With Judy Merry.
With Mark Holdstock.
With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rev Rob Marshall.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Peter White talks to Alex Zanardi , a successful motor-racing driver who lost both of his legs in a crash. Zanardi talks about his accident and how he has learnt to walk again.
Producer Sue Mitchell Repeated at 9.30pm
Why did King Athelstan, the first king of all England choose Malmesbury as his final resting place? Guy Browning travels to Wiltshire to uncover the strange tale of the little town that had everything but still Stubbornly refused to grow. Producer Miles Warde
Presented from Manchester by Jenni Murray.
10.45Thea's Diary Part 4. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
BBC correspondents around the world look behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. Producer Tony Grant
Actress and Dead Ringers star Jan Ravens chooses the poetry and prose that reflects herfamily roots and the origins of her talent. She picks poems by Philip Larkin and Edwin Muir and pieces by Jane Austen and Victoria Wood.
Producer Mary Ward-Lowery Repeated on Sunday
With Liz Barclay and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke.
Extended repeat of Saturday at 6.10am
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm
By Adam Thorpe.
Patrick Malahide and Sylvestra Le Touzel star in this fictionalised event in the lives of the novelist Thomas Hardy and his second wife Florence. It is July 1921 and a production company has descended on Hardy's house to make a film of The Mayor of Casterbridge.
With Emma Woolliams and Scott Brooksbank
A columnist advances a controversial view on a topical subject with which listeners can then take issue by telephone. Presented by David Jessel. PHONE: [number removed] LINES OPEN from 1.30pm
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Patricia Greene appeals on behalf of the Mediae Trust. DONATIONS:[address removed] Credit-card donations: [number removed]
Producer Sally Flatman Repeated from Sunday at 7.55am
By Deborah Levy. 4: A Colder Place
Read by Souad Faress. For details see Monday
Presented by Brother Guy Consolmagno.
4: The Big Chill. Scientists now think that the universe will expand into a cold, dark, lifeless nothingness. Does astronomy ultimately put a full-stop on mankind's ambition to live forever? Producer John Byrne
Repeated from Sunday at 4pm
Quentin Cooper talks to the scientists who are studying the new area of terahertz rays, which span the gap in the electromagnetic spectrum between light and radio waves and have numerous applications in security, cosmetics and medicine. Producer Beth Eastwood EMAIL: material.world@bbc.co.uk
With Eddie Mair and Carolyn Quinn.
The odd and the even odder get an outing when Graffoe begins a new series. In this first programme he looks at some of the things about families that make him laugh. And his guest Art Malik will be featuring a preview of his new album, Art Malik
Reads the Ingredients of Marmite. Plus music from Antonio Forcione. Producer Jane Berthoud
Kenton gambles his chances. Repeated tomorrow at 2pm
Mark Lawson reviews the stage adaptation of Salman Rushdie 's Midnight's Children by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Producer Martin Smith
4: London, 1939. Thea is in London with her mother and brother awaiting her father but as war threatens and borders close, will time be on their side?
(For details see Monday) (Repeat of 10.45am)
The last in a series looking at how the modern nations of England, Wales and Scotland were born out of the chaos of the Dark Ages. Tim Whewell asks why the British have repeatedly returned to the Dark Ages to explain and to re-interpret their origins. And myth, he discovers, has been as important as fact in the formation of their national identities.
Too Much Stuff. The wealthy countries of the world no longer suffer scarcity and queues, at least as far as manufactured goods are concerned. Peter Day examines the challenges this change poses to companies who want to survive in the 21st century. Editor Stephen Chilcott Repeated on Sunday at 9.30pm
A new series of the topical science programme. Geoff Watts investigates the crisis hitting the nation's favourite fish. Cod stocks have dwindled to dangerously low numbers, but is it simply due to over fishing? New research suggests that a tiny creature no bigger than a grain of rice may hold the key to the cod's survival. In a race against time, scientists are launching their bid to save the fish from extinction. Plus a review of the week's top science stories. Producer Alexandra Feachem EMAIL: radioscience@bbc.co.uk
Shortened repeat of 9am
Griet's job as Vermeer's assistant is no longer a secret, but rumours that he will paint her have reached the market.
(For details see Monday)
Brian Hayes tells the remarkable story of Creighton Wheeler , victim of a tragicomic affliction, Splicer's Disease, in which letters, words and phrases are removed from speech as the sufferer is talking.
3: Bom to Be Wired. It's the late 60s and Creighton drops out of society and discovers that as long as he takes LSD everyday he can keep his Splicer's affliction under control. Unfortunately, it has terrifying side effects - he starts splicing uncontrollably in medieval French and joins the Conservative party.
Written and performed by Andrew McGibbon and featuring
Jon Snow , Alan Whicker , Paul Cook , Toby Longworth and Jan Ravens. Additional material by David Quantick
Producers Andrew McGibbon and Jonathan Ruffle
A series of four chapters, by four different authors, all of them imaginary, all straight out of the bestseller charts and none of them very good. This week, Chapter Three of Romany Cleff's debut novel, Shopping for Mr Wrong. Starring Michael Fenton
Stevens, Rebecca Front, Mel Hudson, Alex Lowe and Dan Tetsell. Written by Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell. Producer Lucy Armitage
A roundup of today's events in session and behind the scenes in committee.
Part 4. Repeat of 9.45am
