With the Rev Tony Burnham.

With Anna Hill.

With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Lavinia Byrne.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas and events which have influenced our age. Repeated at 9.30pm

Melvyn Bragg examines what underwrites the idealism of America that has driven its enormous cultural, economic and diplomatic influence across the globe. Was it ever ideal and is it ideal any longer? Show more

With Jenni Murray. Drama: Inner Voices.
4: Whatever's Happened to Joanna Spring? by BrendaGilhoOly. Drama repeated at 7.45pm

Journalist and author Tony Parsons is best known for his contributions to The Mirrorand BBC2's Late Review. Yet it is the sensitivity with which he has written his latest book Man and Boywhich is bringing him his biggest and most unexpected success. He uses passages from Ernest Hemingway , Frank McCourt , Sue Townsend and Jan Morristo highlight the influences in his life. Producer Nicky Barranger. Repeated Sunday 12.15am

With Liz Barclay.

With Nick Clarke.

With Richard Uridge. Shortened repeatfromSaturday6.10am

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

By Rukhsana Ahmad. Ageneticistwho is developing a new drug is haunted by a ghost from her past. Director Claire Grove (R)

With Peter White. Editor Chris Burns

John Nettles speaks on behalf of a charity which supports Aids orphans in Kenya. DONATIONS: PLAN International,[address removed]CREDIT CARDS: [number removed]. Repeated from Sunday 7.55am

3: SoupduJourwritten and read by Carol Shields. For details see Tuesday

4: You cannot get much closer to being alone than floating free in space, looking down on planet Earth. No woman has spent more time walking in space than shuttle astronaut Kathryn Thornton. For details see Monday (R)

Marcel Berlins takes a look at the legal affairs of the moment. Producer Charles Sigler. Repeated Sunday 8.30pm

As food regulations become more stringent and medicine requires more accurate methods of diagnosing a patient's condition, there is an increasing need for non-invasive technology which can supply precise information about specific biological conditions. Quentin Cooper talks to Professor Tony Turner about biosensors - a developing technology used in medicine, the environment, public health and defence-and asks what new uses for them remain to be developed. Producer John Watkins. E-MAIL: [email address removed]

With Kevin Bocquet and Eddie Mair.

A newsix-part comedy by Carolyn Stafford. and David Stafford. 1: The deeply strange occupants of Lottie's cafe-bar in the former Soviet state of Slomzovakia return for an incendiary episode.
Music David Stafford. Producer Dirk Maggs

Jolene receives two gentleman callers. Repeated tomorrow 2pm

Mark Lawson meets Oliver Postgate, creator of such children's television classics as The Clangers and Ivor the Engine.

From St Martin in the Fields, London, with the Most Rev Rowan Williams , Archbishop of Wales. Celebrant the Rev Nicholas Holtam. Music by the 16th-century Venetian composer
Giovanni Gabrieli is sung by the Daily Service Singers and members of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Director of music Gordon Stewart.

Waste Not, Want Not. Alex Kirby looks forward to a Britain in which our throwaway culture gives way to one in which nothing is wasted. All waste would be reused, recycled, composted orturned into energy. Options for disposing of the millions of tons of waste produced every year are running out. We must adopt innovative new approaches to the manufacture, packaging and disposal of products - or end up swimming in our own rubbish. Producer Brian King

With Claire Bolderson.

! By Michael Ondaatje. Part9. For details see Monday

A comedy serial by Simon Warne.
2: Penny and Kate share a flat. As they are like chalk and cheese, chaos is just around the corner. And in the flat below lives Bob - half man, half television - who has an annoying habit of bringing his work home with him.
Director Tracey Neale

Transport. In this final programme, Hugh Dennis delves into the BBC archives to go on the trail of planes, trains and automobiles. For details see Tuesday (R)

By Gervase Phinn. 4: "If you walk across the moor in the late afternoon, it's full of shadows and shapes, and some say the ghosts of the dead Soldiers wander about." Fordetails see Monday (R)