With Rabbi Peter Tobias.
With Charlotte Smith.
Sue MacGregor and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Huw Spanner.
Jeremy Paxman and his guests set the cultural agenda for the week.
Producer Olivia Seligman. Repeated at 9.30pm
With Sheila McClennon and guests. Drama: Vital Signs by Peter Straughan. Part 6 of 20. Editor Ruth Gardiner
E-MAIL: [address removed] Drama repeated at 7.45pm
Beautiful Soul. In the second of two programmes, Robert Service assesses the life and death of Nadezhda Sergeevna Allilueva , Stalin's second wife, based on documents he has unearthed in the Soviet Central Party Archive. Producer Sheila Dillon Repeat
By Graham Greene , dramatised in four parts by Rene Basilico. 2: A question of faith, shopping in Madrid, and a brush with the law. with Edna Dore , Roy Spencer and Simon Greenall. Music written and played by Paco Pena. Producer John Fawcett Wilson
With Trixie Rawlinson and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke at the Liberal
Democrat conference in Harrogate.
Robert Robinson chairs the nationwide general knowledge contest, including Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to contestants.
First round - the north-west of England. Producer Richard Edis
Repeated Saturday llpm
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
Carol McGuigan 's poignant tale of hope, imagination and spirituality from a child's viewpoint. What do you do when you are eight years old, your Mam has not got tuppence to her name, a man in the flat above has jumped out of the window in despair and you are being bullied at school? Become a nun, of course. with Janine Birkett , Niamh Daly and Christopher Connel. Director Polly Thomas
With Vincent Duggleby. Producer Marcia Hughes LINES OPEN from 1.30pm
It is 2am and while most children are in bed, seven-year-old Katie [text removed] is running around a forest in upstate New York. Every summer, 25 children suffering from a rare allergy to light gather at summer camp. Even a slight glimpse of the sun eventually proves fatal for them. Matthew Chapman joins Camp Sundown where the day begins when darkness falls. Producer Matthew Chapman
Radio 4's unique history of Britain tells the story of our present century. Narrated by Anna Massey , with additional readings by Robert Powell. 16: 1919 - the Origins of World War II Written by Christopher Lee Producer Pete Atkin
Repeated from Saturday llam
Jane Franchi and guests look behind the headlines at the issues and cultures which shape the world. Producer Amber Dawson
With Chris Lowe and Kevin Bocquet.
Joining Nigel Rees to exchange quotations and anecdotes this week are Sandi Toksvig , Brenda Maddox , Anthony Howard and David Bamber. Reader William Franklyn. Producer Carol Smith
E-MAIL: [address removed] Repeated Sunday 12 noon
Ambridge receives a lorry load of trouble. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Mark Lawson chairs the arts show.
Producer Tanya Hudson
By Peter Straughan. Monday: Carol learns that one of her consultants has been lobbying the chairman of the board regarding a bid for a new cathlab. She is furious. Part 6 of 20. with Keith Drinkel , Vincent Ebrahaim , Derek Walmsley , Duncan Preston. Sandra James Young, Lloyd Hutchinson , Garry Cooper ,
Becky Hindley , Roy North and loan Meredith Director Kate Rowland. Rptd from 10.45am
A series in which Philip Short travels across China reporting on the Long
March of the thirties as history and as metaphor. 4: Marching for Land. In
Sichuan province, Short explores the impact of land reform on China's rural millions, reforms which have spurred the birth of a green movement in China. Producer Mary Price
King Customer. Companies now have access to vast stores of information about the people who use them.
Peter Day examines the opportunities and dangers.
Editor Stephen Chilcott. Rptd Sunday 9.30pm
Treescape. As we near the millennium tree-planting season, Paul Evans surveys the future for Britain's trees. Producer Kate Whitehead
Repeated tomorrow 11am
Shortened repeat of 9am
Salman Rushdie 's latest novel is an epic tale of love, death and rock 'n' roll. Read by Art Malik , abridged in 15 parts by Doreen Estall. Part 1. Producer Fiona McLean
Repeated from Saturday 9am
By lain Banks, read by Valerie Edmond. Kate, back in Thulahn, is summoned to meet the strange and formidable Queen Mother. Abridged in ten parts by Neville Teller. Part 6.
Producers Susan Roberts and Babirye Gregory
