With the Rev Angela Tilby.
With Anna Hill.
Producer David Street
With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With the Rt Rev James Jones.
8.35 Yesterday in Parliament
Libby Purves and guests engage in lively conversation. Producer Ronni Davis Repeated at 9.30pm
With Jenni Murray and guests. Drama: Letters from a Lost Generation. Part 13. Drama repeated at 7.45pm For details see Monday
A four-part fly-on-the-wall series focusing on the animals that pass through Heathrow Airport. 2: The Night Shift
Producer Edward Odim
In a six-part series, Jimmy Tarbuck plunders the comedy archives and, with Rhona Cameron , listens to the way different generations of comics and comedies have treated particular subject matters. The two also compare their own experiences. Part 1. Producer Bruce Hyman
With Liz Barclay and Mark Whittaker.
With Nick Clarke.
The popular panel game which explores words and language. Chairman Peter Hobday welcomes guests Jonathan James-Moore , Jim Tavare , Susan Jeffreys and Richard Vranch. Written by Ged Parsons
Producer Mark Tonderai Repeat
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
Judith French's three stories of extraordinary 18th-century women, told through the writings of the day.
1: Miss Linley's Matrimonial Excursion In which the foremost young soprano of the day becomes entangled with aspiring young playwright Richard Sheridan , and all of fashionable
England is agog. with James Fleet, Richard Johnson. Chris Pavlo
and Tilly Gaunt. Soprano
Natalie Christie. Harpsichordist Paul Nicholson
Director Jonquil Panting
Carole Baxter , Nigel Colborn and John Cushnie are in the potting shed to answer questions sent in by post. With chairman Eric Robson.
Repeated from Sunday 2pm
Despite the chaotic effects of economic collapse, many people have lived without recourse to conventional work. For details see Monday Repeat
The Window Cleaner. The third of four short stories by Julia Darling about people who spend much of their life high above the ground. Read by Rashid Karapiet.
Graham Easton reports on the latest techniques to help infertile couples to have children.
Repeated from yesterday 9pm
Rituals, traditions and conventions are under threat as 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 Clare English and Charlie Lee-Potter in London, and Chris Lowe in Washington with the US mid-term elections.
With the help of Richard Thomas and guests, Rainer Hersch 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 Bach Family. With Wayne Marshall and the Hewitt-Jones family. Producer Richard Edis
Julia's letters are explained. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Mark Lawson looks at the events of 1997 through the eyes of press photographers competing for the annual Press Photo Awards. Producer Matthew Dodd
ByVeraBrittain.Partl3. 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
The Bang. the Whimper and the Boom. The last of four talks in which undertaker and poet Thomas Lynch reflects on the preoccupations of fiftysomethings.
Repeated from Saturday 7.45pm
The Living Universe. The last of four programmes unravelling the problems of evolutionary biology. Producer Louise Dalziel
Repeated from 9am
With Robin Lustig.
By Louis de Bernieres. Part 13. For details see Monday Repeat
LATE NIGHT ON 4
Offbeat comedy sketches and poems written and performed by Claire Caiman , Julia Davis ,
Maria McErlane , Meera Syal and Arabella Weir. Additional material by Sarah Parkinson.
Producer Liz Anstee
By Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Part 3. For details see Monday
