With Bishop Peter Firth.
With 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 Indarjit Singh.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas and events which have influenced our time.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the relationship and the areas of conflict between science and religion, and examines why mankind seeks to find all encompassing answers in these two realms. Show more
Jenni Murray and guests with the latest news. views and culture from a woman's point of view. Drama: Young Victoria by Juliet Ace. Part4. Drama repeated at7.45pm
Ian Hislop takes a "leap in the dark" as he examines an Act that extended the franchise beyond the wildest dreams of all but the most hardened Victorian radicals.
(For details see Monday) (Repeated at 9.30pm)
The Victorians perfected the use of popular song as a way to reflect values, morality and beliefs, it is an art which has never lost its ability to act as a mirror to society, as Simon Brett reveals in his exploration of morality in note form, from the early 19th century until today.
The Victorians edged the concept of love in lace. Under their tutelage it became an ideal to be aspired to, at least in public. But behind the sentiment lies a reality not so different from our own. Then, as now, it is a morality which is well documented in song.
With Liz Barclay and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke.
Richard Uridge uncovers more stories of rural fife. Shortened repeat from Saturday 6.10am
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Liz John, Helen Kelly and Carolyn Scott-Jeffs.
Birmingham New Street is one of the country's busiest railway stations, at the heart of the network in Britain's second largest city. In this impressionistic take on a day in the life of the station, recorded on location, three Birmingham-based writers examine moments in the life of three groups of people. On his retirement day, Madhav, the station's information officer, revisits the birthplace of the railway in Birmingham to take on a new role as an avenging angel.
With Peter White.
Lines Open from 12.30pm
Melvyn Bragg speaks on behalf of a charity which offers over 60 services to blind and partially sighted people of all ages.
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by Henry Harland, read by Joanna Tope. An aristocrat returns to England from Panama to succeed as lord of a grand estate after his sudden inexplicable disappearance abroad more than 30 years ago.
(For details see Monday)
"I doubt whether any sovereign ever wrote in such terms to another sovereign, and that sovereign his own grandmother!"
For details see Monday
Marcel Berlins presents the programme that tackles big legal issues and everyday ones, without long words, small print or expensive fees.
(Repeated Sunday 8.30pm)
In order to preserve dwindling cod stocks in the North Sea, EC fisheries ministers have cut cod quotas by 45 percent. But marine ecologists warn that the cod stocks are at historically low levels and that without controls, they might be wiped out entirely. Quentin Cooper talks to Dr Colin Bannister from the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science and Dr Mike Heath from the Marine Laboratory in Aberdeen about the crisis.
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With Eddie Mair and Clare English.
Boothby Graffoe returns with a series of guitar-flavoured songs and surreal laughs. Today's programme comes from the Pleasance Cabaret Bar at the Edinburgh Festival, featuring Stephen Frost. Kevin Eidon. Vivienne Scan, Big Aland guitarist Antonio Forgione. Producer Lucy Armitage
What's in a name?
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
Mark Lawson with arts reviews, news and interviews.
Juliet Ace's drama based on the letters and diaries of Queen Victoria.
(For details see Monday) (Repeated from 10.45am)
Over one million people have had their investment hopes severely shaken by the Equitable Life disaster, as the country's oldest mutual assurance society suddenly closed its doors to new business last month. Paul Lewis asks if savings, anywhere, are really secure.
(Shortened repeat from Sunday 5pm)
The great American economic boom has beaten all records, but if it is ending, what happens next? Peter Day reports.
(Repeated Sunday 9.30pm)
Exploring issues which affect all our fives.
Urban sprawl, pollution and the hostile environment of modern intensive farming has driven our wildlife undercover. The traditional rich biodiversity of the British countryside can now only be found in carefully protected nature reserves. Alex Kirby finds out what can be done to bring people and nature back together again.
With Claire Bolderson
Written and read by John le Carre . 9: Justin threatens Woodrow with blackmail, and learns the truth. For details see Monday
A six-part series by Sudha Bhuchar and Shaheen Khan.
Poison letters and dubious allegations put Yahsih Anwar's business at risk. The "small people" in the kitchen are not without their own trials and tribulations.
By Robert Drewe. 4: Aged 18, Robert gets a job, gets married and has a baby. Then someone murders his best friend and all hell breaks loose.
For details see Monday (R)
