With Canon Noel Battye.
With Anna Hill.
With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
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 guests for lively and topical interviews and conversation from a woman's point of view.
Drama: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser. Part 8.
(Drama repeated at 7.45pm)
Sallie Davies presents the final programme about the work of lay magistrates.
Dealing with drink-drivers, shoplifters, delinquent teenagers - and adoption.
(Repeated Sunday 9pm)
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By Shaun McKenna.
The sensational history of the emperor Caligula has been told in many ways and from many angles, but never from the point of view of his closest and most beloved associate - his horse Incitatus!
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It's a day to celebrate the glories of comic radio drama. This morning has Leslie Phillips as we know and love him: an ageing but still frisky stud, with an eye for a smart young filly. But those are not metaphors today: he plays the wild German horse which once belonged to the Emperor Caligula and which was famously elevated to the Roman Senate. It's a crazily whimsical idea but, you have to admit, inspired. The derivation of Caligula's name gives Shaun McKenna's equine frolic its title: Me and Little Boots (11.30am R4). (SG)
With Mark Whittaker and Liz Barclay.
With Nick Clarke.
Richard Evans chairs the popular legal quiz.
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Patricia Hannah.
Who do you turn to for help and support when you discover that your husband is having an affair? Isobel Lauder - a genteel Edinburgh housewife - seeks guidance from two unlikely sources: Bette Davis and Celia Johnson playing their respective roles in All about Eve and Brief Encounter.
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And this afternoon comes Patricia Hannah's play In the Treacle Well (2.15pm R4), in which an Edinburgh woman discusses how to deal with the corpse of her adulterous husband, while considering conflicting advice from Celia Johnson and Bette Davis - with both of whom she's cheerfully quaffing martinis
Pippa Greenwood, Roy Lancaster and Nigel Colborn answer some of the questions posed by members of the Holyport Village Show Committee and Women's Institute, near Maidenhead, Berkshire. With chairman Eric Robson.
(Repeated from Sunday 2pm)
by Chrissie Gittings.
A romantic island, leafy avenues of diamond, silver and gold, the strains of Nat King Cole and Perry Como - could any princess ask for more?
(For details see Monday)
Louisa Buck uncovers how Ruskin's theories about art and its history came to be so influential.
(For details see Monday)
Laurie Taylor talks to Julia O'Connell Davidson about the ever-increasing phenomenon of sex tourism in the Caribbean. She exposes what really goes on inside the minds of the men who leave these shores for what they describe as "a paradise untainted by European morality".
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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 comedy drama series by Jim Poyser and Damian Lanigan following the lives of the Conroys, a family living in Stockport.
Eddie gets tickets to Stockport County's biggest match ever. But an even greater challenge faces son-in-law Dave. Featuring radio commentator Alan Green.
Roy lets something slip.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
Francine Stock hosts the arts show, which gives its verdict on Paul Thomas Anderson's new film Magnolia.
By Theodore Dreiser.
Drouet confronts Carrie about her infidelity. She in turn is devastated by his revelation that Hurstwood is married.
(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 second of two talks by Jamaican-born Pat Cumper, who came to Cambridge in the seventies. She becomes engaged to a fellow Cambridge student from Kenya and travels to Mother Africa to meet her prospective in-laws, where she is struck by the natural beauty of the surroundings but also by the racial and cultural tensions she encounters.
(Repeated from Sunday 5.40pm)
Last autumn a young man taking part in an American gene therapy trial died unexpectedly. Now the US gene therapy community and the regulators are questioning where this research should be going. Peter Evans finds out what gene therapy experiments have achieved and what the future may hold, on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Shortened repeat of 9am
With Allan Little.
By Bram Stoker, read by Colm Meaney.
(For details see Monday)
Shaun Prendergast's comedy series about two goldfish, starring Sean Foley and Hamish McColl.
When Anton decides to buy a new stretch of water, he finds himself at the mercy of an estate agent who really is a shark.
This edition comes from comic poet John Hegley's home. He invites fellow poet Christopher Logue into his house to admire his poetry bookshelf, and they discuss their favourite writers and join forces on a rendition of Hilaire Belloc's Tarantella. Character comedian Andrew Bailey spends most of the morning trying to fix the curtain rail.
By Robert Harris, read by Alan Howard.
Kelso and O'Brian have 24 hours to uncover the secrets in the forest before the northern snows cut off the port of Archangel and trap them there for the winter.
(For details see Monday)
