With Mgr. Kieran Conry.
With Sue MacGregor and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With Father Oliver McTernan.
Lisa Jardine and guests including Lars Nitve, director of the eagerly awaited Tate Modern, and historian Piers Brendon, who specialises in the thirties, set the cultural agenda for the week.
(Repeated at 9.30pm)
Martha Kearney with interviews and discussions from a woman's point of view.
Drama: Daughters of Britannia. Part 16 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.
Henry Bessemer invented the Bessemer converter, a system for refining steel from pig iron which enabled output to increase six-thousand fold. The money he made provided him with the capital to design a ship which prevented seasickness - with catastrophic and embarrassing results.
By Miss Read, dramatised in six parts by Nick Warburton.
The village school teacher welcomes her glamorous friend to Thrush Green and finds that she too is out of a home.
With Liz Barclay and Mark Whittaker.
With Nick Clarke.
Tension mounts as the three remaining contestants - Patricia Ross, Brian Davies and Nigel Clarke - battle for the title of Counterpoint Champion 2000. Ned Sherrin is joined by soprano Kyra Vane, who will present the prizes.
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Alan Garner, dramatised by Matthew Bailey.
When Alison traces owls from the pattern on a dinner service, the paper owls disappear and the plates go blank. Mysterious events become frightening in this classic reworking of the Welsh Blodeuwedd myth.
In five programmes David Stafford looks at the stories of songs that have entered the collective memory.
Today he explores the origins of the Celtic song of love, loss and yearning, with Ronnie Drew from the Dubliners and Henry Kelly.
(Brian Kay : page 44)
Pesticides and poultry, fast food and foie gras - Derek Cooper presents the programme that investigates the good, the bad and the tasteless.
(Extended repeat from yesterday 12.30pm)
As the world gets ready for the Cannes Film Festival, Anne Mackenzie and guests check the health of film industries thousands of miles from Hollywood Boulevard.
With Clare English and Eddie Mair.
Joining Nigel Rees to exchange quotations and anecdotes this week are Samantha Bond, Patrick Barlow, Roger McGough and Peter Kellner. Reader Patricia Hughes.
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(Repeated Sunday 12.04pm)
Shula makes a counterattack.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
Writer and film director Oliver Stone tells Mark Lawson how his experiences in Vietnam turned him into a film-maker and later inspired his films Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July. Stone also discusses the glamorisation of violence in Natural Born Killers.
Katie Hickman tells the story of four centuries of diplomatic life as revealed in the private letters, diaries and memoirs of British diplomats' wives and daughters.
How to cope with everything from snakebites and flesh-eating insects to extremes of heat and cold.
(Repeated from 10.45am)
With about 25 per cent of eligible voters coming from an ethnic minority background in the London mayoral elections, Gary Younge examines the Asian vote. In the second of two programmes he asks why it has been lumped together with the black vote for so long. And what will happen if the established political parties continue to take the vote of this increasingly well educated and wealthy group for granted?
Nearly half of Chile's children are born outside marriage - a statistic the country's conservative elite is 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. Repeated from Thursday
"Britain is too noisy. There is almost nowhere left to go." Members of the Wildlife Recording Society are captivated by the beauty of birdsong and are driven to the very edge of the British Isles to avoid intrusive noise. This programme joins them on the wild coast of the Outer Hebrides to discover an obsession for pure sound.
(R)
Shortened repeat of 9am
With Robin Lustig.
By Anita Shreve, read in ten parts by Joanna David.
Kathryn begins to realise how little she knew about her husband's life.
John Peel takes a wry look at the foibles of family life.
(Repeated from Saturday 9am)
When drummer Chris Stewart left the band Genesis, he had no idea that they would soon be worth millions and that his life as an aspirant farmer in Spain would be more than a little strange. But he never looked back. Mick Ford reads the first of five extracts from Stewart's book. (R)
