With the Very Rev David Chillingworth.
With Anna Hill.
With John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day
With Rhidian Brooks.
What was it that brought humankind's ancestors out of the trees? Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the theories, ideas and discoveries that characterise the science of human evolution. Repeated at 9.30pm
Melvyn Bragg examines the evidence from palaeontology and anthropology in examining how we arrived at a period unique in the earth’s history when a sole human species is in evidence across the globe. Show more
With Sheila McClennon and guests. Amanda Vickery looks at the Georgian Theatre in Richmond, Yorkshire.
Drama: Daughters of Britannia. Part 14.
(Drama repeated at 7.45pm)
Nearly half of Chile's children are born outside marriage - a statistic the country's conservative elite are trying to sweep under the carpet. Bob Howard travels to Santiago, where divorce is illegal and abortion a taboo subject, to meet the ordinary citizens determined to modernise Chile's social laws.
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(Repeated Monday 8.30pm)
Tom Robinson charts the unacknowledged art of song and song writing in England.
He looks at the importance of song to the radical theatre of the seventies, the emergence of gender issues and sexual politics as the subject of songs, and the liberating rush of punk rock. Contributors include Billy Bragg, Sandra Kerr, Attila the Stockbroker and Clive James.
With Liz Barclay and Trixie Rawlinson.
With Nick Clarke.
Richard Uridge uncovers more stories and characters from the British countryside.
(Shortened repeat from Saturday 6.10am)
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
A play for all the family by Jenny McDade.
A bad dream, ley lines, the marsh mist, or simply an overactive imagination?
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With Peter White.
John Peel speaks on behalf of a charity which helps people to stop smoking.
Donations: QUIT, [address removed] Credit Cards: [number removed].
(Repeated from Sunday 7.55am)
By Louis Sachar, read by William Hootkins.
(For details see Easter Monday)
The Rt Rev Colin Semper meditates on how the language of the church has changed since he first took holy orders.
(For details see Easter Monday)
Michael Rosen presents the programme about words and the way we speak.
From Parlophone to Polydor, from Stax to Stiff, the stories behind the names of record labels large and small.
(Repeated Sunday 8.30pm)
Physics remains at the heart of our understanding of the natural world. Quentin Cooper talks to Professor Wilson Poon of Edinburgh University about the way in which physicists are creating revolutionary medical technologies and informing our understanding of the most basic biological concepts.
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With Clare English and Charlie Lee Potter.
BBC controller of entertainment Paul Jackson chats to comedy writers and performers about their lives and work.
William asks for brown sauce.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
Mark Lawson reports on the opening of the Lowry, a major new arts venue on Salford Quays which is the new home for the work of LS Lowry.
The women learn to juggle official duties and their responsibilities to their children.
(For details see Easter Monday)
(Repeated from 10.45am)
In the second of two programmes marking the 500th anniversary of modern Brazil Jan Rocha examines modernity in the face of under-development and visits the modern capital, Brasilia. For hundreds of years the Brazilians dreamt of building a capital city that would mark the country's determination to become a great economic and political power. Central to the plan was the vision of an egalitarian Utopia where all classes would live together. It was never to be and this programme examines the battle for progress and change that sits uncomfortably beside an inability to raise the majority of the population out of poverty.
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National borders do not mean what they used to. Globalisation, the Channel Tunnel and the increasing power of international institutions have seen to that. But why do we have frontiers, and what do they mean to people? Andrew Dilnot examines the economic, cultural and political role of borders and asks whether nations can survive without them.
(Repeated Sunday 9.30pm)
The first of a new 18-part series exploring the issues which affect all our lives.
Smoking is blamed for four million deaths a year, but the technology exists to radically reduce that figure. Alex Kirby talks to scientists working on safer cigarettes and asks the tobacco companies why they are not implementing measures which would make their products less dangerous.
Robin Lustig.
By Anita Shreve.
Kathryn is pursued by the world's media.
(For details see Easter Monday)
A comedy series in which Ainsley Elliot and Jude Prentiss return to the debating table.
This week's controversial striptease exposes the naked truth about honesty - is it always the best policy or does it sometimes pay bigger dividends to tell the occasional little white lie?
Written by the cast and Paul B. Davies.
Scientists predict a silent future where humans no longer speak. Alistair McGowan concludes the series on how we have used our voices by looking back 100 years, before contemplating this new world.
(For details see Tuesday)
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Written and read by Martin Jarvis.
(For details see Easter Monday)
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