With writer Jenny Nemko.
With Sarah Mukherjee.
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 Annabel Shilson-Thomas .
8.32 Yesterday In Parliament
Conversation with Libby Purves and guests. Producer Chhs Paling. Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
With Jenni Murray. Drama: Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. Part 23. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
In the 1984 miners'strike Les Pickerskill was a flying picket. He never knew to which picket line he would be sent from one daytothe next. Pickerskill kept a daily diary of this time. its pages are an intimate insight into the passions, the pressures and the high personal costto one striking miner.
Producer Sara Conkey
A six-part series by Simon Brett. 5:Impossibly High Standards.
Victoria is growing more irritating in her role as an academic. Meanwhile Charlotte has found herself a new lover and Anna ends up with an unexpected proposition. RIll NiBh
Producer Maria Esposito
With Nick Clarke.
More puzzles from Chris Masianka and the panel. On this week's panel are magician
Geoffrey Durham , crossword editor Val Gilbert and puzzle setter David Bodycombe.
Producer Claire Csonka. Listeners with puzzles and send them to Puzzle Panel. Room 7058. BBC Broadcasting House. London WlA IAA, or by e-mail: puzzle.panel@bbc.co.uk
Repeated from New Year's Day 7pm
The first of five new tales of mystery and murder inspired by the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, written by Bert Coules.
Watson's old commanding officer, the much-decorated Colonel James Warburton, is alarming his family with his interest in spiritualism. Watson dismisses it as tricksters exploiting a gullible old man. But Holmes senses darker waters.
BBC Radio Collection: Full cast dramatisations of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories and four novels are available as individual audio cassettes or in a box set from all good retailers and from [web address removed]. Call [number removed]
Back to Baker Street: page 9
Questions posed by gardeners from North Yorkshire. The chairman is Eric Robson. Shortened 2pm
3: Company for Gertrude. The Hon
Freddie Threepwood acts to help the romance between his cousin Gertrude and his old friend Beefy Bingham. For details see Monday
3: Sylvia's 's Story. Adopted soon after her mother's husband returned from the war to discover his wife pregnant by an American GI, Sylvia had always dreamed of finding her real parents. Another compelling story of how the English daughter of an American GI finally discovered her biological father with the help of an organisation called Trace: the Transatlantic Children's Enterprise, founded by GI bride Pamela Winfield. For details see Monday
Laurie Taylor talks to Kevin Mitchell about his new book War, Baby: the Glamour of Violence, recounting the 1995 boxing match where Nigel Benn severely injured Gerald McClennan.
Producer James Marshall. E-MAIL: thinking.allowed@bbc.co.uk
Repeated from yesterday at 9pm
With Clare English and Eddie Mair.
A six-part comedy series starring Maureen Lipman and Julia McKenzie. Written by Bruce Hyman , John Langdon and Richard Warren.
4: In which Joanna and Marion try to curb their appetites. Some more successfully than others.
Director Dirk Maggs. Producer Bruce Hyman.
This programme was originally billed for Wednesday 16 January
Kathy's worried about the babysitter.
Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Mark Lawson meets actor Pete Postlethwaite , now appearing in Harold Pinter 's The Homecoming at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, and artist
Marc Quinn , who is about to open a new exhibition of his work at the Tate, Liverpool. Producer Bob Dickinson
By Victor Hugo. 23: Cosette and Marius are to be married. Outside the church, Thenardier sees a chance for a bit of blackmail.
For details see Monday. Repeated from 10.45am
With Michael Buerk.
Claire Fox, Ian Hargreaves, Janet Radcliffe-Richards and Harvey Thomas cross-examine witnesses on their evidence for their stance about one of the week's moral conundrums.
(Repeated Saturday 10.15pm)
Documentary maker Michael Cockerell tells the story of his encounters with four of the most colourful political figures of our time, mixing rare archive with amusing insights. 1: Alan Clark , the maverick former minister and ladies' man, who Cockerell calls the "love Tory". Producer Manisha Vadhia. Rpt of Sun 10.45pm
Another chance to hear this two-part exploration of the wonderful but undervalued sense of touch and an examination of suggestions that a mother's touch affects her baby's mental and social development throughout life. Presented by Dr Gillian Rice. Producer Grant Sonnex
Shortened repeat from 9am
With Robin Lustig.
By Robert Graves. Read by John le Carre.
3: A Night in the Trenches. For details see Monday
The last episode of the comedy series by Paul Barnhill and Neil Warhurst. 6: Matrimony. Have Mark and Brian finally found true love?
Director Sally Avens
The sketch show from Manchester starring Robin Ince , Helen Moon , Smug Roberts and Kate Ward.
The last of the present series is packed with advice, like what to do if you suspect your friends have been seeing other friends behind your back. Producer Graham Frost
Something to
Declare Repeated from 9.45am
England's only tour match in the Indian capital - at the FeroszShah Kotla ground in Delhi. With commentary by Jonathan Agnew , Henry Blofeld , Angus Fraser , Sunil Gavaskar and Simon Mann. Producer Peter Baxter
