With the Rev Dr Kevin Franz.
With Anna Hill.
With John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday In Parliament
7.48 Thought for the Day
With the Rev Dr Johnston McMaster.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas and events which have influenced our time.
(Repeated at 9.30pm)
Melvyn Bragg examines the development and future of material culture. Are we hopelessly manipulated by materialism, or has the market developed to better our condition? Show more
Nick Baker looks at newspapers and magazines published in Britain whose readers have strong ties abroad.
Jenni Murray hosts interviews and discussions addressing women's issues, live from Bradford.
Drama: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser. Part 14.
(Drama repeated at 7.45pm)
In the tough Russian city of Yekaterinburg, the local mafia has become a political party and is standing for parliament. The godfathers now study psychology, support the church and wage war on drugs. On the eve of presidential elections, Tim Whewell asks if Russia's robber barons can successfully reinvent themselves.
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(Repeated Monday 8.30pm)
Roger McGough goes behind the scenes of an exciting initiative to revitalise Liverpool's best-loved theatres - the Liverpool Playhouse and the Everyman - by creating a new company to run the theatres and attract greater investment. He speaks to famous writers and actors with long associations with Liverpool, including Willy Russell, Anthony Sher and Beryl Bainbridge, and he meets the local people involved in the project.
With Liz Barclay and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke.
(Shortened repeat from Saturday 6.10am)
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Vita Sackville-West, dramatised by Jill Hyem.
Starring Ronald Pickup as Edmund and Kate Buffery as Laura.
An eminent journalist learns that he has only a short time to live. He decides to embark on a sea voyage in the company of a widow he has always admired.
(R)
With Peter White.
Stephanie Cole speaks on behalf of a charity which seeks to improve lives of everyone affected by schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses.
Donations: National Schizophrenia Fellowship, [address removed]
Credit Cards: [number removed].
(Repeated from Sunday 7.55am)
by Tessa Hadley.
The power of passion beneath the surface of a suburban marriage.
(For details see Monday)
Steve Punt on hitting the headlines in the conclusion to his guide to advertising stunts and gimmicks.
(For details see Monday) (R)
Michael Rosen presents the series about words and the way we speak.
The programme plunders the treasure chests of pirate words to discover which are fact and which are fiction. Plus how e-mail might affect spelling, grammar and punctuation.
(Repeated Sunday 8.30pm)
Little is known about how the brain controls thinking, intelligence and even consciousness. Now a team at Imperial College is using computers to model the human brain. Quentin Cooper talks to Professors Igor Aleksander and Chris Kennard about what a computer can tell us about the intricate workings of this organ.
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With Carolyn Quinn and Nigel Wrench.
Celebrity guests, domestic chores and music.
This week Katrina Leskanich drops in and lets on that she always buys new socks as she does not know how to darn. John decides to teach her this important skill, so that she need not be so wasteful. Meanwhile, Robert Wyatt tries to impress an impresario.
Written and performed by Graham Fellows, with additional material by Martin Willis.
Nigel tries reasoning.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
With Mark Lawson.
By Theodore Dreiser.
Hurstwood is at his wits end, and Carrie is horrified to discover more debts that she must pay. In desperation, Hurstwood takes a job as a scab driver in the great tram strike.
(For details see Monday) (Repeated from 10.45am)
A new four-part counter-factual history programme which shows how differently major events from the past could have turned out.
The French Revolution was played out against a backdrop of harvest failure and high bread prices. Much of the cause of that economic catastrophe arose from a storm which swept the country on 13 July 1788. What if the weather had been more benign? Without the bread riots and widespread unrest, perhaps a peaceful political solution could have been found.
The traditional concept of national heritage is being revised by new initiatives to represent excluded groups. Lola Young asks if there is still too much celebration and too little scepticism about the past.
(Repeated Sunday 9.30pm)
Some people think that E.O. Wilson is the new Darwin. Geoff Watts talks to the father of sociobiology about this ever-changing field.
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With Claire Bolderson.
With the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.
By Jane Hamilton, read by William Hope.
(For details see Monday)
A comedy series by Sudha Bhuchar and Shaheen Khan. Girl-talk, male-baiting, boozing, fun-loving, gossiping.... girlies.
One feisty, foxy, fighting female discovers what has really been going on.
By Alice Walker.
Magdalena meets her lover again, but now she is obese and he is a shattered man after serving in Vietnam.
(For details see Monday)
