With Judy Merry.
With Anna Hill.
With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.45 Thought for the Day
With Russell Stannard.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
This programme explores the history of atheism in Britain. Melvyn Bragg is joined by A.N. Wilson and Victoria Glendinning to discuss the effects of science on religion, from Hume to Darwin and beyond.
(Repeated at 9.30pm)
Melvyn Bragg examines who or what was responsible for the spread of religious doubt over the last three centuries and discusses the role of belief in God, in modern society. Show more
Nick Baker looks at newspapers and magazines whose readers have strong ties abroad.
The paper for Greek Cypriots living in Britain.
Presented by Jenni Murray.
Drama: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser. Part 4.
(Drama repeated at 7.45pm)
He has dreadlocks, wears a hemp suit and smokes pot openly - and he has just been elected to New Zealand's new parliament. Julian Pettifer meets Nandor Tanczos, the Green MP who is determined to use his position to push through the legalisation of cannabis. Will the new Labour government support him? Helen Clark, New Zealand's first elected female prime minister, provides the answer.
(Repeated Monday 8.30pm)
In the last of a three-part series Alistair McGowan looks at how, in the future, scientists are predicting a silent new world where man no longer speaks.
With Liz Barclay and Mark Whittaker.
With Nick Clarke.
With Richard Uridge.
(Shortened rpt from Saturday 6.10am)
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Gillian Plowman.
Maggie and Liz have conflicting feelings about their younger, handicapped brother David. As they all meet to celebrate his 25th birthday, the prospect of his return to the family brings back memories of the past which will threaten their relationships with their respective partners.
With Peter White.
Eamonn Holmes speaks on behalf of a charity which offers a chance of life to those with leukaemia and other bone marrow diseases.
Donations: The Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust. [address removed] Credit Cards: [number removed]
(Repeated from Sunday 7.55am)
Written and read by Alan Bennett.
Midgley's bedside vigil is enlivened by the appearance of Nurse Lightfoot.
(For detail see Monday)
Hugh Dennis continues his journey through the worlds of marketing and advertising. He gets to make his own advert on a palm-fringed beach. Final part.
(For details see Monday)
Michael Rosen presents the series about words and the way we speak.
Take a ride with Lady Luck, hedge your bets and lay odds on how the language of gambling has come to pervade our everyday speech.
(Repeated Sunday 8.30pm)
Professor Deborah Withington and Dr Dean Waters, both from Leeds University, have developed a spatial imager based on the echo-location techniques used by bats to manoeuvre their way around obstacles in the dark. Attached to a glove or the traditional white stick, the researchers hope the device will give blind people a second sight. Quentin Cooper investigates.
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With Eddie Mair and Charlie Lee-Potter.
An arty edition of the programme this week as Tony Hart visits John's Sheffield home. His timing could not have been better, as John is in the middle of painting the living room wall. Also dropping in is Lorraine Bowen, who after failing to win Ken over in the last series, returns to try and impress an impresario. And Steve Frost phones to make Mary merry.
Written and performed by Graham Fellows, with additional material by Martin Willis.
Debbie makes an enquiry.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
Francine Stock chairs the arts programme.
By Theodore Dreiser.
Hurstwood's passion for Carrie grows, while his wife needles him at home. Driven to distraction he makes his declaration, and the young woman seems to reciprocate.
(For details see Monday)
(Repeated from 10.45am)
Peter White presents a three-part chronicle of the movement which has transformed the expectations of disabled people in Britain over the past 100 years.
As the impact of two world wars increased public understanding of disability, legislation and a fair benefits system seemed strangely slow to follow.
Is ignorance the National Health Service's most serious illness? In the first of a new series of Analysis, Frances Cairncross discovers there's a startling lack of knowledge about how the NHS is run and raises fundamental questions about how the budget is spent.
(Repeated Sunday 9.30pm)
The stories behind the best in cutting-edge science. Geoff Watts looks at new work aimed at checking the safety of drugs without using animals.
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By Francine Stock, read by Deborah Findlay.
(For details see Monday)
A six-part comedy by Sudha Bhuchar and Shaheen Khan.
Girl-talking, male-baiting, booze-drinking, fun-loving, gossip-making, baby-waking, tear-jerking - girlies.
Four feisty, foxy, fighting females see Jabeen into her Wimbledon mansion.
By Robert Harris.
Papu Rapava knows where the notebook is, but someone else is on his trail. Kelso must reach Rapava first.
(For details see Monday)
