With Clair Jaquiss.
With Anna Hill.
Producer David Street
John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With Professor Russell Stannard.
Lively conversation with Libby Purves and guests.
Producer Ronni Davis. Rptd at 9.30pm
With Jenni Murray and guests. Drama: Letters from a Lost Generation. Part 3. Drama rptd at 7.45pm. For details see Monday
During the Second World War, the small Scottish town of Oban became home to a squadron of RAF Coastal Command. Flying boats took off, landed and crashed in the surrounding waters. Many of the survivors recently returned to relive their wartime experiences on the heavily armed flying boats the Germans nicknamed Flying Porcupines.
The last in a six-part radio version of the novel by Sue Limb , starring
Imelda Staunton as Izzy. Over and Out with Phyllida Nash , Kelda Holmes , Kerry Ann White, and members of the Anna Scher Theatre. Producer Jonathan James-Moore Repeat
With Liz Barclay and Mark Whittaker.
With Nick Clarke.
The panel game that explores words and language. With chairman Peter Hobday and guests Joe Melia ,
Kevin Greening , Brian Sewell and Kay Stonham. Producer Mark Tonderai Repeat
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
Five stories of mystery and the supernatural by Elizabeth Gaskell , dramatised by Sally Hedges. 3: The Poor Clare. A young lawyer investigating the heir to a substantial fortune is drawn towards a young woman haunted by a mother's curse. with Janet Dale , Kathryn Hunt ,
William Simons , Christopher Scott , Mary Wimbush. Sandra Berkin , Martin Head and Nick Aikens Director Nigel Bryant
Nigel Colborn , Pippa Greenwood and Roy Lancaster answer questions posed by gardeners from Oxfordshire. With chairman Eric Robson. Repeated from Sunday 2pm
The absence of parents and boys in the world of Bunty. Part 3 of 5. For details see Monday
3: Dead Person with Money Worries by Ali Smith , read by Vivienne Dixon. "Look at me. Finished. Murdered.
Shot in the neck by a stranger." For details see Monday
Professor Anthony Clare presents the series on matters psychological and psychiatric. In this programme, he examines how behaviour is affected by the pressures of the world and considers what mental illness can tell us about the workings of our brains. Producer Bruce Whitney Low
Laurie Taylor invites his guests to think the unthinkable about society and the ideas that shape it. Producer Tom Alban
E-MAIL: thinking.allowed@bbc.co.uk
With Charlie Lee-Potter and Chris Lowe.
With the help of Richard Thomas and guests, Rainer Hersch finally reveals why organ music is so boring, how to play instruments without practising, and how to clap in the wrong places at concerts and look like you did it on purpose. This week: the history of music with the Fine Arts Brass Ensemble. Producer Richard Edis
Brian might get a complex. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Mark Lawson chairs the arts programme, including a review of the National Theatre's Antony and Cleopatra starring Helen Mirren and Alan Rickman.
Producer Julian May
Based on Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain. Part 3 of 15. Repeated from 10.45am For details see Monday
Michael Buerk , Janet Daley ,
Ian Hargreaves , David Starkey and David Cook cross-examine guests on the moral and ethical issues behind one of the week's controversies. Producer David Coomes
Repeated Saturday 10.15pm
Undertaker and poet Thomas Lynch reflects on the preoccupations of fiftysomethings.
2: Contemplation of the Womb Repeated from Saturday 7.45pm
Man as a Mammiferous Animal
John Gribbin examines some of the trickier questions that fuel debate in evolutionary biology today, including Darwin's suggestion that we should regard man as we do other mammals. Producer Louise Dalziel
Repeated from 9am
With Robin Lustig.
By Louis de Bernieres. Part 3. For details see Monday Repeat
Offbeat comedy sketches and poems written and performed by Claire Caiman , Julia Davis , Maria McErlane ,
Meera Syal and Arabella Weir. Producer Liz Anstee
By Don DeLillo. 8: We're All Gonna Die For details see Monday
