With the Rev Stephen Wigley.
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 Harvey Thomas.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Libby Purves and guests engage in lively and diverse conversation.
Producer Chris Paling Shortened repeat at9.30pm
from 10.40With Jenni Murray. Drama: The Frederica Quartet: The Virgin in the Garden. Part 8. . Drama repeated at 7.45pm
Benson and Hedges Cup: Quarter Finals
Commentary on the remaining three quarter-finals.
-- Producer Peter Baxter * Approximate time
The second of a three-part series in which medical historian Ruth Richardson looks at health provision from the point of view of the patient. What makes the British patient tick? Producer Nicky Barranger
Comedy drama set in Renaissance Italy. 3: Plethora decides it's time for son and heir Salvatore to be ordained as a priest by nonagenarian Father Ignazio. With David Swift , Sian Phillips , Graham Crowden , Saskia Wickham and others. Producer Helen Williams
With Liz Barclay and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke.
Lionel Kelleway hosts the wildlife quiz from the great oak hall at Westonbirt, the National Arboretum, Gloucestershire. Among today's contestants are a botanist with a penchant for "squidge" and a writer and broadcaster who likes nothing betterthan the scent of a dead seabird's wing. They are tested on their knowledge of bears, butterflies and the Seychelles. Producer Sheena Duncan
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Hideo Takeuchi from the novel by Kiyoko Murata. Adapted by Lavinia Murray.
A Japanese story transferred to 18th-century England. Due to severe food shortages, Ruth is one of seven elderly villagers required to seek survival on nearby Bracken Hill. Exile brings unexpected pleasures as well as hardships but will their ingenuity last until autumn and the promise of a return to the village?
Bob Rowerdew , Anne Swithinbank , Bunny Guinness, Pippa Greenwood and John Cushnie are at Sparsholt College in Hampshire, home of the Gardeners' Question Timegarden, forthe programme's first-ever roadshow. The chairman is Eric Robson.
The belle of the Chelsea ball: page 32
By Joanna Trollope. Read by Emilia Fox. Part 8. For details see Monday
Rory Maclean celebrates the wonder, frustration and audacity of building his own plane in Crete. 3: Helping Icarus For details see Monday
This week, Laurie Taylor prepares for the World Cup finals and takes a look at the relationship between alcohol and football. He talks to Wray Vamplew , Research Professor from the Department of Sports Studies at Stirling University and author of Mud, Sweat and Beers: a Cultural History of Sport and Alcohol. Producer Tony Phillips E-MAIL: thinking.allowed@bbc.co.uk
Does the sunshine cheer you up after the bleak days of winter or does the pollen it brings mean streaming eyes and a snotty nose? Graham Easton finds out just what being "under the weather" means.
(Repeated from yesterday)
With Clare English and Eddie Mair.
Ross Noble hosts an evening of stand-up comedy from the Comedy Store, Manchester, featuring Toby Foster , Steve Gribbin and Julia Morris. Producer Helen Williams
A close shave for Brian. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Francine Stock interviews the writer Linda Grant and discusses a film which charts the life of the painter JaCkSOn Pollock. Producer Sally Spurring
By AS Byatt. Last part of the first novel in the quartet. 8: Frederica is determined to win Alexander's love and Marcus becomes increasingly worried by Simmonds's disturbing behaviour.
For details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am
The last in the series of debates on the nation's moral health comes from Amnesty International in London where Edward Stourton asks if, despite our hopes for a better world, we are sinking once more into a culture of cruelty and violence.
Editor Michael Blastland Repeated Saturday 10.15pm
In the last of his four essays on the lives of prime ministers afterthey leave office, Tony Howard muses on those who have seen their reputations rise and fall with the fashions of the time. Producer Dominic Black Repeated from Sunday
Fear is required for our survival, but when it is not regulated it becomes responsible for anxiety and some of the symptoms of depression. As new brain imaging techniques uncoverforthe first time the processes underlying human emotion, Peter Evans examines how seeing our feelings reveals a range of new insights-from enhancing the storage of memories, to the causes and treatments of psychiatric disorders.
Producers Adrian Washbourne E-mail: radioscience@bbc.co.uk
Shortened repeat from 9am
With Robin Lustig.
By Mary Lawson. 3: Aunt Annie arrives to take charge but Luke has other plans. For details see Monday
Michael Feydeau-TV's much loved Inspector Niblett - and David Pershore , the crime expert with form, are your hosts forthis evening's selection from the caverns of criminality. They serve up a potent brew of deceit, fraud, the occult and a dash of murder.
Michael Feydeau is the celebrity editor of The Oxford Big Book of Famous Slayings. Written by and starring Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. Director Adam Bromley
The continuing audio diaries by Salford's new poet-in-residence, as he brings a little culture to the people of the North.
Ralph immerses himself in the real world poetry heard in a Salford chippy. But is the attractive single mum who works there fast becoming his muse?
Featuring James Quinn
Repeated from 9.45am
