With Mgr Kieran Conry.
With Anna Hill.
With Sue MacGregor and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day
With Akhandadi Das.
Olivia O'Leary talks to two people who have had similar experiences. This week she speaks to two gay fathers about their experiences of bringing up children. [Name removed] married at 21 and had two daughters. But a few years later he acknowledged that he was gay and separated from his wife. [Name removed] has two sons, conceived by artificial insemination with a lesbian couple and who live with their mothers.
(Repeated at 9.30pm)
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.
Shaw finds the city alive with church bells, shouting hawkers and ballad sellers singing the latest tabloid news.
Martha Kearney investigates polycystic ovarian syndrome - a hormonal imbalance that could affect one in five women but is rarely diagnosed.
Drama: Daughters of Britannia. Part 17.
(Drama repeated at 7.45pm)
The last of the series in which Simon Parkes looks behind the images of poverty and squalor most often associated with Calcutta.
Parkes examines what the future holds in store for a city that has seen far better days. He meets Manish Chakraborti, a local architect who is promoting the concept of restoration and heritage in a city which is bursting at the seams and where over 60 per cent of the population live in slums.
The first in a three-part series in which Hugh Dennis delves into the BBC radio and television comedy archives to illustrate how his fellow comedians have explored humour using animal jokes and sketches.
With Trixie Rawlinson and Mark Whittaker.
With Nick Clarke.
Peter Stead explores how music is used in our best-loved novels.
When E.M. Forster gives Lucy Honeychurch Beethoven's Op 111 piano sonata to play in A Room with a View, he is setting her apart - emotionally and socially - from her fellow English tourists in Florence.
With Nicola Beauman, Tony Brown and John Florance.
Reader Louise Breckon-Richards.
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Ray Brown.
Love and mathematics combine in this true-life story of a secret romance between Barnes Wallis, inventor of the bouncing bomb, and his 17-year-old cousin. Starring Samuel West, Emilia Fox and Mary Stopes-Roe.
Call Eddie Mair for an exchange of experiences and views on today's topical issues.
Lines open from 1.30pm
Four programmes in which leading musicians read from the biographies of major composers.
Mark Elder reads extracts from My Life by Richard Wagner, including the account of Wagner's fateful visit to London in 1855, when the critics hated his conducting and he met Queen Victoria.
(R)
From tenor Peter Dawson to the Helston Brass Band and Terry Wogan, David Stafford traces the evolution of the floral dance.
(For details see yesterday)
Heather Payton and guests with conversation about the world of business, money and technology.
Louise Doughty discusses three favourite paperbacks with war historian Lyn McDonald and professor of physiology at Oxford Colin Blakemore.
(Repeated Sunday 11pm)
With Clare English and Eddie Mair.
Dan Freedman and Nick Romero continue their comedy series.
Eddie is redeployed.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
Mark Lawson presents the arts programme.
Four centuries of diplomatic life, as experienced by diplomats' wives and daughters.
Letters written by Miss Tully, the sister of the British consul in Tripoli, reveal an outbreak of bubonic plague which imprisoned the Tullys in their home for almost two years.
(For details see yesterday)
(Repeated from 10.45am)
Last in a series that takes the pulse of 21st-century America in the run-up to the presidential election.
Bridget Kendall discovers how entertainment permeates every aspect of American life. In Minnesota she visits a theme-park mall which attracts more visitors than Walt Disney World. If the entertainment industry now provides America's social glue, what, she asks, happens to the traditional values of community and family?
(Repeated Sunday 5pm)
Peter White with news for visually impaired people.
Phone: [number removed] for more information. Factsheet: send a large sae to [address removed]
Can a person buy good health? Does living below the poverty line mean that one is likely to be sick more often than someone who is wealthy? Dr Graham Easton investigates whether the NHS is doing enough to close the health gap.
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(Repeated tomorrow 4.30pm)
Repeated from 9am
With Max Easterman.
By Anita Shreve.
Kathryn travels to London to find out the secrets Jack had been hiding from her.
(For details see yesterday)
The third blast of the six-part comedy series written by and starring Britain's funniest Milton.
(R)
By Chris Stewart.
Chris and Ana find that pomegranates and lemon groves have their drawbacks.
(For details see yesterday)
(R)
