With the Rev Ruth Scott.
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 Dr Mona Siddiqui.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas and events which have influenced our time.
(Repeated at 9.30pm)
Melvyn Bragg explores the history of reading from the prayer wheel of medieval England to the electronic book, and discusses whether what we read is essential or peripheral to the people we become. Show more
A hero of today's endocrinologists for his work identifying the illness named after him, Thomas Addison's brilliance was never fully acknowledged in his lifetime. This shy and awkward physician devoted his life to medicine - and to Guy's hospital, where he inspired hundreds of students with his understanding of disease and skill in diagnosis. Barbara Myers sets the record straight on one of the fathers of modern medicine.
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Jenni Murray is joined by guests for the latest news, views and debate from a woman's perspective.
Reading: The Glory of Love. Part 4.
(Reading repeated at 7.45pm)
Kate Adie with insight and analysis from correspondents worldwide.
Life in ancient Rome was full of music, both vocal and instrumental. But not one of the musical scores from Roman times that we now possess seems to have been written by a native Roman. How feasible is it to reconstruct the authentic sounds of Rome? Susan Sharpe investigates with the help of musicians, music archaeologists and historians from Italy, France and the United Kingdom.
With Mark Whittaker and Liz Barclay.
With Nick Clarke.
More stories and characters from the British countryside.
(Shortened repeat from Saturday 6.10am)
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Colin Haydn Evans.
The true story of the discovery - and loss - of an alternative cure for cancer.
With Peter White.
Gary Lineker speaks on behalf of a charity which supports children with cancer and leukaemia and their families.
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(Repeated from Sunday 7.55am)
By Joanna Trollope.
Simon's mother starts to make demands.
(For details see Monday)
Marcel Berlins takes a lively look at the legal affairs of the moment
(Repeated Sunday 8.30pm)
Quentin Cooper talks to Dr Mark Johnson about an ambitious conservation project in Cornwall. The Eden Project is a scheme to transform a disused china clay pit into a rainforest by covering it with a huge glass dome and planting over a thousand species of tropical trees there. The aim of this remarkable initiative is to raise awareness of the need to conserve the globe's diverse flora.
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With Eddie Mair and Charlie Lee-Potter.
The comic debating show continues to poke fun at life in the last of the current series.
Dr Phil Hammond referees a battle of words and wit. Starring Linda Smith and Stuart Maconie.
Ruth asks for more.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
John Wilson chairs the arts programme and talks to Noel Gallagher of Oasis about songwriting, the Beatles and the critics.
Five readings for the week of Valentine's Day.
A celebration of settled love, including U.A. Fanthorpe, Elizabeth Jennings and Don DeLillo.
(For details see Monday)
(Repeated from 10.45am)
Five programmes using documentary evidence to throw new light on past events.
Alan Dein investigates the world's greatest underground rock album - Egon Bondy's Happy Hearts Club Banned. The title was strange enough, but who were the Plastic People of the Universe, and why were they in jail? Just two of the questions that raced through Dein's mind 21 years ago as he took home this intriguing LP.
Peter Day investigates the companies that are trying to apply the new science of chaos and complexity to their businesses.
(Repeated Sunday 9.30pm)
Developments in robotics may be advancing rapidly but the age of the autonomous free-thinking robot is a long way off in the future. They just don't have the intelligence they need to collect and interpret data in remote and hazardous environments or even to hoover the living room without running over your cat.
Alun Lewis explores worlds real, virtual and silicon and a project that puts the human back into the system.
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With Claire Bolderson.
By Elizabeth Bowen, read by Felicity Kendal.
(For details see Monday)
A satirical look at the week's news and events with Simon Evans, Chris Pavlo, Laura Shavin and Phil Cornwell.
(Roland White's radio review: page 53)
By Charles Johnson.
Civil rights demonstrators in Chicago are attacked by white supremacists.
(For details see Monday)
