With the Rev Peter Baker.
With Miriam O'Reilly.
With James Naughtie and Sue MacGregor.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With the Right Rev James Jones.
Tom Sutcliffe isjoined by guests, including writers Margaret Drabble and Boris Johnson , to discuss the latest ideas and issues.
Producer Ariane Koek. Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
With Jenni Murray. Drama: Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell. Part 1. Drama repeated at7.45pm
A new six-part series in which Peter Snow looks at stories uncovered in a single copy of a newspaper from the past. 1: The Public Advertiser for 15 April 1755. A trip to Lichfield, birthplace of Samuel Johnson , to discover what made the man who made the first modern English dictionary, and an article about imported "Turkey carpets" prompts the tale of how Thomas Whitty set about proving that Turkish carpets could be made more cheaply - in AxminSter. Producer Andrew Green
Sue Rodwell's new six-part dramatisation of AJ Cronin 's stories set in a Scottish medical practice. 2: Who Laughs Last. Finlay meets his match in Miss Meg Mirlees , the stingiest, meanest most cunning widow in Scotland.
Producer Jeremy Howe
With Winifred Robinson and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke.
A nationwide general knowledge contest including Beat the Brains, in which listeners puttheirown questions. The chairman is Robert Robinson. Producer Richard Edis. Repeated Saturday llpm
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Leonora Brito.
Marcus's search for identity is focused when he learns of his white grandmother's involvement in the 1919 Cardiff race riots.
Experts answer listeners' personal finance questions. With Paul Lewis. Lines are open on [number removed] from 1.30pm. Producer Jennifer Clarke
Five recordings of authors reading theirwork before audiences at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature. 1: Clackety Clack down the Track: Telling Train
Stories by Tracy Chevalier. A new piece of work that describes how the author discovered the essence of a good story when forced to make up stories for hertrain-obsessed Son. Producer Jane Greenwood
A five-part weekday series investigating real-life counterparts to scenes in Kenneth Grahame 's novel The Wind in the Willows. 1: Who's That Handsome Man?
About 80 years ago, Colonel
Francis Ricardo was spotted speeding in an open-topped car with a woman who was not his wife. With Jo Morris. Reader Hilary Neville. Producer Matt Thompson
The human brain is 60 per cent fat and needs essential fats to operate. What does this tell us about the origins of the human race, and what effect has our changing diet had on our mental health? Sheila Dillon investigates.
Extended repeat from yesterday 12.30pm
Anne MacKenzie with international conversation tackling issues ranging from politics to popular culture, sportto science, and art to anthropology. Producer Amber Dawson
With Nigel Wrench and Carolyn Quinn.
Nigel Rees 's guests on the anecdotal panel show are Benedict Nightingale, Loyd Grossman , Max Hastings and Julia Langdon. The reader is Meryl O'Keeffe.
Producer Carol Smith. E MAIL quote.unquote@bbc.co.uk. Rptd Sunday BBC RADIO COLLECTION: Quote ... Unquote is available on cassette at all good retailers and www.bbcshop.com. Call [number removed]
Emma's stereo is too personal. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Francine Stock with arts interviews, news and reviews. Producer Tim Prosser
Elizabeth Gaskell 's frank portrayal of Manchester life in the 1840s created shock waves when it was published and established her reputation. The novel is dramatised in 20 parts by Lavinia Murray.
1: Mary Barton , the daughter of cotton weaver John Barton , is wooed by her childhood sweetheart.
Director Claire Grove. Producers Claire Grove and Tracey Neale. Repeated from 10.45am
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: Mary Barton is available on audio cassette at all good retailers and www.bbcshop.com. Call [number removed]
Writer Hsiao-ying Tseng makes the journey of a lifetime as she travels from Shropshire to south
China to meet two of her sisters for the first time. Her moving story reveals the human legacy of the Communist victory of 1949, when thousands of Chinese fled to Taiwan, leaving loved ones behind forever. Producer Chris Eldon Lee
7: A New Balance. Sandra Sykes meets June Waley from Kippen in Stirlingshire, who started a nature club for her children that developed into the Kippen Environment Centre, the only one of its kind in a village so small, complete with its own unrivalled environmental resource centre. It has spawned
Scotland's first community composting scheme, a full programme of green activities for schools and churches, a community woodland group, a co-op and soon a monthly market and cafe. Repeated from Fnday
Beyond the Blue Horizon. Blue whales are the biggest creatures that ever lived, yet we know very little about them. One of the remaining populations is off the coast of California, but no one knows where they go to breed or has ever witnessed a birth. John Ruthven investigates the blue whale and the vast waters through which it roams.
Producer Julian Hector. Repeated tomorrow 11am
Repeated from 9am
With Robin Lustig.
In Kate Grenville 's Orange Prize-winning novel, two strangers arrive in Karakarook, New South Wales, where passions are running high over a local bridge. Can something that seems hopelessly broken be mended? Abridged in ten parts by Elizabeth Bradbury and read by Nicolette McKenzie. Part 6. Producer Sarah Johnson
Shortened repeat from Saturday 9am
Repeated from 9.45am
