Producers Hugh O'Donnell and Steve Peacock

With James Whitbourn and his guest. Producer Norman Winter

With Alex Brodie and John Humphrys.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day

Sports news with Cliff Morgan. Producer Adrian Nawaz

Holiday reports from around the world. Producer Eleanor Garland
Repeated tomorrow 10.45pm
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In the guise of broadcaster Roy Mallard , Chris Langham offers impressions of four occupations. 3: The Pilot Written by John Morton
Producer Paul Schlesinger

In the fifth of six programmes, the duo prepare themselves for a triumphant return to the Edinburgh Festival. Producer Tony Cheevers

With Peter Riddell of The Times. Editor Jane Ashley

Foreign correspondent Misha Glenny presents a special edition charting the changing face of central Africa, focusing on the fall of Mobutu of Zaire. With Allan Little and Jane Standley. Producer Tony Grant
Next programme Thursday 11.30am

Don't Bank on It. Paul Lewis discovers why banks often get their sums wrong. Producer Sarah Pennells
Repeated Monday 11.30am

Chairman Nicholas Parsons is joined by guests Clement Freud , Tony Hawks, Fred MacAulay and Derek Nimmo who attempt to talk for one minute without hesitation, repetition or deviation. Producer Ann Jobson
Repeated Monday 6.30pm

With Jonathan Dimbleby. Repeated from yesterday

With Jonathan Dimbleby.
Producers Anne Peacock and Bruce Whitney-Low . LINES OPEN from 12.30pm

With Josie Lawrence as Joanna, Nicholas Farrell as Robert, and James Grout as Jack. In Lynne Truss's new comedy, Joanna is horrified by the sexism at the golf club. With Rachel Atkins, John Rowe and Jillie Meers.
Director Peter Kavanagh

The last of three programmes in which seasoned travellers recall their exploits and adventures.
Producer Miranda Mclntyre Repeat

A feature based on the trial transcripts of American industrialist Frederick Winslow Taylor, who appeared before a special congressional committee in 1911 when his time-and-motion studies sparked revolution in factories worldwide. With Colin Stinton as Frederick Winslow Taylor and Shane Rimmer as chairman WB Wilson.
(Repeated tomorrow 8.30pm)

Presented by Alun Lewis.
Producer Jane Worsley. Repeated Tuesday 8pm E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk

Second of three programmes in which Brendan O'Friel , once governor of Strangeways and Risely , talks to former and serving prisoners about their experience of prison. Producer Kathleen Carragher
Repeated from Tuesday 7.20pm

Four scientists write a short letter assessing their life's work.
4: Professor Steven Rose , biologist and director of the Brain and Behaviour Research Group at the Open University.
Producer John Watkins

The last in the series of Britain's first
Asian sketch show.
Repeated from yesterday

Sarah Dunant reassesses six of the most famous, or infamous, authors of the 19th century. 1: Mary Braddon Producer Lore Windemuth Repeat

Flat, Wet and Wide Tim Malyon and James Crowden follow the River Parrett through the Somerset Levels.
Producer Julian May. Repeated Friday 9.30pm

Geoffrey Wheeler reviews the news 50 years ago this week. Producer Angela Sherwin
Series editor Lindsay Leonard

The first of two Victorian murder mysteries is My Beloved Husband by Pieter Rogers. with John Hartley , Tracy Wiles , Zulema Dene , Roger May , Geoffrey Whitehead Director Celia de Wolff Repeat

Brian Kay presents music full of Turkish delights.
Producer Brian Jackson

Time and Tide. Rosemary Hartill finds meaning in the landscape of Holy Island, Northumbria. Producer Norman Winter

A double bill of short plays recorded in Toronto, Canada, co-produced by BBC Radio 4 and CBC.
10.15 The Art of Kindness
By Charles Tidier. Jazz musician
Johnny Tipton survives a car crash but discovers he has forgotten how to play the saxophone. with Mary Ellen Mahoney , George Buza , Steven Bush and Bob Naismith
Music composed by Nic Gotham Director William Lane
10.45 The Favour
By George F Walker. When a cop and a lawyer arranged to meet in a motel room there was always bound to be more to the deal than just sex.
Director James Roy

In the last of the series,
Waldemar Januszczak looks at Picasso's great anti-war painting, Guernica.
Producer Anthony Denselow Repeat

Simon Armitage discusses the differences between poetry and comedy audiences with poets Sophie Hannah and Hovis Presley. Producer VivBeeby

Written and read by Ludovic Kennedy. Repeated from Monday