With the Very Rev David Chillingworth.
Anna Hill investigates how agriculture is providing a new way of developing medicines.
With Sue MacGregor and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With Father Oliver McTernan.
John Peel: page 14
Jeremy Paxman and guests set the cultural agenda for the week.
(Repeated at 9.30pm)
Martha Kearney discovers more about Madame Butterfly and the women in Pucccini's life. And this week historian Amanda Vickery visits the forgotten centres of Georgian social life.
Drama: Daughters of Britannia. Part 11 of 20.
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(Drama repeated at 7.45pm)
Adam Hart-Davis uncovers the lives and inventions of four unacknowledged pioneers of science.
The first powered flight took place not in America in 1903 with the Wright Brothers, but in the Somerset town of Chard some 50 years earlier. Hart-Davis goes in search of the obscure life of the Victorian pioneer John Stringfellow.
By Miss Read, dramatised in six parts by Nick Warburton.
Winnie nurses her beloved husband in the peaceful Cotswolds village.
Mark Whittaker is joined at the Natural History museum by a panel of guests to discuss whether our galleries provide us with an adequate service.
With James Cox.
Three more semi-finalists battle it out for a coveted place in the grand final of the musical quiz hosted by Ned Sherrin.
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Terence Rattigan.
Hester Collyer, wife of Sir William, is discovered slumped, apparently dead, in front of a gas fire in her dingy West London flat. What has brought an attractive, well-liked woman to such a low ebb? A play exploring the damaging effects of repressed emotions and unrequited love.
Vincent Duggleby takes your calls on savings and investment.
Lines open from 1.30pm
By Louis Sachar, read by William Hootkins.
Abridged in five parts by Richard Hamilton.
Stanley Yelnats is off to Camp Green Lake - but there is no lake, and it isn't green. A juvenile detention centre in Texas is the unlikely location for the magical novel awarded the Newbery Medal in the USA, entertaining children and parents alike.
Five specialists offer their views about how manners and modes of speech have changed within different professions.
Would Mistura Tussis Nigricans have been as effective if it were labelled Black Cough Mixture? And how has the management-speak which has infiltrated the NHS affected the doctor-patient relationship? Dr Michael O'Donnell investigates.
With Sheila Dillon.
(Extended repeat from yesterday 12.30pm)
Anne Mackenzie and guests assess different attitudes to teenage culture across the globe.
With Clare English and Steve Evans.
Joining Nigel Rees to exchange quotations and anecdotes this week are Richard Griffiths, Royce Mills, Christopher Matthew and Michael Wood. Reader William Franklyn.
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(Repeated Sunday 12.04pm)
Sid has egg on his face.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
Mark Lawson meets composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who is 70 this year. They discuss a career which includes musicals as diverse as A Little Night Music and Sweeney Todd.
The story of four centuries of diplomatic life, as revealed in the private letters, diaries and memoirs of British diplomats' wives and daughters.
The women try to maintain good diplomatic relations at home with their domestic staff. In Peking, Susan Townley finds more than a fly in her soup.
(Rptd from 10.45am)
Black and Asian voters form about 25 percent of the electorate in this month's polling for a London mayor and assembly.
In the first of two programmes, Gary Younge examines the challenge that Ken Livingstone presents to the traditional Labour vote and asks whether these elections provide a unique opportunity for a new form of identity politics.
Julian Pettifer visits the Philippines, where the Roman Catholic Church and women's rights activists are clashing over birth control. The country has one of the fastest-growing populations in the world and experts say family planning is essential to lifting it out of poverty. Pettifer meets the health workers who are risking the wrath of the church by encouraging birth control.
(Rptd from Thursday)
The last of the series in which Jolyon Jenkins examines the skills that animals have developed and asks how humans can learn from their examples. Australian ants produce a powerful antibiotic which they use to paint the walls of their homes to prevent the spread of infection. As we run out of drugs to combat the increasing problem of antibiotic resistance in human bacterial infections, scientists are turning to animals for the next generation of anti-microbial drugs.
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Shortened repeat of 9am
With Claire Bolderson.
By Anita Shreve, read in ten parts by Joanna David.
In the early hours of the morning, Kathryn Lyons is awakened by a knock which changes her life.
With John Peel.
(Rptd from Saturday 9am)
Martin Jarvis reads five extracts from his autobiography in which he reveals some of the more bizarre things that have happened to him in his varied life as an actor.
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