With Sarah Mukherjee.
With John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Rev Roy Jenkins.
Conversation with Libby Purves and guests. Producer Chris Paling Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
Jenni Murray hosts lively and topical discussions from a woman's point of view.
Drama: The Magpie Stories. Part 3. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
Julian Putkowski's three-part series which analyses grotesque distortions of justice that occur when the law gets political.
In Nazi Germany the judiciary desperately tried to incorporate the ideals of justice with the will of the Volk as embodied in its highest being, Hitler. So the People's Court was established, headed by the notorious fanatic Roland Freisler. With Dr Hanns Koch.
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.
Su's delighted to find a role-model: Abraham would settle for a haircut.
With John Waite and Liz Barclay.
With Nick Clarke.
Martin Young hosts the biographical quiz show and is joined by team captains Francis Wheen and Fred Housego, with this week's special guests Gyles Brandreth and Antonia Fraser.
Repeated from yesterday7pm
Five new tales of mystery and murder, inspired by the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , and written by Bert Coules. 4: The Singular Inheritance of Miss Gloria Wilson. After years of apparent inactivity, "the ghost" is back in business with a series of audacious thefts that leave the pol ice baffled. So why is Inspector Athelney Jones so reluctant to hrino Holmes in nn the case?
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]
Questions posed by members of the Women's Institute Border Group in Malpas, Cheshire. Producer Trevor Taylor. Shortened 2pm
3: English Mosiac. A romantic comedy and the first of three stories about the Abbey Antique Gallery. Read by Penelope Wilton. Fordetails see Monday
Another chance to hear this five-part series on the archives of the London Zoological Society.
3: Metamorphoses. Among London Zoo's collection of rare manuscripts lies a copy of Maria Sybilla
Merian's Metamorphoses of the Insects of Surinam. For Merian this ground-breaking work involved an epic journey crossing social and physical barriers. Fordetails see Monday
Laurie Taylor explores and explodes ideas that shape our society.
Producer James Marshall E-MAIL: thinking.allowed@bbc.co.uk
Repeated from yesterday at 9pm
With Eddie Mair and Nigel Wrench.
James Walton returns to the chairflanked by regular captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh for a game of literary correctness. This week authors
Nigel Williams and Lynne Truss join the proceedings, with the author of the week being that literary giant, William Shakespeare. Producer Dawn Ellis
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: A selection of William Shakespeare 's plays are available on audio cassette and CD from all good retailers and from www.bbcshop.com. Call [number removed]
Shula fears the worst. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
John Wilson chairs the arts show, and reports on the film version of Sebastian Faulks 's novel Charlotte
Gray starring Cate Blanchett as an undercover agent in occupied France. Producer Kirsty Pope
Ten tales for the superstitious. 3: For her wedding, Roberta (Kelly Reilly ) has guarded herself against bad luck by following all the old superstitions. But it doesn't quite go to plan.
Director Mary Peate Repeated from 10.45am
Michael Buerk with Ian Hargreaves , Claire Fox , Janet Radcliffe-Richards , Steven Rose and Roger Scruton cross-examine witnesses on their evidence for believing as they do about one of the week's moral conundrums. Producer David Coomes Rptd Saturday 10.15pm
In the last of his series, Michael Cockerell tells the story of his encounters with Bill Deedes - Fleet Street's oldest workingjournalist and a former cabinet minister. The programme includes rare archive and revealing anecdotes.
Producer Manisha Vadhia 10.45pm
A new three-part series in which Professor Jacquie McGlade explains how we can learn from nature, presenting her insights of the world around us through mathematics. 1: How the design of hospitals may actually encourage viral epidemics, and how to grow straight carrots.
Producer Julian Hector E-MAIL: nhuradio@bbc.co.uk
How maths can help gardening: page 24
Shortened repeat from 9am
With Robin Lustig.
By Ian McEwan. 3: The temperature rises as the afternoon turns to evening on the Tallis's Surrey estate. For details see Monday
Part lecture, part sketch-show, Dr Phil Hammond hosts the programme that questions the current state of the NHS. 3: Empowering the Patient. The way forward for the NHS is in patient power, where patients make all the decisions, not doctors. Producer Helen Williams
The great NHS debate: page 38
Another chance to hear John Fortune 's remeniscences about the people he's enjoyed working with, including Peter Cook and John Bird. Producer Claire Jones
By Diana Athill. Part 3. Repeated from 9.45am
