With Canon Noel Vincent

With Anna Hill. Producer David Street

With Edward Stourton.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.45 Thought for the Day With Johnston McMaster.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament HVon/y

Fergal Keane presents eight interviews exploring what motivates people to leave their job. (Repeated at 9.30pm)

In the first of four programmes inspired by the Holly Hunter/Harvey Keitel lesson in Jane Campion's film The Piano, Jeremy Nicholas attends a piano weekend run by The Oldie magazine. The weekend grew out of the relationship between Oldie editor Richard Ingrams and his own piano teacher Richard Banning of Trinity College Cambridge. All that is need to take part is a pass at grade three.

According to Professor Banning, who gently guides participants through Satie's Gymnopeche, there are simple technical barriers to be overcome for anyone starting in later life, such as tension in the body and rigidity in the hands. On the other hand, older learners know what they want to communicate through their music and usually have the personality to put it across.

Martha Kearney is joined by guests for lively discussions, interviews and news from a woman's point of view.
Drama: Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens. Part 7.
Drama repeated at 7.45pm

As the nights draw in, nature has started to close down her iife-giving bounty. The earth is going to steep - insects, worms and plant life turn over and rest. Mark Cawardine examines what is going on during this cyclical phenomenon. Repeated from yesterday 9pm

A history of British theatre and its technology.

Russell Davies looks at how technology in the theatre developed compared to that of cinema and television.

With Trixie Rawlinson and Mark Whittaker.

With Nick Clarke

1,000 Years of Spoken English
Melvyn Bragg presents a history celebrating 1,000 years of the spoken language of Britain, from the first to the second millennium.
From Hastings in Sussex, Bragg traces the influence of French on the English language, from 1066 to the European Union. With Lisa Appignanesi , Dr Kathryn Lowe, Frank McLynn and JC Smith. Repeated from Friday

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

Four new plays by Ronald Frame set in a luxury hotel in the Scottish Highlands.
2: An old flame comes back into Fee's life with awkward consequences. Meanwhile a taxi driver and his wife reluctantly celebrate his retirement, and Willie the doorman becomes a media star.
Director Patrick Rayner

Cat) Eddie Mair for an exchange of experiences and views on today'stop!ca! issues. Producer Sukey Rrth. UNES OPEN from 1.30pm

Claudia Hammond presents a beginner's guide to hormones. 2: Grouch Hormone. There is now an increasing demand from parents for healthy children to be given growth hormones to make them taller. For details see yesterday (R)

Narrated by Anna Massey, with additional readings by Robert Powell and Patience Thomlinson.
47: 1954 ― the Four-Minute Mile, the H-Bomb and Eden's Frustration For details see yesterday

Alison Mitchell presents the programme that takes a quirky took at everything which affects our working lives.

The guide to the world of learning, for listeners of all ages who want the best from the system. Producers Dorothy Steven and Anne Freeman Action Line: [number removed]
Email: [address removed]. Repeated Sunday llpm

With Clare English and Nigel Wrench.

The second blast of the kindly six-part comedy series written by and starring Milton Jones. Producer David Tyter

The jury is out. Tonight's episode is the very first time that no regular cast members have appeared, instead, the jury (headed up by David Bamber) will be debating their verdict on Tommy. Repeated tomorrow 2pm

Francine Stock presents the nightly arts programme, and gives the verdict on the film The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis as a psychologist treating a boy who claims he can see the dead. Plus a visit to London's Tate Gallery for an exhibition which reassesses the art of the Bloomsbury painters before and after the First World War. Producer Stephen Hughes

By Charles Dickens.
For details see yesterday Repeated from 10.45am

Mark Whitaker reports on major issues, changing attitudes and important events at home and abroad. Producer Gregor Stewart. Repeated Sunday 5pm

Peter White with news for visually impaired people.
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The country is long overdue a flu epidemic - so who deserves to get a flu jab this winter when the vaccine is in short supply? And how can you tell the difference between flu and a bad cold?
Dr Graham Easton offers advice on how to soothe away those aches and pains.
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Repeated tomorrow 4.30pm

Fergal Keane presents eight interviews exploring what motivates people to leave their job. Repeated from 9am

With Ciaire Boiderson

By Maeve Binchy. Part 7. For details see yesterday

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis host another cavalcade of stand-up comedy, sketches and songs. Repeated from Saturdays.15pm

Chef Rick Stein reads Mark Kurtansky's compelling history of the humble cod. Part 2. For details see yesterday