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
,8.58-9.45
Coverage continues from Christchurch. For detai see yesterday
Conversation with Libby Purves and guests. Producer Chris Paling. Shortened repeat at9.30pm
Jenni Murray hosts lively and topical discussions from a woman's point of view. Drama: The Translator. Part 3. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
Dictators, you'd think, would have no need ot all the messiness of the courts. What'sthe point of seizing total power if you can't wield it? Yet tyrants in history maintained elaboratejudicial procedures. In a new series Julian Putkowski analyses the grotesque distortions that occurwhen the law gets political. 1: Vyshinsky- A Ratin Human Form.
Alongwith Stalin , Vyshinsky perfected the trial as a theatrical spectacular in which the defendants became reluctant protagonists forced to read their own confessions, and where the curtain was final. How did he do it? How did that era distort intellectual discourse today? With Prof John Erikson. Producer Matt Thompson
By Barry Grossman.
A six-part comedy drama series about the collision between the old and the new in the Jewish community of Hillfield.
"It's not easy being Jew" - as young Mikhail will soon discover.
With Liz Barclay and Winifred Robinson.
With Nick Clarke.
The last in the series of puzzles from Chns Maslanka and the panel as they attempt to baffle each other with brainteasers based on words, numbers and logic On this week's panel are medical physicist and maze designer Professor Angela Newing , mathematician Professor David Singmaster and chess grandmaster Raymond Keene.
Producers Claire Csonka and Harry Parker. Listeners with puzzles and answers can send them to Puzzle Panel. Room 7058. BBC Broadcasting House. London W1A 1AA. or bye-mail: puzzle.panel@bbc.co.uk
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
Five new tales of mystery and murder, inspired by the stories of Arthur Conan Doyle , and written by Bert Coules. 3: The Peculiar Persecution of Mr John Vincent Harden. A mysterious metal object found in a dead man's stomach holds a vital clue to his death - if only Holmes and Watson can work out what it is, and how on earth it got there.
Violinist Leonard Friedman. Director Patrick Rayner
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 www.bbcshop.com. Call [number removed]
John Cushnie , Bob Flowerdew and Roy Lancaster are in the potting shed answering questions sent in by post. The chairman is Eric Robson.
Producer Trevor Taylor. 2pm
Another short story about the extraordinary goings-on among the members of an eccentric Scottish family. 3: Fraseron the Couch by James Robertson. "And now I'm about to cruise back to Inverannan, for the reading of Uncle Gill's last will and testicle." Read by Gavin Mitchell. For details see Monday.
3: The men lived a harsh, rough lifestyle. They speak about alcohol, and the role it played in their community. For details see Monday
Laurie Taylor talks to Prof Fred Halliday , the London
School of Economics expert on the Middle East, about his book Two Hours that Shook the World, outlining his analysis of the events of the past five months. Producer James Marshall. EMAIL: thinking.allowed@bbc.co.uk
Repeated from yesterday at 9pm
With Clare English and Nigel Wrench.
The last of the comedy series by Bruce Hyman , John Langdon and Richard Warren. 6: In which Marion and Joanna both attemptto make little things grow.
Director Dirk Maggs. Producer Bruce Hyman
The Snells face the damage. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Francine Stock presents the arts magazine. Producer Robyn Read
By Leila Aboulela. 3: The relationship between Rae and Sammar reaches the point of no return. For details see Monday. Repeated from 10.45am
Michael Buerk with Roger Scruton , Claire Fox , Janet Radcliffe-Richards and Ian Hargreaves , cross-examine witnesses on their evidence for believing as they do about one of the week's moral conundrums. Producer David Coomes. Repeated Saturday 10.15pm
Enoch Powell. Michael Cockerell tellsthe inside story of his encounters with the most bitterly controversial politician, who beneath the flinty exteriorwas also a man of unexpected humour. Producer Manrsha 10.45pm
As medical science becomes ever more complex, are experiments on animals becoming dangerously misleading? Dr Graham Easton investigates claims that vivisection may be a waste of scientific time. Producers Jonathan Fildes and Jim Clarke
Shortened repeat from 9am
With Robin Lustig.
By Giacomo Casanova from his autobiography History Of My Life. Part 3. For details see Monday
Part lecture, part sketch-show, Dr Phil Hammond hosts a show which questions the current state of the NHS. 2: Tell The Truth. Patients think they want complete honesty but what would happen if everyone in the NHS really told the truth? Producer Helen Williams
3: Chemistry. An extract from Oliver Sacks 's Uncle
Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood. Repeated from 9.45am
