With Canon Noel Battye.
With Anna Hill.
With John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
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
Sue MacGregor's Questionnaire: page 13
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas and events which have influenced our time.
(Repeated at 9.30pm)
Melvyn Bragg investigates what drove the Soviet leader Lenin, and enabled him to develop a model to export communism and build an original political system that remained intact for over seventy years. Show more
Nick Baker looks at newspapers and magazines whose readers have strong ties abroad.
The paper read by South Africans living in Britain.
Jenni Murray is joined by guests forthe latest news, views and debate from a woman's perspective.
Drama: "Sister Carrie" by Theodore Dreiser. Part 9.
(Drama repeated at 7.45pm)
China has more smokers than anywhere else in the world - the habit is killing a million Chinese every year. Smoking is on the increase, and experts predict a massive public-health disaster. Duncan Hewitt travels to Shanghai to find out whether the authorities can do anything to wean China off the weed.
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(Repeated Monday 8.30pm)
Mark Rylance discovers the appeal of Shakespeare for very young children.
(R)
With John Waite and Liz Barclay.
With Nick Clarke.
Richard Uridge uncovers more stories and characters from the British countryside.
(Shortened repeat from Saturday 6.10am)
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Pearse Elliott.
When Lily wins £1,000 at bingo, she decides that she and her daughter should take a trip out of Ireland.
With Peter White.
Jeremy Paxman speaks on behalf of a charity which has a school for children with learning disabilities in Botswana.
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(Repeated from Sunday 7.55am)
by Rachel Bentham, read by Michael Wilson.
When his mum's boyfriend became ill, young Sam's world changed. It is difficult to realise that grown-ups get scared, especially when you have some important hurdles to get over yourself, like learning not to cry when you fall over and how to tie your own shoelaces.
(For details see Monday)
Louisa Buck uncovers the life and career of the man who brought Impressionism to Britain and became a driving force of the Bloomsbury Group.
(For details see Monday)
Michael Rosen presents the series about words and the way we speak.
Science fiction may be the literature of the future, but how have writers described things to come?
(Repeated Sunday 8.30pm)
Campylobacter - the leading cause of bacterial food-borne disease throughout the world - is on the increase. Scientists are investigating its genetic make-up to try to discover ways of finding it and controlling its presence in the food we eat. Quentin Cooper talks to Dr Julian Ketley of Leicester University and Dr Jenny Frost from the Central Public Health Laboratories about why this bacterium has proved so difficult to study.
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With Charlie Lee-Potter and Nigel Wrench.
John Shuttleworth with half an hour of celebrity guests, domestic chores and music. This week John learns that Peter Purves has always wanted to play a nasty character and wonders if he would audition for the role of Captain Hook in the drop-in centre's production of Peter Pan.
Written and performed by Graham Fellows, with additional material by Martin Willis.
Brian's suspicions are confirmed.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
With Mark Lawson.
By Theodore Dreiser.
Hurstwood steals $10,000 from an unlocked safe at work and tricks Carrie into boarding a train in the middle of the night.
(For details see Monday)
(Repeated from 10.45am)
Peter White concludes a chronicle of the movement which has transformed the expectations of disabled people in Britain over the past 100 years.
Though the successes of the US civil rights movement gave fresh impetus to activism in Britain and led to new anti-discrimination laws, some suspect that attitudes to disability have not changed that much since 1900.
Inequality is back on the government's political agenda. Does that mean that third-way policies targeting social exclusion or emphasising ethnic diversity have failed to disguise the continuing importance of class and material inequality in British life? David Walker examines whether poverty is really the problem.
(Repeated Sunday 9.30pm)
The stories behind the best in cutting-edge science. Geoff Watts finds out how modelling hurricanes that raged five thousand years ago helps us understand today's erratic weather patterns.
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With Allan Little.
By Bram Stoker, read by Colm Meaney.
(For details see Monday)
A comedy series by Sudha Bhuchar and Shaheen Khan.
Girl-talk, male-baiting, boozing, fun-loving, gossiping, baby-waking... girlies.
Two feisty, foxy, fighting females try to protect their secrets, their secrets.
By Robert Harris, read by Alan Howard.
Out in the forest, Kelso and O'Brian are out of their depth.
(For details see Monday)
