With the Most Rev Dr George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury.
With Miriam O'Reilly.
With Sue MacGregor and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.48 Thought for the Day
With the Rev Roy Jenkins.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
The series which finds the past behind the present.
Whittington was the most famous Lord Mayor of London - until now. Jonathan Freedland explores the man behind the myth and asks whether the current mayoral candidates have anything to learn from their illustrious predecessor.
(Repeated at 9.30pm)
Naturalist Paul Morrison explores the symbolic significance of the plants and flowers described in the Gospels, in particular the crown of thorns used at the Crucifixion.
Martha Kearney with interviews and discussions taking a woman's point of view.
Drama: Daughters of Britannia. Part 7.
(Drama rptd at 7.45pm)
In the first of three programmes Simon Parkes looks behind the images of poverty and squalor most often associated with Calcutta, where he has lived for the last year.
He discovers a city with a surprising past and present. For more than 20 years, Calcutta has been the capital of a communist state - West Bengal. Parkes explores the relationship between the city and communism today.
How was the motley troop in Dad's Army recruited, and what were the origins of Porridge? In the first of two programmes Harry Thompson talks to comedy writers, actors and producers about the process by which a glimmer of an idea is transformed into an award-winning comedy.
With Trixie Rawlinson and Mark Whittaker.
With Nick Clarke.
A series in which Peter Stead explores how music is used in our best-loved novels.
In The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens indulges his passion for popular entertainment and music through the character of Dick Swiveller. Stead looks at Dickens's musical world with Tim Healey, Andrew Sanders and Paul Schlicke as they follow the tragic journey of Little Nell.
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Sue Teddern, based on a song by Richard Thompson.
In a remote Irish village Marie becomes increasingly fixated with the music of Elvis Presley. One night, after a bitter row, she walks out of her home and sets out on a journey to Graceland.
(R)
Call Eddie Mair for an exchange of experiences and views on today's topical issues.
Lines open from 1.30pm
By Tony Harrison.
Pontius Pilate and Percula, the agony and Christ's betrayal, the palace of the high priest Cayphas and Peter's denial.
(For details see yesterday)
Psychoanalysis is born, and the search for an inner innocence obsesses artists like Picasso, who said that he had to learn to draw like a child. But can childhood ever truly be recreated by an adult?
(For details see yesterday)
Philippa Lamb presents the programme that takes a look at everything which affects our working lives.
Louise Doughty discusses three favourite paperbacks with immunologist Professor Peter Lachmann and Helen Marriage, director of the Salisbury Festival.
(Repeated Sunday 11pm)
With Clare English and Carolyn Quinn.
Dan Freedman and Nick Romero with a show recorded at last year's Edinburgh Festival. Including Hong Feng Shui and Right Said Freud. Music by the Gents.
The Grundys are up in the air.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
Mark Lawson investigates the life and writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, the pioneering 18th-century feminist, in the light of a new biography by Janet Todd.
Four centuries of diplomatic life as experienced by wives and daughters.
The diplomatic women learn that life in a British embassy means adherence to a bewildering set of strict regulations.
(For details see yesterday)
(Repeated from 10.45am)
A three-part series that takes the pulse of 21st-century America on the eve of the presidential elections.
Bridget Kendall travels the country to uncover the social cost of America's boom. She meets the residents of Phoenix, Arizona, whose suburbs are exploding into the desert, who say the price of prosperity is urban sprawl.
(Repeated Sunday 5pm)
Peter White with news for visually impaired people.
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Dr Graham Easton examines why drug availability differs around the country and why it can be so difficult to see the doctor when you want to. Plus a look at the new ways to provide a fast-track treatment option when you are under the weather.
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(Repeated tomorrow 4.30pm)
Jonathan Freedland asks whether the current mayoral candidates have anything to learn from their illustrious predecessor.
(Repeated from 9am)
With Robin Lustig.
By Isabel Allende.
"I am not looking for gold, only my brother Joachin."
(For details see yesterday)
A comedy series written by and starring Milton Jones.
(R)
Fiona Shaw reads extracts from Ann Wroe's book.
(For details see yesterday) (R)
