With Glen Jordan
With Helen Mark.
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 Charles Handy.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas and events which have influenced our time.
(Repeated at 9.30pm)
Melvyn Bragg discusses the relationship between democracy and capitalism and examines whether it is possible for a country to get rich and stay rich without a liberal constitution. Show more
Last in a series examining whether men and women see, smell, hear, feel and taste things differently.
Claudia Hammond braves the clubbing scene and asks why more women than men suffer from tinnitus after a night on the town. And are more men than women tone-deaf?
Jenni Murray is joined by guests for the latest news, views and debate from a woman's perspective.
Drama: Private Papers by Margaret Forster. Part 4.
(Drama repeated at 7.45pm)
Kate Adie with insight and analysis from correspondents worldwide.
The great songwriters - Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Kurt Weill - made acetate demos to help them sell songs to Hollywood or Broadway. They had fun taking on female roles or stopping to give performance tips. This programme explores a work in progress.
With Liz Barclay and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke
Richard Uridge uncovers more stories and characters from the British countryside.
(Shortened repeat from Saturday 6.10am)
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
by Sarah Woods.
A three-part drama documentary series exploring how our perceptions of the past, present and future change our lives.
Early one morning a little girl finds a body in a wood.
With Peter White.
An appeal on behalf of the Mountbatten Community Trust, a charity which helps disadvantaged young people develop their physical, emotional and spiritual well being.
by Clare Girvan, read by Amanda Root.
Lucy loves visiting the Talbot family in Fairwinds, their pretty home. They are so different from her own parents, with their constant arguing. No one would understand about Lucy's visits, though. After all, Fairwinds is only a doll's house.
(For details see Monday)
By day you can hear the birds sing in Deborah's Belfast street. By night the sound of squealing tyres and handbrake turns angers her, as the joyriders shatter the peace of her community.
(For details see Monday)
Marcel Berlins takes a lively look at the legal affairs of the moment.
(Repeated Sunday 8.30pm)
Lying next to Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport is Portus, the ancient world's largest port. It was begun by the Emperor Claudius and enlarged by Trajan, and was designed to handle all of imperial Rome's trade. Although historians have known about the site since the 16th century, its excavation has been sporadic. Two British archaeologists - Simon Keay and Martin Millett, both professors of archaeology at the University of Southampton - tell Quentin Cooper how geophysical analysis has revolutionised the way the site is being excavated.
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With Clare English and Charlie Lee-Potter
"This house would marry into royalty."
The comic debating show takes a light-hearted look at the big questions in life. Dr Phil Hammond referees a comedy bout between Tony Hawks, Peter Jones and Arthur Smith.
Sid has some afternoon delight.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
Francine Stock chairs the arts programme and reports on how the Birmingham Royal Ballet has turned the adventures of King Arthur into dance.
(See also Night Waves, 10.00pm, Radio 3)
By Margaret Forster, dramatised by Juliet Ace.
(For details see Monday)
(Repeated from 10.45am)
A new series of five programmes using documentary evidence to throw new light on past events.
Helen Weinstein meets Vasili Mitrokhin, the man who was once in charge of the KGB's most secret documents. He tells the story of how he changed from being a loyal KGB bureaucrat to a covert and compulsive noter of the files that crossed his desk. This extraordinary hoard was eventually brought to Britain when Mitrokhin defected and became the source of newspaper stories of granny spies and Romeo policemen. Weinstein explores the nature of the man and the journey he and his notebooks have taken.
Peter Day explores the smells industry-flavours and fragrances and how they influence our lives.
(Repeated Sunday 9.30pm)
Alun Lewis reports from a former tar works in Liverpool on a clean-up project involving thousands of bacteria that are turning a brownfield site into a greenfield one.
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With Robin Lustig
By Colin Thubron, read by John Rowe.
(For details see Monday)
A satirical look at the week's news and events with Simon Evans, Chris Pavlo, Laura Shavin and Phil Cornwell.
By Ingo Schulze, read by Ian McDiarmid.
"His memoirs were selling poorly. That was the only reason he had agreed to this tour."
(For details see Monday)
