With Ian MacKenzie.
With Anna Hill.
With Sue MacGregor and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday In Parliament
7.45 Thought for the Day
With Gabrielle Cox.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Clive Anderson, former barrister and grand inquisitor of the stars, returns to cut through the legal jargon and gets to the heart of an issue which affects anyone who uses or will have cause to use the legal system.
(Repeated at 9.30pm)
Bryan Forbes explores the history of cinema-going through five British cinemas.
Despite early hitches, the talkies led to a boom in the film industry and in cinema building. This week an investigation of one of the tiny independent cinemas, the Phoenix in East Finchley - chosen as a location by film director Neil Jordan for his new film The End of the Affair.
Martha Kearney hosts topical debates and conversation from a woman's point of view.
Drama: Soho Stories: Dinner for Who? by Tony Marchant.
(Drama repeated at 7.45pm)
Tim Pigott-Smith follows a year in the life of the University of Wales School of Ocean Sciences in Bangor.
Gary faces a crisis of confidence just before his finals. Meanwhile, on a remote lough in Ireland, a team of divers from the university deals with the twin terrors of giant lobsters and surviving for three weeks on their own cooking.
The last of the series mixing pop and politics to capture the atmosphere and chart the course of general election campaigns which changed the country. Sandi Toksvig remembers 1987, when Living in a Box was in the charts and a cupboard in Knightsbridge sold for a small fortune.
Margaret Thatcher had been in Downing Street for eight years, and challenging her were Labour's Neil Kinnock and the two Davids - Owen and Steel - of the Alliance.
With Trixie Rawlinson and Mark Whittaker.
With Nick Clarke.
1,000 Years of Spoken English
Melvyn Bragg continues his exploration of the history of the spoken language of Britain.
Vicious insults in Elizabethan society have been rendered harmless over the course of 500 years. Yet strong language is still the main cause of complaints about broadcasting standards, and a large number of words still have the power to shock and offend.
(Repeated from Friday)
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Tim Sanders.
A dramatised account of the life of Ivor Gurney, a brilliant composer scarred by the trenches of the First World War.
(R)
Call Eddie Mair for an exchange of experiences and views on today's topical issues.
Lines Open from 1.30pm
by Kevin Ramshaw, read by Robin Taylor.
A businessman knocks down a pedestrian, who refuses to be taken to hospital. An unsettling and atmospheric story about guilt and obligation.
(For details see yesterday)
Jeremy Nicholas finds out what learning the piano means to 15-year-old Nicholas Shaw, who is autistic.
For details see yesterday (R)
Heather Payton and guests with conversation about the world of business, money and technology.
Libby Purves presents a guide to the world of learning, with practical advice, features and your views.
Action Line: [number removed] E-Mail: [Email address removed]
(Repeated Sunday 11pm)
With Clare English and Chris Lowe.
A comedy series by Andy Hamilton and Jay Tarses set in Baltimore just before the American Revolution.
Revolutionary orator Nathaniel Hopkins arrives and wins Mary's fervent support. But it is not just her support he is after.
Daniel's picture is worth one word.
(Rptd tomorrow 2pm)
Francine Stock chairs the arts programme.
by Tony Marchant.
Mark and Tessa have booked into a new Soho restaurant. Things haven't been going well between them since it was revealed that Mark had been pestering a girl at work. But the evening goes steeply downhill when it turns out that the girl in question is now waitressing at the restaurant.
(For details see yesterday)
(Repeated from 10.45am)
With the running of Britain's nuclear weapons plant at Aldermaston about to be taken over by the American defence contractor Lockheed Martin, Gerry Northam investigates the company's safety record in the United States.
(Repeated Sunday 5pm)
Peter White with news for visually impaired people.
Phone: [number removed] for more information
Factsheet: send a large sae to [address removed]
Geoff Watts presents a new three-part series on what can happen when the body's own defence mechanism - the immune system - goes wrong.
A look at how a new understanding of how the immune system works is offering hope to those with auto-immune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes.
E-Mail: [email address removed]
(Dr Mark Porter on the immune system: page 35)
Repeated from 9am
By Arturo Perez-Reverte
A set of secret letters holds the key to a murder.
(For details see yesterday)
Character-based pieces written and performed by Claire Calman, Maria McErlane, Sarah Parkinson, Meera Syal and Arabella Weir.
By Tim Lott.
(For details see yesterday)
