With Judy Merry.

With Miriam O'Reilly.

With James Naughtie and John Humphrys.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.48 Thought for the Day
With the Rev Dr Colin Morris.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament

Conversation with LibbyPurves and guests. Producer Chris Paling. Shortened repeat at 9.30pm

With Jenni Murray. Drama: Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell. Part 13. Drama repeated at 7.45pm

Last in a series in which Andy Martin interviews three of history's greatest artists in actors' recreations. 3: Leonardo Da Vinci. Da Vinci - played by Alan Howard - discusses his sexuality, his relationship with Michelangelo and his apparent detachment from the sufferings of Others in the name Of art. Producer Mary Ward-Lowery

A new four-part drama series by Christopher Lee exploring the tensions and the madnesses as the political world butts up against the military one.
Zelda Timpson is a high-flying civil servant whose latest Whitehall posting in the Ministry of Defence presents her with some unexpected problems.
She finds herself the boss of four serving military officers who would all really rather be elsewhere. 1: Nanny Knows Best. Rifles that don't work in the cold, field radios that don't work at all, and a mysterious letter to the minister that demands a careful answer.
Producer Rosalind Ayres. Director Pete Atkin

With Liz Barclay and Winifred Robinson.

With Nick Clarke.

The third in a six-part panel game series revolving around the English language comes from the Cheltenham Festival of Literature. Host
Frank Delaney 's guests are Pam Ayres , Adam Hart Davies , Sue Limb and John Julius Norwich with resident jesters, the Nimmo Twins. Producer Merilyn Harris

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

By Lesley Glaister. "Do come and visit us if you're ever in Britain", Bob said to Ray and Carla as he got on the plane at Sydney Airport, never dreaming they would. But they do - and stay and stay and stay.
Director Dave Batchelor

Bunny Guinness, Bob Flowerdew and John Cushnie are in the potting shed answering questions sent in by post. Shortened repeatof Sunday 2pm

3: The new Mrs de Winter begins her life at Manderley. For details see Monday

Introduced to save lives 50 years ago, the zebra crossing is an established part of the British landscape, used by millions of people every day. Lynne Truss celebrates this iconic emblem of the road, from Abbey Road, London, to the Inner
Hebrides, and meets the man who designed its famous black-and-white pattern. Fordetails see Monday

Laurie Taylor talks to Professor John Gray of the LSE and Michael Hardt , authorofa new book, Empire, which asks whether the political left could ever learn to embrace globalisation.
Producer Marya Burgess. E-MAIL: thinking.allowed@bbc.co.uk

A four-part series which looks at children from birth to school age. 2: Babies are born desperate to communicate
. They already recognize their mother's voice and within a very short space of time have learned the rules of conversation. By the time they are five they have sorted out the grammar of their mothertongue and may even have mastered a second language. Connie St Louis explores this development by talking to children from birth to five years.
Producer Julia Durbin. E-MAIL: thinking.allowed@bbc.co.uk (R)

With Clare English and Eddie Mair.

Another chance to hear Douglas Adams and John Lloyd 's 12-part comedy from 1978. Fit the Eighth:
Zaphod Beeblebrox and his mysterious friend Roosta are being taken in a flying building to the evil Forgstar.
Producer Geoffrey Perkins (R)
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Who's that knocking? Rptd tomorrow 2pm

Mark Lawson reports from an exhibition at Tate Britain devoted to the Victorian nude. Producer Nicki Paxman

13: Jem's beloved Aunt Alice falls ill. Carson receives news of a murder. For details see Monday. Rptd from 10.45am

Michael Buerk returns with a new series of live debates in which Roger Scruton , Claire Fox , Stephen Rose and Ian Hargreaves cross- examine
'witnesses' with different but passionate views on one of the week's moral dilemmas.
Producer David Coombes. Repeated Saturday 10.15pm

Darwin has transformed our understanding of ourselves as the genetic revolution continues apace. His influence is yet to hit politics, but it will, for all politics depends on a view of human nature.
The first of three talks by Kenan Malik.
Examining the ideas emerging from new Darwinian thinkers who say they'll transform politics.
(Repeated from Sunday at 10.45)

Science series. British scientists have recently identified the first gene involved in the development of speech and language. Peter Evans investigates and learns that such research might also explain how language evolved and give an insight into why some children sufferfrom language impairments. Producer Paul Arnold. E-MAIL: Scirad@bbc.co.uk

Shortened repeat from 9am

With Robin Lustig.

8: Eugene is getting tired of Caithleen's childish tantrums. Fordetails see Monday

A new four-part comedy series by Llewella Gideon and Lynn Peters about an ambitious thirty-something temp in the worst office in the world.
With Llewella Gideon, Brian Bovell, Roger Griffiths, Mandy Knight and Jo Martin. Producer Gareth Edwards. Music Clem Ishmael

A new four-part comedy series by Peter Tinniswood featuring Leslie Phillips as the useless and forgetful MP Sir Plympton Makepeace. 1: The Campaign. Sir Plympton recalls how he and his fellow candidates resolved to keep the general election to themselves and to plan their non-existent campaign from the snug bar of the Jug and Arlott. Director Enyd Williams

in the World Repeated from 9.45am