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 Rev Roy Jenkins.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas and events which have influenced our time.
Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
Melvyn Bragg discusses the origins of the Earth, from creation theory to modern scientific thought. Show more
Presented by Jenni Murray. Drama: Adam Bede by George Eiiot. Part4. Drama repeated at7.45pm
(or until close of play) Fngtancf f4usto/<a Commentary from Edgbaston on the First Npower Test by Jonathan Agnew, Henry Blofeld and Jim Maxwell. Expert comment from Graeme Fowler. Mike Selvey and Jeff Thomson. Scorer Bill Frindall.Including
News at 1.15 and 3.45, and Country Talk at 1.18. Producer Peter Baxter, *Approximate times
Jonathan Agnew and Peter FitzSimons on why playing the Aussies simply isn't cricket: page 16 Keep on the ball with our reader offers: page 18
In a radical and controversial new plan. President Bush has pledged to maintain the energy-rich American way of life. On a journey from Texas to Arizona, Julian Pettifer meets oil barons and eco-warriors, as well as the ordinary Americans dependent on their gas-guzzlers, as he reports from the front tine of the United States' energy wars. Producer Linda Pressly. Editor Maria Balinska. Rptd Monday 8.30pm (FM only)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger has been one of the most popular and influential American novels of the 20th century. Fifty years after the book was published, its teenage narrator Holden Caulfield would now be heading for retirement. But this fifties teenager is still a role model for adolescents. Novelist Richard Francis investigates why.
Rye thoughts, 50 years on: page 15
With Liz Barclay and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke.
FM only
Repeated from Saturday 6.10am FMon/y
Repeated from yesterday 7pm FMon/y
Five intercut monologues by Jill Hyem in which a group of women personally affected by the murder of a young girl discuss their feelings about the imminent retease of the murderer. Directed by Cherry Cookson
The series which helps to answerthose troubling questions that you were too scared to ask. Why do o!der men get hairy nostrils? And what do planets sound tike? Presented by Bob Hotness. Producer David Prest. PHONE: [number removed] E-MA)L: questions.questt0ns@bbc.co.uk
Ben Kingsiey speaks on behaif of a chanty which supports the care of pregnant women and newborn babies throughout the United Kingdom. Repeated from Sunday 7.55am
4: Te/tng. Terry is an embarrassmentto hisfamiiy and to himself. He just can't seem to do anything right - until Josephine, his sister's friend, arrives and Terry sees a way to make an impact. For delays see Monday
In the m!dd!e of the last century, patients suffering from respiratory failure could spend years trapped inside an iron lung. the entire body encased and only the head visible, In spite of its forbidding shape, the machine saved their lives as it breathed for them. As the century progressed, the ventilating mechanisms got smaller, allowing patients to be more mobile.
(For details see Monday)
Amy Tan discusses her acclaimed novel, Fhe K<tcnen God'S tV;7e. Repeated from Sunday 4pm
Many people talk to plants to encourage them to grow, but scientists at Lancaster University have discovered that plants talk to themselves using chemical signals. Professor Bill Davies reveals more about the discovery and how it has lead to partial root drying - a way of manipulating water use and crop growth without genetic manipulation. Given that 70 percent of the world's water goes to feeding crops. Quentin Cooper looks at what affect the technique will have on global agriculture. Producer Ros Smith. Email: [email address removed]
With Carolyn Quinn and Nigel Wrench.
The comedy debating series in which speakers compete to prove they are the champion persuader. Hosted by Graeme Garden, with Gyles Brandreth, Sue Perkins and Steve Punt.
Who is the cuckoo?
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
Presented by Mark Lawson.
George Eiiot's haunting story of love betrayed and rewarded. 4: Arthur takes a fateful summer evening stroll in the Donnithorne Woods.
Poyser James Bryce Further cast details across the week. For details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am
Ciive Anderson presents a series exploring history through court cases. Treason. )n 1581 Jesuit Edmund Campion was tried fortreason and executed because he refused to deny his Catholic faith in Protestant England. Over 250 years later
Chartist John Frost was found guilty of treason and sentenced to die for organising a workers' uprising against the state. How has ourdefinition of treason changed over the centuries, and what can treason trials teii us about our national insecurities and prejudices? Producer John Byrne. Repeated Saturday 3.30pm
Memories leak like sieves; they play false, they make the past a plaything of the present. But they also inform beliefs, shape politics and policy and create identities. Historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto asks how we can use them well.
(Repeated Sunday 9.30pm)
The latest news from the world of science. This week a celebration of summer with a took at the science of ice cream. Claudia Hammond examines the complicated physics that goes into making our favourite treat and the scientific research that has gone into a most puzzling medical complaint - the ice cream headache. And why do savoury ice creams still taste sweet when they are made without a touch of sugar?
With Anne Mackenzie.
Anne Tyler's latest novel.
Rebecca begins to live a might-have-been life.
(For details see Monday)
of the Week: Even as We Speak
Repeated from 9.45am. For details see Monday 9 45am
