With the Rev Ermal Kirby
With Rupert Segar
With Sue MacGregor and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Sister Lavinia Byrne.
Jeremy Paxman and guests set the cultural agenda for the week. Producer Ariane Koek. Repeated at 9.30pm
With Martha Kearney. Drama: Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens. Part 21 of30. Editor Ruth Gardiner E-MAIL: [address removed] Drama repeated at 7.45pm
Peter Snow presents the last in a six-part history in which the stories are provided by an edition of a newspaper randomly selected by computer.
Sunday Times - 23 November 1924. The court cases that made Marie Stopes a household name, to the disgust of the anti-contraception lobby; the inauguration of Imperial Airways; and the Caldecott community, which offered a public school education to working-class children. Producer Andrew Green
Michael Bakewell's five-part dramatisation of the novel by Agatha Christie.
A shadow has fallen across Hercule Poirot's summer holiday - and murder is in the air. with Wendy Craig, Sabina Franklyn and Lindsey Fawcett (R)
With Trixie Rawlinson and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke
, Robert Robinson chairs the nationwide general knowledge contest, including Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to contestants. Fourth semi-final.
Producer Richard Edis. Repeated Saturday llpm
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Rebecca Saire. In the highly charged world of dance, a parent tries to fulfil herunrealised dreams.
Ballet adviser Anna duBoisson. Director Eoin O'Callaghan
Vincent Dugglebytakes calls on an issue affecting personal finance.
Producer Frances Macdonald. LINES OPEN from 1.30pm
In five programmes Lisa Jardine meets acclaimed cutting-edge artists whose work is inspired by technological discovery, and unites them with leading scientists to hear of the latest research in their chosen fields. 1: Sculptor Antony Gormley and his Quantum Cloud.
Producer Adrian Washbourne. E-MAIL: [address removed]
Radio 4's unique history of Britain tells the story of our present century. Narrated by Anna Massey , with additional readings by Robert Powell.
61: 968 - Revolution in Pan's and Spring in Prague Producer Pete Atkin
With Derek Cooper.
(Extended repeat from yesterday 12.30pm)
Jenni Murray and guests discuss topical issues behind the headlines. Producer Paul Bajoria
With Clare English and Chris Lowe
The antidote to panel games comes this week from the new Milton Keynes theatre. With panellists Tim Brooke-Taylor , PhillJupitus, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden. Humphrey Lyttelton is in the chair. Musical accompaniment comes from Colin Sell. Producer Jon Naismith. Repeated Sunday 12 noon
Edd ie forges ahead. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Mark Lawson investigates the new James Bond film The World Is Not Enough. Producer Tony O'Shaughnessy
By Charles Dickens , dramatised by Georgia Pritchett. Nicholas fails to reveal to the Cheerybles his true feelings for Madeline Bray , and there is a frightful plot to marry Miss Bray off to wizened old Arthur Gride. Part 21 of 30. Music arranged and performed by Melanie Pappenheim and Anne Wood. Director Jeremy Mortimer. Repeated from 10.45am
Jenny Cuffe presents a series comparing public services in Britain and Europe.
3:Training for Work.In Hanovertraditional apprenticeship schemes are suffering in the new flexible labour market. In Bristol employers know flexibility cannot be a substitute for proper skills. Producer Smita Patel
The series in which Clare Hampson explores the lives of British people who have chosen to live in Asia. 3: The Back of Beyond. Outer Mongolia is just about as remote as it gets, but for Wendy Morris , Ulan Bator has been home for the past three years. Producer Sarah Jane Hall
Three programmes looking at hunting around the world. 1: Killing for Culture. Gerry Northam traces the origins of hunting to an exchange of meat for sex and asks whether subsistence hunting cultures can survive in the face of commercial pressures and : animal rights. Producer Grant Sonnex. Rptd tomorrow llam
Shortened repeat of 9am
With Anne MacKenzie I
A love story by Jean Giono , read by Stephen Critchlow. A crumbling Provençal village is enlivened by the appearance of a mystery woman. Abridged in five parts by Katie Campbell. Part 1. Producer Duncan Minshull
With John Peel. Shortened repeat from Saturday 9am
By Ivan Klima , read in ten parts by David Calder. I n Czechoslovakia at the time of the Velvet
Revolution, Pavel is a television cameraman who : works uneasily within the boundaries set by the government. Parti. Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall
