With the Rev Johnston McKay.
With Sue MacGregor and Edward Stourton.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With Father Oliver McTernan.
Jeremy Paxman and guests 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: Diary of Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield. Part 1 of 15.
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(Drama repeated at 7.45pm)
Adam Hart-Davis uncovers the lives and inventions of four unacknowledged pioneers of science.
From mining in Cornwall to silver prospecting, Richard Trevithick was a gifted and daring engineer. Inventor of the first steam locomotive and the high-pressure steam engine, Trevithick never made money, but his genius was ahead of his time.
By Miss Read, dramatised in six parts by Nick Warburton.
The vicar's battle with the crumbling rectory reaches an unexpected crisis. Final part.
With Trixie Rawlinson and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke.
The quest for the Mastermind 2000 champion begins, as the first four contestants take the chair to face Peter Snow's questions. Each will tackle two minutes of quickfire questioning on their specialist subject, followed by two minutes on general knowledge.
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Michael Butt. A factually based story from the book by Lotte Hamburger and Joseph Hamburger.
Sarah Austin, a married and thoroughly respectable Victorian translator, conducts a passionate relationship by letter with a raffish German prince.
(R)
Vincent Duggleby takes calls on an issue affecting personal finance.
Lines open from 1.30pm
By Adam Thorpe.
Five short stories exactly 2,001 words long, written by a master of the genre.
Read by Souad Faress.
A nurse in a hospice is pursued by her dreams.
Over the next three days writer and social philosopher Charles Handy visits India to explore paradoxes in paradise.
Kerala's matrilineal system proves not to be all that it seems.
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)
Anne Mackenzie and guests look behind the headlines to the international issues and cultures which shape the world.
With Clare English.
Joining Nigel Rees to exchange quotations and anecdotes this week are Vivienne Parry, Sarah Harrison, Gemma O'Connor and Clive Swift.
Reader William Franklyn.
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(Repeated Sunday 12.04pm)
Ed prefers the sofa.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
Mark Lawson reports from the converted power station beside the Thames which is set to become one of the world's major contemporary art galleries - the Tate Modern.
By E.M. Delafield, dramatised in 15 parts by Mike Harris.
The thirties journal of how to run a house, a family, a nanny, bothersome neighbours, irritating relatives and excruciating acquaintances, all while writing a book and trying to look fashionable.
(Repeated from 10.45am)
A year ago the National Assembly for Wales was officially opened by the Queen. Nobody, least of all Tony Blair, could have predicted the events that would unfold. In the first of two programmes Glyn Thomas examines the behind-the-scenes political dramas that led to resignations, conflict, despair and triumph in the brave new world of British politics.
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.
(Repeated from Thursday)
Central Australia has flooded for the first time in 25 years. Peter Jacklyn visits an island in Lake Eyre North to watch the spectacle of thousands of breeding birds making the most of the rapidly evaporating water.
(Read more in Sue Gaisford's choice tomorrow on page 120.)
(Repeated tomorrow 11am)
Shortened repeat of 9am
With Claire Bolderson.
By Niall Williams, read by Owen Roe and abridged in five parts by Lavinia Murray.
A passionate and haunting love story of isolation and renewal set in Venice and the west of Ireland.
John Peel takes a wry look at the foibles of family life.
(Shortened repeat from Saturday 9am)
Tim Pigott-Smith reads five extracts from J.A. Cuddon's humorous fifties tribute to the once imperial city of Istanbul and its passionate and generous inhabitants.
Abridged and produced by Jill Waters
(R)
