With Lynn Gallagher.
With Miriam O'Reilly.
With James Naughtie and John Humphrys.
6.25, 7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought forthe Day With Rev Joel Edwards.
Libby Purves and guests engage in lively and diverse Conversation. ProducerChrisPaling Shortened repeatat9.30pm
Presented by Jenni Murray.
10.45 The Frederica Quartet: Babel Tower Part 8 of the drama. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
Twenty years ago, at the height of the Lebanese civil war, Swee Chai Ang left her job as a London surgeon and set off for Beirut. Now she revisits the Palestinian refugee camps where she worked and witnessed the infamous massacre. She encounters old friends, colleagues and survivors as she remembers the past, and finds out how life has changed for them. She also meets a former member of the Christian right-wing Phalange militia - an implacable enemy of the Palestinians during the civil war.
Comedy series by Emma Clarke about a group of retired private investors, the Cheadle Chancers. 2: Conference Call. Maureen arranges the club's annual trip. But, instead of being lauded at a private investors' conference, somehow the Chancers end ud at the Bronte Parsonage Museum.
Original music by Big George Director Jim Poyser.
Liz Barclay and Winifred Robinson explore the subject of crime prevention.
With Nick Clarke.
The radio treasure hunt, presented by Pete McCarthy. Guests this week include Hilary Kay , Gerry Hanson and David Stafford. producer Sarah Rowlands
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
Robert Shearman 's comedy is set in a variety of restaurants as two very different ladies keep meeting for lunch -their only link being Colin.
Director Janet Whitaker
Shortened
3: Everybody's Different by Sophie Hannah.
When Anna's nesting instincts take over during her pregnancy, it'sjustice she most craves, not new decor and dimmer switches. Read by Lisa Coleman. For details see Monday
On Midsummer's Day, Blakeney Point in Norfolk is flooded with light and ozone as the North Sea and the muddy backwaters of the salt marshes nourish countless breeding birds that make it their home for a few weeks.
With artist Greg Poole. For details see Monday
Laurie Taylor patrols the thin blurred line between the police and media crime reporters, and hears the latest research on how press coverage may shape public perceptions of crime and its impact on the criminal justice system.
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In the first of a new series, Dr Raj Persaud meets clinical psychologist Oliver James, whose new book focuses on the nature/nurture debate. His thesis is that who we are is largely the result of the way we were cared for during our first six years, rather than our genes or other environmental factors.
With Clare English and Nigel Wrench.
rMark Steel returns with a new six-part series of comedy lectures. Once more he delves into the lives and works of people with passions, whose ideas and enthusiasm shaped their generation. His first subject is composer Ludwig van Beethoven. With the help of Martin Hyder and Mel Hudson. Producer Lucy Armitage
It's David's round. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Francine Stock reviews the first night of Chekhov's
Uncle Vanya (in a new version by Brain Friel), one of Sam Mendes 's last productions as artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse. Producer Kirsty Pope
By AS Byatt. Dramatised by John Harvey.
8: It is the day of Frederica's divorce hearing, but she is unprepared for the very public attack from her husband's lawyers. Fordetailssee Monday Repeat of 10.45am
Subsidy Culture: Can British Farming Survive without State Support?Are subsidies the greatest obstacle to international trade and the growth of developing countries orthe only reason Britain's beleaguered farmers survive at all? Nick Ross and team ask whether farming can ever be free from them. Producer Sara Nathan Repeated Saturday 10.15pm
The devolution referendums of 1997 progressed in different ways. In Scotland the late Donald Dewar's campaign for the "Yes-Yes" option - to set up a new Scottish Parliament and to give it the power to vary taxes - received resounding approval in the polls. But Wales was to be offered an assembly without the tax-raising option, and the result was in doubt until the last moment. In the last of the series, Huw Edwards reports on two ways to win a referendum.
(Repeated from Sunday 10.45pm)
A new season of the science documentary series begins. We've come a long way since the ancient
Egyptians believed that our dreams were messages from the gods. But even Freud's Interpretation of Dreams is old hat. New advances in our understanding of the brain mean scientists now know far more about how dreams are generated and what may cause their hallucinatory nature. But what they still don't know is why we dream. Peter Evans investigates. Producer Alexandra Feachem
Shortened repeat from 9am
With Robin Lustig.
Claire Skinner continues to read Elizabeth Jane
Howard's classic Story. Part3. For details see Monday
1: Radio Mustard. The comedy sketch show returns with more extraordinary archive radio recordings from the past two millennia of the wireless. This week, the First World War. Written and performed by Claire Downes , Hazel Grain , Al Holloway , Ben Kozo ,
Stuart Lane and Patrick McNamara. Producer Sean Grundy
Actor and writer Andrew Clover encourages his guests to confront autobiographical truths about themselves by guiding them through an improvised mythical fairytale with hidden meanings. The result is moving, sometimes funny and startlingly revelatory. Producer Gary Reich
The Gloucester-Sharpness Canal, the River Severn and Gloucester Docks have all proved vital in bringing trade and prosperity to the county. Over the years, thousands of people have depended on the waterways for their livelihood.
Repeated from 9.45am