With the Rev Johnston McKay.
With Charlotte Smith.
Producer David Street
John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With Professor Charles Handy.
8.35 Yesterday In Parliament
Michael Buerk looks at how people make life-altering decisions and takes them through the whole process, from the dilemma to living with the consequences. Producer Christine Morgan. Repeated at 9.30pm
Claudia Hammond presents a beginner's guide to hormones.
2: Growth Hormone. There is now an increasing demand from parents for healthy children to be given growth hormones to make them taller. Producer Jane O'Rourke
With Martha Kearney and guests. Drama: Stories for Olga by Anton Chekhov. Part 2.
Drama repeated at 7.45pm For details see yesterday
Paul Simon presents a series on the role played by climate during dramatic periods of ancient and modern history. 2: From the disappearing Norsemen of Greenland to the outbreak of the French Revolution - a look at the Ice Age. Producer Sue Broom. E-MAIL: [address removed]
Greg Proops presents a four-part series on the history of modern
American stand-up comedy. He takes us back to the Second World War and the emergence of a new breed of post-vaudeville comedian led by Lenny Bruce. Producer Ian Docherty
With Liz Barclay and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke.
Christopher Cook talks to choreographers about the music that moves them to make dance.
3: Siobhan Davies. The accomplished contemporary dance choreographer. Producer Frances Byrnes
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
Earlier this month, Rodin's sculpture, The Kiss, was returned by the Tate Gallery to the Assembly Rooms in Lewes, East Sussex, where it last stood in 1917. Keith Darvill 's dramatic feature explores the background to the commission of this erotic masterpiece by Bostonian aesthete Edward Perry Warren , whose Lewes home became a semi-monastic shrine to art, erudition and "Uranian" love.
Director David Blount
Call Eddie Mair for an exchange of experiences and views on today's topical issues.
Producer Sukey Firth
LINES OPEN from 1.30pm
2: The Herbarium. A visit to an organic index to the natural world - a collection of millions of pressed plants. For details see yesterday
122: Lord North
For details see yesterday Revised repeat
Why are our sex education programmes failing young people? Libby Purves talks to teenage mothers, their partners and parents on the latest guide to the learning world.
Producers Maud Hand and Lyn Webster Wilde Action Line: [number removed]44
E-MAIL: [address removed] Repeated Sunday llpm
Entertaining conversation from the world of business with Heather Payton and guests. Producer Simon Crow
With Clare English and Chris Lowe.
A six-part series of original writing and outrageous parody as Mark Thomas, David Stafford, Stuart Maconie and Linda Smith wreak havoc with literary icons under the watchful eye of poet Ian McMillan.
(Repeated Thursday 11.30pm)
Ruth and David do some R and D. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Mark Lawson chairs the arts programme and tracks down the acclaimed crime writer Val McDermid. Producer Tanya Hudson
The comic stories of Anton Chekhov , dramatised by Olwen Wymark. Part 2. Repeated from 10.45am For details see yesterday
In American courts, criminals often strike deals, offering to plead guilty for lighter sentences. Mark Whitaker examines evidence that plea bargaining is going on behind the scenes in some English courts. Producer Andy Denwood Repeated Sunday 5pm
Peter White with news for visually impaired people.
Producer Cheryl Gabriel
PHONE: [number removed] for more information FACTSHEET: send a large sae to [address removed]
Allergies. Peanuts, pollen and pollution - are we becoming allergic to 20th-century life? Graham Easton discovers whether medicine has the answers for people with allergies. Producer Helen Sharp
E-MAIL: [address removed]
Repeated tomorrow 4.30pm
Repeated from 9am
By Deborah Moggach. Part 7. For details see yesterday
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical look at life. With Jane Bussmann
, Dan Freedman ,
David Quantick , Nick Romero and guest. Repeated from Saturday 6.15pm
By Peter Hoeg. Part 7.
For details see yesterday Repeat
