With the Rev Joel Edwards.
With Anna Hill.
With Sarah MacGregor and James Naughtie.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Anne Atkins.
The first time Paul McCartney played When I'm 64 at home, his dad Jim danced round in delight. Beatles biographer Hunter Davies was there at the time. He talks to some of his fellow 64-year-olds about their lives - what they hoped for, what they expected - beginning with one of England's greatest footballers, Sir Bobby Charlton. Producer Miles Warde. Repeated at 9.30pm Fine vintage: page 13
The story behind 20th-century literary masterpieces, presented by Rick Gekoski.
3: Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter. When
Beatrix Potter wrote an illustrated letter to the five-year-old son of her former teacher and told him about four little rabbits called Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter, she had no idea that this would be the start of a highly successful literary career. Producer ivanHowiett
Presented by Sheila McClennon. Drama:
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Part 7. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
The Story of Quicksilver. Adam Hart-Davis uncovers a fiendish murder at the Tower of London as he tells the story of the magical and monstrous chemical element, mercury. Artist's pigment, illusionist's prop and quack's remedy-the many faces of quicksilver are deeply rooted in myth and culture. Reader Crawford Logan. Producer Louise Dalziel
Four programmes marking the 21st anniversary of the untimely death of Peter Sellers , presented by Phill Jupitus. 1951-1962. New and rare recordings chart the development of this comic superstar. Producer Steve Doherty
With Winifred Robinson and Peter White.
Including at 12.30 Call You and Yours. PHONE: [number removed]. LINES OPEN from 10am
With Nick Clarke.
In this concluding programme examining the relationship between music and politics in the Soviet Union, Bridget Kendall looks at the role music played in the victory over Hitler. In the first part of the war Shostakovich's Leningrad symphony became a symbol of Soviet endurance and as the American alliance progressed the partywas more open to western popular music and jaZZ. Producer Martin Smith
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
A big cat is on the loose on the Wirral - or is it? Neighbourly tensions and unlikely alliances surface in Gee Williams's amusing portrait of a community tackling a very unusual summer visitor.
Director Polly Thomas
Queries and concerns about the environment, presented by Richard Daniel. Producers Ivan Howlett and Nick Patrick
WRITE TO: [address removed] E-MAIL: home.planet@bbc.co.uk. PHONE: [number removed]
2: Wreckage by Julia Stoneham , read by Susannah Harker. When Ulrich arrives at an English school with two otherwartime Jewish refugees, no one understandsthe depth of his pain. For details see yesterday
2: The Battle For Baikal. Jennie Sutton has been in Siberia for 26 years and isfightingto protect the biggest freshwater reservoir on the planet - Lake Baikal -which boasts an ecosystem as distinctive as the Amazon rainforest's. For details see yesterday
Conversation about the world of business, money and technology, presented by Heather Payton. Producer Simon Crow
Actress Jan Ravens and children's author Ann Enright join Louise Doughty to discuss three oftheirfavourite paperbacks. Producer Peter Everett. Repeated Sunday llpm
With Clare English and Nigel Wrench.
Rory Motion and Matt Harvey entertain an audience at the Shed in North Yorkshire with poems, jokes and a song or two. In the first of two programmes they contemplate identity, soft furnishings, spirituality and football. ProducerViv Beeby (R)
Fallon says enough. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Presented by John Wilson. Producer Zahid Warley
By Laura Ingalls Wilder. 7: Mrs Scott comes to visit, full of talk about the Indian massacres. The prairie wind rises and the girls must stay indoors while Pa makes the four-day journey to town.
For details see yesterday. Repeated from 10.45am
The inside story of the conflicting forces behind the Kyoto agreement on climate change. Only months into his first term President George Bush effectively ripped up the plans for a climate-change agreement in what was widely seen as a payback to the energy lobby fortheircampaign support. Environmental protest groups have been fighting back ever since. Simon Cox investigates the two strongest forces on governments around the world: the corporate lobby and the media-sawy direct-action protestor.
Producer Richard Vadon. Editor Gwyneth Williams. Repeated Sunday 5pm
News, issues and information of interest to blind and partially sighted people, with Peter White. Producers Jayne Egerton and Mohini Patel PHONE: [number removed] for more information
Most people know what itching feels like - especially those with conditions like eczema, dermatitis and hay fever. But how much do we know about the science of itching and how can the latest research help us find the best anti-itch strategies? Graham Easton investigates the causes of itching and looks at what we can do about it.
E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk Repeated tomorrow 4.30pm
Repeated from 9am
With Claire Bolderson.
Jack Kerouac 's Beat Generation classic. 2: Sal
Paradise hitchhikes into the west. For details see yesterday
Ray Shell stars as jazz musician Louis Armstrong in Bonnie Greer 's biographical drama. Set in the early thirties, Louis is on his European tour, keeping ahead of the women, the gangsters and the racists. One night on the stage of the London Palladium his lip splits in front of the Prince of Wales and for Louis Armstrong the music has to stop.
Director Pam Fraser-Solomon (R)
Repeated from 9.45am. For details see yesterday 9.45am
