With the Rev Dr John Holdsworth.
With Miriam O'Reilly.
With Sue MacGregor and Edward Stourton.
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
(LW only)
Melvyn Bragg talks to General Sir Michael Rose, Sir Michael Howard and Mary Kaldor of the London School of Economics about the theory and practice of war in the post-Cold War period. He asks if the conflicts fought now and the role played in them by the international community are new to the history of war, or simply echoes of Agincourt in modern military strategies.
(Shortened repeat at 9.30pm)
Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of modern warfare and examines whether today’s brutal and complex conflicts are truly different from anything the world has seen before. Show more
Jenni Murray is joined by Ann Widdecombe who talks about her first novel The Clematis Tree.
Drama: Daughters of Britannia. Part 4.
(Drama repeated at 7.45pm)
Portugal has the highest rate of death on the roads in Europe and, after decades of denial, road safety has finally become the key national issue. Reporter John Egan meets Manuel Ramos, whose five-year-old daughter was killed on Portugal's most notorious road, the IP5. Ramos has now taken on the case of the victims, with the simple aim of changing Portuguese society.
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(Repeated Monday 8.30pm)
Charles Monroe Schulz, the world's richest cartoonist and the creator of Peanuts, died on 12 February this year - the eve of the publication of his final comic strip in which he bade farewell to his characters and 350 million readers. Every day for nearly 50 years he drew characters, including Charlie Brown and Snoopy, who became familiar throughout the world. Steve Punt talks to those who knew him and presents a profite of the life and work of this remarkable man.
With Liz Barclay and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke.
(Shortened repeat from Saturday 6.10am)
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Arnold Bennett, dramatised by Don Haworth.
Minnie and her soldier husband defy the wishes of her father, a wealthy businessman. He moves quickly to disinherit them until fate intervenes.
(For details see Monday)
With Peter White.
The MS Research Trust.
(Repeated from Sunday 7.55am)
by Ken Smith, read by Paul Bhattacharjee.
A haunting evocation of a holiday in Venice.
(For details see Monday)
Trevor Baylis unravels three centuries of ribbons and regalia at the family firm of Toye, Kenning and Spencer.
(For details see Monday) (R)
Michael Rosen presents the series about words and the way we speak.
How the police tussle with the law and the lexicon when communicating with the public.
(Repeated Sunday 8.30pm)
Most people assume that the environmental problems facing our planet today are a result of modern industrial methods, in fact ancient civilisations must take part of the blame. Quentin Cooper talks to archaeologists at Edinburgh
University who have developed a scanner aboard the Endeavour space shuttle that provides a detailed map of invisible mining deposits which have been poisoning parts of Britain for centuries. E-MAIL: [email address removed]
With Eddie Mair and Charlie Lee-Potter.
BBC controller of entertainment Paul Jackson chats to comedy writers and performers about their lives and work.
Edward gets his teenage kicks.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
Mark Lawson with the arts programme, including a first-night review of Shakespeare's "Richard II", with Ralph Fiennes in the title role.
On reaching their postings some women were welcomed in grand style with full diplomatic ceremony, white others endured ignominious beginnings to their new lives abroad.
(For details see Monday)
(Repeated from 10.45am)
Concluding a counterfactual history series showing how differently major events from the past could have turned out.
When Neville Chamberlain resigned as prime minister on 10 May 1940, the day Hitler invaded the Low Countries, he was unexpectedly succeeded by Winston Churchill. The man who was widely tipped for Number 10 was the foreign secretary Lord Halifax, who had been involved with Chamberlain in the so-called "appeasement" process. What if Halifax and not Churchill had become prime minister?
The world has been awash with national and ethnic conflicts for much of the past century. Have we discovered anything about how to manage or resolve them? With progress stalled in Northern Ireland and continuing violence in the Middle East, the Balkans and the Basque Country, Brendan O'Leary examines the current state of thinking and policy-making.
(Repeated Sunday 9.30pm)
The total figure for the combined mass of every galaxy in the universe is no more than ten per cent of what should have been created in the Big Bang. Geoff Watts visits the scientists who are closest to discovering dark matter - the missing mass in the universe.
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With Robin Lustig.
By Isabel Allende.
"There's gold everywhere."
(For details see Monday)
A six-part comedy series that uses the format of a live radio discussion programme to take an original took at media absurdity. Who will lead the leaders?
Written by the cast and Paul B. Davies.
By Kazuo Ishiguro.
The Yellow Snake's identity is finally revealed.
(For details see Monday)
