With Miriam O'Reilly. Producer Steve Peacock
With Sue MacGregor and James Naughtie.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rev Angela Tilby.
Libby Purves invites back guests from 1991 to consider how their lives have changed over the past decade.
(Shortened repeat at 9.30pm)
Jenni Murray hosts interviews and discussion from a woman's point of view. Drama: The Book of the CityofLadies by Christine de Pizan. Part 3. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
Matthew Henson was a black explorer at the North Pole. He is now recognised as co-discoverer, along with Admiral Robert E Peary.
But while other explorers returned home to bask in glory and honour, Henson lived and died in obscurity. Colin Salmon tells his story. Producer Pam Fraser Solomon
A new four-part comedy series by Don Howarth. 1: Emma Harper- Tussles in a Theme Village
Ex-headmistress Emma Harperwrites a column for a village newspaper. When she is poached by the local radio station, her gossip programme causes controversy, anger and revenge.
Producer Sue Wilson. Director Julie Beckett
With Liz Barclay and Mark Whittaker.
With Nick Clarke.
Steve Richards hosts the panel game about politics and politicians. Team captains
Roy Hattersley and Sir Patrick Cormack MP are joined by guests journalists Andrew Rawnsley of The Observer and Matthew Parris of The Times.
Producer Steve Doherty
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
The Baroness. In the first of three plays charting the history of the peace movement,
Melissa Murray dramatises a meeting between Baroness Bertha von Suttner and the dying Alfred Nobel in a hotel in Vienna. She tries to persuade the inventor of dynamite to invest some of his riches in the development of the Peace League. But
Nobel has other matters to raise with his old friend.
Director Peter Leslie Wild
John Cushnie , Bob Rowerdew and Bunny Guinness answer questions posed by the Thirsk and District Produce Association. With chairman Eric Robson. Shortened repeat from New Year's Eve 2pm
2: That Was Then, This Is Nowby biographer and writer Jonathan Keates. A story set in a village in the Po Valley where the locals, yearning for Italian independence, had once been fomented by performances of I Lombardi. An itinerant violinist playing in the village square reminds passers-by of the patriotic dreams they once had. For details see yesterday
2: The Northumbrian Language Society. Were it not for a few enthusiasts who meet to celebrate their culture, this rich and beautiful language
WOUld be lost to the nation. For details see yesterday
Laurie Taylor visits the cathedral city of Lincoln to discover the intellectual and cultural heart of an area successfully building on its manufacturing and farming past. Producer Laura Parfitt
Repeated from yesterday 9pm
With Clare English and Eddie Mair.
Simon Brett 's comedy follows the trials and tribulations of Rosie Burns and her event management company. 2: Out to Launch
Rosie's company, In Any Event, is given the job of launching the autobiography of the country's most famous and talented footballer, Lloyd Gratton. Starring Prunella Scales , Arabella Weir , Rebecca Callard , Duncan Preston , Annette Badland , Jon Glover , Will Ing and Tracy-Anne Oberman. Producer Maria Esposito (R)
Kathy does not want it all. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Francine Stock meets writer and director
Conor McPherson , best known for his play The Weir. His new film, Saltwater, is released this week. Mohit Bakaya
By Christine de Pizan. 3: Christine is blinded by the brilliance of women's minds, so Reason takes her underground to the great temple of learning. For details see New Year's Day. Repeated from 10.45am Cast details across the week
Edward Stourton chairs three new debates, this week focusing on the proposition that "Farming and food production should not be the primary activities in the countryside." Environmentalists and other rural experts argue over the decline of agriculture and the future of the countryside.
(Repeated Saturday 10.15pm)
Dinah Lammiman talks to four high-ranking women politicians around the world about what it means to be a woman in parliament.
Producer Jane Beresford. Shortened rptfrom New Year'sEve 10.45pm
Three new drama-documentaries exploring the metaphors of illness.
1: Mapping the World -Alzheimer's Disease
A drama by Nicholas Mcinerny , with documentary from Dr Richard Harvey , Winn Harris and Margaret Benson. Two map makers both claim to have the true map of the world. Producer Rosie Boulton
Shortened repeat from 9am
With Robin Lustig.
By Arthur C Clarke , read by William Roberts. Part 3. For details see New Year's Day
By Shaun McKenna.
The sensational history of Emperor Caligula has been told in many ways and from many angles, but never from the point of view of his closest and most beloved associate - his horse, Incitatus! (R)
Few tunes in the 20 century have entered the national consciousness like the signature tunes of favourite television programmes. But how does one compose those few seconds of music which have to announce the programme, say something about its content, and keep the nation's fingers away from the off switch? Chris Serle talks to signature tune composers about this most specialised musical art? Producers Bob Carter and Mike Sampney (R)
by W.H. Auden, read by John Shrapnel.
Auden examines the addictive delights of the "whodunit".
For details see New Year's Day (R)
