With the Rev Ruth Scott.
With Helen Mark.
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 Indarjit Singh.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Libby Purves and guests engage in lively and diverse conversation.
(Repeated at 9.30pm)
Jenni Murray is joined by guests for lively and topical interviews and conversation from a woman's point of view.
Reading: The Glory of Love. Part 3.
(Reading repeated at 7.45pm)
Kirsty Wark examines issues affecting five- to nine-year-olds.
Sex, smoking and drugs - how children make sense of an adult world.
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A four-part comedy by Bill Dare.
You can join a band for all sorts of reasons - fame, sex, money. Kenny sees it as his only chance of giving up teaching geography. When a record executive offers him a contract it turns out it is not really his music she is interested in.
Starring Stephen Tompkinson, Clive Rowe, Nicola Walker, Adrian Scarborough and Meera Syal.
With Liz Barclay and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke
Richard Evans gives the legal fat cats the edge of his tongue in the return of the popular law quiz.
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Jan Hartman.
Cambridge 1913. A maths don receives a notebook of theorems and a letter entreating his help from an impoverished young man in Madras, south India. It is clear that the young man is a genius and he travels to England to begin a collaborative partnership which will have wide-reaching consequences.
John Cushnie, Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank answer questions posed by staff and students at Keele University in Staffordshire. With chairman Eric Robson.Â
(Repeated from Sunday 2pm)
By Joanna Trollope.
Alan decides to meet his father's lover.
(For details see Monday)
Mark Coles continues his search for the vilified in which he builds a case for and against a controversial individual. This afternoon he tackles the life and career of the German electronic composer Karlheinz Stockhausen.
(For details see Monday)
Laurie Taylor and guests explore and explode some of the ideas that shape our society today.
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Professor Anthony Clare explores the potential and the limits of the human mind and throws light into the hidden shadows of the psyche.
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With Clare English and Charlie Lee-Potter.
The last of three sketch shows for people who are a little bit different. This week, Dark Child goes to school for the first time. Roy the Lonely Dalek gets a haircut and there is a glimpse of Radio 4's new programme for the disabled Does He Always Do That?
Starring Kevin Eldon, Leila Hackett, Simon Greenall, Daryl Beeton, Mat Fraser and Emma Kennedy.
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Clarrie confesses the truth.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
Mark Lawson chairs the arts programme, with news, interviews and reviews.
Five readings for the week of Valentine's Day.
Love letters and readings from Queen Victoria to Sylvia Plath.
(For details see Monday)
(Repeated from 10.45am)
Michael Buerk chairs a debate 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)
Three writers curate their dream exhibition or build a museum that could not exist, and write an imaginary guide that takes listeners round the show.
Jonathan Sawday leads a guided tour of the museum of the human body - in 2099.
(Repeated from Sunday 5.40pm)
A new series of compelling stories from the cutting edge of science.
Do we all possess powers that we do not use? Extraordinary artistic abilities exhibited by autistic savants could be within us all. Peter Evans examines the latest research on one of psychology's greatest puzzles.
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Shortened repeat of 9am
With Claire Bolderson.
By Elizabeth Bowen, read by Felicity Kendal.
(For details see Monday)
Shaun Prendergast's comedy series about two goldfish, starring Sean Foley and Hamish McColl.
Let loose in the mean streets of the fish tank, our two friends soon find themselves in big trouble. And just who is Caesar Coathook?
This week performance poet John Hegley travels to Birmingham. He unravels improvised poems about Aston Villa FC, answers questions about the nature of poetic inspiration and cuts a birthday Cake.
By Charles Johnson.
"He was determined to possess the mystery of the minister's power and popularity, to make it his own." Chaym Smith moulds himself into the persona of Martin Luther King.
(For details see Monday)
