With Mary Elizabeth Kirke.
With Miriam O'Reilly.
With Sue MacGregor and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Terry Waite.
Jeremy Paxman and guests set the cultural agenda for the week. Producer Ariane Koek. Repeated at 9.30pm
Martha Kearney is joined by guests for lively and topical interviews and conversation from a woman's point of view.
Drama: Music and Silence by Rose Tremain. Part 1 of 15.
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Drama repeated at 7.45pm
A fictional memoir by Patrick Dennis, dramatised in six parts by Rene Basilico.
Auntie Mame plunges into her nephew's school career, encouraging him to quite the wrong sort of extramural activity.
With Dame Hilda Bracket as Auntie Mame and Michael J Reynolds narrating as Patrick Dennis.
With John Waite.
Another four contestants take the chairto face Peter Snow 's questions on their specialist subjects and on general knowledge. Heat 5. Producer Paul Bajoria
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
Five dramas about extraordinary children from around the world. 1: Child of the Border - Africa by Gill Adams. Thirteen-year-old Sia Mia is orphaned during the bitter war in Sierra Leone. She now lives in the Massakundou refugee camp on the border between Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. She spends her days sweeping or queuing at the well for water. Each day is a challenge, but she has the support of her beloved caretaker, Mamma Ballu. We follow her struggle to come to terms with her past and her future.
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Vincent Duggleby takes calls on an issue affecting finance. Producer Chris ACourt. LINES OPEN from 1.30pm
Five specially commissioned stories to mark the opening of the Millennium Bridge across the Thames. 1: Emily's Bridge by Erica Wagner , read by Lorelei King. When her husband's health fails, Emily realises that someone has to help him complete the bridge. Producers Jill Waters and ChrisWallis
Fivebestselling novels that gripped society and then disappeared. 1: The Battle of Dorking by Lieutenant-Colonel GT Chesney (1871). The Germans invade and Britain is helpless. The book that launched
1.000 battleships. Producer Lawrence Pollard
Extended repeat from yesterday 12.30pm
Anne Mackenzie and guests explore issues from the fourcorners of the earth. Producer Amber Dawson
With Clare English and Eddie Mair.
The antidote to panel games comes this week from the Royal in Stoke-on-Trent. Jeremy Hardy joins Barry Cryer , Graeme Garden , Tim Brooke-Taylor and chairman Humphrey Lyttelton. With Colin Sell at the piano. Producer Jon Naismith. Rptd Sunday 12 noon
Jill jumps to the wrong conclusion. Rptd tomorrow 2pm
John Wilson presents the arts programme. Producer Nicki Paxman
A series in which people on the receiving end of hatred meet their demons. 3: Self-righteous, anti-Semitic, homophobic, misogynous and irrational
. Thought forthe Day presenter Anne Atkins hears why some people hate Christians. With Peter Tatchell , Polly Toynbee , Richard Dawkins and Others. Producer Roger Childs
John McCarthy presents a series about his attempt to understand the Bible. 4: The Prophet Margins. McCarthy asks Archbishop Desmond Tutu , Hanan Ashrawi and Bill Clinton 's spiritual guru Tony Campolo : where are the prophets of today? Producer Roger Childs (R)
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Mark Carwardine explores the trials and tribulations of living with thousands of your close relatives-a world of co-operation, committees, colonies and the Occasional COUp. Producer Sheena Duncan. Rptd tomorrow llam
Shortened repeat of 9am
With Claire Bolderson.
William Hope reads Charles Webb 's dark comic novel, abridged in ten parts by Brian McCabe. First published in 1963, it tells the story of disaffected college boy Benjamin Braddock.
1: "Mother, I'm a little worried about myfuture." Producer David Jackson Young
Shortened repeat from Saturday 9am
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The life of writer Colette is celebrated in excerpts from the acclaimed biography by Judith Thurman. Read by Rebecca Front and abridged in five parts by Doreen Estall. Part 1. Producer Sarah Johnson (R)
