With Lynn Gallagher.

Presented by Miriam O'Reilly.

With Mark Coles and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Dr Lavinia Byrne.

Former foreign secretary Lord Carrington, and the Nigerian former head of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku ,join a panel of witnesses who give their verdict on Trevor Phillips 's series about the end of the British Empire. Producer Miles Warde Repeated9.30pm

In the last of the series, Quentin Cooper visits the archive of spirit drinks manufacturer Diageo to see how the company uses its 250-year-old heritage in its marketing and brewing today. The collection includes gin bottles dating back to the 1760s that Still Contain the original gin. Producer Andrew Luck-Baker

Presented by Jenni Murray.
10.45 The Frederica Quartet: Babel Tower Part 6 of the drama. Drama repeated at 7.45pm

Alan Dein traces the surviving participants of a unique experiment in the 1930s thattook hundreds of unemployed families out of north-east England and Wales, and relocated them as market gardeners in the Midlands and Home Counties. These pioneers, mainly from mining backgrounds, were given a small plot of land, a pig and some chickens. The organisation they created went on to create some of Britain's finest tomatoes and lettuces. Producer Matthew Dodd

- By Ray Connolly. Tim Merryman is a man just reaching the wrong side of 50, facing the trials of redundancy, the rampant advance of grey hair and the fact that his wife's career seems to be at its peak while his is in decline...... _
Director Dirk Maggs

With Winifred Robinson and John Waite.

With Nick Clarke.

The first round in the nationwide general-knowledge contest continues with contestants from the Home Counties. The chairman is Robert Robinson. Producer Richard Edis Repeated Saturday llpm

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

By Lekha Desai Morrison.
The first of three plays developed through the Chasing the Rainbow initiative, which sets out to find new black and Asian playwrights from the Midlands region.
Wife and mother Shushila retreats into a fantasy world, where she becomes a Lara Croft-like figure with supernatural powers. But, when her mother-in-law keels over, Shushila is terrified that she might have taken things too far.
Director Peter Leslie Wild

Vincent Duggleby and guests are on hand to answer your personal finance questions. Lines open from
1.30pm. Phone [number removed]. Producer Jennifer Clarke

Poet Stevie Smith 's most memorable poem ends with the words "not waving but drowning". To mark the centenary of her birth, five writers have turned her bleak phrase on its head. 1: Historian and novelist Stevie Davies evokes a memory of childhood that is part biography, part autobiography and entirely playful. Read by Helen Sheals. Producer Christine Hall

An account of four key days in the year by poet and novelist Lavinia Greenlaw. 1: Winter Solstice.
Maes Howe in Orkney is a burial chamber constructed thousands of years ago and later sacked by Viking tomb raiders. On the year's shortest day the setting sun shines directly onto the back wall of the stone chamber and floods the room with light and magic. With novelist Duncan Maclean. ProducerTim Dee

Repeat of yesterday 12.30pm

Ernie Rea in conversation with guests about the place Of faith in today's complex world. Producer Amanda Hancox

With Clare English and Carolyn Quinn.

Joining Nigel Rees to exchange favourite quotations and anecdotes this week are Frances Fyfield , Donna McPhail , Alan Plater and Terry Waite. The reader is Tim Gudgin. Producer Carol Smith Repeated Sunday 12.04pm

Oliver makes Ed an offer. Rptd tmrw 2pm

Mark Lawson talks to prize-winning novelist Nicola Barker about her new book. Producer Nicola Holloway

By AS Byatt. Dramatised by John Harvey in 15 parts. 6: It is Christmas 1964, and Nigel has followed Frederica and Leo to Yorkshire. But she is determined to go ahead with the divorce.
Director Jeremy Mortimer Repeat of 10.45am

Jenny Cuffe presents the first in a four-part series investigating new ideas forfightingcrime.A day of programmes called Cracking Crime features across BBCTV and radio on Wednesday.
1: Sticks and Carrots. Cuffe hears from members of a community safety team, based in East Brighton, who are trying out new initiatives to prevent, detect and combat crime. Producer Sheila Cook

3. Edward Stourton visits Philippi in north-eastern Greece to investigate the practicalities of being a first-century apostle travel ling thousands of mi les around the Mediterranean. Producer Phil pegum

Sparrowhawk. Mark Carwardine discovers why this bird of prey, traditionally associated with woodlands, is becoming so prevalent in urban gardens and if there's anything to be done to save the diners at the bird table from becoming dinnerforthe sparrowhawk. Producer Sarah Blunt Repeated tomorrow 11am

Repeat of 9am

Claire Skinner reads Elizabeth Jane Howard 's classic story of a contented marriage disrupted by the arrival of Arabella beautiful, rich and longing to be loved.
Abridged by Doreen Estall. Part 1. Producer Sarah Johnson

Shortened repeat of Saturday 9am

A series of documentaries capturing some of the defining characteristics of people and places heard on the BBC's local and national radio networks.
G Wing- inside Birmingham Prison. producer Paul Marriott

Parti. Repeated from 9.45am