With Norman Ivison.
With Sarah Mukherjee.
With Sarah Montague and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.48 Thought forthe Day With the RtRevTom Butler.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Fergal Keane talks to different individuals who, through conviction or circumstances, have taken a stand for what they believe in. Producer Jane Beresford. Repeated at 9.30pm
Patrick Wright continues his investigation into the Recording Britain project, the forties art scheme which despatched artists to paint aspects of the British landscape threatened with destruction by the Luftwaffe and by forces closer to home.
Kenneth Rowntree was sent to record views of the village of Ashopton, Derbyshire, which was about to vanish, despite protests, beneath the waters of the Ladybower reservoir.
With Jenni Murray. Drama: The Translator. Part 2.
Drama repeated at 7.45pm
The Jurassic Coast. Mark Cawardine visits the on, y natural-world heritage site in England as he samples the fossil-rich coast of west Dorset. Repeated from yesterday 9pm
Stuart Maconie presents a new series looking at comedy double acts.
Arguably the first great comedy stars of the wireless age, Flanagan and Allen first teamed up in the twenties in Florrie Forde's Flo and Co revue before striking out on their own.
(The death of the double act: page 16)
With Winifred Robinson and Peter White.
Including at 12.30 Call You and Yours.
PHONE: [number removed]. LINES OPEN from 10am
Billie Holiday. Ken Clarke talks to Billie Holiday's biographer John Chilton about the life and music of " Lady Day" A childhood of poverty and prostitution, an adulthood of tragic relationships, addiction and public humiliation - surely no singer has been better equipped to sing the blues. ProducerPaui Evans
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
The last of five plays telling the story of King David's s reign 5: Abishag the Virgin by Kate Clanchy. David is dying in a fetid room tended by his latest, very young wife. Abishag. An earlier, now neglected wife, the infamous Bathsheba, mother of Solomon. is enlisted by Nathan the Prophet to visit and promote Sninmnn as his anointed successor.
Music by Sylvia Hallett. Musicians Sylvia Hallet. Director David Hunter
Richard Daniel chairs the programme in which listeners set the agenda with their environmental concerns. Producer Nick Patnck. PHONE: [number removed]
LETTERS: [address removed]E-MAIL: home.planet@>bbc.co.uk
Another short story about the extraordinary goings-on of an eccentric Scottish family. 2: Geraldine by Beatrice Colin. "My husband of 30 years is deceased, kaput, no longer in service. Once again he's ruined everything." Read by Eileen McCallum. For details see yesterday
2: The men speak about the tough, macho culture on the building sites. For details see yesterday
Heather Payton and guests in conversation about the world of business, money and technology. Producers Rozina Breen and Rosamund Jones
The intelligent guide to the wide world of learning, withLibbyPurves.
Producer Penelope Gibbs Phone [number removed]. Rptd Sunday 3pm
With Clare English and Malcolm Brabant.
Christopher Lee 's four-part drama series explores the tensions and the madnesses as the political world butts up against the military one. 2: Bangety Bang. As Zelda, the new assistant under-secretary, gets her feet further under the desk at the Ministry of Defence, her "brave boys", the serving officers who draft the answers to ministerial questions, continue to surprise her. Director PeteAtkin
David to the rescue. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Mark Lawson with arts interviews, news and reviews. Producer Ekene Akalawu
By Leila Aboulela. 2: When her boss falls ill an Arabic translator finds herself becoming emotionally involved in his private life. For details see Monday. Repeated from 10.45am
In its response to the Bristol baby scandal, the Government last month promised a safer, more accountable NHS. But with research suggesting that one in 20 hospital patients is the victim of a medical mistake, can the targets for improvement ever be met? Presented by Jolyon Jenkins. Producer Jenny Chryss. Repeated Sunday 5pm
News, issues and information of interest to blind and partially sighted people with Peter White.
Producer Ian Macrae. PHONE: [number removed] for more information
Reading, writing and arithmetic used to be the goals set for a child entering the formal education system. But now there's the literacy hour, numeracy hour, IT, science, art and many others. Connie St Louis asks how teachers and pupils fit in so many subjects. Producer Julia Durbin
Repeated tomorrow 4.30pm. E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk
Repeated from 9am
With Claire Bolderson.
By Giacomo Casanova , from his autobiography History of My Life. Part 2. For details see yesterday
Matt Lucas and David Walliams return for a second series of the hit sketch show which takes a comic look at life in Britain. Tonight schoolgirl Vicky Pollard visits her doctor, Father Peter officiates at a funeral and Marjorie Dawes visits her mother in hospital.
2: Horses. An extract from Dark Horses and Black
Beauties by Melissa Holbrook Pierson.
