With the Rev Patrick Forbes.

With Charlotte Smith. Producer Ashley Gething

With Sue MacGregor.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With the Rev Angela Tilby.

Jeremy Paxman and his guests set the cultural agenda for the week.
Producer Karen Holden. Repeated at 9.30pm

Doris Lessing joins Martha Kearney to talk about her latest novel. Drama:
Diary of a Provincial Lady, by EM Delafield. Part 1 of 15. Editor Ruth Gardiner
E-MAIL: [address removed] Drama repeated at 7.45pm

Glyn Houston narrates the diary of the Rev David Davies , a missionary and colleague of Gladys Aylward 's in China between 1934-45. Producer Martin Kursik

PG Wodehouse's comedy is adapted in four parts by Douglas Young.
1: Tipton Plimsoll Takes the Pledge
The moon waxes over Blandings Castle, two pairs of lovers find their paths strewn with thorns, the Earl of Emsworth's pig must have its portrait painted and Tipton Plimsoll is seeing apparitions. with Alexander Morton , Lucy Paterson , Matthew Whittle , Gerda Stevenson and Simon Tait Producer Dave Batchelor

With Liz Barclay and Trixie Rawlinson.

With James Cox.

Peter Snow interrogates four more competitors who are aiming to become 1999's champion. Special subjects include: George Orwell , Britain in the First World War and the history of food. Producer Paul Bajoria

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

By E. Nesbit, dramatised by Malcolm McKee.
On a hot, Edwardian summer's day, five children are granted a series of wishes by a strange creature they find in a gravel pit. But, inevitably, things do not go to plan in their enchanted world.
(Repeat)

Anna Massey narrates the history of Britain, with the words of Sir Winston Churchill read by Peter Jeffrey. Additional readings by Stephen Critchlow. 66: The Republic of England Producer Pete Atkin Repeat

Repeated from Saturday 11am

Jane Franchi and guests look behind the headlines at the issues which shape the world. In this programme, an examination of comics.
Producer Amber Dawson

With Clare English and Eddie Mair.

Joining Nigel Rees to exchange quotations and anecdotes this week are Lord Quinton and Stephanie Hughes. Reader William Franklyn. Producer Carol Smith
E-MAIL: [address removed] Repeated Sunday 12pm

Sid is a competitive dad. Repeated tomorrow 2pm

By EM Delafield , dramatised in fifteen parts by Jane Rogers. 1: The everyday 1930s journal of how to run a house and family, and still manage to keep your sanity and your green fingers. with Susan Brown , Alwyne Taylor and Julie Cox Director Clive Brill

The Macpherson Report on the Lawrence Enquiry defined institutional racism. In the first of two programmes, Ferdinand Dennis examines how organisations can be racist and looks at anti-racist legislation in Britain. Producer Marina Salandy Brown

Beyond the Pale. Joblessness, poverty, no friends and family - Julian Le Grand asks how we can define social exclusion in a way which is capable of remedy.
Producer Ingrid Hassler. Rptd Sunday 9.30pm

Nick Baker is back on the trail of the swallow, as he follows the advance of spring from south to north, guided by calls, questions and springtime sightings from the audience. This week he starts in East Anglia.
Producers Sarah Blunt and Brett Westwood

Repeated from 9am

With Justin Webb.

Robert Harris's bestselling thriller is read in ten parts by Alan Howard. A spectre is haunting the new Russia - Joseph Stalin. At midnight in a Moscow hotel room, Professor Fluke Kelso is listening to a story that could make or break his reputation. If it is true, Stalin is about to return from the grave. Part 1.
Producer Lisa Osborne

By Johnny Meres. Thirty-nine-year-old office worker Mike Wainwright is making his first parachute jump.
Unfortunately, it also looks like his last. with Monica Gibb. Suzie Lundy and Sandy Neilson. Producer David Jackson Young

Robin Denselow talks to musicians who have fallen in love with music from another culture. 4: Belinda Sykes finds the true voice of a medieval troubadour in modern Morocco.
Repeated from Saturday llpm

Philippa Gregory 's turbulent novel about the Jacobean gardener and adventurer John Tradescant is abridged in ten parts by Alison Joseph. Reader Kevin Whately. Part 1. Producer Gaynor Macfarlane