With the Rev Johnston McKay.
With Sue MacGregor and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.48 Thought for the Day
With Akhandadi Das.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Olivia O'Leary talks to two people who have had similar experiences. This week she speaks to two people who have chosen to write to prisoners on death row in the United States and asks how they face the devastating consequences of their friendship. Lawyer Edmund Connybeare is currently writing to a man who as been on death row for 20 years. Pamela Thomas is a middle-aged, middle-class mother of three who says she acted on impulse because she wanted to reach out to someone in trouble. She eventually witnessed her penfriend's execution.
(Repeated at 9.30pm)
Fiona Shaw journeys into the past as she recreates the sounds of England during the time of William Shakespeare.
Princes and ambassadors might expect a private audience at the court of Queen Elizabeth, but mere nobles had to hang around for a glimpse of the monarch as she went to dinner or chapel. Shaw speculates on the kinds of sounds such visitors might have heard.
Martha Kearney with news, views and culture from a woman's point of view.
Drama: Diary of a Provincial Lady by EM Delafield. Part 2.
(Drama repeated at 7.45pm)
Commentary and reports on all four games, plus the draw for the semi-finals.
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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.
(Repeated from yesterday 9pm)
The series of programmes in which Hugh Dennis delves into the comedy archives to explore a selection of jokes and sketches.
With Nick Clarke.
Peter Stead explores how music is used in our best-loved novels.
In Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence showed his anguish at the direction British culture was taking during the First World War. Through thinly veiled portraits of his own friends, Lawrence had his characters dance to the music of the Russian Ballet, yet despaired that "art should interpret industry, as art once interpreted religion".
With John Worthen, Miranda Seymour and Rob Stradling.
Reader Jody Elen Machin.
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By David Pownall.
Georges Melies, the father of film fantasy, paved the way for modern cinema back in 1890s Paris. In his most famous film a spaceship in the shape of a cannon shell lands in the eye of the man in the moon. A colourful new play which looks at this dazzling innovator and compulsive seducer who typified the Belle Epoque.
Call Eddie Mair for an exchange of experiences and views on today's topical issues.
Lines open from 1.30pm
by Adam Thorpe, read by Nigel Anthony.
Bob and Myrtle's Greek island dream has not worked out the way they expected.
(For details see yesterday)
Charles Handy explores how tourism can benefit the visited as well as the visitors.
(For details see yesterday)
Heather Payton and guests with conversation about the world of business, money and technology.
Libby Purves presents a guide to the world of learning.
This week a look at chronic fatigue syndrome, the most common cause of long-term absence from school.
Action Line: [number removed] E-Mail: [email address removed] (Repeated Sunday 11pm)
With Clare English.
Dan Freedman and Nick Romero continue their comedy series. Music by the Gents.
Lewis lays down the law.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
Mark Lawson presents the arts programme.
By E.M. Delafield, dramatised by Mike Harris.
(For details see yesterday)
(Repeated from 10.45am)
"What we are witnessing now is the chaos that must surely arise when the world is looking for a new wineskin..."
In the first of a new three-part series, leading contemporary historian Paul Kennedy assesses the political leadership of three key nations in conversation with some of the best political and economic analysts in the world.
This week he looks at Japan. With Noriko Hama and Yoichi Masuzoe.
(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]
Everything from pollution and central heating to super-clean homes and processed foods has been blamed for the rocketing number of allergies. Dr Graham Easton finds out about the latest research and offers advice.
E-Mail: [email address removed]
(Repeated tomorrow 4.30pm)
Repeated from 9am
With Claire Bolderson.
By Niall Williams, read by Owen Roe.
(For details see yesterday)
The comedy series written by and starring Britain's funniest Milton.
(R)
By J.A. Cuddon, read by Tim Pigott-Smith.
(For details see yesterday)
(R)
