With Judy Merry.
Presented by 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 Indarjit Singh.
8.32 Yesterday In Parliament
Melvyn Bragg and his guests explore the history of ideas as they discuss the events and inspirations that have influenced our age.
Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
Melvyn Bragg discusses how Chaos Theory has affected our understanding of the universe and whether there might be an inherent order behind the fluctuations of the stock market or the British weather. Show more
With Jenni Murray in Manchester.
10.45 Drama: The Frederica Quartet: The Virgin in the Garden. Part 4. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
England v Sri Lanka
Commentary on the first day's play in the First Test at Lord's, by Jonathan Agnew , Henry Blofeld and Christopher Martin-Jenkins . With expert comments from Vic Marks , Mike Selvey and Roshan Mahanama. The scorer is Bill Frindall. Including at:
1.15 County Talk Live discussion with players in action round the country. Producer Peter Baxter A testing summer begins: page 38
The stories and the colour behind the world s headlines With Kate Adie. Producer Tony Grant
In 1961 the KGB came not to arrest writer Vasily Grossman but his masterwork, Life and Fate. Its depiction of Nazism and Stalinism during the Battle of Stalingrad terrified the Soviet authorities and, so they said, could not be published for 200 years. The writer Jim Riordan uncovers Grossman s own life and fate in ajourney that takes himfrom Moscow to the battlegrounds of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) and the killing fields of Berdichev, Ukraine. Producer Mark Burman
With Liz Barclay and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke.
Helen Mark meets the people and wildlife of the British countryside. Extended
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Val Syms. When 11-year-old Warren accidentally wakes a fairy - played by Thelma Barlow - who has been asleep for 700 years and takes her home to his Mum and Dad, all sorts of interesting things start to happen. David Thorpe Director Chris Wallis
Each week a columnist advances a controversial view on a topical subject, then I isteners can take issue by telephone. Presented by David Jessel. Producer Nick Utechin PHONE: [number removed]
Yasmin Alibhai Brown appeals fora a charity that provides holidays forwomen in need of a period of rest due to social or economic circumstances. Producer Laurence Grissell
DONATIONS: Mary Macarthur Holiday Trust, [address removed] CREDIT CARDS: Freephone [number removed]
By Joanna Trollope. Read by Emilia Fox. Part 4. For details see Monday
4: The Plant Hunters. Plant hunters go to great lengths to track down their quarry. Leslie Forbes discovers that their trophies are still being recorded in great and beautiful detail by botanical artists. For details see Monday
Repeated from Sunday 4pm
Computer games often depict futuristic worlds, but what is the future of gaming itself? Technology currently allows gamers to gather together in a virtual computer world, where ever they are. But what will these new virtual realms look, feel and smell like? Quentin Cooper talks to the digital experts about emerging technologies that may enhance the senses, and finds out where gaming may take us over the next decade and beyond.
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With Eddie Mair and Carolyn Quinn.
Another edition of the sketch show about life, written and performed by people who've lived a bit of it. With Eleanor Bron , Graeme Garden , Neil Innes , Clive Swift , Roger Blake and Paula Wilcox , with music from Ronnie and the Rex. Producer Helen Williams
Alistair makes front page news. Repeated tomorrow2pm
Mark Lawson chairs another edition of the arts show, with a roundup of news, plus interviews and reviews. Producer Nicola Holloway
By AS Byatt. 4: Stephanie and the local curate, Daniel Orton , go for a day out at Filey Brigg. For details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am
A new series that explores why controversial policies, fashions and fads take hold.
1: Retarded Railways Chris Bowlby asks why the great British Railways modernisation plan of the fifties ran into the buffers, with dire consequences for today's rail travellers. Editor Nicola Meyrick
Twin Set. Double the trouble? Two for the price of one? Peter Day finds out what happens when twins go into business together.
Editor Stephen Chilcott Repeated on Sunday
Scientists in the USA recently claimed they'd found evidence that life was on the earth three-and-a-half billion years ago. Others argued that the claim wasn't true. Can we ever know when life - in the form of microscopic algae and bacteria - first appeared on our planet? Geoff Watts reports.
Producer Martin Redfern E-MAIL: radioscience@bbc.co.uk
With Robin Lustig.
By Sandor Marai.
The General reveals to his old friend what he learned after the hunt.
(For details see Monday)
The imitation round table discussion this week takes professionalism as its subject. Griff Rhys
Jones plays host Ainsley Elliot , with Melanie Hudson as his side-kick, Jude Prentiss. Guests include a former newsreader and judge of Anchor Hunt, the televised search for newscasters (Felicity Montagu ), a sewage engineer and stalwart of the after-dinner speech circuit (Geoff McGivern ), the poet in residence at British Nuclear Fuels (Mark Heap), and a renowned vivisectionist and director of Peaseblossom Life Sciences (Graeme Garden). Producer Jon Naismith
Written and read by Fay Weldon . Part 4
Repeated from 9.45am
