With Canon Noel Vincent.
With Anna Hill.
Producer Ashley Gething
With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Penny Faust.
8.35 Yesterday in Parliament
Libby Purves and guests engage in lively conversation.
Producer Ronni Davis. Repeated at 9.30pm
With Martha Kearney and guests. Drama: Under One Roofby Jenny
Landreth, based on the original stories by Michele Hanson. Part 3. Drama repeated at 7.45pm For details see Monday
An intriguing look at the character and Personality of the former prime minister Sir Edward Heath , based around a book tour to publicise his autobiography, The Course of My Life. Reporter Max Cotton. Producer Julian Joyce
Maureen Lipman presents a documentary about the camp double act Julian and Sandy from the popular radio series Round the Home Written and produced by Turan Ali
Trixie Rawlinson and Mark Whittaker.
With Nick Clarke.
Lionel Kelleway chairs the wildlife quiz looking for the best naturalist in Britain. In this fifth heat, he travels to Scotland to test the knowledge of three more hopeful contestants. Producer Simon Roberts
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Stephanie Norgate. The true impact of sharing their home with foster brother Clive comes home to sisters
Sally and Liz one evening ten years later. with Ben Crowe and Tessa Peake Jones. Director David Hunter
Nigel Colbom , Bob Rowerdew and Anne Swithinbank answer questions sent in by post. With chairman Eric Robson. Repeated from Sunday 2pm
David Stafford profiles some of the great columnists and humourists of the 20th-century.
2: Paul Jennings , the madrigal singer and writer of mock scholarly treatises. For details see yesterday
Cicely Berry presents a selection of her favourite pieces of writing. With Maureen Beattie and Antony Sher. For details see Monday
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 Charlie Lee-Potter and Chris Lowe.
Ian McMillan hands out the goody bags to panellists Helen Lederer ,
David Stafford , Roger McGough and Miles Kington in the literary game where everyone gets to do their party piece. Producer Viv Beeby
Tommy makes a sacrifice. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Francine Stock with the arts programme, featuring an investigation into the phenomenon of the Christmas annual.
Producer Rebecca Stratford
By Jenny Landreth. Part 3. Repeated from 10.45am
A forum which tests plans to improve the country's education system by the early years of the next century.
Edward Stourton invites panel and guests to discuss the proposition "Education should be valued for its own sake, not because it supplies the workforce of the future." Many in the liberal arts establishment argue that the purpose of education is to broaden the mind. Government and industry have begun to take a different line, seeing education as a primary tool of industry.
Producer Sue Davies. Rptd Saturday 10.15pm
Matt Frei highlights a word from a foreign language which captures the essence of that country and its culture. The Spaghetti Incident Repeated from Saturday 7.45pm
Malaria continues to be a global menace. Three million people die from it every year, and it is mainly a disease of the developing world. Yet lobbyists are succeeding in enforcing a worldwide ban on a pesticide that is the most effective weapon against it-namely DDT. This programme investigates that dilemma and the power of the environmental lobby. Producer Hugh O'Donnell
Repeated from 9am
With Robin Lustig.
By Penelope Lively. Retirement proves less tranquil than expected for Stella. Read by Stephanie Cole. Part 8. For details see Monday
with Armstrong and Miller
Craig Children and Martin Bain -
Jones's optimistic attempt at cultural review. Ben Miller and Alexander
Armstrong star as the pompous critics in Britain's first "critcom".
Producer Jon Rolph
A history of the orgy, intertwined with the author's own erotic fantasy of the perfect bacchanalia.
For details see Monday.
