With Glen Jordan.
With Anna Hill.
With Sarah Montague and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Elaine Storkey.
Andrew Marr and guests set the cultural agenda for the week.
(Shortened repeat at 9.30pm)
Presented by Sheila McLennon.
10.45 Promenade Rock Part 6 of the Woman 's
Hourdrama. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
ELIZABETHAN ECHOES
In the first of five daily programmes this week, Dr Christopher Haigh , one of Britain's leading historians of Elizabethan society, goes in search of the connections between Elizabethans of the 16th and 21st centuries.
1: Monarchy. Dr Haigh, Elizabeth I's biographer, asks Douglas Hurd , Bernard Ingham and Ben Pimlott to compare theirexperiences with those of their Elizabethan predecessors, producer Phiiipseiiars Elizabethans past and present: page 123 The Regina monologues: page 35
Paul Kember 's contemporary adaptation of Agatha Christie 's story stars Dervla Kirwan and Adrian Dunbar and is set in England against the backdrop of international turmoil. Ayoung woman whose life has been devastated by the war in Afghanistan, and who has lost her husband and only child, turns to an Irish couple who may be able to offer her a chance of salvation - the promise of a miracle. But the price to be Daid for such a miracle could be too much to bear.
Producer Bruce Hyman Director Dirk Maggs
With Winifred Robinson and John Waite.
With James Cox.
Ned Sherrin returns with a new series of the wide-ranging music quiz. The first heat features contestants from the south of England. Producer Paul Bajoria Repeated on Saturday at 11pm
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm
By Ryan Craig and featuring Andrew Lincoln , from television's Teachers and This Life. Addled by working conditions at their comprehensive, two teachers do the unthinkable - they kidnap a pupil. Their aim: to take a stand for all teachers. Director Peter Kavanagh
Vincent Duggleby and guests are on hand to answer personal finance questions. Lines are open from
1.30pm. Phone [number removed]. Producer Chris A' Court
A week of Latin American short stories.
1:1 Sell My Dreams. When a woman is found dead in her car, Marquez recognises her as the purveyor of dreams he knew in his youth. Read by Andrew Sachs. Producer Lu Kemp
Food Intolerances and Aversions. Sheila Dillon investigates why more and more people are developing an intolerance of foods such as wheat and milk, and finds out if it's possible to learn to love the foods you 've always hated. See Choice on page 126. Extended repeat of yesterday 12.30pm
Ernie Rea in conversation with guests about the place of faith in today's complex world. Producer Liz Leonard
With Clare English and Carolyn Quinn.
Nigel Rees returns with a new series of the popular quiz. Exchanging favourite quotations and anecdotes this week are Dr Simon Thurley , Mitchell Symons , Simon Brett and Michael Coveney. The reader is William Franklyn.
Producer Carol Smith Repeated Sunday 12.04pm
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: A selection of recordings from this show is available on audio cassette at good retail outlets or www.bbcshop.com Call [number removed]
Cafe Chat at Glebe Cottage. Repeated tomorrow at 2pm
Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and reviews. Producer AasiyaLodhi
A ten-part series by Christopher Denys , starring Nerys Hughes.
6: The Punch and Judy Man. Joyce Pilton, fresh out of "finishing school", dips her toe in show-business when she auditions for Professsor Broadbent's Punch and Judy show, with disastrous results for Mrs Pilton's pampered poodle.
Director Sue Wilson Repeat of 10.45am
This week Jenny Cuffe follows a British doctor on a one-man emergency relief mission to Gaza. But how much impact can an individual contribution make in an area that remains one of the worst flashpoints in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict? Editor David Ross
Japan's Silver Society. Modern Japan has the most rapidly ageing population in the world and is renowned fortreating its elderly with reverence.
Rosie Goldsmith explores the truth behind the perils and pleasures of beingold in Japan.
Producer Rosie Goldsmith Repeated from Sunday
The first in a three-part series in which presenter Julian Pettifer examines the plight of Africa's wildlife in the face of Africa's human tragedy. Today he looks for answers in Morocco, Kenya, Somalia and South Africa.
The State of Africa
9.00pm R4 Julian Pettifer examines the uneasy bedfellows of politics and conservation tonight as he travels through Africa. The moral dilemmas are tricky: could you tell a desperate man that he cannot kill a rare bird that will feed his starving family? Should we be attempting to persuade African governments to save animals when their people are impoverished? If we want to share a glorious global wildlife, it seems we're going to have to pay for it. (Jane Anderson)
Repeated from 9am
With Claire Bolderson.
Brian Moore 's portrayal of an ordinarywoman in the middle of her life, seized by love for a younger man. Abridged in eight parts by Doreen Estall and read by Zara Turner. 6: Family loyalties are tested as Sheila and Kevin's marriage hangs in the balance. Producer Susan Carson
Shortened repeat of Saturday at 9am
A roundup of today's events at Westminster.
from There? Part 1. Repeated from 9.45am
