With Elaine Storkey

With Anna Hill. Producer Julia Letts

With John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.45 Thought for the Day
With the Rt Rev Thomas Butler.
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 interviews and debates from a woman's point of view.
Drama: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman. Part 8. Drama repeated at 7.45pm

Rogan Taylor unpeels the layers of myth, history and politics that make the banana the most potent fruit Of all. Producer Mark Burman (R)

Tiny Mrs Pepperpotgets into trouble at the Christmas market, including falling inside a baked potato. Rescued by Ronan Kitten , she decides to grow full size again with the help of helium gas.
For details and further cast see yesterday

With Liz Barclay and Mark Whittaker. With the Veg
Talk men, Greg and Charlie.
Editor Chris Burns. PHONE: [number removed] E-MAIL: youandyours@bbc.co.uk

With Nick Clarke

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 journalist Julia Langdon and broadcaster James COX. Producer Steve Doherty

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

Helena Kennedy QC concludes a second series of dramatised features about legal cases which led to a change in the law.
4: On Self Deliverance by Rib Davis.
In the seventies Exit published a booklet offering practical help to those wishing to commit suicide, technically a prisonable offence. How did the courts respond and has the ambiguity in the application of the law to cases of "mercy" or assisted killings changed in the nineties?
Director Peter Kavanagh

Nigel Colborn, Pippa Greenwood and Roy Lancaster answer questions posed by members of St Margaret's Society and St Margaret's and District Gardeners' Association, Dover. With Chairman Eric Robson. Repeated from Sunday 2pm

The second of two programmes about angels.
People have been meeting angels for centuries, but what shape do these encounters take? What do the angels look like and what effect do they have on the lives of those who see them? Repeated Christmas Day 7.45pm

83: 1990 - the Poll Tax, the ERM, and Exit Margaret Thatcher
For details see Monday 20 December

Laurie Taylor and guests explore and explode some of the ideas that shape oursocietytoday. Producer Tony Phillips. E-MAIL: thinking.allowed@bbc.co.uk

Looking after a sick or elderly relative can be distressing, particularly for younger people. Dr Graham Easton looks at the strains of being a carer and what can be done to help. Repeated from yesterday 9pm

With Eddie Mairand Charlie Lee-Potter

Last in a comedy series by Simon Brett following the fortunes of three fortysomething sisters.
Emily goes off to university and Victoria is worried that she will not get in touch. Charlotte goes to see Emily to sort things out, but proves to be an acute embarrassment in a student environment.
(R)

Will Elizabeth be home for Christmas?
Repeated tomorrow 2pm

Mark Lawson and Francine Stock present their personal and seasonal selection of artistic highlights from the past 12 months. Producer Matthew Dodd

ByAmanda Foreman, dramatised by Jennifer Curry. 8: A Woman of Great Importance, 1784
For details see Monday 20 December. Repeated from 10.45am

This week the programme is broadcast live with an invited audience. Michael Buerk,
David Starkey, Janet Daley, Ian Hargreaves and David Cook. What chance is there of the next millennium being better than the last? And what should be our definition of "better"? Well known witnesses drawn from the arts, politics and religions face cross examination from the team. Producer David Coomes. Repeated Saturday 10.15pm

Niall Ferguson explores the details of the most critical days of the 20th century. (Repeated from Sunday 5.40pm)

Last in the series in which John Gribbin explores the strange subatomic world of quantum physics. Beyond Common Sense. A look ahead to the next quantum revolution with the building of the first quantum computers, uncrackable codes, teleporation and quantum devices the size of a wedding ring. Producer Louise Dalziel

Libby Purves and guests engage in lively and diverse conversation. Shortened repeat of 9am

With Robin Lustig

Miriam Margolyes reads Christmas Eve in New York from the bestselling novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith.

Last in a comedy series by Sean Lock and Martin Trenaman.
However much Sean tries to avoid the rest of the world, occasionally it will try to engage with him. This week a romantic neighbour and a group of aggressive children try to disturb his peace. Starring Sean Lock, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Chris Pavlo, Peter Serafinowicz and Martin Trenaman.

A satirical look back at the year's news and events. With Simon Evans , Dave Lamb , Chris Pavlo , Tracy-Ann Oberman and Laura Shavin.
Producers Anil Gupta and Alex Walsh-Taylor . Revised repeat

Magnus Mills's latest novel, set in a village in the Lakes. Part 3. For details see Monday 20 December