With the Rev Johnston McKay.
With Anna Hill.
With John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Anne Atkins.
Fellow 64-year-olds talk to Hunter Davies about their lives, hopes and expectations. This week Hugh Hudson , director of Chariots of Fire and Greystoke, talks to Davies about his early hopes and the nature of now being 64.
Producer Miles Warde. Repeated at 9.30pm
The story behind 20th-century literary masterpieces, presented by Rick Gekoski.
4: The Hobbit-JRR Tolkien. While marking an exam paper in the thirties, Oxford scholar JRR Tolkien filled an embarrassingly blank page with the comment, "In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit." The rest is history. Producer Ivan Howlett
Lively and topical interviews and discussion from a woman's point of view, presented by Sheila McCiennon. Drama: Memories of Gasconyby Pierre Koffman. Part 2. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
The Core of Life. Adam Hart-Davis revels in the stuff of life itself as he discovers that half of the study of chemistry is devoted to just one element - carbon. From the glitter of diamonds to the blackness of soot, carbon still has the capacity to surprise us with newforms, capable of totally new uses, asweentertheageofcarbon. Reader Crawford Logan. Producer Louise Dalziel
Four programmes marking the 21st anniversary of the untimely death of Peter Sellers , presented by Phill Jupitus. 1962-68. 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.
Forthe professional singer, losing the ability to sing is the ultimate nightmare. Yet people with some of the finest voices in the world have woken to discover that theirgifts have deserted them. David Rayvern Allen , in conversation with victims such as Isobel Buchanan , Norma Burrowes , Rosa Mannion and John Wakefield , uncovers the physical and psychological scars that are left behind when a once wonderful voice disappears. Producer Simon Elmes
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
In Diana Hendry's adaptation of her Whitbread Book Award-winning children's novel.
Ten-year-old Henry, his Aunt Agatha and the other residents of her dingy guest house find their lives transformed by a new lodger, Mr Harvey Angell, whose attic room becomes the centre of some very peculiar electrical activity.
The programme that examines queries and concerns about the environment, presented by Richard Daniel. Producers Ivan Howlett and Nick Patrick
WRITCT0: Home Planet, BBC Radio4, PO Box 3096. Brighton, BNl 1PL E-MAIL: home.planet@bbc.co.uk. PHONE: [number removed]
2: Kaijek the Songman by Xavier Herbert , read by Douglas Walker. An encounter with a gold prospector provides inspiration for a new song. Fordetails see yesterday
Colin Dexter and guests examine and explain the key elements of the crossword puzzle. For details see yesterday (R)
Conversation about the world of business, money and technology, presented by Heather Payton. Producer Simon Crow
Crime writers Colin Dexter and Russell James join Louise Doughty to discuss three of theirfavourite paperbacks. Producer Peter Everett. Repeated Sunday llpm
With Clare English and Nigel Wrench.
Matt Harvey and Rory Motion entertain an audience at the Shed in North Yorkshire with poems, jokes and a song ortwo. In this concluding programme they contemplate sex, entomology, the growth movement and Chutney. ProducerViv Beeby (R)
Bert is inspired by dentures. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Arts interviews, news and reviews, with Rosie Goldsmith. Producer Robert Ketteridge
Pierre Koffman 's autobiographical cookbook is dramatised by Rod Dungate. 2: It is April and Pierre helps in the thriving kitchen garden. He goes night hunting for snails and samples Nan's stupendous Easter lamb with Armagnac.
Fordetails see yesterday. Repeated from 10.45am
If all the stolen masterpieces from around the world were assembled in one gallery, among the paintings would be some 355 Picassos, 250 Chagalls, 180 Dalis and 121 Rembrandts. But where is this art, who stole it and why? John Wilson hears the inside story of art theft from those who spend their lives tracking and trying to recover stolen masterpieces.
(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
As the nursing profession becomes more specialised and highly qualified, there is a risk of losing the caring vocational side of the nurse. Others fearthat the shortage of nurses is at crisis point.
Graham Easton examines the future of this profession and looks at the effects this may have on patients. Producer Geraldine Fitzgerald. E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk Repeated tomorrow 4.30pm
Repeated from 9am
With Stephen Sackur.
Jack Kerouac 's Beat Generation classic.
7: The holy gOOf. Fordetails see yesterday
Neil Brand and Michael Eaton's play with music.
Christmas 1863. William Makepeace Thackeray receives a strange visitor who takes him on a journey back in time to the raucous song and supper evenings at the Cave of Harmony, presided over by the inimitable and irrepressible Charles Dickens.
(R)
Repeated from 9.45am. For details see yesterday 9.45am
