With Michael Malik.
With Miriam O'Reilly.
With Sue MacGregorand James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rt Rev Tom Butler.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
The Biographer's Art. Michael Holroyd and Humphrey Carpenter join OliviaO'Learyto discuss the passion and problems involved in writing about somebody else's life.
Producer Sera Lefroy-Owen . Repeated at 9.30pm
To tie in with this year's Reith Lectures, a series in which the over 70s share their experiences of growing older. The Departure Lounge of Life
Sir Robin Day described being over 70 as being "in the departure lounge of life". He didn't like it. In this concluding programme, those in the seventh age discuss theirfeelings about the future. How far in advance do they plan and what do they plan for? Producer Lucy Lunt (R)
Singer Hazel O'Connor joins Jenni Murray to talk about her lastest album and national tour. Drama:
Ladies of Letters Log On by Carole Hayman and Lou Wakefield. Part 2. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
This week a look at diseases that occur naturally in British wild animals and the risks these pose for ourwildlife. Presented by Mark Carwardine. Repeated from yesterday 9pm
The story of the Borscht Belt comedians who worked the Jewish hotels and clubs in the Catskill Mountains. In this concluding programme Tony
Hawks talks to Jackie Mason and Robert Klein and revisits the Concord, once the world's largest hotel, now a bankrupt empty shell. Producer David Prest
With Winifred Robinson and Peter White.
Including 12.30 Call You and Yours
PHONE: [number removed]. LINES OPEN from 10am
With Nick Clarke.
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
The late Raymond Carver has been hailed as America's Chekhov; his short stories are stunning in their simplicity. Mark Wheatley 's dramatisation of this story sees Ann and Howard preparing to celebrate their son Scotty's eighth birthday. A party is planned, a cake ordered from the local bakery.
Tragedy arrives when Scotty is knocked down in the street and they suddenly find their lives revolving around a hospital bed.
Director Annie Castledine. Producer Marilyn Imrie
The programme that examines listeners' historical queries, exploring avenues of research and uncovering mysteries, presented by Sue Cook. Producers Ivan Howlett and Nick Patrick
WRITE TO: [address removed] E-MAIL: making.history@bbc.co.uk
Gervase Phinn reads from his memoirs about his life as a primary school inspector in the North Yorkshire Dales. Part 2. For details see yesterday (R)
2: The Welsh in Chester. Is it still legal to decapitate a Welshman in Chester? Only within the city walls after dark, it would seem. For details see yesterday
The essential guide to the world of work. This week a look at bullies, the bullied and the work places where bullyinggoes on. Philippa Lamb gets expert advice on what to do if there is a bully in the office. Producer Lynne R Jones
Travel writer Simon Calder and educationalist
Satish Kumar discuss three favourite paperbacks with presenter Matthew Parris.
Producer Paul Dodgson. Repeated Sunday llpm
With Eddie Mair and Nigel Wrench.
The comedy set just before the American Revolution, written by Andy Hamilton and Jay Tarses.
Samuel's emporium faces competition from a new super-emporium and Mary climbs into bed with Captain Brimshaw.
Brenda is in Hayley's drawers. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
With Mark Lawson. Producer Robyn Read
Carole Hayman and Lou Wakefield 's comedy. 2: Vera prepares to host Dales Diaries, a television chat show, after her successful appearance in A Life with Sheep. Irene lunches with her handsome newly found son.
Zizi MiaSoteriou Further cast details across the week. For details see yesterday Repeated from 10.45am
rRII in a form, shop at the supermarket, pick up a phone or log on to the internet - we all leave a data trail. So who is picking it up and what do they know about us? In the first of two programmes,
Paul Vickers follows his own data trail and talks to the information gatherers as well as the government-appointed guardians of our privacy. Producer Mark Savage. Repeated Sunday 5pm
News, issues and information of interest to blind and partially sighted people, with Peter White.
Producer Cheryl Gabriel. PHONE: [number removed] for more information
Placebo. How would you feel ifthedrugyou had been taking to make you better was a dummy pill- placebo? If your symptoms improved, or even disappeared, would you mind that you had been tricked into getting better? As Dr Graham Easton discovers, the placebo effect is now being treated seriously by the medical profession, as researchers try to pinpoint the connection between mind and body. Producer Paula McGrath. E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk
Repeated tomorrow4.30pm
Repeated from 9am
With Robin Lustig.
Adrian Dunbar reads Colin Bateman 's comic thriller. 7: Michael O'Ryan holds Dan's family hostage. All Dan has to do is shoot Sean O'Toole. For details see yesterday
By Michael Butt. Chinese martial arts teacher Su Li falls for timid student Donald. But how can she woo him when she has to bash him around?
Director Peter Kavanagh (R)
Michael Fenton Stevens reads from Adam Phillips 's book about our fascination with ideas of escape.
Part 2. Repeated from 9.45am. For details see yesterday 9.45am
