With Lynn Gallagher.
With Charlotte Smith. Producer Steve Peacock
With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Rabbi YY Rubenstein.
8.35 Yesterday in Parliament
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas and events which have influenced our time.
Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd at 9.30pm
Melvyn Bragg discusses whether the formation of language is innate or cultural and examines how ideas about language are being radically challenged and altered in the 20th century. Show more
Another chance to hear the programme in which Jo Morris meets a matchmaker for millionaires. Producer Sarah Taylor Repeat
With Jenni Murray and guests. Drama: Speaking for Themselves: the Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill. Part 9 of 10. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
The news behind the world headlines. Producer Tony Grant
By Jenny McDade. 1: Weigh In with Wendy.
A high-fat bittersweet comedy series in five parts for those who believe that there is a thin person inside them begging to get out. Join
Wendy Bottomley and the members of her slimming club. with Anne Reid , Julia Deakin , Tilly Gaunt , Harry Myers and Frances Jeater. Producer Sally Avens
With Nick Clarke.
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By David Pownall. Why was Alejandro Garcia Caturla - the renowned Cuban composer - brutally murdered in 1940 on the way to the post office in his home town of Remsdios? Cuban Solo looks at the price of genius, corruption and love.
Director Martin Jenkins
With Peter White. Editor Chris Burns
4: The Lost Property Auction. A consignment of condensed soup, a brass toilet seat and a stash of bungee tape come under the hammer at Stalybridge in Cheshire. For details see Monday Repeat
29: The Welsh Wars and the Most-Feared Weapon
For details see Monday Repeat
Marcel Berlins investigates how the law works and where it goes wrong.
Producers Sallie Davies and Jonathan Brunert
Repeated Sunday 8.30pm
At the University of Sussex there is a glass cell only a few hundred billionths of a degree above absolute zero. Trevor Phillips discovers just what this breakthrough might mean for clockmakers, oil explorers and astronauts.
Producer Bruce Whitney Low
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With Clare English and Chris Lowe.
Vintage sitcom by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn , starring
Paul Eddington as Jim Hacker and Nigel Hawthorne as Sir Humphrey.
Jobs for the Boys. Jim does not know about a shining example of a successful collaboration between government and private industry. with Richard Vernon , Richard Davies , Arthur Cox , Kerry Francis and Gordon Clyde. Producer Pete Atkin Repeat
Charlie's last day.
Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Mark Lawson chairs the arts programme, charting the changing reputation of Robin Williams - from
Morkto Mrs Doubtfire , Vietnam DJ to voice-over artist, schoolmaster to psychiatrist.
Producer Alison Perks
The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill
Edited by Mary Soames. Part 9 of 10. Repeated from 10.45am
February 1899. Oxford Town Hall is packed to the rafters. Hundreds have come to the founding meeting of Ruskin College, a radical new experiment in the education of the working man. One hundred years on, Steve Richards , political editor of the New Statesman, asks if there is still a place for an Oxford College dedicated to workers' education, in the age of New Labour.
Producer William Brittain-Catlin
Behind the scenes at Westminster.
Vanessa Collingridge explores the technologies that shape our lives. Producer Roland Pease
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With Robin Lustig.
4: A Ghost Story
For details see Monday
LATE NIGHT ON 4
Satire, sketches and a hard look behind the week's media events. With
Simon Evans , Tracy-Ann Oberman and Dave Lamb.
Producer Anil Gupta
By Ken Saro-Wiwa . A surprise reunion and a double murder charge. Part 9. For details see Monday
