With ClairJaquiss.

With Anna Hill.

With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday In Parliament
7.48 Thought for the Day With Cristina Odone.
8.32 L W only Yesterday in Parliament

Melvyn Bragg and his guests explore the history of ideas as they discuss the events and inspirations that have influenced our age. Producer Charlie Taylor. Shortened repeat at 9.30pm

Melvyn Bragg discusses the comparative histories of Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington, two titans of nineteenth century history. Show more

With Jenni Murray. Drama: Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell. Part 9. Drama repeated at 7.45pm

A new ten-part series of the international current affairs programme. At the Sydney Olympics, Australia was proud to display its multicultural heritage. Now, one year later, its refusal to allow hundreds of Afghan boat people into the country is presenting a rather different image. As the world faces a mounting refugee crisis, Rosie Goldsmith talks to the people who make immigration policy in Australia and with people who have sought asylum in Australia over the past 50 years -from Afghans on the run to refugees from seventies Vietnam and postwar Eastern Europe. What's behind the changes in Australian refugee policy?

Australian immigration policy is reviewed in the light of the country's recent refusal to admit Afghan refugees

Crossing Continents 11.00am R4
The controversy over asylum seekers in Britain is often portrayed as a problem unique to this country, which is very far from the case. On the other side of the world Australia, as we briefly heard when boat people were barred from the country recently, is wrestling with similar troubles only a year after the Sydney Olympics presented an image of Australia as a multicultural haven. Tonight Rosie Goldsmith reports on the Villawood detention centre in Sydney, where conditions are alleged to be so bad that 40 asylum seekers recently tunnelled out. Goldsmith also meets Al Grassby, the "father of multiculturalism", the man who, as Australia's immigration minister in the 1970s, abolished the 'white Australia' policy.

Conductor Martin Nearey looks at the power and significance of the requiem mass set to music. Composers, performers and clerics testifyto its abilityto reach sublime heights of personal faith and emotion. It is questionable whether Verdi kept to the true spirit of the liturgy in his most popular of requiems, but with over 800 years of musical devotion from early monastic plainchant, through the music of the 16th-century Spanish composer and priest Victoria, to Benjamin Britten 's 20th-century testament to pacifism, War Requiem, the requiem is arguably the most inspirational art form. Producer Paul Evans

With Liz Barclay and John Waite.

With Nick Clarke.

Shortened repeat from Saturday 6.10am

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

Another chance to hear a five-part mystery series set in Dublin, being broadcast every weekday. 4: Death Cap by Simon Brett. A sudden death amongthe Franciscan brothers at a monastic retreat in County Cork raises Paolo's suspicions.
For regular cast and details see Monday (R)

The health phone-in looks at obesity. Listeners can ask a medical expert in the studio about the latest approaches to losing weight and how to stop regaining it when you 've reached your ideal size. Is obesity solely related to how much you eat or is it genetically determined? Are drugtreatments ever a good idea? And what are the health dangers of being seriously overweight? With Barbara Myers. Producer Andrew Luck-Baker
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Presented by Nick Ross.
Producer Laurence Grissell. DONATIONS: Young Voice, [address removed]. CREDIT CARDS: Freephone [number removed]. Repeated fromSundayat7.55

4.5 I Spy and Beauty. A small boy wakes in the night and sneaks down to his father's shop, but is not the only one up and about. The second tale shows that love is not always requited. Read by Nigel Anthony and abridged by Jill Waters. For details see Monday

4: Mirrors to Far Reaches. A look at the giant mirrors in telescopes which provide a window on the night sky, through which we spy on the ancient history of the universe. Fordetails see Monday

Repeated from Sunday 4pm

Science series. Quentin Coopertalksto professors of chemistry Laurence Barron and George Tranter about the puzzles surrounding the "handedness" of molecules, including why living organisms only possess left-handed amino acids and right-handed sugars. Should we be searching forthis handedness as evidence for life beyond our planet?
Producer Fiona Roberts. E-MAIL: material.world@bbc.co.uk

With Eddie Mair and Carolyn Quinn.

A six-part comedy-drama by Barry Grossman. 4: The Lift. An intimate meeting takes place - but not one that Su and Abraham would have chosen.
Producer John Fawcett Wilson (R)

Caroline is press-ganged. Repeated tomorrow 2pm

John Wilson with the verdict on The Man Who Wasn 't
There, the latest film from the Coen brothers. Producer Lawrence Pollard

9: Jem proposes. Mary meets Henry Carson in secret. For details see Monday. Repeated from 10.45am

Anthropologists are often thought of as men in pith helmets investigating obscure tribes. But as Nigel Barley discovers, they are now putting their work to practical use - both in the development industry and the commercial world. He meets Intel's in-house anthropologist and visits a firm of consultants who use anthropology to find out what consumers want. Producer Hugh Levinson

Waron What? The American-led alliance against terrorism has adopted the rhetoric of a global moral campaign, with echoes of the Cold War. But how well do we understand our ideological opponents, and can we hope to win the battle of ideas? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto asks if there's a danger of oversimplifying the issues as a conflict between secular democracy and religious fanaticism.
Producer ZareerMasani. Editor Stephen Chilcott. Rptd Sunday9.30pm

Topical science magazine. Geoff Watts visits the Bureau of Legal Dentistry laboratory in Vancouver, Canada. Forensic dentistry is a specialised area, but one that can uncover important evidence in the most grisly of cases. Dr David Sweet runs the lab and is one of the few forensic dentists in North
America. He explains how the DNA encased in teeth is often the only option left to investigators in the hunt for information. Producer Alexandra Feachem

With Robin Lustig.

4: Eugene is away in London and Baba says Caithleen will never hearfrom him again. For details see Monday

A new four-part comedy series by Andrew McGibbon and Robert Chandler in which John Bird interviews remarkable people who are no longer living. 1: Mary Shelley and Robert Oppenheimer discuss monsters, poetry and recipes. With Fiona Allen and John Sessions. Producers Robert Chandler and Alison Vernon-Smith

Repeated from 9.45am