With Jenny Nemko.

With Miriam O'Reilly.

With Sue MacGregor and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rev Roy Jenkins.
8.32 Yesterday In Parliament

Joanne Harris , author of Chocolattalks to Jenni Murray about completing her culinary trilogy with a darker novel charting the uncertainties and betrayals of occupied France. Drama: A Child in the Forestby Winifred Foley. Part 3. Drama repeated at 7.45pm

The story of Pauline Wood , a deaf woman, as she has an operation to insert a cochlear implant. If the electronic device works, it will enable her to hear again for the firsttime in 20 years. Producer Hilary Dunn
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Life is colourful chaos forthe ruling family of a miniscule principality in Renaissance Italy in Neal Anthony 's new six-part comedy drama.
1: The Caramba Campaign. Ludovico, henpecked Prince of Monte Guano, hears that two neighbouring states are about to go to war. He is badgered by his wife Plethora into leading his ragbag of conscripts in search of booty, accompanied by his sons and mistress Rosalie.
Producer Helen Williams

With Liz Barclay and Mark Whittaker.

With Nick Clarke.

1.30 The Board Game
The quiz that looks at the funny side of business life today. With Stephen Bayley, Peter Day, Alastair Ross Goobey, Cyril Levicki and chairman Nigel Cassidy.

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

Three stories of different Utopias by H.G. Wells, brought together in a single play by Kelvin Segger. A mountaineer gets lost in a strange valley in the Andes and finds himself surrounded by a race of sightless people, a person is transported to Fairyland, and another spends his life searching for a lost world behind a door in a white wall in London. A mix of adventure, comedy and suspense.

Bob Flowerdew , Pippa Greenwood and Anne Swithinbank answer questions posed by gardeners from East Sussex. And the team comes up with some effective planting suggestions to keep crime out of the garden. With chairman Eric Robson. Shortened repeat from Sunday 2pm

Maureen Lipman reads from Winifred Watson 's touching and funny bestseller from the thirties. Part 3. Fordetails see Monday

3: Bradford's Crossword Solver's Dictionary For half a century Anne Bradford has solved crosswords - at the rate of 20 a week - and kept notes about the answers. Today her solver's dictionary runs to more than 700 pages. For details see Monday (R)

American criminologist David Garland discusses his new book The Culture ofControim which he sets out his concerns about the rising prison population in American and Britain. He believes that a proportion of the electorate on both sides of the Atlantic are applying severe pressures on politicians to lock up more and more offenders and impose increasingly strict controls on antisocial behaviourwhich were once tolerated in the name of freedom. With Laurie Taylor.
Producer Tony Phillips. E-MAIL: thinking.allowed@bbc.co.uk

Repeated from yesterday 9pm

With Clare English and Eddie Mair.

What do Alan Bennett , Jennifer Saunders , Oscar Wilde and Victoria Wood have in common? They all feature in Simon Fanshawe 's humorous exploration of life's essential themes. With Anne BrySOn and Peter Gunn. Producer Karen Rose (R)

Ed visits his old haunts. Repeated tomorrow 2pm

With Mark LawSOn. Producer Lawrence Pollard

Winifred Foley 's vivid recollection of growing up in the remote Forest of Dean in the twenties.
3: A magic lantern show with an ex-African missionary.
Further cast detai Is across the week
For details see Monday. Repeated from 10.45am

ProfessorTom Kirkwood, this year's Reith lecturer, explores the topic of ageing. Professor of medicine and head of the department of gerontology at the University of Newcastle, he examines the impact of science on the human lifespan - both now and in the future. Sue Lawley introduces each of the five lectures from various venues.
1: Brave Old World
From the Royal Institution, London. "We are not programmed to die, but to survive." Producer Sheila Cook. EditorGwyneth Williams WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2001 Repeated Saturday 10. 15pm
Views on what ageing means today: page 30 Dr Mark Porter on the Reith Lectures and advances in understanding what affects longevity: page 32

A light-hearted look at the political week, with Simon Hoggart. Producer Adam Grimley. Editor Anne Tyerman Repeated from Sunday 10.45pm

A unique blend of storytelling about some of the most tantalising scientific tales, presented by Adam Hart-Davis . The Humble Aspirin
A new slant on the 100-year-old story of the discovery of one of the most widely taken drugs of all time. There is emerging evidence that aspirin may hold even more surprises for us in the future. Producer Louise Dalziel

Shortened repeat from 9am

With Robin Lustig.

Pat Barker 's novel about children who kill is read by Douglas Hodge. 3: Just what does Danny want from Tom? For details see Monday

A documentary series looking at the Irish singing sensation on their UKtour, introduced by Mike Harding. This week, songwriting and associated pleasures. Producer Steve Doherty

Calling Rptd from 9.45am. For details see Monday 9.45am