With Dr Alison Elliot.
With Mark Holdstock.
With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton.
6.25, 7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day
With the Rev Dr Colin Morris.
Andrew Marr and guests set the cultural agenda for the week Producer Alice Feinstein Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
Presented by Jenni Murray.
10.45 Don't Step on the Cracks
Partlofthe Woman's Hour drama. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
Ian Peacock dons his thinking cap fortes new three-part series of the programme that rethinks the way we think. From the womb to the grave, how do those little grey cells keep our minds active? Ian Peacock finds out how babies think and whether we can do anything to help them turn into little Einsteins. Producer Alexandra Feachem
A comedy drama series by Ray Connolly.
3 After the Gold Rush. Tim's firstjob interview with the youthful and exuberant entrepreneurs at plumray.com leads to a number of entertaining blunders en routeto a catastrophe with a yucca plant-but at least Amy still fancies him.
Producer Louis Armitage Director Dirk Maggs
With Winifred Robinson and Peter White.
With Nick Clarke.
Celebrating its own golden jubilee, the Mount
Everest of all general knowledge quizzes begins new series with its first round starting in London.
Chaired by Robert Robinson. Including Beat the Brains, in which listeners can puttheirown questions to the contestants.
Producer Richard Edis Repeated on Saturday at llpm
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm
by Vicky Payne
Starring Frances Barber and Geoffrey Whitehead.
When Greg gets a new lover, he and his family end up with a lot more than they bargained for.
Paul Lewis and guests answer questions on personal finance. Producer Diane Richardson
The first of this week's five stories by Jessica Francis Kane. 1: How to Become a Publicist
Abridged by Joanne Reardon and read by Elizabeth McGovern. A young graduate moves to New York to start herfirstjob as a book publicist. She discovers that the world of publishing is not as literary as she had anticipated.
Producer Emma Harding
Sitting in the glittering waters of the Indian Ocean is the archipelago of the Seychelles - every island a treasure trove of extraordinary plants, wildlife and landscapes to explore. For five weeks, the island of Aride was home to scientist and journalist Stuart Blackman.
Having just arrived on the island, Blackman has to learn how to share his hut, and his breakfast, with a menagerie of furry, feathered and scaly friends.
From pike to perch and from grayling to gudgeon, Sheila Dillon takes to the riverbank to savourthe delights of freshwater fish. Extended repeat of yesterday
Gavin Esler explores the issues which unite and divide us across the globe, from art to anthropology; sport to science; and politics to popular culture. producer Amber Dawson
With Clare English and Carolyn Quinn.
The panel show comes this week from the Princess Theatre in Torquay. Tim Brooke-Taylor,
Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer are joined by Jeremy Hardy. Producer Jon Naismith Repeated Sunday 12.04pm
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A Sting for Eddie's wallet. Repeated tomorrow at 2pm
Mark Lawson presents the arts show, and reports on a major retrospective exhibition of work by the artist Bridget Riley , famed for her stripe paintings. Producer Nicola Holloway
1: Don't Step on the Cracks bySueTeddern.The first of five plays that take a quirky look at old wives' tales. Kirsty is going on her first date in years but she steps on a crack on her way to the Tube.
Director Emma Ashby Repeat of 10.45am
Early Retirement
Hailed as part of the promised leisure age when we would all work less but earn more, the reality of early retirement was, for many, pensioner poverty, as over-50s were pushed out of the work force. Now that we are all being told to work even longer, Chris Bowlby asks what became of our early retirement dreams. Producer SmitaPatel
Fear of the night is universal. Without a torch, Chris Yates sets out on foot into the darkness of the Wiltshire countryside. In this documentary, his only companions are his 12-year-old son William, and William's friend. It's way past their bedtime and there's talk of bigcats in the wood. Producer Dan Shepherd
Arguments rage over the effects that domestic and feral cats have on British wildlife, often without any real evidence. This programme explores the social lives of our cats and examines the hard evidence for their predation on native mammals, birds and reptiles. With Paul Evans.
(Repeated tomorrow at 11 am)
Repeated from 9am
With Robin Lustig.
In celebration of George Orwell's centenary, Bill Nighy reads the world-famous fable of a revolution that went wrong. Abridged in five parts by Richard Hamilton.
The old pig, Major, speaks to his fellow animals - and the animals take over the farm.
Shortened repeat of Saturday at 9am
A roundup of today's events at Westminster.
Part 1. Repeated from 9.45am
