With the Rev Johnston McKay.
With Anna Hill. Producer Moira Hickey
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 Lavinia Byrne.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas and events which have influenced our time. Repeated at 9.30pm
Melvyn Bragg discusses whether the work of William Shakespeare is 'not of an age but for all time' or increasingly irrelevant museum pieces embalmed in out of reach language. Show more
Jenni Murray hosts lively and topical interviews and discussions from a woman's point of view.
Drama: Diary of a Provincial Ladyby EM Delafield. Part 4. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the world headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. Producer TonyGrant
Theatre critic Alastair Macaulay talks to Matthew Bourne about his choreography, as the award-winning interpreter of a West End and Broadway Swan Lake presents a new work, The Car Man. With contributions from fans, including
Julie Walters and Auberon Waugh , colleagues Lynn Seymour and Scott Ambler , and family. Producer Frances Byrnes
PM With Trixie Rawlinson and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke.
Richard Uridge uncovers more stories and characters from the British countryside. Shortened repeat from Saturday6.10am
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
The true story of the brief and happy courtship that was followed by a miserable 40-year marriage between Thomas Hardy and his first wife, Emma Gifford. The scholar and poet David Constantine visits north Cornwall (or Lyonesse as Hardy called it), where the couple met and fell in love. Hardy returned there after Emma's death, a journey which inspired him to write some of the most beautiful poetry in English. Starring Oliver Ford Davies and Jane Gurnett. (R)
With Peter White. Editor Chris Burns
John Craven speaks on behalf of a charity which works to save the lives of dolphins and porpoises.
DONATIONS: Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, [address removed]CREDIT CARDS: [number removed] Repeated from Sunday 7.55am
4: Letters by Adam Thorpe , read by Barrie Rutter. After his wife's death, Hanklin makes an unhappy discovery. For details see Monday
Van Gogh thought a painting was "in the raw" without one. John Bratby thought they impaired the "artist's pristine visual conception". Howard Hodgkin paints on his. John Wilson explores the history of the picture frame and the complicated relationship with the art it surrounds. How might the Mona Lisa look, for example, encased by aluminium? Producer Mohit Bakaya
Marcel Berlins takes a lively look at the legal affairs of the moment.
(Repeated Sunday 8.30pm)
Ever since Michael Faraday developed his laws of electromagnetism, magnetism has played second fiddle to electricity. But scientists working in the field of nanotechnology are beginning to realise the enormous potential of magnetism. They hope that tiny bar magnets less than 25 nanometres long might be the answerto information storage in the future. Quentin Cooper discusses the subject with Russell Cowburn from Cambridge University and Patricia Fara.
Producer John Watkins. EMAIL: material.world@bbc.co.uk
With Clare English and Charlie Lee-Potter.
BBC controller of entertainment Paul Jackson talks to Dale Winton in his series of interviews exploring the lives and work of comedy writers. Winton explains how he got the job presenting
Supermarket Sweep, the show that kick-started his television career. He describes his audition: "I said, 'I may not be your ideal choice but I promise you, you will find Lord Lucan and Salman Rushdie quickerthan you will find a better host than me forthis show....Asforbeingcamp, I may not be Arnold Schwarzenegger , but I'm not Joan Crawford either. In my quiet moments I'd quite like to be Diana ROSS. ' " Producer ChrisNeill
David has a doomsday option. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
John Wilson with arts interviews and news.
Producer Katie Hunter
By EM Delafield , dramatised by Mike Harris. The thirtiesjournal of howto run a house, a husband, a cook, a nanny, bothersome neighbours, irritating relatives, excruciating acquaintances.... all while writing a book and tryingto look fashionable. Part 4. Fordetails see Monday. Repeated from 10.45am
Chris Bowlby returns with the four-part history series that reveals why some of the most controversial policies, fashions and fads became the orthodoxies of their time.
How turning chickens into animal machines gave us cheap plentiful food but at huge cost to human health and animal welfare.
B2B. The internet bubble that is not bursting is
B2B -transactions from one business to another via the net. Peter Day reports on the frenzy that could transform corporate life.
Producer Sandra Kanthal. Repeated Sunday9.30pm
Powering the Future. The Stone Age did not end because the world ran out of stone, and the fossil-fuel age will not end because we run out of coal and oil. Alex Kirby explores a future in which all our energy needs are met from clean, renewable sources such as solar, wind and wave power. Cars are likely to run on hydrogen harvested from green algae- in otherwords, the garden pond could end up being used to power the family saloon and forests of willows might be fuelling thousands of local power stations. Producer Brian King
By Niall Williams , read by Owen Roe. Part 4. For details see Monday
A comedy series in which Ainsley Elliot (Griff Rhys Jones) and Jude Prentiss (Melanie Hudson ) return to the debating table.This week they are joined in a debate on charity by James Pugsley (Graeme Garden ), Ray Sunshine (
Geoff McGivern ) and Tamara Christmas (Ronnie Ancona ). Written by the cast and Paul B Davies. Producer Paul B Davies
AMByJACuddon,readbyTimPigott-Smith.Part4.
Fordetails see Monday (R)
