer Karen Turner
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FACTSHEET: send large sae to [address removed]
Revised repeat from 4.05pm
With Isabel Hilton.
By Timothy Mo. For details see yesterday
Repeated from Sunday 11.15am
By Elizabeth McCracken. Part 2. For details see yesterday
