With Clive Lawton
With John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.45 Thought forthe Day With the Rev Angela Tilby.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Libby Purves and guests engage in lively and diverse conversation.
Producer Alison Hughes Repeated at 9.30pm
Jenni Murray hosts lively and topical topical interviews and discussion from a woman's point of view. Drama: Herlnfinite Varietyby Juliet Ace. Part 3. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
In the fifty years since the first Unicef Christmas card was sent, charity cards have become big business. The British send more cards per capita than any other nation. With a 40 per cent share of the vast Christmas card market, charities welcome both the financial and promotional benefits of their involvement in this seasonal bonanza. Some customers buy direct from the charities they want to support, others through retail shops and chains, but most customers buy in the expectation that a good percentage of the cover price will find its way to the named charity. Judith Palmer examines the industry behind the philanthropic sentiments.
A comedy series based on Frank Dickens 's classic cartoon.
3: Mr Bristow Regrets.The Chester-Perry dinner dance is out of bounds to Bristow - until he falls in with Tom Paine, troublemaker with Katy Odey , Carol Starks. Lucy Akhurst. Roger Lloyd Pack and Simon Schatzberger. Music John Whitehall. Director Neil Cargill
With Liz Barclay and MarkWhittaker.
Steve Richards hosts the panel game about politics and politicians, with team captains Roy Hattersley and Sir Patrick Cormack MP. This week's guests are Lord Parkinson and journalist Matthew ParriS. Producer Steve Doherty
Helena Kennedy QC presents a second series of four dramatised features about legal cases which led to a change in the law.
2: Only a Phase by Rib Davis. In 1975 in Belfast a group of young men met in a bar. They decided to appeal to the British Government for gay rights in Northern Ireland to bring them in line with England and Wales. It took six years.
with Nicholas Boulton , David Jarvis , Fiona Clarke and Gavin Muir Director Janet Whitaker
John Cushnie , Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank answer questions sent in by post.
With chairman Eric Robson. Repeated from Sunday 2pm
No animal painting and no vet's understanding was ever the same again after Edward Muybridge's sequence of photographs taken in California in 1872 proved that a horse had all four feet off the ground when galloping.
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Laurie Taylor and guests expore and explode some of the ideas that shape our society today. Producer Tony Phillips. E-MAIL: [address removed]
Care in the Community. Dr Graham Easton investigates an innovative home treatment for people with severe mental health problems in Yorkshire which has virtually halved hospital admissions. Repeated from yesterday 9pm
With Chris Lowe and Charlie Lee-Potter
A six-part comedy by Simon Brett following the fortunes of three fortysomething sisters.
Victoria becomes scared at the prospect of Roger's retirement and his being at home all the time. Meanwhile, Anna's old boss, Eddie the dentist, decides to come out of retirement.
The lights go on, but not for Kate. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Mark Lawson with the arts programme, including the first-night verdict on The Lady in the Van, in which Maggie Smith takes the title role in Alan Bennett 's story of an old woman who camped out in his driveway in a dilapidated van. Producer Tony O'Shaughnessy
By Juliet Ace. 3: Diary of a Dutiful Daughter. Faced with a doddering dad and a nursing home she runs as a business, what can a modern Goneril do but offer him the box room? Which is more than Sister Cordelia of the Salvation Army has to give. Starring Anna Massey as Goneril. For details see Monday. Repeated from 10.45am
Michael Buerk chairs an investigation of the moral questions behind the week's news.
Witnesses face a tough cross-examination from David Starkey , Janet Daley , David Cook and Ian Hargreaves.
Producer David Coomes. Repeated Saturday 10.15pm
Michael Rosen presents the last of four talks on the process of divorce and its aftermath, drawing on his own experience and eyewitness accounts from estate agents, grandparents, lawyers and counsellors. The Broken Glass. Accepting the lossofthe ideal and, hopefully, moving on. Repeated from Sunday 5.40pm
In a continuing series John Gribbin explores the strange subatomic world of quantum physics. Reader Paul Birchard.
2: Councils of Despair.The ongoing debate about howto understand the meaning of quantum mechanics, and the elaborate interpretations that attempt to make sense of the counterintuitive world of subatomic particles. Producer Louise Dalziel
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By Anita Desai , read by Sudha Bhuchar. Part 3. For details see Monday
A comedy by Sean Lock and Martin Trenaman. 3: Thwarted by inertia, Sean has never allowed his dreams and ambitions to come true. Until, that is, the local supermarket shows him the way. Starring Sean Lock, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Peter Serafinowicz and Martin Trenaman.
Producer Chris Neill. Script editor Robert Fraser-Steele
The new novel by bestselling author Alessandro Baricco . Part3. For details see Monday
