With Ibrahim Mogra.

Miriam O'Reilly.

With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.48 Thought for the Day With Rabbi Lionel Blue.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament

Melvyn Bragg presents a new six-part series surveying 1,000 years of spoken English as reflected in the dialects of Britain.
1: Do You Speak Pitmatic? The dialect of coastal Northumberland has been called the most beautiful in England. It has, until recently, encompassed some of the most heavily mined areas of the country. Now all but one of the collieries have closed. Bragg travels to Ashington to listen to old Pitmatic, to trace its roots through 1,000 years of Northumbrian speech. Producer Simon Elmes. Repeated at 9.30pm

r Michael White begins a four-part journey through the corridors of Westminster to find out who really wields political power. 1: This week he finds out why the choice of Speaker of the House of Commons is SO vital to Government. ProducerPaul Vickers

With Jenni Murray. Drama: The Vagabondby Colette. Part 4. Drama repeated at 7.45pm

Six months after the coup in Fiji, the country's two largest ethnic communities -the indigenous
Fijians and their Indo-Fijian neighbours - are still locked in a bitter struggle, the focus of their anger being land. Julian Pettifertalks to Indian families I being thrown off the farms they tilled for i generations, and to ethnic Fijians who are now, for the first time, learning how to farm. Editor Maria Balinska. Producer Mark Reid
Repeated Monday 8.30pm. WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/continents

Poet and anthologist Matthew Sweeney presents favourite prose and poetry from his own personal collection. Readers Bonnie Hurran and Stewart Clapp. Producer VivBeeby. Repeated Sunday 12.15am

With Liz Barclay and John Waite.

With James Cox.

Shortened repeat from Saturday6.10am

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

By Wally K Daly. A stalker and his victim confront each other in court. During the course of the trial they both have to relive years of fear and rejection.
Director Pam Fraser Solomon

With Peter White. Editor Chris Burns

Terry Wogan speaks on behalf of a charity which supports disadvantaged children.
DONATIONS: BBC Children in Need. [address removed] CREDIT CARDS: [number removed]. Repeated from Sunday 7.55am

4: Vengeance Is Mine Incby Roald Dahl , read by William Hootkins. A couple of hard-up Americans devise a brilliant scheme to avenge celebrities who have been insulted by newspaper columnists. For details see Monday

Claudia Hammond takes a look at the "sunshine" vitamin which stops us from getting rickets. She discovers that in Britain this disease is no longer a thing of the past.
(For details see Monday) (R)

Marcel Berlins presents the programme that tackles big legal issues and everyday ones. Producer Charles Sigler. Repeated Sunday 8.30pm

Last month, more than 80,000 students took up places at British universities on 4,500 different science courses, ranging from agriculture to microelectronics. Quentin Cooper meets a group of first-year physics and astronomy students. Once the initial excitement has worn off, the students will settle down to three years intensive study, and at the end of their courses, they will have to decide whether or not to pursue careers in science. What made them want to become scientists? Are their courses living up to expectations? And what do their tutors think of this year's intake? Producer John Watkins. E-MAIL: scirad@rjbc.ac.uk
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With Clare English and Eddie Mair.

A comedy by Julie Balloo and Jenny Eclair about a failed chat-show host.

Juliette is horrified to discover that her widower father now has a girlfriend. She is even more horrified when they come to stay at her house and plan to sleep in the same bedroom.

Kathy will have her day in court. Repeated tomorrow 2pm

With Francine Stock. Producer Stephen Hughes

By Colette, dramatised in ten parts by Charlotte Cory. Part 4. For details see Monday. Repeated from 10.45am

An investigative series in which a document is the starting point for a journey back into the past, shedding new light on the events of the time. 2: A Letter in the Street. Fourteen years ago a neat, handwritten letter was found abandoned in London's Charing Cross Road. It set
Mike Thomson off on a trail that led him to the Health
Service's corridors of power, where decisions were taken that profoundly affected the lives of people the NHS was designed to protect -the sick and elderly. Producer Jane Ray

Scratch My Back. Many of us regard this as a selfish age, yet admire selfless behaviour. In the first of a new series, Andrew Dilnot asks why we now expect people to be selfish, what can be done to increase the stock of altruism and whether selflessness is always good. Producer Nick Booth. Repeated Sunday9.30pm

Anthropologists study people, but how ethical is their own behaviour? Geoff Watts looks at a new book which claims that scientists in the sixties introduced measles to Yanomami Indians, setting off an epidemic in Brazil. Are today's standards any higherthan those of the past? Producer Julia Durbin. E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk

Repeated from 9am

With Robin Lustig.

By Trezza Azzopardi , read by Sian Thomas.
9: Truths remain elusive, but some ghosts are Surfacing. Fordetails see Monday

The return of the acclaimed six-part sketch show, featuring the best of Ireland's comedy talent. Written and perfomed by Barbara Bergin , Pom Boyd , Jason Byrne , Mark Doherty , Kevin Gildea , Patrick McDonnell , Colin Murphy and Paul Tylak. Producers Bill Dare and Steve Lock

4: Green Mould in the Wind by Sarah Reidman and Elton Gustafson , read by David Bannerman. Sir Alexander Fleming 's cultivated mould of 1928, Which gave US penicillin. For details see Monday(R)