With the Rev Peter Baker.

Producer Sarah Tempest

With John Humphrys and Sue McGregor.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Akhandadi Das.

1,000 Years of Spoken English
Melvyn Bragg continues his exploration of the history of the spoken language of Britain.
10: Unspeakable English. Strong language is still the main cause of complaints about broadcasting standards. How did this element of Our language develop? Producer Tom Alban. Rptd 9.30pm (R)

Joanna Pinnock examines the significance of animals and birds in British cultural mythology.
5: The Deer. Associated with nature gods and the changing of seasons, the deer-and particularly the stag- plays an important role in Celtic and Norse mythology. But archeological evidence shows that the deer was also used in ancient ritual - perhaps providing a link between this world and the next. Producer Julian Hector

With Jenni Murray. Drama: The Journal of Mrs Pepys by Sara George. Part 4. Drama repeated at 7.45pm

Zambia has one of the highest proportions of orphaned children in the world. The reason? The Aids epidemic. Olenka Frenkiel travels to Zambia to look at the impact of the disease.
Producer Sarah Stancer (R) Repeated Monday 8.30pm WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/continents

With Liz Barclay and John Waite.

With Nick Clarke.

Shortened repeat from Saturday6.10am

Archers Repeated from yesterday 7pm

By Katie Hims. Meet Lulu, the tallest girl in the world, aged six, 12 and 18. She has grown up with a terrible secret. She made a wish one day on the way to the beach, and it came true. She wished something would happen to her sister Angela - and it did....
Director: Melanie Harris
Dr Mark Porter on puberty - Hearth: page 31

With PeterWhite. Editor Chris Burns

Jon Snow speaks on behalf of a charity which supports the 25,000 children in public care.
DONATIONS: Who Cares?Trust, [address removed] CREDIT CARDS: [number removed] Repeated from Sunday 7.55am

Niamh Cusak reads from Maeve Binchy's new novel.

Scarlet Feather is in business and the real work is about to begin.
(For details see Monday)

Mark Thomas investigates how our perceptions of psychiatrists have been moulded by the entertainment media.
4: Robin Williams Loves Me. The idealised psychiatrist in the movies. For details see Monday

Michael Rosen presents the programme about words and the way we speak.
6: The Bottle of Britain. Beer hunter
Michael Jackson considers whether beer names work wonders. Plus veteran cinematographer
Jack Cardiff explains the language of filmmaking and Ian Peacock learns to talk very fast.
Producer Mark Burman. Repeated Sunday 8.30pm

This week sees the start of the British Association's Festival of Science. The focus of this week extravaganza, held this year in the museums and institutes of London's South Kensington, is the meeting of science and art. In a special edition Quentin Cooper talks to director of the Natural History Museum Dr Neil Chambers, rector of Imperial College Lord Oxburgh and Renaissance expert Professor Lisa Jardine. E-Mail: [email address removed]
Quentin Cooper's webwatch: page 35

With Eddie Mair.

A comedy series by Karl Minns. 3:I Say, I Say, I Say.
A monologue performed by Owen Evans. Bill is a stand-up comic - rather he was a stand-up comic in the seventies when he could actually stand up. Now suffering from MS, he is confined to a wheelchair. But in this post-post-post-modern era he finds himself popular once more and embarks on one final gig. Producer Julian Mayers

Graham measures up. Repeated tomorrow 2pm

Francine Stock meets Jeanette Winterson , whose new novel The Powerbook is set in London, Paris, Capri and cyberspace. ProducerTanya Hudson

By Sara George. Part 4.
For details see Monday. Repeated from 10.45am

Two programmes looking at the ancient and modern Olympic Games.
Mark Whittaker discovers that the ancient Greek athletes were highly paid professionals who played to win. Why then did the Victorians invent the myth of the Olympic amateur?

The developed western economies are the most successful civilisations ever - so they say. But are western self-appraisals supported by our present knowledge of the civilised standards attained in other cultures? Historian Felipe Femandez-Armesto considers what is civilised about us and whether western confidence is well placed.
(Repeated Sunday 9.30pm)

For over 2,000 years mankind has sought ways of moving boats up and down hills. Alun Lewis examines the construction of a new rotating boat lift, the Fairkirk Wheel, which is designed to reconnect the Forth and the Clyde and Union canals between Edinburgh and Glasgow. Producer Dee Palmer. E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk

1, 000 Years Of Spoken English Repeated from 9am

By Muriel Spark. Part 4. For details see Monday

A satirical look at the week's news and media events. Find out why Richard Richard is being so secretive and how Lolly has coped with her disastrous wedding. With Simon Evans , Dave Lamb , Chris Pavlo and Laurin Shavin. Producer Alex Walsh-Taylor

Mark Steel presents a series of humorous lectures covering historical figures who shaped their era. With Melanie Hudson and Martin Hyder. Producer Phil Clarke

Seamus Heaney reads from his translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem.

Hrothgar hosts a victory feast to celebrate Beowulf's defeat of the evil monster Grendel. (For details see Monday) (R)