With Dr Pauline Webb.
With Mark Holdstock.
With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rev Angela Tilby.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests explore the history of ideas as they discuss the events and inspirations that have influenced modern times.
Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of concepts and ideas on youth including the ancient Greeks, who sought to control it, the Renaissance celebration of its ideals, and today’s youth culture. Show more
Presented from Manchester by Jenni Murray.
10.45 A Walk on the Milky Way Part4. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
North Korean Refugees. It is the invisible exodus.
Tens of thousands of people have risked everything to ftee North Korea, some making it all the way to the South Chris Gunness investigates what happens when they get there and talks to some of the dedicated activists who have established the secret channels of escape.
Producer David Edmonds Editor Hugh Levinson Rptd Monday8.30pm
When PG Wodehouse was 19, he was living in Chelsea and jotting down ideas for stories, jokes and lyrics in three lined notebooks. John Bird pulls out some choice nuggets from these unpubhshed jottings, voiced by Tim Mclnnerny. Three Wodehouse aficionados provide footnotes to the writer's life: Robert McCrum , who is writing a new biography, author Norman Murphy and Sir Edward Cazalet , the writer's step-grandson. Producer Tony Staveacre
With Liz Barclay and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke.
Extended repeat of Saturday at6.10am
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm
A delicious and poignant comedy adapted by Stevie Davies from her own novel. Jess Copplestone has gladly taken on the care of her husband Jacob's three elderly relatives in the spirit of Chnstian charity. When Jacob walks out on her for a younger woman Jess's reserves of devotion are sorely tested.
Director Sara Davies
Stewart Henderson presents the problem-solving show that helps provide some answers to those irritating questions from everyday life. Phone [number removed] or email [email address removed]. Producer Joanne Coombs
Repeat of Sunday 7.55am
3: Everything But by Nick Burbndge. Paul acting career is failing fast as he struggles with his new roles of stepfather and househusband. When Lisa falls dangerously ill the relationships are put to the test. Read by Paul Moriarty.
4: "It was as if I was drowning in silence." Two men describe what it feels like to lose your hearing in adulthood. Richard Parker woke up one day to see his wife speaking but unable to hear her.
Michael Simmons is losing his hearing as he gets older. One feels cut off from the hearing world, but the other sees some benefits from his new-found deafness. For details see Monday
Mariella Frostrup talks to author Francis Spufford about childhood reading and considers the role that food plays in creating fictional characters. Repeated from Sunday at 4pm
Helioseismology is the study of "sunquakes", the sound waves that propagate through the sun's interior and appear at its visible surface. As in terrestrial seismology, astronomers are now able to measure millions of sound waves that cause the Sun to vibrate or ring like a bell. Quentin Cooper finds out how scientists can measure the internal structure and sub-surface "weather" of the Sun by studying these waves.
Producer Fiona Roberts EMAIL: material.world@bbc.co.uk
With Eddie Mair.
As an introduction to a new series, another chance to hear two episodes from the previous run of Vicki Pepperdine and Mel Hudson 's variety-meets-sitcom sketch show formula. 1:Breath of a Salesman
Written and performed by Mel Hudson and Vicki Pepperdine , with Martin Hyder , Jim North and Dave Lamb.
Producers Helen Williams and Claire Jones
A Sign! A Sign!
(Repeated tomorrow at 2pm)
Mark Lawson chairs the arts show and meets
William Gibson , whose new novel enters the world of logo design, viral marketing, stealth publicity and mysterious film clips found on the internet. Producer Rebecca Nicholson
Poet Brian Patten offers more children's verse to excite the senses, from Thomas Hardy to
Benjamin Zephaniah. 4: From Snowlight to Oranges For details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am
... the Germans had discovered that the Allies had cracked Enigma during the Second World War?
Professor Chris Andrew imagines what might have happened if the Bletchley Park codebreakers had failed to break the Enigma code.
Neurotic Nation. Counselling is one of the fastest growing industres in Britain as more and more of us are turning to chemical fixes such as Prozac or Ritalin. But is our mental health really getting worse? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto asks whether modern life is driving us crazy or whether we're just becoming a nation of neurotics.
Editor Nicola Meyrick Producer Jim Frank Rptd on Sunday at 9.30pm
The Energy Gap. Britain says no to nuclear power. Our gas supplies are running out. The coal mines have closed. So how will Britain be powered in 20 years' time? Miriam 0' Reilly investigates. Producer Alasdair Cross
With Robin Lustig.
Part 9. For details see Monday
A series of three Scottish 19th-century tales of terror and mystery, dramatised by Marty Ross.
1: The Captain of the Polestar. By Arthur Conan Doyle.
A Dundee whaling ship becomes trapped in the Arctic. Strange cries sound across the ice at night and a figure is glimpsed on the floes. Is it the captain's lost love come to reclaim him?
Director Bruce Young
John Suchet concludes his visit to Vienna with a programme that focuses on the Vienna State Opera and its association with Wagner, Mahler and Richard Strauss. See Tuesday for details
of the Week: Ripe for the Picking
Part 4. Repeated from 9.45am
