With the Rev Ermal Kirby
With Anna Hill. Producer Sarah Tempest
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 Angela Tilby.
8.32 Yesterday In Parliament
Libby Purves and guests engage in lively and diverse conversation.
ProducerAlison Hughes. Repeated at 9.30pm
Jenni Murray has the latest news, views and culture from a female perspective. Drama: Nicholas Nicklebyby
Charles Dickens. Part 23. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
Quentin Cooper joins four very different trades and professions as they gatherfortheir annual get-together.
3: Fire 99. Genteel Harrogate is alight with delegates, exhibitors and fire folk as their annual conference and exhibition comes to town. This year's burning issues range from sex discrimination to the merits of nozzle technology. Producer Simon King
A four-part comedy series based on Frank Dickens's classic cartoon.
The promise of a Christmas bonus lifts Bristow's spirits. For once his generosity knows no bounds.
With Liz Barclay and MarkWhittaker.
With Nick Clarke
In a six-part series Steve Richards plays host to team captains Roy Hattersley and Sir Patrick Cormack MP in the panel game about politics and politicians. This week's guests are journalists Anthony Howard and Michael Gove. Producer Steve Doherty
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
Lesley Bruce's comic fable about food and love stars Derek Jacobi. Wyndham's first love was his mother. As he fed at her breast he was set on a path to obsession.
Carole Baxter , Nigel Colborn and Roy Lancaster answer questions posed by gardeners from Perthshire. With chairman Eric Robson. Repeated from Sunday 2pm
Lisa Jardine meets acclaimed, cutting-edge artists, whose work is inspired by technological discovery. 3: Installation artist Cornelia Parker. For details see Monday
63:19 70 - Edward Heath Becomes MP
For details see Monday
Laurie Taylor and guests explore and explode some of the ideas that shape our society today. Producer Tony Phillips. E-MAIL: [address removed]
What should you eat to stay healthy? Can you really reduce the risk of getting cancer by changing your diet? Dr Graham Easton investigates. Repeated from yesterday 9pm
With Chris Lowe and Charlie Lee-Potter
A comedy series by Simon Brett following the fortunes of three fortysomething sisters.
The past catches up with Stuart and takes its toll on his relationship with Anna. All this is made worse by the well-meaning efforts of Victoria and Charlotte.
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Who was Sid With last night? Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Francine Stock chairs the nightly arts programme. Producer Olive Clancy
By Charles Dickens , dramatised by Georgia Pritchett.Part23.
For details see Monday. Repeated from 10.45am
Michael Buerk chairs an investigation of the moral questions behind the week's news.
With regular panellists David Starkey , a constitutional historian; Janet Daley of The Daily Telegraph; David Cook , a medical ethicist; and Ian Hargreaves , professor of journalism at Cardiff University.
Producer David Coomes. Repeated Saturday 10.15pm
Michael Rosen presents a series of talks on the process of divorce and its aftermath, drawing on his own experience and eye-witness accounts from estate agents, grandparents, lawyers and counsellors. 2: The Phoney Peace. The warring couple try to patch things up. Relatives worry about what to write in the Christmas cards.
Repeated from Sunday 5.40pm
Leo Enright's analysis of this year's Leonid meteor shower. How will satellite systems be affected as the king of meteor showers blazes towards Earth at a terrifying 72 kilometres per second? And what can it tell us about the origin of life on Earth and elsewhere in the universe? If humans are ever to make long-distance forays into space, we must learn to predict where these meteor showers are.
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With Libby Purves and guests. Shortened repeat of 9am
With Robin Lustig
A Provengal love story by Jean Giono , read by Stephen Critchlow. Part 3. Fordetails see Monday
A new five-part comedy series written by Sean Lock and Martin Trenaman.
Crouched on his lonely perch like a smug hermit, Sean Lock hides in Flat 76, Elderberry House, Maydew Estate, trying to keep the world at bay.
The world, for some reason, does not want to play his game. Starring Sean Lock , Felix Dexter , Jenny Eclair , Tim Mitchell , Tracy-Ann Oberman and Peter Serafinowicz. ProducerChrisNeill
By Ivan Klima, read by David Calder.
(For details see Monday)
