With the Rev Dr John Holdsworth.
With Anna Hill.
With Sue MacGregor and Edward Stourton.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With Father Oliver McTernan.
Jeremy Paxman and guests set the cultural agenda for the week.
(Repeated at 9.30pm)
Martha Kearney with interviews and discussion presented from a woman's point of view.
Drama: Daughters of Britannia. Part 1 of 20.
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(Drama repeated at 7.45pm)
The final programme in which Francis Wheen immerses himself in 50 years of well-meaning attempts by the Central Office of Information to inform the public about Britain and things British. He looks at how the COI tries to look after us with warnings about everything from road safety to Aids.
By Miss Read, dramatised in six parts by Nick Warburton.
When animal lover Dotty Harmer is taken ill, her menagerie concerns her more than her health.
With Trixie Rawlinson and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke.
Three more contestants do battle in the semi-finals of the musical quiz hosted by Ned Sherrin.
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
A week of stories by the Potteries novelist Arnold Bennett.
A child's affection for Elsie, the housemaid, turns the conventions and etiquette of an Edwardian household upside down.
Vincent Duggleby takes listeners' calls on the subject of state benefits.
Lines Open from 1.30pm
Five short stories this week celebrating the poet Ovid, from a new anthology edited by Phillip Terry.
Written and abridged by Roger Moss, read by Sean Barrett.
The first of four programmes this week in which Trevor Baylis, inventor of the clockwork radio, goes behind the scenes of family firms that have been trading for over 300 years and, therefore, belong to one of the most exclusive clubs in the country. Today the blanket makers of Witney reveal their secrets.
(R)
Derek Cooper delves into the archives to reveal his personal despatches from the food front.
(R)
International conversation looking behind the headlines at the issues and cultures which are shaping the world.
With Clare English and Eddie Mair.
Joining Nigel Rees to exchange quotations and anecdotes this week are Edward Woodward, Michael Grade, Libby Purves and Peter McDonald. Reader William Franklyn.
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(Repeated Sunday 12.04pm)
Elizabeth is paranoid.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
Presented by Mark Lawson.
Katie Hickman presents an untold story of four centuries of diplomatic life as revealed in the private letters, diaries and memoirs of British diplomats' wives and daughters. Part 1 of 20.
(Rptd from 10.45am)
Programme of the Week: page 115
Kate O'Mara's Questionnaire: page 13
Edi Stark presents a series about life in Cornton Vale, Scotland's only female prison, which has earned the reputation of being Scotland's death row jail. Karen explains why she became a heroin addict, and Kelly tells how she was taken into care to protect her from her father's violence.
The Gypsies, or Roma, have been hitting the headlines in Britain as asylum seekers, but most of them - between three and five million - still live in eastern Europe. Olenka Frenkiel hears from Roma across the region.
(Repeated from Thursday)
A Vietnamese pot-bellied pig can cure itself of melanoma, the housefly has built-in gyroscopes and the termite is the master architect of the creature world. In a three-part series Jolyon Jenkins examines the design, locomotion and pharmaceutical expertise that animals have developed over millions of years of evolution and asks how humans can learn from their examples.
Wasps and termites are able to control precisely the temperature in their nests. To what extent can builders and architects learn from the building behaviour of animals?
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Shortened repeat of 9am
With Claire Bolderson.
The new novel from bestselling author Isabel Allende is an epic story of love and adventure set in colonial Chile and the California of the Gold Rush. Read by Amanda Root and abridged in ten parts by Alison Joseph.
"I do not belong to this family."
John Peel takes a wry look at the foibles of family life.
(Shortened repeat from Saturday 9am)
By Kazuo Ishiguro, read by Anton Lesser, abridged in ten parts by Chris Wallis.
Christopher has gone to Shanghai to solve the mystery of his parents' disappearance, but he is distracted by Sarah's apparent unhappiness.
