With Judy Merry.
With Anna Hill.
With Winifred Robinson and Edward Stourton.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.45 Thought for the Day
With the Rt Rev Jim Thompson.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Libby Purves and guests engage in lively and diverse conversation.
(Repeated at 9. 30pm)
Jenni Murray is joined by awarding-winning Russian cellist Nina Kotova.
Drama: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser. Part 3.
(Drama repeated at 7.45pm)
Sallie Davies presents two programmes about the work of lay magistrates.
The rigours of selection and training with a group of new recruits.
(Repeated Sunday 9pm)
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Polly Toynbee on magistrates: page 16
The last in a four-part comedy by Bill Dare.
The band is on the road to play at a big party. It would be more fun if it were not Lorelei's ex's engagement party. As it covers the miles the band uncovers old scores.
Starring Stephen Tompkinson, Clive Rowe, Nicola Walker and Adrian Scarborough.
With Liz Barclay and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke.
Richard Evans chairs the quiz played by legal wits in Gray's Inn.
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
A romantic comedy by Chris Dolan.
Plain Sandra Hamilton from Glasgow bets her flatmate that she will have more luck with the opposite sex if she pretends to be the exotic Sabina Vasilie, the raven-haired temptress from eastern Europe.
Ray Broughton, Pippa Greenwood and Roy Lancaster answer questions posed by members of the Castle Horticultural Society, Winchester.
With chairman Eric Robson.
(Repeated from Sunday 2pm)
Written and read by Alan Bennett.
As Midgley's father lingers on his deathbed, it falls to Midgley to summon the relatives.
(For detail see Monday)
Hugh Dennis continues his journey through the worlds of marketing and advertising.
(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.
A six-part comedy drama by Jim Poyser and Damian Lanigan following the lives of the Conroys, a family living in Stockport.
Jason has to face life without Debbie. Can Michael and the Sweater Girls' first gig take his mind off being single?
Elizabeth calculates the odds.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
Mark Lawson investigates the work of the 18th-century French artist Chardin who concentrated on simple still-life paintings in an age when much art was heroic in subject, or highly decorative in style.
By Theodore Dreiser.
Carrie's desire for a fine life overcomes her misgivings about living in sin.
Drouet swiftly seduces her, but Carrie insists they marry. Meanwhile Hurstwood is beguiled by her, and she is equally enthralled by the older man's sophistication.
(For details see Monday)
(Repeated from 10.45am)
Michael Buerk chairs a debate in which Janet Daley, David Starkey, Ian Hargreaves 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)
The first of two talks by Jamaican-born Pat Cumper, who has a mix of Scots, northern English and Caribbean blood in her veins. She describes her arrival in Britain and her first year at Cambridge University amid the political turmoil of the early 1970s.
(Repeated from Sunday 5.40pm)
Frozen gas at the bottom of the sea and alligators in the Arctic Circle: did a greenhouse-gas attack from beneath the waves melt the poles and change the course of evolution 55 million years ago? Peter Evans finds out about new discoveries which shed light on our past.
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(Shortened repeat of 9am)
By Francine Stock, read by Deborah Findlay.
(For details see Monday)
Shaun Prendergast's comedy series about two goldfish, starring Sean Foley and Hamish McColl.
Anton decides that Liam must be put into training when he is threatened by a piranha.
"How long is your dog?" asks comic poet John Hegley this week. He may also reveal a little-known ocular fact regarding prospective candidate for Lord Mayor of London. With Keith Moore on double bass.
By Robert Harris.
In an abandoned Moscow garden Kelso finds the spot where Papu Rapava buried Stalin's notebook in 1953.
(For details see Monday)
