With Angela Woods.
With Anna Hill.
With John Humphrys and Winifred Robinson.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.45 Thought for the Day
With Harvey Thomas.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Jenni Murray hosts interviews and discussions with the most interesting women around.
Drama: Elizabeth and Essex selected and compiled by Lisa Osborne. Final part.
(Drama repeated at 7.45pm)
Set against the relentless 24-hour story of the telephone box's life, from late-night revellers calling for cabs to the clean-up teams that scour out the box ready for another day, Sara Parker meets those for whom the telephone box is far more than somewhere to place a call.
A four-part comedy series by Martin Wade set in a Victorian publishing house.
Primus's latest plan to save the firm from ruin involves publishing the deathbed memoirs of the famous. A chance meeting with the poet Rossetti has him hoping for great things.
With Liz Barclay and John Waite.
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With Nick Clarke.
Roger Bolton airs your views on BBC radio programmes and policy.
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(Repeated Sunday 8pm)
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Niccolo Machiavelli, dramatised by Peter Wolf.
With Ciaran Hinds as Niccolo.
This classic 16th-century treatise on the nature of power and statecraft is performed for the first time as a monologue with dramatised illustrations.
Machiavelli, often identified as Satan, uses his brilliance and cunning to explain how power can be created and sustained.
Sue Cook presents the series that gets to the bottom of local legends and family curiosities.
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By Virginia Woolf, read by Teresa Gallagher.
Mabel has a new dress for the party, but it is not until she encounters the stares of her friends that she thinks she has made a terrible mistake.
Andrew Jefford experiences his first ceremony - in a south London council flat. Final part.
(For details see Monday)
In six programmes Melvyn Bragg continues his exploration of the history of the spoken language of Britain.
Puns, malapropisms, double entendre - just a few ways in which comedians unleash the comic potential of language. Bragg investigates the way the development of English has encouraged wordplay, from the verbal jousting of the Elizabethan court to the punning that informs so much modern advertising.
(Repeated Tuesday 1.30pm)
Alex Brodie and his guests engage in lively conversation about how current media trends affect our lives.
With Clare English and Chris Lowe.
Topical comedy starring the world's biggest names from politics, sport and entertainment - courtesy of impressionists Alistair McGowan, Kate Robbins, Simon Lipson and Jon Culshaw.
(Repeated Saturday 12.30pm)
Another nail in the coffin.
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Mark Lawson investigates why baroque music turns up everywhere - from commercials to horror films.
Selected and compiled by Lisa Osborne. Final part.
(For details see Monday)
(Repeated from 10.45am)
Jonathan Dimbleby is joined at Millfield High School, Thornton Cleveleys, Lancashire by panellists including Helen Mary Jones, Teresa Gorman MP and Gerald Kaufman MP.
(Repeated tomorrow 1.15pm)
By Alistair Cooke. Insight, anecdote and history from the doyen of commentators.
Repeated Sunday 8.45am
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By Colin Thubron, read by John Rowe.
(For details see Monday)
Jonathan Agnew hosts a special edition of the programme from South Africa as the England Cricket tour nears its end.
Ian Richardson reads Nick Clarke's biography of Alistair Cooke. Final part.
(For details see Monday)
