Producers Hugh O'Donnell and Steve Peacock
With James Whitbourn and his guest. Producer Norman Winter
With Anna Ford and John Humphrys.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With the Rev Dr Colin Morris.
Sports news with Jonathan Agnew. Producer Adnan Nawaz
Producer Eleanor Garland
Repeated tomorrow 10.45pm
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Chris Langham , aka broadcaster Roy Mallard , offers an impression of four ordinary occupations. 1: The Mother Lynne Turner has one of the most influential jobs in existence.
With Matilda Ziegler , Sue Johnston. Geoffrey Whitehead , Peter Gunn. Linda Polan , Rachel Atkins and Tracy Ann Oberman. Written by John Morton. Producer Paul Schlesinger
In the third of six programmes, Kit and the Widow go in search of art and romance on the wild Yorkshire moors. Producer Neil Rosser
Behind the scenes at Westminster. Editor Jane Ashley
Olenka Frenkiel asks who are the Luxembourgers? The official language is Luxembourgish, but children have lessons in French, German and English. Producer Arlene Gregorius
Paul Lewis presents seven programmes which look at personal finance.
2: Will You Still Keep Me? Barbara
Castle challenges New Labour about its plans for pensions in the future. Producer Mark Gregory
In the first of five programmes, chairman Nicholas Parsons and guests Clement Freud , Peter Jones ,
Paul Merton and Arthur Smith attempt to talk for one minute without hesitation. Producer Ann Jobson
Nick Clarke chairs a discussion with Tony Banks MP, Tim Collins MP, Dr Germaine Greer and Peter Hitchens. Repeated from yesterday
Producers Anne Peacock and Bruce Whitney Low. LINES OPEN from 12.30pm
By Martin Lynch. Patsy McCrudden wants to spend his redundancy money on reuniting sixties group the Searchers. with BJ Hogg. Catherine Aiken. Brenda Winter. Aine McCartney. JJ Murphy. Thomas Gorman , Paul McLean. Gerard McCabe , Nuala Muldoon , Nicky Ladanowski and Mike Pender as himself Director Roland Jaquarello
Seasoned travellers recall their exploits. 1: Robert Swan explains why he endured the extremities of the poles. Producer Alastair Wilson Repeat
A four-part examination of how past generations have viewed the future. 3: 1984 and All That. Mark Lawson looks at how the ideas of novelists and film-makers have affected the future.
Producer Anne-Marie Cole
Repeated tomorrow 8.30pm
With Peter Evans.
Producer Julia Durbin. Repeated Tuesday 8pm E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk
With Julian O'Halloran.
Producer Gregor Stewart. Rptd from Tuesday
Four scientists write a letter to a son or daughter, assessing their work. 2: Ian Stewart , professor of mathematics at Warwick University. Producer John Watkins
The all-Asian sketch show.
Repeated from yesterday
Robert Robinson meets six groups of people who share a way of life.
5: Residents of a troubled Liverpool housing estate teach a lesson in how to fight your way back to respectability. Producer Bruce Whitney Low Repeated Thursday 11.30pm
The news of 50 years ago.
Producer Angela Sherwin ; Editor Undsay Leonard
By Ernest Bramah , dramatised by Sue Rodwell. A blind detective tangles with suffragettes and the Bard. with Lynsey Baxter , Oona Beeson , Diedra Morris , Ian Armstrong and Robert Oates.
Music Robert Rigby. Director Alan Drury Repeat
Brian Kay listens to the music of Gershwin, Grainger and Sousa. Producer Peter Thresh
Graham Kings, director of the Henry Martyn Library in Cambridge, selects another story from his bookshelves. Producer Norman Winter
Anthony Minghella introduces the fifth of six international radio plays. This celebration of human foibles by David Ives was first broadcast by LA Theatre Works.
With Arye Gross. Dinah Manoff. Richard Kind. Samantha Bennett , Jane Brucker , Ian Gomez , Nia Vardalos and Tom Virtue. Director Ron West
Death in Rome. Waldemar Januszczak picks five paintings which he regards as the most important in the world. His third choice is Caravaggio's violent and brooding The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew.
Producer Anthony Denselow Repeat
In the first of seven programmes, Simon Armitage talks to
Ellen Phethean about the writing of her poem Witnessing Westgate Hill , a portrait of her home in Newcastle. Producer Susan Roberts
By the Marquis de Sade , translated by Edward Marielle and read by Charles Dance.
Repeated from Monday
