With Norman Ivison.
Presented by Sarah Mukherjee.
With Sue MacGregor and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought forthe Day With Clifford Longley.
Christopher Hitchens and David Grossman join Allison Pearson to set the cultural agenda for the week, together with Professor Jacqueline McGlade who will be revealing why she thinks Charles Darwin should have studied fish and how it could have changed the course of evolutionary theory.
(Shortened repeat at 9.30pm)
With Jenni Murray. Drama: The Translator. Part 1. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
London's Eiffel Tower. In the concluding part of this series David Stafford uncovers the story of the world's tallest building in Wembley.
It is 1920. Britain is still recovering from the loss of virtually an entire generation in the Great War, and those who survive have physical and mental scars from which they may never recover. One such is a nun apparently traumatised by scenes of horror she has witnessed at the front. But what precisely did she see? An ambitious doctor and a pioneering psychologist try to restore the woman's sanity, but in the process they uncover something much more sinister.
(BBC RADIO COLLECTION: A selection of Agatha Christie dramatisations is available on audio cassette from all good retailers and from [web address removed] Call [number removed])
With Winifred Robinson and Peter White.
With Nick Clarke.
The teams from Scotland (Michael Alexander and Alan Taylor ) and the North of England (Diana Collecott and Michael Schmidt ) tease out the cryptic connections in radio's most challenging quiz. Nick Clarke is the chairman.
Producer Paul Bajoria. Repeated Saturday llpm
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
The poet Philip Larkin and the novelist Kingsley Amis engaged in a remarkable literary correspondence which began when they met as students in wartime Oxford. The letters they wrote to each other are intimate, frank and funny, prompting Amis to remark: "What a feast is awaiting chaps when we're both dead and our complete letters come out."
In this dramatisation their letters are placed side by side to trace the unfolding of their relationship from their first encounter to Larkin's death in 1985.
Paul Lewis and guests are on hand to answer listeners' personal finance questions. Lines open at 1.30pm. Telephone [number removed]. Producer Penny Haslam
Five interlinked short stories, specially commissioned from five different writers, about the extraordinary goings-on among the members of an eccentric
Scottish family. 1: The Swithering Gull. By lain Grant. " Uncle Gilly is dead, it's a tragedy. But you can never be certain where certain people are involved." Read by Vicki Liddelle. Producer David Jackson Young
Five weekday programmes in which comedian and novelist Ardal O'Hanlon talks to the Irishmen who helped build Britain's roads and motorways and now live in a hostel in London's Camden Town. 1: How difficult was emigration? Producer Rachel Hooper Executive Producer Kathleen Carragher
Today's programme considers aphrodisiac foods - do they del iver or is the I ink between what we eat and sexual prowess nothing more than a fallacy?
Producer Paula McGinley. Extended repeat from yesterday 12.30pm
Ernest Rea talks to guests about the place of faith in today's complex world, teasing out the truths behind the experiences, values and traditions of our lives. Producer Amanda Hancox
With Clare English and Malcolm Brabant.
Chairman Nicholas Parsons whisks the programme off to the King's Theatre, Southsea.
ProducerClaire Jones. Repeated on Sunday 12.04pm
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Siobhan tries to build bridges. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Mark Lawson hears the verdict on Will Smith's performance in the new film Ali.
By Leila Aboulela. A contemporary love story set in Scotland and Sudan. A young Muslim widow working in Aberdeen finds herself attracted to a twice-divorced Scottish academic.
Director Bruce Young. Repeat of 10.45am
In the final programme, Tim Whewell and Esther Leneman explore the future of Europe - children.
What does Europe hold for them? Will they be fat and unhealthy? Will they be rich? Will they be literate? Series Producer John Murphy. Editor Maria Balinska
The Jurassic Coast. Mark Carwardine visits the only natural-world heritage site in England as he samples the fossil-rich coast of west Dorset. Here ammonites and icthyosaurs lurk deep in the crumbling cliffs and are exposed to collectors by the winter weather. Producer Brett Westwood. Repeated tomorrow 11am
Shortened repeat of 9am
With Claire Bolderson.
By Giacomo Casanova. Adapted in five parts by Penny Leicester and narrated by Jack Klaff.
In the 1760s, an infamous Italian came visiting. He sought business, attended soirees and met women - but all would end in disaster. A cautionary tale for Valentine's week.
Repeated from Saturday 9am
Repeated from 9.45am
