With the Rt Rev George Stack ,
Auxiliary Bishop in Westminster.
With Miriam O'Reilly and Anna Hill.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.48 Thought for the Day With Rabbi Lionel Blue.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
The first in a new series in which the BBC's disability affairs correspondent Peter White talks to figures from public life about their attitudes to their own disabilities. Today he revisits Superman actor Christopher Reeves , paralysed since 1995, to discuss his progress and the state of spinal injury research which his own involvement has financed with millions of dollars.
Producer Sue Mitchell Shortened repeat 9.30pm
Ben Silburn explores the process of perfect recall as he takes ajourneythrough the brain to retrieve a memory. We may pride ourselves on our ability to remember past events, but how accurate are the details we record?
Producer Adrian Washbourne Shortened repeat 9.30pm
Presented from Manchester by Jenni Murray.
10.45 The Old Curiosity Shop Partl4. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
BBC correspondents around the world look behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. Producer Tony Grant Repeated Monday 8.30pm
Poet Lemn Sissay chooses the pieces of writing that reflect his extraordinary life story. Fostered at birth by a white family who wanted him to become a missionary in Africa, Lemn was abandoned at eleven into the care of the Social Services. He has spent his adult life searching for his birth family and writing and performing poetry, to confirm his survival and existence. The readers are James Quinn and Juliet Ellis.
Producer Mary Ward-Lowery Repeated on Sunday 12.15am
With Peter White and Liz Barclay. The fourth report in the series on disability and employment looks at the examples of a disabled person trying to get work in the face of prejudice from would-be employers, another for whom employment doesn 't pay because of the vagaries of the benefit system and another who simply doesn't want ajob but feel they're being pressured into making applications.
With Nick Clarke.
With Helen Mark.
Extended at6.10am
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm
A monologue for two, adapted by Simon Brett from his stage play. There has been plenty of coverage of pregnancy from the woman's point of view, but what is it like for the baby? And which one of them is really in charge? Felicity Goodson plays both the mother-to-be and the extremely articulate embryo in a comedy of development and deliverance. Music by Sarah Travis Director Simon Brett
A columnist advances a controversial view on a topical subject, then listeners can take issue by telephone. Presented by David Jessel. PHONE: [number removed] LINES OPEN from 1.30pm Producer Nick Utechin
Helena Kennedy appeals on behalf of the charity Women in Prison.
Donations: [address removed] Credit-card donations: [number removed]
(Repeat of Sunday 7.55am)
4: Believe Me. Written by Ali Smith. A modern love song inspired by the Song of Solomon. Read by Tamara Kennedy. Fordetails see Monday
(For details see Monday)
Repeated from Sunday at 4pm
Imagine having a tiny computer chip implanted in our bodies which could monitor our health constantly.
This sci-fi fantasy may soon become a reality with the development of biofuel cells. Chemists have developed a miniature batterythat could run on bodily fluids and drive sensors to monitor our health. Quentin Cooper speaks to the researchers working on these devices.
Producer Pam Rutherford EMAIL: material.world@bbc.co.uk
With Eddie Mair and Carolyn Quinn.
Ross Noble comperes an evening of stand-up comedy from London's Comedy Store. Last in series. Producer Simon Nicholls
Goldilocks visits Grange Farm. Repeated tomorrow at 2pm
Mark Lawson's guests include the composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, whose work will be celebrated at the Barbican in London later this month.
14: Nell eavesdrops on a terrifying scene. For details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am
3: There Is No Alternative. Why did a decade which began with the centre-ground politics of Edward Heath end with the radical new conservatism of Margaret Thatcher ? In the final programme of this series on the 1970s, Ian Hargreaves considers the shifting political formations of those years. Producer ZareerMasani Editor Nicola Meyrick
Poverty Profits. Poor people the world over are normally ignored by multinational corporations because they have next to no money. Now there's a new message from management guru Professor CK Prahalad : companies can help the poor and their own profits by taking poverty seriously. Peter Day reports. Editor Stephen Chilcott Repeated on Sunday
Naming Nature. A group of British and American scientists intends to find every undiscovered creature on earth in the next 25 years. Tom Feilden finds OUt Why. Producer Martin Poyntz Roberts
Shortened repeat of 9am
9: James Bond finds a sign in the stars; Vesper's horizon watching is of a different hue. For details see Monday
Join master storyteller Smug Roberts for some true-ish tales, with a band fronted by Martin Coogan of the MockTurtles, plus Sean de Burca (keyboards), Andrew Stewardson (bass) and Tony Thompson (drums). 6: 21st-century Man. ProducerGraham Frost
By Grant Cathro and Alex Bartiette. 6: The dark enigmatic series about a man with a wasp in his head reaches a watershed as Alex goes in search of some other dream.
Producer Graham Frost
The Unequalled Self
Part4. Repeated from 9.45am
