With Gilbert Markus.
With Anna Hill.
With John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Elaine Storkey.
Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests.
Producer Alison Hughes. Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
Lively and topical interviews and discussion from a woman's point of view, presented by Jenni Murray. Drama: Dear Exile by Hilary Liftin and Kate Montgomery. Part 3. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
The Liverpool Schools Parliament is one of a kind. Its prime minister is 15, its youngest backbencher is nine. Yet it has been promised a voice on Liverpool City Council. Nick Baker follows its progress, from the hustings to the opening debates, and meets a disaffected candidate who has chosen to "spend more time with his GCSE's".
June Whitfield and Roy Hudd star as an ageing show-business couple who get a second stab at fame in the new millennium.
Final part.
With Liz Barclay.
With Nick Clarke.
The natural history quiz, hosted by Lionel Kelleway , continues in the hunt for the "wildbrain of Britain".
This week's heat comes from the Castle Head field centre in Cumbria where the contestants prove theirfield skills in a "wild harvest".
Producer Sheena Duncan. E-MAIL: nature@bbc.co.uk WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/nature
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
Nick and Rose find themselves unwillingly privy to a dysfunctional family's deepest secrets when they are button-holed by a 10-year-old girl at a party. Written by Elizabeth Baines.
Director Michael Fox
John Cushnie , Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood broadcast from the Celebrity Theatre at BBC
Gardeners' World Live at the NEC in Birmingham. With chairman Eric Robson.
Shortened repeat from Sunday 2pm
3: Household Drudge, by Erma Bombeck , read by Maureen Lipman. For details see Monday (R)
Adopted soon after her mother's husband returned from the war to discover his wife pregnant by an American GI, Sylvia had always dreamed of finding her real parents from an early age. Another compelling story of how the English daughter of an American GI finally discovered her biological father with the help of an organisation called Trace, the Transatlantic Children's Enterprise, founded by GI bride Pamela Winfield.
(For details see Monday)
Exploring and exploding the ideas that shape our society, with Laurie Taylor.
Producer Tony Phillips. E-MAIL: thinking.allowed@bbc.co.uk
Sir Michael Rutter , Professor of Developmental
Psychopathology at the Institute of Psychiatry and author of a sixties seminal study on mental health, joins Dr Raj Persuad this week to discuss how the mental health of today has changed.
Producers Marya Burgess. PHONE: [number removed] WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4
With Jackie Long and Eddie Mair.
Andy Hamilton 's comedy series set in hell.
2: Satan sets out to prove to the Professor that the English are the worst nation in the world, and Scumspawn tries to deal with a lager lout. with Felicity Montagu , Nigel Pegram. Philip Pope and Michael Fenton Stevens. Producer Paul Mayhew-Archer (R)
Nigel fancies a flutter. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Arts interviews, news and reviews, presented by John Wilson. Producer Robyn Read
Hilary Liftin and Kate Montgomery 's true story of two friends separated by an ocean.
3: KingX. For details see Monday. Repeated from 10.45am
Michael Buerk , Ian Hargreaves , Janet Radcliffe Richards and David Starkey cross-examine
"witnesses" who hold passionate but conflicting views on a moral dilemma from one of the week's
Stories. Producer David Coomes. Repeated Saturday 10.15pm
For the past month politicians have been abusing the statistic. Huw Edwards investigates the long and inglorious history of the politician and the apparently humble digit. Those who believe in the sanctity of the statistic be afraid - be very afraid!
Producer Hilary King. Repeated from Sunday 10.45pm
In a feast of science and gastronomy, physicist and food fanatic Peter Barhamjoins forces with experimental chef Heston Blumenthal to reveal the science of cooking. The Dessert
This week they reveal how to make the impossible - a fresh pineapple jelly- with a little scientific ingenuity. With the help of guests they explore the importance of shocks and surprises in cooking. Producer Amanda Hargreaves. Music Tom Bancroft
Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests. Shortened repeatfrom 9am
With Robin Lustig.
Compton Mackenzie 's story of George Gaymer 's lifelong friendship with the brilliant and ambitious Henry Fortescue MP. Part 3. For details see Monday
Rory Motion and Matt Harvey entertain an audience at the Shed, in North Yorkshire, with their poems, a fewjokes and a song or two.
Religion, Spirituality and Football Producer Viv Beeby
An unwitting son takes his grieving mother to see Mamma Mia , a provincial theatre director talks about his latest play and a businesswoman stumbles on her husband indulging a secret obsession. Bleak, funny and confusing tales of urban life after dark. FeaturingJulian Clary ,
Paul Merton , Liz Smith , Meera Syal and Richard Wilson. Producer Sarah Parkinson. Music Rex Brough and Robert Katz
of the Week: Henry VIII - King andCourt Alison Weir 's biography of one of England's most popular and controversial monarchs. Part 3. Pepeated from 9.45am. For details see Monday 9.45am
