With Rani Moorthy.

With Miriam O'Reilly.

With John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
6.25, 7.25,8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.45 Thought for the Day
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament

Michael Buerk with the fifth in an 11-part series of interviews with people who have faced a life-changing decision. Producer Liz Leonard. Repeated at 9.30pm

A series in which Mark Whitakertells the stories of four computer pioneers. 3: Then We Took the Roof Off. In 1945, a small group of scientists and engineers started work on the Soviet Union's first electronic computer in an abandoned monastery on the outskirts of Kiev. In 1950 it ran a sample programme forthe anniversary of the revolution and in 1951 started full-time operations. Here, the surviving members of the original team tell their remarkable story and reveal their despair at a political decision in 1967 to copy IBM computers instead of following their own designs. Producer Mike Hally. E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk

With Jenni Murray. Drama: Inner Voices III:
Mummyfication by Emma Clarke. Drama rptd at 7.45pm

A four-part series.3: Saxon Steel. Duringthe
Industrial Revolution Benjamin Huntsman invented the technique of making surgical quality steel which made Sheffield foundries famous. But according to archaeological evidence unearthed in the Saxon town of Hamwic in Southampton, it wasn't really anything new. Here, Aubrey Manning finds out how Saxon smithies were 1,000 years ahead of their time. Producer Pam Rutherford

Barbara Windsor presents the second of a two-part series telling the colourful story of troop entertainment from the First World War to the present day. Kenneth Williams divulges the dangers of eating watermelon in Burma, Cathy Selford reveals her belly-dancing act in Belfast, and Bob Hope entertains American Gis in Vietnam. Producer Libby Cross

With Peter White and Winifred Robinson.
Including at 12.30 Call You and Yours. PHONE: [number removed]. LINES OPEN from 10am

With James Cox.

A three-part series examining the social and musical history of the British brass band.2:Peter Stead looks at the brass band's role in work and the community
. Competition at all levels has been an integral part of banding since its early days and can be seen today in the spectacular British Open competition in Birmingham and in Durham Miners' Gala. This year, the latter event honoured the 50th anniversary of the Easington Colliery disaster in which 83 men were killed. Producer Paul Evans

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

By Patricia Hannah. When she discovers her husband is having an affair, a genteel Edinburgh housewife seeks guidance from two unlikely sources: the film stars Bette Davis and Celia Johnson in their respective roles of Margot in All About Eve and Laura in Brief Encounter.
Director David Jackson Young

Sue Cook investigates listeners' historical queries. Producers Ivan Howlett and Nick Patrick LETTERS: [address removed]. E-MAIL: Making.History@bbc.co.uk

2: Finished with the War by Pat Barker. The celebrated psychologist WHR Rivers questions the poet and war hero Siegfried Sassoon who, instead of being court-martialled for his anti-war statement published in The Times, has been sent to a Rrst
World War hospital for shell-shocked officers. Read by Jamie Glover. For details see yesterday

2: Kay Mellor and Linda Niery. How friendship has steered writer Kay Mellor from nursery school through the women's movement and motherhood to a television Career. For details see yesterday

The first in a new six-part series in which Andrew Dilnot explores the numbers which are used in private life, politics and economics. Featuring this week a man who can only walk while counting, and the art of being statistically slippery. Producer Michael Blastland

A weekly guide to education with Libby Purves. Producer Penelope Gibbs. TELEPHONE: [number removed]
E-MAIL: the.learning.curve@bbc.co.uk. Repeated Sunday 11pm

With Clare English and Nigel Wrench.

Concluding this comedy series by James Cary. 5: The Unthinkable Solutions team are hired to improve London's transport system
. Their strategy is to put Reg, an intense night-bus driver, in charge of London Transport, while chief executive Bud Jackson is sent back to driving tube trains.
Producer Adam Bromley

Mike is no bird-brain. Repeated tomorrow 2pm

Mark Lawson meets bestselling American crime writer Patricia Cornwell. Producer Sally Spurring

Emma Clarke performs her drama in which a new mum finds her old self consumed by full-time motherhood. For details see yesterday. Repeated from 10.45am

Current affairs series. Turning condemned poultry and red meat into food for the table is big business for criminals. Jenny Cuffe investigates the unsavoury side of Britain's meat industry and asks whether the new Food Standards Agency could do more to ensure that what we eat is safe.
Producer Gregor Stewart. Repeated Sunday 5pm

News, issues and information of interest to blind and partially sighted people, with Peter White.
Producer Simon Clancy. PHONE: [number removed] for more information

Peter France discovers how biologists' hidden prejudices have shaped attitudes to animals and the interpretation of animal behaviour. Before feminism, males were always the centre of attention in animal communities. Now the study of females is pushing science forward. Can scientists ever be truly objective? Producer Mary Colwell. E-MAIL: nature@bbc.co.uk. WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/nature

Repeated from 9am

Part 2. For details see yesterday

A six-part comedy series written and performed by Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding.
Bad-tempered zoo boss Bob Fossil has a couple of assignments for his star zookeepers. He's sending Vince to Spain to find a friend for the zoo's lonely prawn, and he's sending Howard to the Arctic, just for the sake of it. With Rich Fulcher.

Repeated from 9.45am