With the Very Rev. David Chillingworth.
With Ashley Gething.
With Sue MacGregor and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day
With the Rev. Roy Jenkins.
The first of a new eight-part series in which Olivia O'Leary talks to two people who have had similar experiences. Politicians Shirley Williams and Shaun Woodward both left their respective parties. They discuss loyalty, integrity and the price of conscience.
(Repeated at 9.30pm)
Whether in the country or the town, one can never escape the drone of aeroplanes, the squeal of brakes and the hum of electrical equipment. In four programmes Fiona Shaw turns down the volume of 21st-century life and journeys into the past as she recreates the sounds of England during the time of William Shakespeare.
Martha Kearney hosts interviews and discussions taking a woman's point of view, and Amanda Vickery arrives in the Assembly Rooms in York.
Drama: Daughters of Britannia. Part 12.
(Drama repeated at 7.45pm)
In 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.
Parkes visits the upper-middle-class schools bequeathed by the British, and the makeshift classrooms catering to the homeless street children based on platform one at the city's railway station.
Is a dazzling script enough to get into the sitcom hall of fame? In the second of two programmes Harry Thompson talks to comedy writers, actors and producers about the process of getting a beautifully crafted comedy script from VDU to video.
With Trixie Rawlinson and Mark Whittaker.
With Nick Clarke.
Peter Stead continues his exploration of how music is used in our best-loved novels.
Thomas Hardy's rural idyll Under the Greenwood Tree reconstructs the musical world of early-19th-century rural Wessex, and in particular the tradition of the Mellstock Band, threatened by the introduction of an organ to replace them at church services. With musicians Bonny Sartin and Dave Townsend, and historian Jo Draper.
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Ivan Cutting.
"You got a frog's bone in your pocket, you can do anything with a horse. Only that got to be the right frog's bone." The old secrets of a horseman clash with the power of the tractor in the years just before the Second World War.
Call Eddie Mair for an exchange of experiences and views on today's topical issues.
Lines Open from 1.30pm
By Louis Sachar, read in five parts by William Hootkins.
(For details see yesterday)
Geoffrey Bindman scrutinises the language of the legal profession.
(For details see yesterday)
Heather Payton starts the series by discussing the ins and outs of the business of cricket and asks whether the game is the forgotten national sport.
Louise Doughty discusses three favourite paperbacks with government education adviser Michael Barber and acclaimed first-time novelist Zadie Smith.
(Repeated Sunday 11pm)
With Clare English and Carolyn Quinn.
Dan Freedman and Nick Romero continue their comedy series. Music by the Gents.
Elizabeth says you can keep your sausages.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
Mark Lawson presents the arts programme.
Four centuries of diplomatic life as experienced by diplomats' wives and daughters.
In Chinese Turkestan, Catherine Macartney tastes sea slugs and ancient eggs, and Ella Sykes insists that cheese straws are served at her dinner parties.
(For details see yesterday) (Repeated from 10.45am)
A series that takes the pulse of 21st-century America in the run-up to the presidential election.
Bridget Kendall investigates the emergence of the country's fastest-growing minority - Latinos. With salsa outselling ketchup in America's supermarkets, Latino culture has become mainstream. Kendall meets the people who are redefining what it means to be American.
(Repeated Sunday 5pm)
Peter White with news for visually impaired people. Tonight Sir John Mills talks about his life and the impact that macular degeneration has had upon him in his later years.
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Why are we so frightened of vaccines? Scare stories about possible links to serious illnesses surface every few months, followed by waves of anxious parents refusing to have their children immunised against potentially lethal diseases. Dr Graham Easton explores the confusion surrounding the whole business of vaccination.
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(Repeated tomorrow 4.30pm)
Repeated from 9am
With Claire Bolderson.
By Anita Shreve.
Kathryn tries to come to terms with the fact that her husband has been killed in a plane crash.
(For details see yesterday)
The second blast of the kindly comedy series written by and starring Milton Jones.
(R)
Neanderthals could not pronounce the sound "ee' because of the shape of their face and the position of their larynx. Is this why they died out and we survived? The first of three programmes in which Alistair McGowan traces the evolution, development and uses of the human voice.
Written and read by Martin Jarvis.
(For details see yesterday)
(R)
