With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Anne Atkins.
Melvyn Bragg looks at ideas and events that have influenced our time. This week, Darwinian biologist
Richard Dawkins and novelist Ian McEwan talk about whether the scientific understanding we have accumulated has destroyed our sense of poetic wonder at the world. Producer Olivia Seligman. Repeated at 9.30pm
Melvyn Bragg talks to Michael Ignatieff about the life of the philosopher Isaiah Berlin and the modern universal human rights culture and to Sir Michael Howard about warfare of the 20th century. Show more
Five programmes assessing the work and lives of amateur scientists.
3: Tim Laurie , who has discovered an early form of sauna, Iron Age field systems and some ancient stone carvings. Presented by Anna Grayson. Producer Neil George
Introduced by Jenni Murray. Drama: The Jury by Matthew Solon. Part 24. Drama repeated at 7.45pm For details see Monday
The news behind the world headlines.
A comedy series by Christopher Fitz-Simon . 4: Medieval Banquet. The Dublin Theatrical Costumiers dress a medieval banquet in a ghostly castle. wrth Frank Kelly , Eugene O'Brien , Anne Byrne , Birdy Sweeney , Roma Tomelty , John Keyes and Paddy Scully. Music played by John Trotter. Director Roland Jaquarello Repeated Sunday 8pm
With Liz Barclay and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke.
Robert Robinson chairs the general knowledge contest. Producer Richard Edis
Repeated Sunday llpm
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
DUBLINERS
Written by James Joyce. Dramatised by Alan Berrie , narrated by Ciaran Hinds. Little Chandler nervously awaits his meeting with a former colleague, now a big journalist in London. Why did he himself not have the courage to leave provincial Dublin? with Denis Quilligan and Use-Ann McLaughlin Director Peter Kavanagh
With Peter White.
Louis XIV had to keep his affliction a secret.
By Richard Brown , read by Stephen Critchlow. A man prepares for a future of unemployment and rejection. Producer Pam Fraser Solomon
Marcel Berlins investigates how the law treats victims' families in the aftermath of an air crash.
Producers Charles Sigler and Sallie Davies Repeated Sunday 8.30pm
Trevor Phillips looks at the need for some galactic bin men to get started on the piles of rubbish orbiting Earth. Producer Neil Trevithick
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Clare English and Charlie Lee-Potter .
More sketches and chat as Radio 4's antidote to Anne and Nick tackles beliefs and friendship.
Starring Robert Duncan as Mike and Jan Ravens as Sue.
With Ronnie Ancona , Alistair McGowan and Roger Blake. Written by David Spicer and Hugh Rycroft from a format by Bill Dare
Music by Mark Burton. Producer Aled Evans
Testing, testing ... Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Francine Stock reports as the RSC launches its Stratford season - not with Shakespeare, but with Sheridan's School for Scandal. Producer Jerome Weatherald
By Matthew Solon. Part 24 of 25. Repeated from 10.45am
John Waite presents the last of three programmes chronicling our failure to cope with the consequences for health of 20th-century industrialisation. Producer Graham Ellis
A series examining Britain's emerging constitutional landscape. The
European Union. Vivian White travels to Brussels to reveal the European part of the British constitution. Producer Sheila Cook
Paul Simons discovers how lightning is formed and how prediction is improving. Producer Sue Broom
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With Robin Lustig.
DUBLINERS
Written by James Joyce. Read by Gabriel Byrne. Eveline waits for her sailor love and dreams of Buenos Aires. Producer Peter Kavanagh
By Ronald Harwood. A return to the new South Africa offers Donny a fragile hope of reconciliation. Starring Tom Courtenay and Peggy Phango Director Ned Chaillet Repeat
With Labour MP Karen Buck.
For details see Monday Repeat
By Don DeLillo. Part 4. For details see Monday
