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 Rt Rev Jim Thompson.

Diana Madill meets David Green , the new boss of the British Council, in the last part of the series. Producer Joy Hatwood Repeated at 9.30pm

Steve Punt presents a guide to the greatest advertising stunts of all time. 2: The ways in which new technology has influenced the nature of promotional gimmicks.
Producers Sue Foster and Simon Elmes

With Jenni Murray and guests.
Drama: Vital Signs by Sarah Woods. Part 4.
Drama repeated at 7.45pm For details see Monday

Kate Adie introduces the stories behind the news with correspondents worldwide.
Producer Tony Grant

In the last of three programmes,
Simon Callow continues his biography of Orson Welles. After the Second
World War, Welles left America and until the mid-seventies led a largely nomadic existence. These postwar years saw the success of Graham Greene 's The Third Man, featuring Welles's extraordinary Harry Lime character.
Producer Jules Wilkinson. Revised repeat

With Trixie Rawlinson and John Waite. Editor Chris Burns. PHONE: [number removed]44 or E-MAIL: [address removed]

With Nick Clarke.

Richard Uridge with another fresh crop of countryside stories.

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

By Gerald Meadows, dramatised by Alyson Hallet. A drama-documentary based on the letters sent by a 12-year-old English boy to his parents in England while he was evacuated to South Africa for the duration of the Second World War. The letters, lost for 60 years, describe without inhibitions a boy growing up in wartime South Africa. Featuring the real Gerald Meadows.
Director Pete Atkin

With Peter White.
Editor Chris Burns

Blokes Are Keen. Kit Wright lives near Sutton House in Hackney, once the venue for a curious recreational church club - the St John's Institute.
He revisits the scene of the members' last pageant before the First World
War took them away to the trenches. Producer Viv Beeby

14: 1914 - the UVFand the Outbreak of War
For details see Monday

Michael Rosen presents the programme about English and the way we speak. Producer Harry Parker
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Repeated Sunday 8.30pm

Trevor Phillips reports on the latest scientific facts and theories being aired at The British Associations'
Festival of Science.
Producer John Watkins
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Eddie Mair and Charlie Lee-Potter .

Stand-up comic and Independent columnist Mark Steel presents a series of humorous lectures covering historical figures who shaped their era. With Melanie Hudson and Kim Wall. Producer Phil Clarke

It is a rough gig for Tommy. Repeated tomorrow 2pm

Francine Stock meets Frank McCourt , author of the bestseller Angela 's Ashes. Producer Robyn Read

By Sarah Woods. Thursday: a difficult union meeting dealing with millennium pay is followed by the first official complaint in the Ruddle case. Part 4. Rptd from 10.45am. For details see Monday

In the first of two programmes,
Liz Carney follows the fortunes of three student teachers training at
Manchester Metropolitan University. Will they last the first term? Producer David Ross Repeat

Labour. This week, Jonathan Freedland talks to key Labour modernisers and asks whether New Labour can maintain its appeal in light of the unpredictable events of government. Producer Jo-Anne Nadler

Alun Lewis presents the last of two programmes on the rebuilding of Kosovo. He travels to Pristina
University Hospital to see how staff are restarting essential services. Producer Paul Arnold
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Repeated from 9am

With Robin Lustig.

By Michael Frayn. Part 9. For details see Monday

Alan Davies stars in his own comedy. Alan Francis and Ronnie Ancona play his long-suffering friends, Murray and Kate. Written by Tony Roche , Ben Silburn and Alan Davies.
Producer Jane Berthoud Repeat

Michael Bakewell 's dramatisation of Agatha Christie 's novel stars June
Whitfield as Miss Marple. 1: A dead man's wishes involve Miss Marple in the ultimate mystery tour. with Geoffrey Whitehead. Jane Whittenshaw. Margot Boyd. Yvonne Edgell , Molly Gaisford and Charles Simpson. Director Enyd Williams Repeat

By lain Banks. Part 4. For details see Monday