With Kevin Franz.
With Mark Holdstock.
With Mark Coles and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Rev Dr Colin Morris.
Andrew Marr and guests set the cultural agenda for the week. Producer Alice Feinstein Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
Presented by Jenni Murray.
10.45 Penelope's Experience in Scotland
Part 1 Of this week's drama. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
On 4 May 1940 during wartime austerity, the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company embarked on a courageous goodwill tour of the Hague. Within days the German army had advanced and the company found themselves in the middle of an invasion.
Amid the chaos 21-year-old ballet member Annabel Farjeon kept a journal creating a unique perspective of the original Sadler's Wells troupe. With portraits of some of the Ballet's most celebrated characters including Margot Fonteyn , Frederick Ashton , Robert Helpmann and Ninette de Valois. The reader is Annabelle Dowler.
Producers Rosie Boulton and Nicola Humphries
Another yarn about Scotland's most celebrated doctor, in Sue Rodwell's new dramatisations of AJ Cronin 's comic stories. 4: Birth and Death. As the squabble overwho is the most up-to-date doctor gets more heated it takes a baby to teach Cameron and Rnlay a lesson in humility.
Producers Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howe
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: Adventures of a Black Bag. a six-part dramatisation of the first series. is available on audio cassette at good retail outlets orwww.bbcshop.com Call [number removed]
With Winifred Robinson and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke.
The nationwide general knowledge contest features the highest scoring runners-up. The chairman is
Robert Robinson. Producer Richard Edis RptdonSatatllpm
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm
Devised by the 78th Street Theatre Lab. In 1982 a Los Angeles truck driver, Larry Walters, tied 45 weather balloons to his aluminium lawn chair, climbed in and cut himself loose. He had planned to hover leisurely over his neighbourhood. Instead he rocketed 16,000ft into the sky.
Paul Lewis and guests are on hand to answer your personal finance questions. Lines are open from
1.30pm. Phone [number removed]. Producer Jennifer Clarke
By GK Chesterton. Adapted by Neville Teller.
1: The Crime of Captain Gahagan. Behind each Pond paradox lurks an odd story: "Women go so fast that they get no farther." The reader is Martin Jarvis. Producer Martin Jenkins
Cartoonists, editors, comedians and historians combine to help Martin Plimmer understand the origins and power of some of the great cartoon icons.
1: The Desert Island. Ursula Andress What brings you to these shores?
An island of adventure: page 29
Extended rpt of yesterday 12.30pm
Gavin Esler with the programme that examines the issues that are affecting people around the world. Producer Amber Dawson
With Clare English and Carolyn Quinn.
The perennial antidote to panel games this week comes from Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, where Sandi Toksvig joins regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden under the reluctant chairmanship of Humphrey Lyttelton. With Colin Sell at the piano. Producer Jon Naismith. Repeated Sunday 12.04pm BBC RADIO COLLECTION: A selection from this series is available on five volumes of audio cassette at good retail outlets or www.bbcshop.com Call [number removed]
The truth begins to unfold. Repeated tomorrow at 2pm
Francine Stock reviews the second film in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Two Towers. Producer Aasiya Lodhi
"We have travelled together before, Salemina,
Francesca and 1, and know the very worst there is to know about one another." First published in 1896, Kate Douglas Wiggin 's gently comic novel is about three young American tourists - and their earnest attempts to immerse themselves in Scottish culture. Dramatised by Patricia Hannah.
1: Salemina, Francesca and I. Penelope and her friends install themselves at Mrs McCollop 's Edinburgh boarding house.
Producer David Jackson Young Repeat of 10.45am
Simon Cox investigates how America's war on terror turned into the war against Iraq and examines how a triumvirate of think-tanks, talk-show hosts and conspiracy theorists have transformed Saddam Hussein from a distant foreign despot into the principal threat to American security. Producer Richard Vadon
Afghanistan. Nasir Saberi faces an uphill struggle-he's in charge of planning the reconstruction of Kabul, a city reduced to rubble by more than 20 years of civil war. His problems, as he explains to reporter Tim Whewell , are compounded by the huge influx of refugees who have returned to the city since the defeat of the Taliban a year ago. But the scale of his task is daunting and already he is becoming worn down by red tape and the lack of available funds. Editor Maria Balinska Repeated from Thursday
In the first of two programmes sound recordist Chris Watson makes an evocative and often surprising journey through a world of rhythms, sound and silence as he tries to escape the noise of everyday life. Producer Sarah Blunt
Repeated from 9am
With Claire Bolderson.
By Richard Rayner. Abridged by Lisa Osborne. 1: "It began with news of an elevator...."
Esko Vaananen is only a boy in turn-of-the-century Finland when he hears of the elevator, the newfangled invention that will shape his future. Read by Jared Harris. Producer Lisa Osborne
Repeat of Saturday at 9am
A roundup of today's events in session and behind the scenes in committee.
of the Week: Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling Part 1. Repeated from 9.45am
