With Canon Noel Vincent.
With Charlotte Smith. Producer David Street
With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.45 Thought for the Day With the Rev Roy Jenkins.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas and events which have influenced our time. Producer Charlie Taylor. Repeated at 9.30pm
Melvyn Bragg discusses the history education and examines whether its modern purpose is to teach us the nature of reality, or to give us the tools to deal with it. Show more
In the last of a four-part series, film-maker Alex Cox investigates the secret lives of some of cinema's greatest directors, looking at the men behind the movies. Orson Welles. At the age of just 25 Orson Welles made his stunning directorial debut with Citizen Kane , pushing existing film-making techniques as far as they could go. Alex Cox looks at Welles's maverick nature and why he failed to build on his early success. Producer Colin Hughes
Jenni Murray presents the latest news, views and culture from a female perspective. Drama:
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens. Part 9. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
Reports on the stories that matter to people around the world. Meriel Beattie meets Israel's young draft dodgers. Conscription into the Israeli defence forces has traditionally been the backbone of the Jewish state. Now more and more Israelis are opting out. Are they just cowards, too selfish to do their patriotic duty? Or are they harbingers of a new Israel where individualism and pacifism are no longer dirty words? Producer Hugh Levinson
Leon Robinson traces the original members of the Ballets Negres, a company of African and - West Indian dancers that flourished in the 1940s. Producer Frances Byrnes
PM With Liz Barclay and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke
Charlotte Smith with more tales from the British countryside.
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Vayu Naidu. The third of four plays from Chasing the Rainbow, a BBC Radio Drama initiative in the Midlands to find new writers from the black and Asian communities. Chanda is visiting relatives in England when her husband's body is found in their apartment in Montana. What happened to make her run away? Was murder inevitable? with Shivani Ghai , Ravi Kapoor. Vayu Naidu , Antony Zaki. Beth Chalmers , Robert Lister , Andy Hockley and Sean Connolly Piano Mark Lockett. Director Vanessa Whitburn
With Peter White. Editor Chris Burns
Repeated from Sunday 7.55am
4: Thyroxin. A look at a hormone which can have a devastating effect on the body if too little or too much is produced. Yet thyroid dysfunction is a surprisingly common problem, and now an increasing number of people believe that thyroxine supplements can help them feel better. For details see Monday(R)
49: 1 956 - the Suez Crisis For details see Monday
Marcel Berlins takes a lively look at the legal affairs of the moment.
Producers Sallie Davies and Charles Sigler Repeated Sunday 8.30pm
We love the thrill of roller coasters, but they depend on complex engineering principles for their effect. Quentin Cooper uncovers the science behind the sensation.
Producer John Watkins. E-MAIL: material.world@bbc.co.uk
With Eddie Mair and Charlie Lee-Potter
BBC controller of entertainment Paul Jackson chats to six comedy writers and performers about their lives and work. 5: Adrian Edmondson
Producer Chris Neill
Eddie will not toe the line. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
John Wilson chairs the arts programme. Producer Rebecca Stratford
By Charles Dickens. Part 9.
For details see Monday. Repeated from 10.45am
The last of the series in which Misha Glenny talks to decision makers and ordinary people about the collapse of Communism in eastern Europe ten years ago. Romania, December 1989 - Blood on the Barricades. The overthrow of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was the last revolution of 1989 and the bloodiest. The tyrant was shot, but were the citizens on the barricades duped by a sinister Communist cabal?
Producers Maria Balinska , Rosie Goldsmith and Tim Whewell
Rough Counting. Is a firm cheating its shareholders by retaining inefficient staff or turning a blind eye to petty theft and personal phone calls? Should bosses - of firms, schools, or hospitals - be given discretion about standards and objectives, or should they have explicit rules and targets? Andrew Dilnot continues the examination of openness and accountability.
Producer Ingrid Hassler. Repeated Sunday 9.30pm
Geoff Watts explores the latest scientific discoveries and asks how they affect us. Producer Rami Tzabar. E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk
With Robin Lustig.
In the first of two programmes Michael Connelly , international guest of honour at this year's crime fiction convention in Manchester, reads an extract from his latest Harry Bosch thriller, Angels Flight. Producer Melanie Harris
Alexei Sayle's five-part comedy about life, love and not living together.
Andy has lost his security job as a result of nearly getting the Prime Minister assassinated. But things could be worse. Julie could leave him for rich, successful comedian Rory Bream. Oh dear. She has.
Chef Rick Stein reads Mark Kuriansky 's compelling history of the humble cod. Part 4. For details see Monday
