With Norman Ivison

With Anna Hill

With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.45 Thought for the Day With Rabbi Lionel Blue.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament

Libby Purves and guests engage in lively and diverse conversation.
Producer Alison Hughes. Repeated at9.30pm

Jenni Murray is joined by guests for lively and topical interviews and conversation from a woman's point of view.
Drama: Private Papers: Part 8 by Margaret Forster.

(Drama repeated at 7.45pm)

Kirsty Wark examines issues affecting five- to nine-year-olds.

What children think of the rules that govern their lives at school and at home. Their views are also heard as they try to sort out right from wrong, and make the difficult distinction between conventionality and morality.
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Stephen Fry and John Bird star as spin doctors Charles Prentiss and Martin McCabe in Mark Tavener 's comedy series. This week they are set their hardest challenge so far - to increase substantially Radio 3's listening figures. Will this prove a wheeze too far for the wheezemaster generals? With Siobhan Hayes , Tony Gardner , Rebecca Front, Roger Sloman , Philip Fox , Simon Greenall , Mark Tonderai and Beth Chalmers. Producer Paul Schlesinger

With Liz Barclay and Mark Whittaker.

With Nick Clarke

Martin Young hosts the biographical quiz which looks at the famous through history. Team captains Fred Housego and Francis Wheen are joined by guests Amanda Foreman and Maria McErlane. Producer Liz Anstee

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

A comedy by Robert Shearman.
Two women meet in a restaurant. Phillipa uses Chanel perfume, Mandy uses Tesco's own, so the pair don't appear to have a lot in common - except for Colin that is. Over the years, as their relationship to Colin waxes and wanes, the pair keep meeting in different restaurants. Eventually they meet for Colin's wake. Could there be life - and even friendship - after Colin?

John Cushnie, Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank are guests of Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council, Manchester.
With chairman Eric Robson. Repeated from Sunday 2pm

3: Song of Roland by Jamaica Kincaid , read by Josette Bushell-Mingo . A sensual and magical love story about an Antiguan stevedore and the women in his life. For details see Monday

3: The Hampden Project. Ray Brown joins members of the Lincolnshire Aircraft Recovery Group as they probe a windswept field near RAF Digby in search of a Handley Page Hampden bomber which crashed in 1940. For details see Monday

Laurie Taylor meets three people who are putting Walsall on the larger map. Series producer Jane Jeffes

Professor Anthony Clare explores the potential and the limits of the human mind and throws light into the hidden shadows of the psyche. Producer Joanna Rahim
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With Charlie Lee-Potter and Chris Lowe.

The first in a three-part sketch show for people who are a little bit different. Enter a world where theatres have wheelchair access only and the odd-job man pops round to praise your carpets. Starring Kevin Eldon , Leila Hackett ,
Simon Greenall , Daryl Beeton , Mat Fraser and Emma Kennedy. Producers Ash Atalla and Helen Williams (R)

Roy has a birthday. Siobhan manages without. Repeated tomorrow 2pm

Mark Lawson with arts news, reviews and interviews. Producer Nicki Paxman

By Margaret Forster , dramatised by Juliet Ace. Part 8. For details see Monday. Repeated from 10.45am

Michael Buerk chairs a new series of the debates in which Janet Daley, Ian Hargreaves, David Starkey and David Cook cross-examine guests who have conflicting views on the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories.
(Repeated Saturday 10.15pm)

The last of four philosophical adventures in the anthropology of everyday life by Steven Connor. Sweets. All magical objects are objects out of time. Sweets are intensely anachronistic and always belong to our past. Why and how do they hold time Up? Repeated from Sunday 5.40pm

Aubrey Manning presents a history of human evolution in Africa six million years ago.
2: Humans Go Global. Bands of early humans venture out of Africa for the first time and expand their territory into Asia and Europe. The big-brained Neanderthals take the stage in Europe, but what happens when they encounter invaders from Africa? These early pioneers showed, for the first time, glimpses of the attributes of humans today. Manning hears from archaeologists about life and technology just under a million years ago in Europe-which, apart from the occasional wooden spear, was dominated by an oval-shaped stone tool, "the Stone Age equivalent of the Swiss army knife."
Producer Andrew Luck-Baker. E-MAIL: [web address removed]

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

With Claire Bolderson

By Arturo Perez-Reverte.
The lessons begin amid political turmoil.
(For details see Monday)

The first in a new series written by Shaun Prendergast, starring Sean Foley and Hamish McColl.
Anton and Liam - the Eric and Ernie of the fish fraternity - are back with more underwater wit and fishy frivolity.

Performance poet John Hegley returns for a new series in which he tries to unravel one of Southampton's more enduring mysteries: did King Canute get his feet wet or not? Plus an investigation of the joyous possibilities of flannel, fennel and funnel. With comedian
Simon Munnery. Producer Nigel Piper

By Tim Lott. Reader Jack Davenport. Part 3.
For details see Monday