With the Rev Dr Kevin Franz.
With Helen Mark.
With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.48 Thought for the Day
With the Rt Rev Thomas Butler.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Jonathan Freedland presents the series which finds the past behind the present.
He takes the long view of education and independent thinking in an exploration of the longest strike ever.
(Repeated at 9.30pm)
The last in a series of personal diaries by black and Asian police officers recording their experiences in the year following the publication of the report on the Stephen Lawrence inquiry.
Constable Les Bowie tells why he still has to fight for equality after 26 years service with the Metropolitan Police.
With Martha Kearney.
Drama: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser. Part 12.
(Drama repeated at 7.45pm)
Mad March hares boxing in the fields have been a familiar sight in Britain since the Enclosure Acts of the 18th and 19th centuries. But modern farming and a tidier countryside could be causing problems for the brown hare. Mark Carwardine investigates the factors controlling the numbers of this swift-footed creature.
(Repeated from yesterday 9pm)
Professor Jeffrey Richards delves into the cases of five radio detectives, comparing British with American.
A look at Dr Gideon Fell, an archetypal English eccentric created by American-born John Dickson Carr.
With Trixie Rawlinson and Mark Whittaker.
With Nick Clarke.
Series about conscience and musical creativity.
Peter Ainsworth explores Verdi's contribution to the overthrow of foreign domination and the invention of Italy.
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Karen Brown.
A 19th-century Robin Hood for Liverpool, Joseph Williamson was a complex, self-made businessman, Inspired by his own obsession with digging and a hatred of poverty, he employed soldiers returning from the Napoleonic wars to build tunnels stretching for miles underneath the city of Liverpool. This drama explores the man, his mission and the personal factors that made up such a character.
by Sue Morgan, read by Sara McGaughey.
Should Elin settle for a life shaped by the strong pull of home?
(For details see yesterday)
Steve Punt looks at the ways in which new technology has influenced the nature of promotional gimmicks.
(For details see yesterday) (R)
Philippa Lamb presents the programme that takes a look at everything which affects our working lives.
Libby Purves presents a guide to the world of learning, with practical advice, features and views.
(Repeated Sunday 11pm)
Action Line: [number removed]. E-Mail: [email address removed]
(FM only from 17.54)
With Clare English and Charlie Lee-Potter .
Simon Fanshawe chairs the irreverent writing game. Macbeth is rewritten in the style of The Flintstones, Woody Allen takes a job writing continuity for Radio 4 and Julie Burchill offers astrological advice. With Stuart Maconie, David Stafford, Linda Smith and Dillie Keane.
Eddie shoots his mouth off.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
Mark Lawson with arts interviews and news.
By Theodore Dreiser.
Hurstwood and Carrie now live together out of habit, their passion having waned as familiarity and straitened circumstances take their toll. The situation worsens when Hurstwood loses the bar, and he searches fruitlessly for work.
(For details see yesterday)
(Repeated from 10.45am)
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad. With reporter Liz Carney.
(Repeated Sunday 5pm)
Peter White with news for visually impaired people.
Phone: [number removed] for more information
Factsheet: send a large sae to [address removed]
The last in the series where Barbara Myers explores the latest research in the field of ageing.
Medicine is poised to make huge leaps forward in the next decade. Our understanding of the human genome promises incredible cures for most ills - but who wants to live for ever, unless it is with a good quality of life? Barbara Myers asks whether it is possible to be perfectly fit at 100.
E-Mail: [email address removed]
Repeated from 9am
With Robin Lustig.
With the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
By Jane Hamilton, read by Liza Ross.
(For details see yesterday)
A four-part variety-comedy-sketch show, written and performed by Mel Hudson and Vicki Pepperdine with Martin Hyder and Jim North, and Graeme Garden as script editor.
Mel and Vicki battle to keep the show going despite constant interruptions from the Dirty Sloanes and the Goatee Beard Men's Group.
By Alice Walker.
"I don't think we know we have lost our daughters until they are gone." The power struggle between Magdalena and her father reaches a surprising conclusion.
(For details see yesterday)
