With Bishop Roy Williamson.
With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With the Rev Dr Colin Morris.
Jeremy Paxman and guests set the cultural agenda for the week.
(Repeated at 9.30pm)
This government wants to revolutionise the provision of childcare in Britain. But have they got the right policies and enough money to do so? Martha Kearney and guests debate this issue.
Drama: Chapters and Verses: Treasures of the British Library the Marie Stopes Story told by Maggie Allen. Part 1 of 10.
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(Drama rptd at 7.45pm)
John McCarthy concludes the first part of his series about his attempt to understand the Bible.
McCarthy returns to Damascus, scene not only of St Paul's conversion but also of his own release from captivity eight years ago. He shares a moment of revelation in a prison cell and compares notes with the Book of Revelation.
By Miss Read, dramatised in six parts by Lesley Bruce.
"I remember the day I arrived in Thrush Green. It was the annual spring fair." A young doctor comes to the Cotswolds village.
With Liz Barclay and Trixie Rawlinson.
With Alex Brodie
Lionel Kelleway presents the wildlife quiz which aims to find Britain's top naturalist.
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
Graham Greene's story of the loss of love and one man's losing battle with his own agnosticism. Dramatised for radio by John Harvey. With Alex Jennings as Bendrix and Emma Fielding as Sarah.
Armed only with earplugs and a sick bag, Mark Hurst explores that enduring fairground attraction - the ghost train.
Andrew Jefford pops a cork to celebrate the millennium and finds out that all is not well with the well loved bottle stopper.
(Extended repeat from yesterday 12.30pm)
Jenni Murray and guests take a global view of news, traditions and human stories.
With Clare English and Chris Lowe.
Jonathan Agnew reports live from Cape Town on the second day's play of the Fourth Test between South Africa and England.
Nicholas Parsons is joined by Clement Freud, Kit Hesketh-Harvey, Tony Hawks and Peter Jones for radio's most devious panel game. Recorded at the Theatre Royal, Norwich.
(Repeated Sunday 12 noon)
David makes an advance. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Two hundred and fifty years after the death of Johann Sebastian Bach, Mark Lawson talks to conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner about his own project to mark this anniversary.
Told by Maggie Allen. The remarkable life of Dr Marie Stopes - passionate pioneer and shocking self-publicist - told through her letters and journals begins a celebration of the riches of the British Library's archives.
Part 1 of 10.
(Repeated from 10.45am)
In three programmes Gavin Esler explores the nature and the future of British national identity.
Esler travels from the Scottish Highlands through the Welsh valleys to the Kentish hills to ask what it means to be British today and to find out why loyalty to the notion of Britain is declining, especially among the young.
In a six-part series Rory MacLean and guests consider the dilemmas facing today's traveller.
Whether you are considering a charity gap year before university, a sponsored trek across the Sinai, or some coppicing closer to home, this programme will guide you through the possibilities and pitfalls of travelling in a good cause.
Exploring issues which affect all our lives. Recent food scares have fuelled a massive increase in the demand for organic food. Alex Kirby talks to farmers, retailers and scientists and explores claims that organic food might actually be doing us harm.
Shortened repeat of 9am
Stan Barstow's classic novel of northern working-class life in the fifties is read in ten parts by Sean Bean.
Repeated from yesterday 6.15pm
A chance to hear some of the American humorist's finest moments from his colourful life told in front of an audience at the Coffee House Club, Manhattan.
By Andrew Miller, winner of the International IMPAC prize.
A strange and haunting story of an 18th-century surgeon who feels no pain.
Read by Sam West, abridged in ten parts by James Robertson.
