With the Rev Angela Tilby.

With Miriam O'Reilly.

With John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.

6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News

6.45 Yesterday in Parliament

7.48 Thought for the Day
With Christina Rees.

8.32 Yesterday in Parliament

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas and events which have influenced our time.
Shortened repeat 9.30pm

Melvyn Bragg discusses literary modernism. The literary movement that embraced Joyce, DH Lawrence, TS Eliot, Virginia Woolf in the early decades of the twentieth century. Show more

Lively and topical interviews and discussion from a woman's point of view, presented byJenni Murray. Drama: The Right of the Maidens by Jane Gardam. Part 9. Drama repeated at 7.45pm

Belarus. Sandwiched between the Baltics and Russia, Belarus gained its independence from the former Soviet empire ten years ago. But democratic freedom was short-lived - since 1994 the country has been run by President Alexander Lukashenko , a Soviet-style leaderwho rules by decree, and who has filled the parliament with his supporters. Tim Whewell investigates what has happened to Lukashenko's political opponents, particularly those who have simply disappeared. Producer Philippa Goodrich. Editor Maria Balinska Repeated Monday 8.30pm

A look back to the front line of the music revolution when composers' rule books were torn up. John Cage 's infamous 4 '33", in which a pianist sits on stage forthattime in total silence, led the wayto a brief, mad, ground-breaking period when staid classical music was the most radical of all the arts. It spearheaded the way forthe revolutionary rock, art and theatre movements of the sixties. Presented by Alyn Shipton. Producer Paul Evans
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With Liz Barclay and John Waite.

With Nick Clarke.

Shortened repeat from Saturday6.10am

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

Svetlana Alexievich's book, based on the true account of the wife of a former fireman in Pripyat, Belarus, is adapted by Lucy Baldwyn. On the 15th anniversary of the 1986 reactor disaster the drama tells of a powerful love story, interwoven with contemporary interviews from Ukrainian witnesses. Newly married Ludmilla recounts the events of the night of 26 April 1986, when her husband Vasily was sent to fight the fires which spread from the damaged nuclear reactor. Vasily, along with other injured firefighters, was taken in secret to Moscow and placed in an isolation unit.

A chance for listeners to take issue on a controversial subject by telephone with the columnist of the week. Seeing Fair Play. With David Jessel. Producers Nick Baker and Nick Utechin

Anne Fine speaks on behalf of a charity which provides education, treatment and care for more than 200 young people with complex epilepsy.
DONATIONS: St Piers, [address removed] CREDIT CARDS: Freephone [number removed] Repeated from Sunday 7.55am

by Marina Warner, read by Carolyn Backhouse.

When Mary arrives at school from her home far away, the seeds the nuns give her to plant are as much a mystery to her as are the strange habits of her schoolmates.

(For details see Monday)

4: Healers. HuwandGwennan Davies - the psychiatrist and the medical student. For details see Monday

rhe programme that tackles big legal issues and everyday ones, without long words, small print or expensive fees. Presented by Marcel Berlins. .'roducer Charles Sigler. Repeated Sunday 8.30pm

Dr Melvyn Davies and Dr Stephan Rosswog from
Leicester University explain how heavy metals such as gold, platinum and uranium came to be present on earth. With the help of a supercomputer, they have calculated that gold is formed when neutron stars collide. But the calculations are enormously complex. How sure are the physicists that they have got it right? Quentin Cooper investigates.
Producer John Watkins. E-MAIL: material.world@bbc.co.uk Doctor Digital: page 22

With Eddie Mair and Carolyn Quinn.

The award-winning comedy series written by and starring Britain's funniest Milton - Milton Jones. Producer David Tyler

April Cottage hosts a riotous assembly. Repeated tomorrow 2pm

Mark Lawson chairs the arts show and meets the writer Paul Theroux , whose latest novel is set in Hawaii, where he now lives. Producer Kirsty Pope

Jane Gardam 's novel is set in a postwar North
Yorkshire seaside town in 1946. 9: The call home. For details see Monday. Repeated from 10.45am

Four new programmes revealing why some of the most controversial policies, fashions and fads became the orthodoxies of their time.

This week Chris Bowlby looks at why we turned our backs on the "modern" answer to transport congestion.

Of Mice and Men. The March Budget was supposed to pave the way for a predictable general election campaign, but the foot-and-mouth crisis has deepened and the economy is threatened by events in Japan and the USA. John Kampfner asks whether, if the best-laid plans of political mice and men can go astray, politicians have as much power as they would like us to believe.
Producer Ingrid Hassler. Repeated Sunday9.30pm

Exploring issues which affect all our lives.
Patentingthe Planet. Indians in the Chiapas region of southern Mexico claim their way of life is threatened by people who have come to steal their plants and knowledge. They say pharmaceuticals will be produced but they will never be able to afford them or receive any benefit. Alex Kirby investigates both sides of the argument and explores the fine line between bio-prospecting and bio-piracy. Producer Brian King

With Robin Lustig.

Adrian Dunbar reads Colin Bateman 's comic thriller.
4: Dan discovers that Sean may have a cashflow problem. Fordetails see Monday

Andy Hamilton 's comedy series set in hell.
5: The Professor and Thomas discover that Satan has never known what it is to sleep. They attempt to give him 40 winks.
Producer Paul Mayhew-Archer

Jeff Rawle reads Tom Fort 's book about our obsession with the garden lawn. 4: It's a Victorian Thing Repeated from 9.45am. For details see Monday9.45am