With the Rev Stephen Shipley.
With Anna Hill.
Producer Sarah Tempest
With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With the Rev Angela Tilby.
8.35 Yesterday in Parliament
Libby Purves and guests engage in lively and diverse conversation. Producer Alison Hughes Repeated at 9.30pm
With Jenni Murray. Drama: If Only. Part 3. Lucy's Story by Mary Maher. Drama repeated at 7.45pm For details see Monday
In the first of two programmes,
Liz Carney follows the fortunes of three students over a year of teacher training at Manchester Metropolitan University. Will they survive the academic workload of the first term and the first chance to test themselves in front of a class of teenagers?
Producer David Ross
John Waite and Rory Bremner present the last in a four-part spoof compilation of outtakes from pilot shows never intended for broadcast.
This week, Jeremy Paxman 's early attempt at hosting Top of the Form, and Geoffrey Boycott Talks Balls. Producer Robert Katz
With Liz Barclay and Mark Whittaker.
With James Cox.
James Walton returns to the chair for the game of literary correctness, flanked by captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh. This week, authors Nigel Williams and Lynne Truss join the proceedings. Author of the week is
William Shakespeare. Reader Becky Hindley. Producer Dawn Ellis
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Michael Butt. Soon after his internment in wartime France,
PG Wodehouse begins, inexplicably, to broadcast on German radio - a phenomenon which provokes his contemporary, George Orwell , into a complete intellectual upheaval. with Gillian Barge, Stephen Boxer , Colin Baker. David Glover and Michael Tudor Barnes
Director John Taylor
Nigel Colborn , Pippa Greenwood and Bob Rowerdew answer questions sent in by post. With chairman Eric Robson. Repeated from Sunday 2pm
3: A Fair Cop. After the Second World War, a new mood of realism swept the crime fiction reading public. For details see Monday Repeat
133: The End of Liverpool and George Canning
For details see Monday Revised repeat
Laurie Taylor and guests explore and explode some of the ideas that shape our society today. Producer Tony Phillips
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Digital Detective. Catching serial killers is one of the most daunting tasks the police ever have to tackle. Quentin Cooper reveals how investigators are frequently turning to technology in some of the most serious and disturbing cases. Prooducer Alison Ayres
With Chris Lowe and Charlie Leef otter.
Clive Coleman 's four-part comedy series set in the country's least spectacular set of chambers.
4: It's Only Words. John Fuller-Carp gets embroiled in a very costly bet with rival barrister Vernon Ames , and Ruth joins an exclusive dating agency. With John Bird, James Fleet, Sarah Lancashire , Jonathan Kydd , Jeremy Clyde , Simon Greenall , Ben Crowe , John Rowe and Emma Clarke. Producer Paul Schlesinger Repeat
Red faces at Grey Gables.
Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Mark Lawson with the arts programme. Producer Tanya Hudson
3: Lucy's Story by Mary Maher , read by Sinead Cusack and Brett O'Brien. Lucy is totally useless as a helper in the women's centre. She is giggly, shallow, forgetful and in awe of her husband. Yet her pretty surface hides a secret. Rptd from 10.45am. For details see Monday
Michael Buerk chairs an investigation of the moral questions behind the week's headlines. Witnesses face cross-examination from Janet Daley,
David Cook , Ian Hargreaves and David Starkey. Producer David Coomes
Repeated Saturday 10.15pm
Repeated from Sunday 5.40pm
Body Banks. Growing tailor-made tissues and organs for transplant has long been the stuff of science fiction. Peter Evans reports on recent attempts to harness special cells to produce endless supplies of living tissue. Producer Paul Arnold
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Repeated from 9am
With Anne Mackenzie.
By Adam Nicholson. Part 8. For details see Monday
Satire, sketches and a hard look behind the week's media events. With
Simon Evans , Tracy-Ann Oberman , Dave Lamb and Chris Pavlo.
Producer Anil Gupta
By Nick Hornby. Part 3.
For details see Monday Repeat
