With the Rev Jenny Wigley.
With Miriam O'Reilly. Producer Julie Owen
With Sarah Montague and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.48 Thought for the Day
With the Chief Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Libby Purves and herguests engage in lively and diverse conversation.
Producer Chris Paling
Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
Presented by Jenni Murray.
10.45 The Berlin Diaries
Part8. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
Three programmes in which Esther Stone traces the fractured lives of children from broken homes.
Three years after they separated, Sally and Matthew are still not talking to each other. Their children would like them to stop behaving like little kids. Meanwhile, Dawn's four children have three different fathers. Family life is far from straightforward. Producer Brian King
No place like home?: page 38
By Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain, starring Lucy Speed. Why would a top London journalist be so interested that "love is all around" in Drumlin Bay? It seems the new editor of The Times of London is determined to boost circulation by turning the well regarded newspaper into a scurrilous gossipy rag.
With Liz Barclay and Winifred Robinson.
With Nick Clarke.
Host Chris Stuart presides over the popular science contest Joining Lewis Wolpert and Adam Hart-Davis this week are Johnny Ball and Monica Grady. Producer Martin Dempsey
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
A hypnotherapist can't persuade his lover of the value of his profession. Then one of his patients starts to recall moments from history in startling and very convincing detail.
Pippa Greenwood, Anne Swithinbank and Bunny Guinness are in the potting shed answering questions sent in by post. Eric Robson is in the chair.
Producer Trevor Taylor
Shortened
3: Pets by Steve May , performed by John Telfer. Ashley is a black and white cat of superior intelligence and great discernment. However, even clever cats can make mistakes. For details see Monday
Physicist Len Fisher reveals how to find the "sweet spot" of a hammer, and hit the nail (not the thumbnail) on the head every time.
(For details see Monday)
How do communities plan for a future when their livelihood depends on marketing the past? Laurie Taylor talks to Jane Nadel-Klein about her 25-year study of the fishing communities of Scotland's north-east coast.
Dr Raj Persaud investigates the pressing issues in psychology and psychiatry, hearing about mental health concerns from those affected, and pursuing the latest research with the experts. Producer Marya Burgess
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With Clare English and Eddie Mair.
This week's edition of the literary quiz features Philip Larkin as the "author of the week". Team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh are joined by Stephen Fry and Lynne Truss , James Walton is in the chair and the reader is Beth Chalmers.
Producer Dawn Ellis
Elizabeth won't let things be.
Repeated tomorrow at 2pm
John Wilson talks to the novelist Margaret Forster about her new book Diary of an Ordinary Woman. Producer Eliane Glaser
By Marie Vassiltchikov. 8: Missie tries desperately to help her imprisoned friends.
Fordetails see Monday Repeated from 10.45am
Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral conundrums behind one of the week's news stories. Michael Gove , Claire Fox , Steven Rose and Ian Hargreaves cross-examine witnesses who hold passionate but conflicting views.
Producer David Coomes Repeated on Saturday
The former chancellor Kenneth Clarke helps unravel the most delicate and fraught relationship in British politics. From Disraeli and Gladstone to Thatcher and Howe and Brown and Blair, the partnership beween a prime minister and his chancellor has been crucial to the success or failure of Government. In the first of these two programmes, Kenneth Clarke speaks to another former chancellor, Nigel Lawson , about his insights into being Him Next Door. Producer Mark Palmer
The view that the Earth in its earliest days was a barren wasteland is probably wrong. Science writer Gabrielle Walker travels to Greenland to see the evidence that life thrived as far back as geology can take us. She also hears that the Earth was fashioned by life itself, as the first organisms created their own environment. Producer Roland Pease
Shortened repeat from 9am
With Robin Lustig.
3: The Manager at The Kremlin. A refugee from the Russian Revolution finds himself running a successful night club in Montmartre. Read by Crawford Logan. Fordetails see Monday
This week cartoonist Steven Appleby goes in search of the secret meaning of life, said to be written on the skin of a silver sausage - which exists only in a dream. With Paul McCrink as Steven Appleby and featuring Rachel Atkins, Ewan Bailey, Nigel Betts and Rosalind Paul.
Comedy series starring Sean Foley and Hamish McColl. Featuring Michael Parkinson as himself.
When the double act have a rift in their partnership, Sean moves to the Antarctic. After ten years Hamish decides to go and find him.
A roundup of today's events in session and behind the scenes in committee.
Part 3. Repeated from 9.45am
