With Mgr Kieran Conry.
With John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.48 Thought for the Day
With Rhidian Brooks.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Melvyn Bragg is joined by American poet and funeral director Thomas Lynch and the literary critic Jonathan Dollimore to explore the place of death and rituals in western art and culture. Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
Melvyn Bragg discusses the development of Western philosophy on the subject of death and examines how it has helped to shape our culture, literature, attitudes and rituals. Show more
Amy Jenkins, author of the hit television programme This Life, talks to Jenni Murray about her first novel.
Drama: Daughters of Britannia. Part 19.
(Drama repeated at 7.45pm)
Albania has become a byword for crime and corruption at every level. Why would a young and successful painter leave his comfortable exile in France to become Minister of Culture there? Edi Rama has become one of his country's most popular and dynamic politicians. Rosie Goldsmith hears the secret of his success.
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(Repeated Monday 8.30pm)
In the last of the series charting the art of song and songwriting in England, Tom Robinson investigates how the European chanson is inspiring a new generation of writers and singers, including Des De Moor and Philip Jeays. Is Britain's relationship with Europe influencing our music?
June Tabor considers Englishness in contemporary song, and the activist band Seize the Day identifies the new focus of political engagement in Song.
With Liz Barclay and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke.
(Shortened repeat from Saturday 6.10am)
Repeated from yesterday7pm
By Ellen Phethean.
Time stops and Newcastle's busy city streets are forgotten in this magical trip to the department store of every woman's dreams, filled with memories and relics from the past. The mythical Golden Lady and guardian of the clocks takes retired actress Lily, her optician daughter Fanny and Big Issue seller Dawn on the fantastical shopping spree of a lifetime. An exploration of how women cope with age and ambition.
With Peter White.
Evelyn Glennie speaks on behalf of a charity which supports sufferers of repetitive strain injury.
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(Repeated from Sunday 7.55am)
Cellist Raphael Wallfisch reads "Delius as I Knew Him" by Eric Fenby.
In 1928 Fenby, a young Yorkshire musician, offered to help the blind and paralysed Delius complete his final compositions. Fenby's account of his time with the composer in France reveals how masterpieces such as A Song of Summer came to be written despite seemingly insurmountable difficulties.
(For details see Tuesday) (R)
Heard in America's Deep South and in Brownie camps in the Home Counties, this song with origins in Swahili is probably one of our most travelled collective-memory songs. With Sheffield singer-songwriter John Shuttleworth (aka comedian Graham Fellows) and chief scout George Perdy.
(For details see Monday)
In American election year the shooting of a fellow pupil by a six-year-old has sparked a campaign issue that divides the nation. The real battle over gun control is being fought in the courts. Billions of dollars in damages from gun makers are being claimed. Where political action has failed, Marcel Berlins investigates whether legal action can tame the use and abuse of guns.
(Repeated Sunday 8.30pm)
Quentin Cooper examines the science behind fire-fighting, looking at everything from how water spirals out of the hose to the latest fire-retardant materials.
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With Charlie Lee-Potter.
BBC controller of entertainment Paul Jackson chats to six comedy writers and performers about their lives and work.
Majorie joins the squad.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
Mark Lawson presents the arts programme.
Four centuries of diplomatic life, as experienced by diplomats' wives and daughters.
Ella Skyes becomes the first European woman to walk in the Pamir Mountains in Chinese Turkestan.
(For details see Monday)
(Repeated from 10.45am)
How much does South Africa's peaceful transition to majority rule owe to a series of secret negotiations at an English country house? Julian O'Halloran reveals the inside story of the talks that paved the way for Nelson Mandela's first official meeting with the white government ten years ago.
The new knowledge-based economy is booming. Are economic growth and productivity being transformed without causing inflation? Or is the new economy so much hype, rising like a stock market about to burst? Ian Hargreaves investigates.
(Repeated Sunday 9.30pm)
The deadly Ecoli 0157 bacteria killed 21 people in an outbreak of food poisoning in Scotland. Recently a girl died after contracting the disease on a Devon beach. The number of people being infected is growing every year and the bacteria has been found in a wide range of animals. Alex Kirby reveals how it may be only a matter of time before people start falling ill through contact with their pets.
With Claire Bolderson.
By Anita Shreve.
Kathryn tries to come to terms with her husband's betrayal.
(For details see Monday)
A comedy series in which Ainsley Elliot and Jude Prentiss return to the debating table.
This week the guests around Ainsley's big table give their single-minded attention to the topic of obsession.
Are we all in some way obsessive and are you sure you turned the gas off before we came out?
Written by the cast and Paul B Davies.
By Chris Stewart.
There is a new arrival at the mountain farm in Andalusia.
(For details see Monday) (R)
