With Bishop Roy Williamson
With Sue MacGregor and James Naughtie.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With the Rt Rev Thomas Butler.
In a special programme forthe new year
Libby Purves invites back guests from 1990 to reflect on their own lives over the last decade. Producer Alison Hughes. Repeated at 9.30pm
Jenni Murray hosts lively and topical interviews and debates from a woman's point of view. Drama: Chapters and Verses: Treasures of the British Library - the Marie Stopes Story told by Maggie Allen. Part 3. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
Michael Robinson follows the progress of four new businesses over the course of a year.
Kay Sliwinski decided to open a nursery in Sheffield after spotting a gap in the market. However, after clashing with the council and running up an overdraft, is the dream becoming a nightmare?
Stephen Fry and John Bird return as Charles Prentiss and Martin McCabe in Mark Tavener's six-part comedy series.
Having left the BBC they embark on a new career as spin doctors. This week they are visited by the chairman of the Conservative Party. Starring Siobhan Hayes, Jeremy Clyde, Tony Gardner, Simon Greenall, Martin Hyder and Beth Chalmers. Producer Paul Schlesinger
With Liz Barclay and Mark Whittaker.
With Alex Brodie.
Martin Young presents the quiz about the famous, from biblical times to the pages of Hello magazine. This week team captains
Fred Housego and Francis Wheen are joined by guests Annabel Giles and Sue Cook. Producer Liz Anstee
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
Forty-year-old James lives with his mother and dances twice a week at the Lizard Lounge. He meets Frances, a recently divorced headmistress in search of a social life.
The National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory in Greenwich hosts the second of two millennium specials with contributions from around the world. On the panel are Nigel Colborn, John Cushnie, Pippa Greenwood and Roy Lancaster. With chairman Eric Robson. Repeated from Sunday 2pm
By John Muir , read by Henry Goodman. Caught in an ice storm on a windswept Alaskan glacier, one man and a dog fight for their lives. Producer Tracy Neale
2: Politicians and Persuasion. Examining great parliamentary performers past and present. For details see yesterday
In Bromley-by-Bow, east London, Laurie Taylor talks to the people fashioning our communities; political policy makers, community entrepreneurs and the corporate players who see community involvement as part of their licence to operate Producer Jane Jeffes
Niall Dickson looks behind the scenes at those who offer care and cure. This programme meets the alternative healers and asks if this is the future for health care.
Producer Geraldine Fitzgerald. E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk
With Clare English and Charlie Lee-Potter .
Jonathan Agnew reports live from Cape Town on the fourth day's play of the Fourth Test between South Africa and England.
John Waite and Rory Bremner present a spoof compilation of outtakes from pilot shows never intended for broadcast. Including Robin Day's Funny Phone-Calls, Murray Walker 's
Badgerwatch and Prince Philip's appearance on Desert Island Discs. Producer Robert Katz
Neil needs reinforcements. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Mark Lawson with arts, news, reviews and interviews. Producer MohitBakaya
Told by Maggie Allen. Part 3.
For details see Monday. Repeated from 10.45am
Diana Madill returns with a four-part series of lively debates about the important issues of the day.1: Good Education Is Selective EducationParents and professionals face each otherto argue their case in Trafford, south Manchester.
Register your vote to agree on [number removed] or on [number removed] to disagree. Calls cost a maximum often pence.
Producer Anna Parkinson. Repeated Saturday 10.15pm
Niall Ferguson explores the details of the most critical days of the 20th century. Monday 19 August 1991. The day the hard-liners held
Gorbachev prisoner in the Crimea and Boris Yeltsin stood on top of a tank. Repeated from Sunday 5.40pm
Paul Davies unmasks one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of science in a three-part series. Is life a crazy chemical fluke or is it somehow written into the underlying laws of the universe? 1: The search fortraces of early life and the extraordinary places life exists on earth give biogenesis experts clues to the ultimate origin. Davies remodels the garden of Eden along the lines of a place we traditionally associate with hell. Music Geoff Proudley. Producer Louise Dalziel
Shortened repeat of 9am
By Stan Barstow. Part 3. Fordetails see Monday
A comedy sketch show featuring the cream of Ireland's new comedians. Promising no nuns, no priests, no diddly-eye music, no potatoes and no cabbage but starring instead Jason Byrne , Colin Murphy , Kevin Gildea , Paul Tylack , Patrick McDonnel , Mark Docherty and Pom Boyd. Producers Bill Dare and Steven Lock
A satirical look back at news and events in 1999. With Simon Evans , Dave Lamb , Chris Pavlo , Tracy-Ann Oberman and Laura Shavin.
Producers Anil Gupta and Alex Walsh-Taylor . Revised repeat
By Andrew Miller. 3: At the age often James Dyer breaks his leg but feels nothing. For details see Monday
