With Andrew Graystone.

With Miriam O'Reilly.

With Sarah Montague 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 at 9.30pm

With Jenni Murray. Drama: The Frederica Quartet: Still Life. Part 13. Drama repeated at 7.45pm

Ruth Richardson concludes the series with a look at how initiatives are catching on outside the traditional centres of the hospital and the practice
Surgery. Producer Nicky Barranger

Comedy-drama set in Renaissance Italy. 4: Fresh from his unorthodox training as a priest, son and heir, Salvatore has returned to Monte Guano with a peasant crowd of bretheren and sisteren, bent on making his family throw their wordly goods to a Bonfire of the Vanities. Desperate for Salvatore to take his rantings elsewhere Plethora has an ingenious plan to not only getting rid of the peasants but bumping up the state's dwindling coffers into the bargain.With David Swift , Sian Phillips , Graham Crowden , Saskia Wickham and others. Producer Dawn Ellis

With Liz Barclay and Winifred Robinson.

With Nick Clarke.

Lionel Kelleway hosts the wildlife quiz from the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Centre at Slimbridge in Gloucestershire and challenges the contestants on their knowledge of Madagascar, urban wildlife and caterpillars. Producer Sheena Duncan

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

Jan Woodhouse has a life-threatening allergy but not as life-threatening as her hobby, which takes her to head-spinning elevations from which her physician Dr Burns and her father Trevor, both amateurs at altitude, set out to rescue her.

BunnyGuinness, Bob Flowerdew and Roy Lancaster answer some of the questions posed by gardeners from Cambridgeshire. The chairman is Eric Robson.

3: Jane's 's Story by Philippa Gregory , the acclaimed historical novelist. Read by Helen Schlesinger. For details see Monday

3: Seeds Should Be Tried like Witches. Could keeping melon seeds in yourtrouser pockets give you a better crop of fruit? Caroline Holmes talks to Dr Robin Probert of the Millennium Seedbank
Project to assess the value of old seed-growing tips. For details see Monday

In January this year, the British Census of 1901 went online and received over a million hits, jamming the site and revealing a new found desire for people to trace their own genealogy. Laurie Taylor discusses the intense relationship British people have with their ancestors - often better than with their nearest and dearest. His guests are biographer andjournalist Kathryn Hughes , and Adam Kuper , professor of social anthropology at Brunei University.
Producer Jacqueline Smith E-MAIL: thinking.allowed@bbc.co.uk
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Side Effects. Prescription drugs often have side effects but while some are minor irritations others can be fatal. How are these side effects reported? And are they brought to the patient's attention fast enough? Graham Easton investigates. Repeated from yesterday

With Clare English and Eddie Mair.

Ross Noble hosts an evening of stand-up comedy from the Comedy Store, Manchester, featuring
Robin Ince , Gavin Webster and Justin Moorhouse. Producer Helen Williams

Siobhan fears the worst. Repeated tomorrow 2pm

With Francine Stock. Producer Nicki Paxman

By AS Byatt. 13: Frederica, cut off from family life at Cambridge, is fascinated by the brilliant poet don,
Rafael Faber. At home in Yorkshire, Stephanie gives birth to her second child.
For details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am

Michael Buerk chairs another series of live debates on the moral conundrums behind one of the week's news stories. Melanie Phillips, Michael Gove, Claire Fox and Steven Rose cross-examine witnesses who hold passionate but conflicting views.
Repeated Saturday 10.15pm

The first in a new four-part series about by-elections which have changed political history, Steve Richards examines the dramatic Orpington by-election in 1962. Producer Martin Rosenbaum Repeated from Sunday

Migrating birds, fish and even insects have all been found to use the earth's magnetic field to navigate their way across enormous distances. Recent research suggests that even bacteria sense the field but how they do it has eluded scientists for years. Peter Evans taps into animal magnetism as he meets researchers and sea turtles in North Carolina to solve the mystery of the animal compass and its host of uses.
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Libby Purves and guests engage in lively and diverse conversation. Shortened repeat from 9am

With Robin Lustig.

Teresa Gallagher continues to read Mary Lawson 's compelling novel about families and misconceptions. 8: Matt's moment has arrived. For details see Monday

Michael Feydeau, television's much loved Inspector Niblett , and David Pershore , the crime expert with form, are your hosts forthis evening's selection from the caverns ofcriminality. It will be a heady mixture of murder, intrigue, deception, murder and a touch more murder. David Pershore is the author of the true-crime bestsellers Nice Sit Down with Some
Horrific Murders. Written by and starring Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. Producer Adam Bromley

The continuing audio diaries by Salford's new poet-in-residence, as he brings a little culture to the deprived people of the North. 3: The Best Page Is a Rampage. Sir Ralph joins the list of writers who have found themselves under the oppressive jackboot of the law, when it turns out the skateboard he forked outL400 forwas stolen. Featuring James Quinn with Alison Darling , Jack Deam , Mark Chatterton , Stephen Hoyle and Jemma Thompson. ProducerGraham Frost

Three programmes in which Ray Brown recalls occasions when big stars played small venues.
2: / Know That Face. Memories of the night in 1962 when Bob Dylan dropped into a pub in Foley Street, London, to sing his songs.

Part 3. Repeated from 9.45am