With Lavinia Byrne.
Presented by Miriam O'Reilly.
With Sarah Montague and James Naughtie.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Oliver McTernan.
Travel writer Nicholas Crane joins Jeremy Paxman to reveal the story of how Mercator, creator of the first modern map of the world, revolutionised navigation. His maps are still used byNasa-400 years later. Producer Ariane Koek Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
With Sheila McClennon from Manchester.
10.45 Drama The Love Child. Part 1. Drama rptd 7.45pm
Continuing the six-part drama documentary exploring the life of the British soldier down the centuries.
5: An Uneasy Peace by Nick Warburton , It is 1856 and Sergeant Francis Cutler (David Bradley ), stationed at Cawnpore with an East India Company regiment, is on the point of retirement from active service, but he has a secret reason for second thoughts about returning home to England.
Historical background is provided by Ian Knight and DrAnna Misra. Producer Sara Davies
By
Giovanni Guareschi. Dramatised by Peter Kerry.
3- Tales of the River Bank. The offer of a generous donation tempts Don Camillo to declare swimming an immoral pastime, much to the disconcertion or his flOCk.
Director Chris Wallis
With Winifred Robinson and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke.
Peter Snow hosts another fast-moving quiz featuring amateur teams from around the UK. This week Cardiff take on West Yorkshire.
Producer Paul Bajoria Repeated Saturday 11pm
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Bettina Gracias. Asha has recently arrived in London from India with her husband. She is shy, lonely ana left in the flat all day long- until some extraordinary visitors materialise and change her life.
Director David Hunter
Paul Lewis and guests are on hand to answer your personal finance questions. Lines open 1.30pm. Telephone [number removed]. Producer Chris A'Court
by Joanne Harris
Five new tales of magic, miracles, mystery, romance and humour.
Twenty years after their graduation a group of witches arrange a reunion. After the initial niceties, old rivalries and petty jealousies are fuelled by the ever-flowing wine, although thankfully a magic shield over the restaurant table protects the other diners from the spells cast as the witches demonstrate they haven't lost their magical abilities. Read by Pam Ferris.
Five legal revelations, presented by Deborah Bull. 1: What Can I Wear?Can you still wear a pair of pointy shoes or velvet britches on a London street? What are the implications of not wearing the correct dreSS in court? Producer Neil George
Sheila Dillon celebrates the role of yeast, mould and bacteria in food. Extended repeat of yesterday 12.30pm
Gavin Esler and guests roam the international agenda from politics to popular culture, sports to science, and art to anthropology. Producer Amber Dawson
With Clare English and Carolyn Quinn.
Back for a second week at the White Rock theatre in Hastings, East Sussex, regulars Tim Brooke -Taylor, Graeme Garden , Barry Cryer , guest
Bill Bailey , and chairman Humphrey Lyttelton provide homespun wireless entertainment for the young at heart. Colin Sell accompanies on the piano. Producer Jon Naismith Repeated Sunday 12.04pm
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: This series is available on six volumes of audio cassette. in addition to a specially designed box set, at good retail outlets orwww.bbcshop.com Call [number removed]
Brian seizes an opportunity. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Francine Stock reviews Virginia Woolf's Melymbrosia, a novel which was never published in her lifetime, and which has now been pieced together from more than 1,000 pages of manuscript. Producer Kirsty Pope
By Edith Olivier. Adapted by Lavinia Murray.
Agatha Bodenham is a lonely spinster, approaching 40 and living alone since the death of her mother. She remembers wistfully the imaginary friend of her childhood, Clarissa, and finds that she still seems able to summon her to her side as a companion. But Agatha is an adult and Clarissa is still a child.
(Repeat of 10.45am)
In an age where pluralism rules and everyone has the right to believe what they like, is there still a place for people who believe they've got a monopoly on the truth? Presenter Ernie Rea meets believers to find out what drives them. Producer Phil pegum
This week Dr Raj Persaud looks at a controversial newtreatment for serious anxiety disorders, EMDR, and investigates strategies to enable obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) sufferers to get on with their lives. Producer Marya Burgess
Phone the BBC Action Line: [number removed]
The Cuckoo. In the company of cuckoo expert Nick Davies from the University of Cambridge,
Mark Carwardine explores the private life of the bird who refuses to have nothing to do with parental care, and discovers some of the extraordinary mysteries of cuckoo behaviour gleaned over decades of research at Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire.
Producer Sandra Sykes Repeated tomorrow llam
Shortened repeat of 9am
With Robin Lustig.
Richard Pasco reads W Somerset Maugham's
1930s satire about contemporary literary poseurs. Abridged and produced in ten parts by Jane Marshall. 6: As a young medical student, William Ashenden becomes acquainted with the London literary scene.
Shortened repeat of Saturday 9am
Today's activity in session and in committee.
Parti. Repeated from 9.45am
