With Dr Pauline Webb.
With Anna Hill. Producer Steve Peacock
With Allan Little and Sue MacGregor.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Huw Spanner.
Exploring the lives and legacies of five remarkable individuals who founded their nations. With
Charles Wheeler . Ho Chi Minh. When this elderly man emerged from the Vietnamese jungle in 1945 to declare his country independent, few in the west had heard of him. "Uncle Ho" was a Leninist who was prepared to spy for the Americans, a monkish figure who masterminded a successful guerrilla war. Even today the Vietnamese regime reveres his memory, yet ignores his ideology. Producer Jolyon Jenkins. Repeated at 9.30pm
A five-part series giving a step-by-step guide to experimental physics, with comedian Ben Miller. Entanglement. This week there are tips on how to do your own table-top experiments based on the bizarre laws Of quantum physics. Producer Virginia Crompton
Lively and topical interviews and discussion from a woman's point of view, presented by Sheila McClennon. Drama: Exes by Emma Donoghue. Parti Of 5. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
During the heyday of the British Empire, the most prized manuscripts were the travel journals of Victorian explorers such as David Livingstone and John Hanning Speke. David Stenhouse explores the rivalry between two Edinburgh publishing families, the Murrays and the Blackwoods, who fought over these authors, only to discover that explorers don't make the best writers. Producer Elizabeth Clark
Agatha Christie 's mystery is dramatised in five parts by Michael Bakewell. 4: Someone is systematically trying to poison Carrie Louise. But who -and why?
Director Enyd Williams
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With John Waite.
With Nick Clarke.
A new series of the nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain. Including Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants. With chairman Robert Robinson. First round: London and the Home Counties.
(Rptd Saturday 11pm)
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
Pam Leeson 's drama - winner of the Alfred Bradley Bursary award -focuses on Lee, a boy who lives in Salford with his mother and five brothers and sisters. His life is spent looking after his siblings, arguing with his girlfriend, fightingwith otherboys on the street and climbing on the roof to escape. One day a girl from across the street disappears.
Director Susan Roberts
Extended repeat from Saturday 12 noon
Five leading authors and actors present new short stories to a festival audience at the Point
Conference Centre. 1: Beyond Midnight by David Malouf. An evocative story about a woman suffering fromcancerwho "captures the moment" duringa balmy evening on a Tuscan hillside. Producer juiia Butt
Five programmes in which well-known politicians talk to Anne Perkins about an important literary or philosophical inspiration. Todayformer Deputy
Leader of the Labour Party, Roy Hattersley , reveals how reading RH Tawney's Equalityas a schoolboy informed the socialist ideals he has held dear throughout his political career. Producer InnesBowen
Extended rptfrom yesterday 12.30pm
Identity and purpose, love and money, health and family- we live in an increasingly secular society, yet we still need to get to grips with life's big questions. Muriel Gray and guests provide lively conversation and explore some of the major questions that preoccupy Our age. Producer Lindsay Leonard
With Dan Damon and Carolyn Quinn.
Nicholas Parsons hosts the game in which hesitation, repetition and deviation are strictly forbidden. This week the panel includes Clement Freud , Paul Merton , Graham Norton and Linda Smith. Recorded at the New Theatre in Cardiff.
Producer Claire Jones. Repeated Sunday 12 noon
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Matt says "weed". Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Tonight literary critic Sir Frank Kermode discusses the greatest production of Hamlet he has ever seen and reveals his choice of the greatest living novelist. Presented by Mark Lawson. Producer Robyn Read
Five dramas by Emma Donoghue addressing the difficulties of getting on with ex-partners.
1: Urban Myths. Marion is a mature student writing a master's thesis on the urban myths of sexual revenge. But is she taking her research too literally?
Director Tanya Nash. Repeated from 10.45am
Victory in the First Rugby Test and the British and Irish Lions seemed on the road to a historic triumph. But there were signs of internal strife that were to erupt into open hostility. Eddie Butlertellsthe inside story of the tourthat was to founder on the rocks of ego, personality and money. A revealing insight into professional sport and the people who play it. Producer Jeremy Davies
Russia. As the conflict between Russia and the breakaway republic of Chechnya continues,
Tim Whewell travels to Moscow to hear the story of one man's fight for justice for the Chechen victims of war. Repeated from Thursday
The first of two programmes examining our most intimate neighbours. Lionel Kelleway discovers that parasites can manipulate the behaviour of their victims and even determine who lives and dies. They make up the majority of species on earth and may even have changed evolution as we know it. Producer Sarah Blunt. E-MAIL: nature@bbc.co.uk
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Repeated from 9am
With Claire Bolderson.
David Suchet reads JG Ballard's hallucinatory thriller, where work becomes the new leisure. Will this scheme in the South of France take off? Abridged in 15 parts by Neville Teller. Part 1. Producer Duncan Minshull
Repeated from Saturday 9am
Heaven Repeated from 9.45am
