With Bishop Peter Firth.
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 Rt Rev Jim Thompson.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
An eclectic assembly of guests joins
David Aaronovitch for lively conversation in a specially themed programme for American Independence Day. Producer Charlie Taylor. Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
Presented byJenni Murray. Drama: Adam Bede by George Eliot. Part 3. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
When Detective Sergeant Billy Murdoch was a boy he and his friends would hang around outside the local shops. Over the years other gangs have come and gone outside the Spar in South Bradford. In the first of two programmes Murdoch traces former members to find out what has happened to them.
French Connections. Simon Brett 's sitcom about the trials and tribulations of Rosie Burns and her event management company. 2: Rosie and the team organise a twinning ceremony for a town on the south coast of England with a town on the north coast of France. It turns out to be a huge setback for Anglo-French relations.
Producer Maria Esposito
With Liz Barclay and Winifred Robinson.
With Nick Clarke.
The natural history quiz, hosted by Lionel Kelleway , continues in the huntforthe "wildbrain of Britain". The first of the semi-finals comes from the field studies council's headquarters at Preston Montford. Producer Sheena Duncan. E-MAIL: nature@bbc.co.uk
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
Alyson Hallet 's moving dramatised documentary is based on the letters of 12-year-old Gerald
Meadows which he sent back to his parents in England when he was evacuated to South Africa for the duration of the Second World War. The letters, lost for 60 years, recall the rites of passage of a boy growing up in wartime South Africa. Featuring Gerald Meadows.
YoungGerald JackShute Gerald 's mother Elaine Claxton Director Pete Atkin. Producer Martin Weitz
Nigel Colborn , John Cushnie and Roy Lancaster are guests of Rhuddlan Castle Women's Institute. With chairman Eric Robson.
Shortened repeat from Sunday 2pm
3: Tears, Idle Tears. Plucky widow Mrs Dickinson can cope with just about anything except her seven-year-old son's uncontrollable outbursts of crying.
When mother and son take a walk in a London park, help materialises from an unexpected quarter. For details see Monday
2: The ECG. The electrocardiogram has helped to diagnose heart disease, saving thousands of lives. But the early versions were heavy and cumbersome and restricted to the medics who could afford to have them specially designed. Now the flicker of the heartbeat on the machine is a familiar sight in hospitals and medical television dramas alike. For details see Monday
Exploring and exploding the ideas that shape our society, with Laurie Taylor.
Producer Merilyn Harris. E-MAIL: thinking.allowed@bbc.co.uk
Dr Raj Persaud explores the potential of the human mind and the arguments surrounding mental health. Producers Marya Burgess and Cathy Drysdale
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With Clare English and Nigel Wrench.
Andy Hamilton 's six-part comedy set in hell.
4: Satan is deeply offended when he discovers that
WB Yeats described him as a " rough beast slouching towards Bethlehem". He decides to visit WB in hell's poets' corner. Meanwhile, Thomas and Scumspawn try writing some poetry of their own. with Felicity Montagu. Philip Pope and Michael Fenton Stevens Producer Paul Mayhew-Archer (R)
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The lovebirds can be together. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Theatre de Complicite's new show about
Shostakovich is one of the subjects examined by Rosie Goldsmith. Producer Lawrence Pollard
George Eliot 's haunting story of love betrayed and rewarded. 3: The young squire Arthur Donnithorne pays a visit to Hall Farm - and the seeds of love are sown.
Further cast details across the week. For details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am
Michael Buerk chairs a live debate in which
Claire Fox , Ian Hargreaves , Janet Soskice 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
A light-hearted look at the week in Westminster, with Simon Hoggart. EditorAnne Tyerman. Rptd from Sunday 10.45pm
Vishwa Jit Gupta 's fossil finds threatened to rewrite the history of the Himalayas - until he was found to be a fraudster. Gerry Northam investigates. Producer Roland Pease. E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk
Shortened repeat from 9am
With Janet Cohen.
Anne Tyler 's latest novel. 3: Rebecca goes back to her home town. For details see Monday
Rory Motion and Matt Harvey entertain an audience at The Shed, in North Yorkshire, with their poems, a few jokes and a song or two. In this concluding programme they contemplate growth movement, counterculture and chutney.
Coldly comic scenes from the city late at night. This week: the labour ward, the police station, a late-night train, and a lonely man wonders whether to phone the woman of his dreams. Featuring
Julie Balloo , Julian Clary , Paul Merton , Meera Syal , Tilly Vosburgh and Richard Wilson.
Producer Sarah Parkinson. Music Rex Brough and Robert Katz
Clive James reads from his new collection of essays.
Repeated from 9.45am. For details see Monday 9.45am
