With Dr Lavinia Byrne.
Producer Karen Gregor
With Sue MacGregorand Edward Stourton.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With Father Oliver McTernan.
Charles Wheeler presents a series about national service.
As the Suez Crisis came to an end, so national servicemen started to question their role in propping up Britain's colonial outposts. Many became disenchanted with serving their sovereign.
(Repeated at 9.30pm)
Ferga) Keane travels across America to discover another side to the country - away from the headlines and the poiiticai spin-in the run-up to the presidential election. ProducerMark Savage
With Martha Kearney and guests.
Drama: DearUtf/e Burneyby Fanny Burney. adapted by Jennifer Howarth. Part 1 of 15. Ed!tor Ruth Gardener. E-MA!L: womanshour@bbc.co.uk Drama repeated at 7.45pm
Archaeologist Julian Richards concedes his series showing how to discover your town's past through the streets and buildings of today. Glastonbury. In Somerset he explores how Arthur, Guinevere and a young Jesus Christ all played a part in the ecclesiastical spin which contributed to the success of medieval Glastonbury.
The comedy series by Alex Ferguson about a boy and his uncle set on Tyneside in 1939.
Charlotte invites Lecky to her tea party for two and tells him that she is going to have a baby. She has been kissed on the mouth by Lecky, so she must be pregnant.
With John Waite.
With Nick C!arke.
Peter Snow presents the final of the Mastermind 2000 championship from the BBC Radio Theatre. Producer Paul Bajoria
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Alan Wilkinson. The story of Owen Wister, an educated young man from the East who wrote The Virginian, a classic tale of the American West. Published in 1902, the book spawned a successful stage play, several films and a long-running television series, and its eponymous character became an archetypal hero. with Susie Fugle Sean Hagerty, Abe Goldfarb. Tim Kiots, Bruce Godfrey and Rob Streetman. Director Viv Beeby
With Lesley Curwen. Pepeatedfrom Saturday 12 noon
By Carol Shields. Five stories from the celebrated author. 1: Dressing Up for the Carnival read by Buffy Davis. Spring has arrived in town. Abridged and produced by Jill Waters (R)
A week-long series celebrating the literary treasures of the British Library. 1:/n Memonam. An extraordinary memoria) to the !ife and final days of Sheitey. this volume contains not only tetters, etchings and drawings, but locks of hair and fragments of the poet's cremation. Reader Janice Acquah. ProducerHaze! Casteh
Extended repeat from yesterday 12.30pm
Anne Mackenzie and guests explore issues from the four corners of the earth -from potiticsto popular Culture, art to anthropology. Producer Amber Dawson
With Clare English and Carolyn Quinn.
Nicholas Parsons is joined at the Wycombe Swan, Buckinghamshire, by Clement Freud, Tim Rice and Paul Merton for the panel game that challenges even the most loquacious of guests.
(Repeated Sunday 12 noon)
Ruth is uncharactenstica!iytidy. Rptd tomorrow 2pm
John Witson gives the verdict on Gone <n Stxty
Seconds, starring Nicholas Cage as a master car thief and featuring footbaiierturned film star Vinnie Jones as the Sphinx. Producer Zah!dWahey
The journals and letters of Fanny Burney , adapted by Jennifer Howarth in 15 parts. 1: A Most Important Event. In 1778, Fanny Burney publishes her novel Evelina anonymously and to instant acclaim.
Produced and directed by Sara Davies. Repeated from 10.45am
Concluding the series about the Bank of England, Lesley Curwen examines its international work and speculates on how the Bank's role might change if Britain decides to adopt the euro.
Jam and Jerusa/em on the Steppes. Tim Wheweii traveisto Mongoiiato meet the women who have created a dynamic new democracy from the ruins Of Communism. Repeated from Thursday
Howard Stableford concludes a series looking at the world's most intriguing, frightening and evocative animals, Water. This week he visits the Bahamas to swim with lemon sharks and to study the crustaceans that battle it out in the rock pools where the ocean meets the land.
Repeated from 9am
With Claire Bolderson.
By Nancy Huston. read by Haydn Gwynne and abridged in ten parts by Doreen Estaii. Saffie has arrived from Germany in a Paris stiii scarred by the war. She carries a burden of horror that she tries to bury in a iovefess marriage and a passionate affair. Part 6. Producer SarahJohnson
Repeated from Saturday9am
John Bayley's acclaimed memoir of his wife, novelist Iris Murdoch, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease in her later years.
Read by Oliver Ford Davies and abridged in five parts by Alison Joseph.
(R)
