With Canon Noel Battye.
With John Humphrys , James Naughtie.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Roy Jenkins.
8.40 Yesterday In Parliament
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 David Starkey. Producer David Coomes
The news of 50 years ago today.
Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Serial: Ladies of Letters. Final part. For details see Monday
Insight and colour from BBC correspondents around the world. Producer Tony Grant
With Mark Whittaker.
The last programme in the series of the panel game about inventions and discoveries. Chris Stuart is joined at the Science Museum by Lewis Wolpert , Adam Hart-Davis and guests including DrLen Fisher. Producer Aled Evans
With Nick Clarke.
Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm
A computer expert surfs the internet for contacts, concealing his identity. But what is his identity?
WithDaireBrehan.
Paul Allen sees a new production of one of the RSC's successes - Ben Johnson
's Bartholomew Fair. He also considers the work of Terry Hands as he takes over the Theatre Clwyd. Producer Chris Eldon Lee Revised repeat at 9.30pm
By Peter Carey, read by Jonathan Keeble. "I ask them if the death of a unicorn is not always accompanied by a loud bang." The anguish of a young man who finds that only by killing can he save what he desperately wants to protect.
With Charlie Lee-Potter and Chris Lowe.
The final part of the black comedy series written by and starring Mark Gatiss , Reece Shearsmith , Steve Pemberton and Jeremy Dyson.
Surprise. Christmas party time in the town of Spent.
Producer Sarah Smith
The posse gets in a pickle. Repeated tomorrow 1.40pm
When seven-year-old Esther Harris was admitted to hospital with a brain tumour which was diagnosed late, her mother had a tape recorder in her bag and recorded an impromptu diary of events over an intense few days. Nominated for a Sony Award earlier this year.
Producer Martin Jameson Repeat
The Best for the Brightest? Oxford and Cambridge are campaigning for more generous funding than other universities, arguing that it is worth paying more for excellence. But is it?
Frances Cairncross asks whether it is in the national interest to deliberately create an elite.
Producer Ingrid Hassler
Repeated Sunday 4.15pm
The second of three programmes. Tom Morton reflects on life and times in Shetland, where the sea has always been the key to the community's survival. From his home he can watch Arctic terns sweeping over the shingled beach and giant tankers making their way to the Sullom Voe Oil Terminal. Producer Mike Shaw
Frederick Dove with the magazine made by and about people with disabilities.
Producer Colin Hughes
BBC RADIO 4 HELPLINE: [number removed]
Revised repeat from 4.05pm
With Robin Lustig.
By Voltaire, read by Anton Lesser. Part 4. For details see Monday
Ray Bradbury introduces dramatised versions of six of his short stories.
4: The Wind, dramatised by Brian Sibley. Friends -especially the neurotic ones - can be a damned nuisance. Weather is weather, and frantic phone calls on the night of that special dinner with other friends can - and maybe should - be ignored.
Director Adrian Bean
Written and read by Julian Barnes. Part 9.
For details see Monday Repeat
