With the Rev Dr Mary Cotes.
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 the Rev Dr Johnston McMaster.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Jenni Murray talks to singer Petula Clark about her life and career. Drama: Wife to Mr Milton. Part 3. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
The first in a new series following social workers in Nottingham as they investigate cases of child neglect and abuse. Producer Susan Mitchell
A series of six comic plays by Jim Poyser, set in 19th-century Russia and based on the absurdist short stories of Nikolai Gogol.
3: Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt
When Ivan Shponka comes home from military service in Siberia he finds his aunt and her attempts to marry him off more harrowing than any Tartar warlord.
Producer Susan Roberts
With Liz Barclay and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke.
The literary quiz with a twist returns for a new six-part series. James Walton is in the chair, flanked by regular captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh , who are this weekjoined by guests Stephen Fry and Lynne Truss. The author of the week is Philip Larkin. The reader is Beth Chalmers. Producer Dawn Ellis
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
In 1947, the writer Rose Macaulay was a curiosity to all who saw her: an elderly Englishwoman driving alone down the coast of Spain in her ancient Morris Minor. Stopping to indulge in her passion for swimming, Rose encounters the mysterious Senor Simon, one of the many ghosts that haunt her journey.
The team answer questions posed by the Eccieston and District Gardening Circle. The chairman is Eric Robson.
Producer Trevor Taylor Shortened 2pm
Rose Macaulay's engaging and eccentric novel about an Anglican mission expedition to Turkey.
Abridged in five parts by Sarah LeFanu and read by Eve Best . 3: Clergyman and Widow Vanish Producer Sara Davies
3: The story behind the first conceptual portrait in the National Portrait Gallery: a genetic sculpture based on the DNA of John Sulston , leader of the human genome project, by controversial artist MarcQuinn. Fordetails see Monday
Laurie Taylor talks to Norman Birnbaum , professor emeritus at Georgetown University, about his new book After Progress, which offers an inspired call to arms for anyone still hoping for social and economic reform in the USA and Europe.
Producer James Marshall E-MAIL: thinking.allowed@bbc.co.uk
Dr Raj Persaud discusses mental health in the workplace and investigates strategies intended to enable sufferers of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) to get on with their lives.
Producer Marya Burgess Phone the BBC Action Line: [number removed]
With Clare English and Eddie Mair.
By Simon Brett. 2: French Connections. Rosie and the team organise a twinning ceremony, uniting a town on the south coast of England with a town on the north coast of France. Unfortunately, the scheme turns out to be an enormous setback for Anglo-French relations.
Producer Maria Esposito
Pistols at dusk. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
John Wilson presents the arts show with news, interviews and reviews.
Producer Robyn Read
By Robert Graves , dramatised by Melissa Murray.
3: The English Civil War is imminent and soon Marie will be parted from her Royalist true love. Buttheir last meeting threatens to disgrace her. For details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am
2: Trust and Terror. Philosopher Onora O'Neill of Newnham College, Cambridge, delivers the second of this year's Reith Lectures from the Royal Institution, London. When a community has been subjected to terrorist attacks, nothing is more urgent than restoring conditions for trust. But how is this to be done? Editor Gwyneth Williams Repeated Saturday 10.15pm
2: Brian Walden examines the bitter rivalry between Harold Wilson and George Brown and its impact on the Labourgovernment of the sixties. Producer Martin Rosenbaum
The first in a new series examining the psychology of sport, in particularthe different requirements of a team and an individual. With contributions from
Colin Montgomerie , Barry Cowan , Alec Stewart , Will Carling and Keith Wood. Presented by Sue Nelson. Producers Peter Newman and Jonathan Murphy
Shortened repeat from 9am
With Robin Lustig.
Alan Bennett reads his darkly comic story. 3: Father Jolliffe is being monitored by Canon Treacher. For details see Monday
The last in the series of comedy sketches with Robin Ince , Helen Moon , Smug Roberts and Kate Ward. Producer Graham Frost
Llewella Gideon and Lynn Peters 's bitter-sweet series about a thirtysomething actress waiting for her big break.
6: Baby Love.Cynthia thinks she might be pregnant. How will she cope with a brand new being, utterly dependent on herforfood, shelter and love?
After all, she already has a cat and a boyfriend. With Brian Bovell , Roger Griffiths , Mandy Knight and Jo Martin.
Music by Clement Ishmael Producer Gareth Edwards
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