With Mona Saddiqui.
With Charlotte Smith.
With Allan Little and Ed Stourton.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With the Rev Angela Tilby.
Jonathan Freedland and historians explore events both epic and personal. Producer Marc Burman. Repeated at 9.30pm
In five programmes Robert Lacey presents a portrait of life in Britain in the year 1000 with the help of archaeologists and historians.
1: Daily life and town planning in Winchester and York. Producer Susan Roberts
With Sheila McCiennon and guests. Reading: Eclipse 1999. Part 1 of 5. Editor Ruth Gardiner
E-MAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk Reading repeated at 7.45pm
By Agatha Christie. Dramatised by Michael Bakewell in five parts.
Starring June Whitfield as Miss Marple.
The residents of Chipping Cleghorn have been invited to a murder. Surely it must be a game?
With Trixie Rawlinson and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke.
Robert Robinson chairs the nationwide general knowledge contest, including Beat the Brains in which listeners put their own questions to contestants. Devised by John PWynn. Questions by Ian Gillies Producer Richard Edis. Repeated Saturday llpm
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
Novelists Alice Thomas Ellis , Jane Rogers and Beryl Bainbridge address letters to their personal icons, reflecting upon the lives of St Teresa of Avila, Captain Scott and Mary Wollstonecraft. With Kate Rutter , James Quinn and Nicholas Blane. Producer Michael Fox
Repeated from Saturday 12.04pm
Five programmes about shorelines in literature. 1: The cove in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. Producer Penny Arnold
Anna Massey narrates the history of Britain, with the words of Sir Winston Churchill read by Peter Jeffrey. Additional readings by Brett Usher and Sean Baker. 156: The Rise of Bismarck and Death ofPalmerston Written by Christopher Lee. Producer Pete Atkin Revised repeat
Repeated from Saturday 11am
Jane Franchi and guests look behind the headlines at the issues and cultures which shape the world. Producer Amber Dawson
With Clare English and Chris Lowe.
Nicholas Parsons is joined by Clement Freud , Stephen Fry , Peter Jones and Paul Merton for radio's most devious panel game. Recorded at the Radio Theatre, London.
Devised by Ian Messiter. Producer Chris Neill Repeated Sunday 12 noon
Will Jack and Peggy be Darby and Joan? Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Mark Lawson reviews Hollywood's latest attempt to reinvent the western in Wild Wild West, starring Will Smith. Producer Tanya Hudson
Astronomer Heather Couper introduces five readings of poetry, prose and diary extracts to mark the end of the millennium. Words are provided by sun worshippers such as Queen
Victoria, Emily Dickinson and Oscar Wilde. Readers Denys Hawthorne ,
Mona Hammond , Lisa Eichorn ,
Derek Griffiths and Amanda Root. Part 1.
Producer Polly Thomas. Repeated from 10.45am
Keeping the Faith. In the first of two programmes on the state of religious belief in Britain today, the Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali , looks at the non-Christian faiths.
Producer Cathy Packe
All Right Now? According to the west, Nato's victory in Kosovo was a triumph for human rights. Isabel Hilton asks whether there really are shared international values.
Producer Ingnd Hassler. Rptd Sunday 9.30pm
Lionel Kellaway explores the ancient sport of falconry and the unique relationship that exists between a modern-day falconer and a falcon. Producer Sheena Duncan
Repeated from 9am
With Robin Lustig.
Murray Bail's award-winning love story, set on a eucalyptus plantation in New South Wales, is read in ten parts by Robert Menzies. Part 1.
Abridged and produced by Janet Whitaker
Revised repeat from Saturday 9am
Jill McGivering meets the Hong Kong citizens who are being threatened with deportation following a ruling in Beijing. Repeated from Thursday
William Boyd 's novel examines the murky world of loss-adjusting.
Abridged in ten parts by Neville Teller , read by Stephen Critchlow. Part 1. Producer Duncan Minshull Repeat
