With Denis Nowlan
With Anna Hill.
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.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas and events which have influenced our time.
Repeated at 9.30pm
Melvyn Bragg discusses the similar origins of mathematics and storytelling which both require a shape and structure to make any sense. But is it possible to apply mathematical logic to literature? Show more
Steve Punt presents the last in a four-partguide to the greatest advertising stunts of all time. Cash or Creativity?
Producers Sue Foster and Simon Elmes
Frances Wilson joins Jenni Murray to tell the tales of those who have been so seduced by a good read that they have abandoned themselves to the writers and theirwork. Drama: Vital Signs by Sarah Woods. Part 14.
Drama repeated at 7.45pm. For details see Monday
Kate Adie introduces the stories behind the news with correspondents worldwide.
Producer Tony Grant
Bestselling American author Bill Bryson chooses his favourite writing- a mix of comedy and adventure with extracts from Evelyn Waugh 's
Scoop, a Hardy Boys classic and Three Men in a Boat. Readers Kerry Shale and Bill Wallis.
Producer Mary Ward Lowery. Repeated Wednesday 11.30pm
With Liz Barclay and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke at the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth.
Presented by Richard Uridge.
6.10am
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
Beatrice Colin's play is set in France in the dark days of 1940. As the Germans advance from Paris, three women - an heiress, a journalist and a poet - escape to a chateau in the Loire valley. They have sworn to counter bullets with words, and violence with feminism. But like latter-day Joans of Arc, they discover that idealism has a price.
Director Patrick Rayner
With Peter White. Editor Chris Burns
Shortened repeat of 6unday 7.55am
4: The Banister-Fletcher textbook, used at some point by every architect to check facts or to prop up a drawing board. Michael Hopkins, architect of the Lord's cricket stand, talks about this historic book.
For details see Monday
24: 1931 National Government and Naval Mutiny
For details see Monday
The programme about language and the way we speak. 11: Everytime We Say Goodbye. Farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu - Michael Rosen will catch you later with the language of leave-taking.
Producer Emma-Louise Williams
E-MAIL: word.of.mouth@bbc.co.uk. Repeated Sunday 8.30pm
An out-of-this-world edition of the programme as Trevor Phillips , Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter explore the science fact of science fiction.
Producer John Watkins. E-MAIL: material.world@bbc.co.uk
With Eddie Mair and Charlie Lee-Potter .
Stand-up comic and columnist Mark Steel from the Watershed in Bristol sheds light on the life of Thomas Paine. With Melanie Hudson and Martin Hyder. Producer Phil Clarke
Larry's plans for the pantomime lead to trouble.
Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Francine Stock meets Goodness Gracious Me star Meera Syal, who has just published a new comic novel - Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee.
By Sarah Woods. 14: Thursday: Carol gets to the bottom of a problem at home, but back at the Nightingale answers are harderto come by. Repeated from 10.45am. For details see Monday
NEW SERIES
Ten years ago, Communism collapsed in Eastern Europe. In four programmes, historian
Misha Glenny talks to decision makers and to ordinary people about the extraordinary story of the liberation of eastern Europe. 1: The Cracks Appear: 1979 -85. Ten million Poles join the independent trade union Solidarity, and there are secret meetings in Bonn between Hungarian
Communists and the West German chancellor.
Producer Maria Balinska -
The Super Ministry. John Prescott 's mega-ministry of the environment, transport and regions is the most wide-ranging government department. Has the bringing together of these previously separate domains led to a coherent strategy or a monster too unwieldy for any secretary of state to manage - even the deputy prime minister? And how does his creation relate to the political centre at No 10? Dinah Lammiman reports.
Producer Sue Davies
Your Mother Can Ruin Your Health. Geoff Watts finds out why life before birth can influence life until death. Producer Rami Tzaba
E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk
By Salman Rushdie. Part 9.
Fordetails see Monday
Alan Davies stars in his own comedy series. Alan Francis and Ronnie Ancona play his long-suffering friends Murray and Kate, as they all try to sort out this week's dilemma.
Written byTony Roche, Ben Silburn and Alan Davies
Producer Jane Berthoud
Michael Bakewell 's five-part dramatisation of the Agatha Christie novel stars June Whitfield as Miss Marple. 3: Crucial information has come to light, but an ally has been seriously injured. with Kathleen Helme , Patricia Scott , Molly Gaisford , Roger Moss and Colin Pinney. Director Enyd Williams
By Ian McEwan. 4: Clive and Vernon argue about the morality of publishing photographs of the Foreign Secretary dressed in women's clothes. Fordetails see Monday
