With Dave Kitchen.
With Anna Hill.
With Winifred Robinson and Edward Stourton.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With the Chief Rabbi, Dr Jonathan Sacks.
Jeremy Paxman starts the week in the company of a highly controversial professor, Randy Thornhill, whose book on rape caused a furore in the States.
(Repeated at 9.30pm)
Martha Kearney with interviews and discussion from a woman's point of view.
Drama: The Hours by Michael Cunningham. Part of 10.
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(Drama repeated at 7.45pm)
In six programmes John McCarthy looks at the different ways the Bible has been read, from the earliest manuscripts to the latest websites.
Is there conflict or compromise between the world of science and the Bible? McCarthy looks at Genesis to see whether the Bible's view of God has survived the age of reason. He then examines the future of faith in an age of technology.
Barbara Pym's 1950s novel dramatised in four parts by Elizabeth Proud.
A missing vicar and a visit to the seaside provide more clues about the mysterious Forbes brothers.
With Trixie Rawlinson and Mark Whittaker.
With Nick Clarke.
Three more contestants are put through their paces in the music quiz hosted by Ned Sherrin and covering all music, from classical to jazz, show tunes to pop.
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
Sue Teddern's four-part drama, set in 1954, follows the lives of four young actors fresh from charm school.
As Irene struggles with a career at home, Alex seems to be turning into the bad boy of Hollywood.
Vincent Duggleby takes your calls on a topical issue that affects your finances.
Lines Open from 1.30pm
by Ronald Frame, read by Edith Macarthur.
Five specially commissioned short stories, each beginning with one of English literature's most celebrated - or notorious - opening lines.
An elderly novelist makes a pilgrimage back to her childhood home, but the journey takes her farther then she ever expected.
In two programmes Rick Gekoski looks for the unsung heroes behind the great books of the 20th century.
Hand set, hand printed, hand sewn, hand bound by Virginia Woolf, and published by the fledgling publishing company she set up on the drawing room table.
(R)
With Sarah Parker.
(Repeated from yesterday 12.30pm)
Jenni Murray and guests from around the world dissect a variety of topical international issues.
With Clare English and Eddie Mair.
Joining Nigel Rees to exchange quotations and anecdotes are Edward Woodward, Michael Grade, Libby Purves and Dr Peter McDonald. Reader William Franklyn.
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(Repeated Sunday 12 noon)
Mike gives Eddie helpful advice.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
Mark Lawson gives the verdict on the film Three Kings, starring George Clooney - a tale of three Gulf War soldiers searching for a cache of gold in the desert.
A meditation on love, loss and time by Michael Cunningham. Abridged in ten parts by Alison Joseph. Echoing Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, it gives a moving account of one day in the lives of three women.
In 1923 Virginia is having her sister to tea. In 1949 Laura escapes from home.
(Repeated from 10.45am)
John Waite investigates murders abroad and the rising number of cases in which relatives feel let down by the authorities. Members of Justice for Britons Murdered Abroad tell of their frustration at what they say is complacency by the British government.
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Christina Dodwell concludes a three-part look at the landscape and lore of Ethiopia, a country that celebrates both Islamic and Christian traditions.
She travels with a local chief to his homeland of Sekota, takes a sacred shower, and celebrates in the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela.
Film-maker Huw Cordey witnesses one of the Amazon's great wildlife spectacles - the arribada or mass nesting of the rare giant river turtle. In a period of two weeks, thousands of female turtles haul themselves up on to the sand bars in the middle of the River Xingu, but whether the eggs hatch is a lottery.
(Repeated tomorrow 11am)
Shortened repeat of 9am
With Robin Lustig.
By Francine Stock, read by Deborah Findlay.
At 74 Daphne is confronted with an awkward episode, from her time in the War Office by her favourite son's girlfriend. He, meanwhile, explores a very different conflict in a southern Soviet republic.
Abridged in ten parts by Neville Teller.
With John Peel.
(Shortened repeated from Saturday 9am)
By Carol Shields. Five stories from the celebrated Canadian author's new collection.
Read by Buffy Davis.
Spring has arrived in town.
