With Clair Jaquiss.
With Helen Mark.
With Sue MacGregor and Edward Stourton.
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)
Martha Kearney is joined by guests for lively and topical interviews and conversation from a woman's point of view.
Drama: The Hours by Michael Cunningham. Part 3.
(Drama repeated at 7.45pm)
In six programmes Kirsty Wark examines issues affecting five- to nine-year-olds.
How the race for academic achievement affects young children. And are boys more likely to suffer than girls?
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A four-part comedy by Bill Dare.
When Bozo takes a break from the band to settle an old boxing score, Kenny needs to find a replacement. But Nelson does not turn out to be a harmonising influence.
Starring Stephen Tompkinson, Clive Rowe, Nicola Walker, Adrian Scarborough and Brian Bovell.
With John Waite and Liz Barclay.
With Nick Clarke.
Richard Evans chairs the quiz played by legal wits.
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Frances McNeil.
Half-sisters Ushi and Hanna are parted during the war - Hanna has to flee Austria because of her Jewishness, and the girls lose touch. Believing that Hanna escaped the Nazis, Ushi searches obsessively for her after the war. But did Hanna escape? And what secrets might be revealed should Ushi find her sister?
John Cushnie, Bob Flowerdew and Bunny Guinness answer questions posed by members of the Royal Leamington Spa Horticultural Society. With chairman Eric Robson.
(Repeated from Sunday 2pm)
By Joanna Trollope.
(For details see Monday)
A tale of a flamboyant well-born playwright whose unlikely partnership with a humble architect produced a masterpiece.
(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 Eddie Mair and Charlie Lee-Potter.
A six-part comedy drama by Jim Poyser and Damian Lanigan following the lives of the Conroys, a family living in Stockport.
Eddie needs a loan to start up his own taxi business. Jason needs a better school report.
(R)
While the cat's away
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
John Wilson investigates why James Macmillan's percussion concerto Veni Veni Emmanuel has received 200 performances around the world in an age when modern compositions struggle to be heard.
By Michael Cunningham.
(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.
Kevin Jackson leads a guided tour of a Library of Lost Books which contains all the great literature that has not come down to us.
(Repeated from Sunday 5.40pm)
New stories from the cutting edge of science.
Mysterious ripples from deep space could open a new window on many of the universe's most cataclysmic events. As technology comes close to finally detecting elusive gravitational waves, Peter Evans examines the impact a new network of observatories could have on our map of the cosmos.Â
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Shortened repeat of 9am
With Robin Lustig.
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.
Liam discovers that the world of the Tank is full of trouble and strife. Not to mention appalling cockney rhyming slang.
Comic poet John Hegley performs at the Cheltenham Literary Festival. He discovers that a poem does not necessarily want to be a poem, and he will attempt to answer some questions from the audience - if there is time.
Max Cotton reports on an attempt by a backbench MP to protect the green belt.
(Repeated from Sunday 10.45pm)
By Charles Johnson.
Plots to assassinate Martin Luther King abound. The civil rights leader suspects that the FBI is doing nothing to foil them.
(For details see Monday)
