With Archimandrite Ephrem Lash.
With Anna Hill.
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 Anne Atkins.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Melvyn Bragg and his guests explore the history of ideas as they discuss the events and inspirations that have influenced modern times. Producer Sarah Peters Repeated at 9.30pm
Melvyn Bragg discusses Redemption, crucial for Judeo-Christian thought but can it retain its value in a world without God? Show more
Presented from Manchester by Jenni Murray.
10.45 Humans and Other Animals
4: The Cost of ThingsDrama repeated at 7.45pm
Ukraine. Since independence, the pride of Ukraine's heavy industry are now working in appalling conditions in mines that have become deathtraps. George Arney asks why men continue to be sent to these mines.
Producer Tanya Datta Repeated on Monday
Who is poetry for? Poet Andy Croft passionately believes that poetry is for everyone, and to prove it he spends a week at the Meadows school in Durham, teaching a group of difficult and challenging youngsters howto write poetry. Reporter Caroline Beck finds out if, after a week, Croft still has his muse intact. Producer Andy Cartwright
With John Waite and Winifred Robinson. Including a special report on anorexia.
With Nick Clarke.
Extended repeat of Saturday at6.10am
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm
By Amanda Dalton.
In Alan's mind, it's 1969 and he is an astronaut, floating in space. In fact, it's 2003 and Alan is suffering from dissociative amnesia. He shares a secret with his sister that he has suppressed, until a shock fragments his fragile world and his memory begins to return. Told through poetry and prose...
The subject for the health phone-in this week is ears and earache. Presented by Barbara Myers with ear specialist Professor Tony Cheesman. Phone
[number removed] or email checkup@bbc.co.uk. Producer Geraldine Fitzgerald
Repeat of Sunday 7.55am
By Thomas Steinbeck. 4: Blighted Cargo.
Simon Gutierez O'Brian begins a new career as a blackleg smuggler. He is not simply a common contrabandist of uncustomed rotgut but a bootlegger of souls. Read by William Hope. For details see Monday
Actor and director David Tse explores the lives of British-born Chinese.
4: Creating Ourselves. A film-maker, a pop musician, a playwright and a comedian talk about how a British-Chinese upbringing has helped them to find their creative voices. For details see Monday
Mariella Frostrup talks to one of the world's bestselling writers of fiction, John Grisham. Repeated from Sunday at 4pm
It's National Science Week from 7-16 March.
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of this event, the programme looks at how science is being explored in more accessible ways.
Producer Sarah Empey EMAIL: material.world@bbc.co.uk
With Carolyn Quinn and Eddie Mair.
A new series of the sketch show about life, written and peformed by people who've lived a bit. Find out the mature attitude to dieting and going to the gym. And meet "the Woman Who Always Says the Wrong Thing". Starring Eleanor Bron , Clive Swift , Graeme Garden , Roger Blake and Neil Innes. With special guest Pam Ayres. Producer Claire Jones
William gets it in the neck. Repeated tomorrow at 2pm
Mark Lawson introduces the latest arts news, reviews and interviews.
Producer Robyn Read
By Emma Donoghue , starring Pauline McLynn and James Ellis. Five comic dramas about the different types of relationships we have with animals. 4: The Cost of Things. When their cat Cleopatra gets sick,
Liz and Sophie have differing ideas of how much they should spend on vet's bills.
For details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am
There are thousands of Rastafarians in Britain but the common image of the movement doesn't go beyond dreadlocks, ganja, trouble with the police and reggae music. In the first of two programmes,
Rastafarian dub poet Benjamin Zephaniah travels to Jamaica to discover the roots of Rasta. Producer Jolyon Jenkins
Strange Bedfellows. The sexual revolution seemed at first to signal a rejection notjust of marriage, but of the state's role in regulating relationships. Thirty years on, gay couples are demanding something akin to legal marriage and unmarried heterosexual couples want greater legal recognition. Margaret Doyle asks why, in a climate of laissez-faire, the country is still so keenforthe state to interfere in our private relationships.
Editor Nicola Meynck Producer Innes Bowen Repeated on Sunday
There have been cases of people picking up infections from contaminated blood supplies. Can we guarantee blood that is free from infection? Presented by Geoff WattS. Producer Roland Pease
With Robin Lustig.
Terry Wale reads the spoof mountaineering memoir by WE Bowman.
4: " For the second time on the expedition I doubted my own sanity."
For details see Monday
Comedian Guy Browning provides practical life-coaching in the big small challenges of life.
1: How to Poach an Egg. " Eggs are no different from most people. Drop them into hot water and they go to pieces." Producer Jonquil Panting
When Joan Chitty calls around unexpectedly, John's silver wedding plans are thwarted.
Written and performed by Graham Fellows.
A roundup of today's events in session and behind the scenes in committee.
Part 4. Repeated from 9.45am
