With David Wilkinson.

With Miriam O'Reilly.

With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
6.25. 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.48 Thought forthe Day With Rabbi Lionel Blue.
8.32 Yesterday In Parliament

Libby Purves and guests engage in lively conversation. Producer ChrisPaling Shortened repeat at9.30pm

With Jenni Murray. The transition from child to stroppyteenager is one of the most stressful periods for most parents. Kate Rges , whose new book The Terrible Teens looks at this difficult period, gives advice on how to cope. 10.45 Drama Football Stories for Girls. Part 3. Drama repeated at7.45pm

In an absorbing interview with Dr Gillian Rice, Sri Lanka-born Sarojini Ariyanayagam unfolds the moving and painful story of how she came to terms with the skin condition vitiligo, which eventually caused her to lose the pigment over her entire body, to the extent that, moving from London to Miami where no one knows her history, she lives effectively as a white person.
E-mail: [email address removed]

Dr Mark Porter on vitiligo: page 40

The last in the series set in Renaissance Italy, starring David Swift and Sian Phillips.
6: Royal Wedding Blues. All is not well in Monte Guano. The countess Rosalie has confessed that she no longer loves Prince Ludovico, at which news he has flown into a rage so terrible that he ripped off the roof to three hen houses and ate a whole Brussels tapestry. Will the Princess Plethora be ahlp to save the dav?
Producer Dawn Ellis

With Liz Barclay and John Waite.

With Nick Clarke.

Nestled snugly in at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge, Lionel Kelleway puts three more naturalists through their paces as they compete for a place in the semi-finals. Producer Sheena Duncan

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

Adapted and directed by Mick Gordon. This unique collection of real-life experiences was developed at the National Theatre Studio and first performed at the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill, in London. The cast celebrate the mysterious force thatgoverns all our lives in ajoyful, often comic, sometimes tragic look at this thing called love. The actors are Elliot Levey , Kay Curram , Gabrielle Lloyd , Michael Hadley , Lucy Hadley , Lucy Aebischer , Lindsey Kelly , William Mannering and Doreen Mantle. producer Rosalind Ayres

John Cushnie , Pippa Greenwood and Roy Lancaster answer questions posed by gardeners in Middlesex. The chairman is Eric Robson.

3: Persephone. By Kate Cameron. Thirteen-year-old "Seffie" finds herself in a tug-of-love battle between her estranged parents - everyone is asking her what she wants and no one is listening to her answers. Read by Sarah Paul. Fordetails see Monday

3: How the Anansi Stories GotTheir Name. In which the great Mr Tiger is beaten by a tiny spider. Today's story from the Caribbean was adapted for radio and performed byten-year-olds from St Stephen 's primary school in Deptford, London, with original music they wrote themselves. For details see Monday

Laurie Taylor leads a weekly discussion on topical issues within our academic institutions and research bodies.
Producer Jacqueline Smith E-MAIL: thinking.allowed@bbc.co.uk

Healing. You might "rub it better" when a child scrapes a knee: but what can you do to speed up the skin's healing process? Honey has been used as a medicine for thousands of years and scientists are now exploiting its properties to treat wounds and burns. And, if the injury is a broken bone, what can be done to help the bone knit together? Dr Graham Easton uncovers the latest research in healing. Repeat of yesterday 9pm

With Clare English and Eddie Mair.

Lynn Ferguson 's bitter-sweet comedy series set on a tiny island on the west coast of Scotland.
1: Happy Returns. Irene Bruce is a barmaid frustrated with her "going nowhere fast" existence. It's her 33rd birthday and she plans to make it a good one. But the trouble with birthdays is that they tend to bring along a few surprises. The inhabitants of Millport decide this one isn't going to be an exception.
Producer Lucy Bacon

Sid's feeling old. Repeated tomorrow 2pm

Francine Stock with arts news, reviews, and an interview with Sam Raimi , director of Spider-Man, the film that has already topped the US cinema bOX-office Charts. Producer Erin Riley

By Katie Hims.
Carol works in a seaside diner. One day a famous footballer comes by and, taken by her Marilyn Monroe outfit, asks her to a game.
(For details see Monday) (Repeated from 10.45am)

Michael Buerk chairs a live debate on the moral conundrums behind one of the week's news stories. Michael Gove , Ian Hargreaves , Melanie Phillips and Steven Rose cross-examine witnesses who hold passionate but conflicting views.
Editor David Coomes Repeated Saturday 10.15pm

A series about by-elections that have changed political history. 3: Steve Richards examines the dramatic Lincoln by-election of 1973.
Producer Martin Rosenbaum Repeated from Sunday 10.45pm

1: From Plankton to Petrol Pump. Howard Stableford presents the first of two programmes that give the lowdown - in a rather unusual way - on the world's most precious resource: oil.
Producer Mary Colwell E-mail: radioscience@bbc.co.uk

Shortened repeat from 9am

With John Kampfner.

8: Christmas has come. While Jamesie and Mary visit their son in Dublin for the first time, Ruttledge pays a call on the elusive Patrick Ryan. Fordetails see Monday

By Chris Douglas , Andrew Nickolds and Nick Newman. 1: Eat the Dream. Pod makes a bid to run the opening ceremony of the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
With Chris Pavlo and Nicola Sanderson Producer Richard Wilson

Part 3. Repeated from 9.45am