With Ian MacKenzie.
With Anna Hill.
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 Indarjit Singh.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Libby Purves and guests engage in lively and diverse conversation.
Producer Alison Hughes. Repeated at 9.30pm
Jenni Murray is joined by guests for lively and topical interviews and conversation from a woman's point of view. Drama: Soho Stories: Shark's Tooth by Marta Emmitt. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
Kirsty Wark examines issues affecting five- to nine-year-olds. 3: You and Me. How children acquire a sense of identity and develop prejudices. Producers Angie Mason and Merilyn Harris. For details of the accompanying book and cassette phone: [number removed]
Stephen Fry and John Bird star as spin doctors Charles Prentiss and Martin McCabe in the last of Mark Tavener 's comedy series. This week, what better way to increase the nation's feel-good factor than for England to win a major sporting trophy? This is the impossible task set the specialists in government and media relations. With Siobhan Hayes , Tony Gardner , Simon Greenall and Beth Chalmers.
Producer Paul Schlesinger
With Liz Barclay and MarkWhittaker.
With Nick Clarke.
Martin Young hosts the last in the current series of the biographical quiz which looks at the famous through history. Team captains
Fred Housego and Francis Wheen are joined by guests Carol Sarler and Rachel Holmes. Producer Liz Anstee
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
Three dramatised short stories this week on the subject of love and loss by leading women writers. 1: Stone Trees by Jane Gardam , dramatised by Eric Pringle. With Anna Massey as Lou and Stella Gonet as Anna. Lou's husband has died suddenly, leaving her with an overwhelming sense of loss. But lurking deep beneath the idyllic picture she paints of her marriage are dark shadows. with Beth Chalmers and Gemma Saunders Director Cherry Cookson
Nigel Colborn , Pippa Greenwood and Roy Lancaster answer questions posed by members of the Charlton and Blackheath Amateur
Horticultural Society in south London. With
Chairman Eric Robson. Repeated from Sunday 2pm
by Steve Tilley , read by Tom George. The local cemetery is thrown into chaos when a grave digger is stung by a wasp during a funeral. A humorous look at life, death and the universe. For details see Monday
3: Notes in the City. Jeremy Nicholas visits a piano studio for stressed city folk. For details see Monday(R)
Laurie Taylor and guests explore and explode some of the ideas that shape our society today. Producer Chris Berthoud. E-MAIL: thinking.allowed@bbc.co.uk
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
PHONE: [number removed] for more information
With Clare English and Charlie Lee-Potter .
The sketch show for people who are a little bit different. This week, the problems of finding the key to the disabled toilet; proving your disability to the Benefits Agency; and a wedding speech by the world's shyest man. Starring Kevin Eldon ,
Leila Hackett , Simon Greenall , Daryl Beeton , Mat Fraser and Emma Kennedy.
Producers Ash Atalla and Helen Williams (R)
Phoebe draws a bead. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
John Wilson meets New Orleans pianist "Mac" Rebennack, better known as Dr John. Producer Robyn Read
Shark's Tooth by Marta Emmitt. Jen, an 11-year-old girl from Ohio, is starting at Soho Primary
School. She finds the experience very unsettling, but manages to make an impact by telling the other children stories about herfather, an explorer- she wears the tooth that he pulled from a Great Macho shark around her neck.
For details see Monday. Repeated from 10.45am
Michael Buerk chairs a debate in which Janet
Daley, Ian Hargreaves , David Starkeyand David Cook cross-examine guests who have conflicting views on the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories.
Producer David Coomes. Repeated Saturday 10.15pm
Actor and writer Jack Klaff describes his recent experiences at the Starlab research laboratory in Brussels among the boffins, the blue sky research and the implications of the Deep Future. Repeated from Sunday 5.40pm
Aubrey Manning concludes his history of how humans evolved in Africa six million years ago. Pictures, Words and Modernity. Manning ventures into Stone Age caves in France and South Africa searching forthe dawn of the modern mind. Is the evidence painted on the walls, or is it carried in fine bone needles made by African hunter-gatherers of 90,000 years ago? Producer Andrew Luck-Baker . E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk
Libby Purves and guests engage in lively and diverse conversation. Shortened repeat of 9am
By Arturo Perez-Reverte . 8: A journalist is tortured after reading secret government letters. For details see Monday
By Shaun Prendergast, starring Sean Foley and Hamish McColl.
Our two bescaled heroes find themselves face to face with Horace the master criminal cat. They have 60 minutes to save the world.
Who wants to be a milliner? The nation's second favourite comic poet John Hegley travels to Luton to find out. He performs at a local junior school, where the headmaster gets to try on a new hat. Producer Nigel Piper
By Tim Lott. Part8. For details see Monday
