With Akhandadhi Das.
Producer Steve Peacock
With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.48 Thought for the Day With Russell Stannard.
8.32 Yesterday In Parliament
Libby Purves and guests engage in lively and diverse conversation. Producer Alison Hughes
Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
Jenni Murray with topical and lively interviews and discussions from a woman's point of view. Drama: The Weight of Waterby Anita Shreve. Part 8. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
Girl gangs, mugged pensioners, drunken youths - it seems there is no escape these days from headlines about horrific crimes and from images of "yob Britain". At the same time, popular culture - in films, music and computergames - revels in ever more graphic portrayals of violence, yet grows increasingly indifferent to its consequences. In the first of two programmes, Wendy Robbins asks what's really getting worse: violent crime or our fear of it? Are we losing the fight against violence, and against the causes of violence? Producer Simon Crow
By Damian Lanigan and Jim Poyser. A comedy series following the lives of a family living in Stockport. 5: Reunion. A visitor brings new branches to the Conroy family tree.
Music Big George Producer
Neil Mossey
With Mark Whittaker and Liz Barclay.
With Nick Clarke.
Martin Young hosts the biographical quiz, with team captains Francis Wheen and Fred Housego. They are joined by special guests Gyles Brandreth and Sheridan Morley. Producer Adam Bromley
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
The first in a pair of linked comedies by Alan Plater. When time-telling was standardised in the 19th century, not everyone was convinced of the benefits created by this stride in human progress.
Director Alison Hindell
Time Added on for Injuries is tomorrow at 2.15pm
Pippa Greenwood , Roy Lancaster and Bob Flowerdew answer questions posed by staff and friends of the national botanic garden of Wales.
With Chairman Eric RobSOn. Repeated from Sunday 2pm
3: The Tree by Helen Simpson , read by Gavin Muir Moving the old tree causes all sorts of non-gardening problems. For details see Monday
3: The Storm. Rosie has her bark slowed down by a bat detector before a dramatic storm confines the team to the caravan, where Henry dispels some myths. Reader Vanessa Redgrave. For details see Monday
Laurie Taylor talks to Lee Monaghan about his latest research into bodybuilding, drugs and risk. The programme investigates the gym culture evolving in the UK which actively colludes in the taking of steroids. Taylor asks what lies at the root of the pressure to risk one's health for the perfect physique.
Producer Tony Phillips. E-MAIL: thinking.allowed@bbc.co.uk
The developing baby decides when it is going to be born, but sometimes it gets the timing wrong. In the last of the series, Connie St Louis discovers what occurs in this final stage of life inside the womb. Repeated from yesterday 9pm
With Clare English and Eddie Mair.
A five-part comedy by Sean Lock and Martin Trenaman. 4: Could the detritus of Sean Lock's domestic life have artistic worth? Starring Sean Lock, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Chris Pavlo, Peter Serafinowicz and Martin Trenaman.
Producer ChrisNeill(R)
Kathy relents - but only a little. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Mark Lawson with arts news, reviews and interviews. Producer EkeneAkalawu
By Anita Shreve. 8: In the present day, a storm threatens. In 1873, a man is put on trial for murder. Fordetails see Monday. Repeated from 10.45am
Live from Futureworld in Bristol, in front of an invited audience. Michael Buerk with Janet Daley, David Starkey , Ian Hargreaves and David Cook cross-examine witnesses who have conflicting views on the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. Producer David Coomes. Repeated Saturday 10.15pm
The Shape of Things to Come. Scientists at the European Laboratory for Nuclear Physics have been given one month in which to produce firm evidence that they have discovered one of the great prizes in their field -the Higgs particle. If they fail, their current experiment will be dismantled, while American scientists start something bigger and better. Peter Evans reports. Producer Roland Pease
E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk
Shortened repeat from 9am
With Robin Lustig.
By Linda Grant , read by Sara Kestelman and abridged in ten parts by Richard Hamilton. Part 3. For details see Monday
A series that taps into the radio archive of a bygone age, written and performed by Marcus Brigstocke , Claire Downes , Stuart Lane , Al Holloway , Danny Robbins and Dan Tetsell. 3: Crusade Roadshow. Join DJ Steve in the Afternoon on his AD 1200 Christian Crusade
Roadshow as he gathers up an army of children and the plague-ridden to find salvation and a suntan in the Holy Land.
Producers Paul Dodgson and Sean Grundy
Lady Margaret Oswick entertains visitors in the nursery at Winsley Towers, for a soiree of sophisticated songs and cultural banter, aided by her musical nephew Penkivil. Written and performed by Ralph Oswick and Christopher Dickins , with members of the Natural Theatre
Company. 3: Youth Today. Featuring songs about the birds and the bees, and nanny's nursery crimes. Producer Tony Staveacre
of the Sea
By Nathaniel Philbrick. 3: The Essex is attacked and sunk by an enraged sperm whale. For details see Monday (R)
