With Canon Noel Battye.
With Helen Mark.
With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With the Chief Rabbi, Dr Jonathan Sacks.
With Jeremy Paxman.
(Repeated at 9.30pm)
Martha Kearney with interviews and discussion from a woman's point of view.
Drama: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser. Part 6 of 15.
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(Drama repeated at 7.45pm)
In the last of his series exploring the different ways the Bible has been read, John McCarthy tries to draw some conclusions from the diverse people and beliefs he has met along the way. He also reflects on his own spiritual journey, which he suspects still has some way to go.
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The joyful existence of the much-loved but rarely seen otter is revealed in a two-part adaptation of Henry Williamson's classic wildlife tale, first published in 1927.
From Tarka's birth in Owlery Holt to his journey down river to the sea, this first programme explores the reality of an Otter cub's first year of life.
With John Waite.
With Nick Clarke.
Three more contestants pit their musical wits against Ned Sherrin in heat six of the musical quiz.
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
Sue Teddern's four-part drama, set in 1954, follows the lives of four young actors fresh from charm school.
Phyllis Dent has finally achieved star status, but husband Eddie is not doing so well. In debt and out of friends, managing the Hi-Hat jazz club is his last chance.
Vincent Duggleby takes calls on an issue affecting personal finance.
Lines Open from 1.30pm
by Diana Hendry, read by Lisa Coleman.
A week of contemporary women's writing.
A young woman's first excursion out of the house in two years is a journey which could lead her in one of two directions, with enormous consequences for her and those around her.
Art critic Louisa Buck explores how five key historians and writers changed the world of art.
Giorgio Vasari is sometimes called the father of art history. His monumental book The Lives of the Artists was a landmark, but it is often remembered for its amazing details about the lives of Renaissance artists.
With Derek Cooper.
(Repeated from yesterday 12.30pm)
[Radio Times printed the billing for Bookclub in error (see Friday at 16.00): "Nick Revell finds out what has been happening in the world of books and Maureen Freely reviews this week's Pick of the Paperbacks."]
Jenni Murray and guests from around the world dissect a variety of topical international issues.
With Clare English and Kevin Bocquet.
Nigel Rees hosts a panel game about quotations with Richard Griffiths, Royce Mills, Christopher Matthew and Michael Wood. Reader William Franklyn.
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(Repeated Sunday 12.04pm)
Phil and Jill take advice.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
Mark Lawson chairs the arts show and meets the author Edmund White, who has just published a new novel.
By Theodore Dreiser, dramatised in 15 parts by Steve Chambers.
The gripping tale of a young woman's rise to fame and fortune at the turn of the 20th century.
Carrie is delighted to be asked to take part in some amateur dramatics and rehearses eagerly, but Hurstwood is tortured by jealousy. The final straw comes on the night of Carrie's performance. She is dazzling, and Hurstwood, no longer able to bear to seeing her with his worthless rival, starts to plot.
(Repeated from 10.45am)
A documentary following the progress of deaf woman Pauline Wood as she undergoes an operation to insert a cochlear implant - an electronic device that, if it works, will enable her to hear again for the first time in 20 years.
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Julian Pettifer meets Nandor Tanczos, New Zealand's Green MP who wants to legalise cannabis. Will the new Labour government support him? Helen Clark, New Zealand's first elected female prime minister, provides the answer.
(Repeated from Thursday)
Andrew Sachs meets an African grey parrot that talks and behaves like a precocious child, a macaw that turns on the central heating, and a cockatoo that trashed its owner's kitchen.
Colourful, sociable and extremely intelligent, parrots have captured our imagination - but is their behaviour evidence of real intelligence, and what are the implications of plans to re-establish endangered varieties in the wild?
(Repeated tomorrow 11am)
Shortened repeat of 9am
With Robin Lustig.
Colm Meaney reads the first of five extracts from Bram Stoker's newly discovered first novel, a heartfelt Victorian melodrama.
Hard-working Dublin carpenter Jerry O'Sullivan dreams of a new life in London for himself. his wife Katey and their young family.
With John Peel.
(Shortened repeated from Saturday 9am)
Robert Harris's bestselling thriller read in ten parts by Alan Howard.
Kelso now has the oilskin notebook that used to belong to Josef Stalin.
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