With Dr Alison Elliot.

With Miriam O'Reilly.

With Sarah Montague and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.48 Thought for the Day With Dr Jeevan Singh Deol.
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.
Shortened repeat at 9.30pm

Melvyn Bragg discusses the powerful private trading company that redrew the map of India, built an empire and reinvented the fashions and the foodstuffs of Britain. Show more

Presented from Manchester by Jenni Murray.
10.45 Don't Step on the Cracks Part 4. Drama repeated at 7.45pm

The first one-day international in a triangular series with South Africa, culminating at Lord's on Saturday 12 July. Commentary from Trent Bridge by Jonathan Agnew , Henry Blofeld and Simon Mann , with expert commentfrom Vic Marks , Mike Selvey and Henry Olonga. Including News at 2.20pm.
Producer Peter Baxter * Approximate time

BBC correspondents around the world take a look behind the headlines. With Kate Adie. Producer Tony Grant

In 1961 the Temperance Seven gave George Martin his first number one before disintegrating in a haze of "artistic differences". In an emotional reunion, 42 years later, seven of the band tell Humphrey Carpenterwhat celebrity was like before the Beatles. Producer Miles Warde

Lone Parents and Work. Winifred Robinson puts questions to the chief executive of British Telecom, Ben Verwaayen. He is advisingthe Government on getting 70 per cent of lone parents into work by 2010. In his first major interview on the subject, Verwaayen tells Robinson that lone parents should regard work as an escape from domestic isolation ratherthan as a pay packet.

With Nick Clarke.

Explorations in the British countryside. Extended at 6.10am

Repeated from yesterday at 7pm

Based on the papers of an RSPCA officer who was sent to the Front during the First World Warwith a large fund to ease the suffering of the animals. Regular letters home reflect the terrible scenes he witnesses and his own close experience with death. Director Rosalynd Ward

The magazine series devoted to the world of numbers. With Andrew Dilnot. Producer Michael Blastland

Barry Cryer appeals on behalf of the National Eczema Society. Donations: [address removed]Credit-card donations: [number removed] Rpt of Sun 7.55am

Exposure. By Jessica Francis Kane , read by Kate Burton. An older author, achieving fame later in life, struggles with the demands of the publicity machine. She braces herself for the ultimate horror: the photo shOOt. Fordetails see Monday

Robin, a Seychelles magpie robin is moved to the island of Cousin in the hope that he will mate with Maggie, a female magpie robin. Will they raise a family?
(For details see Monday) (R)

Mariella Frostrup asks whetherwriting about northern childhoods can ever completely avoid flat caps and whippets. And the veteran American novelist Paula Fox explains the joys of being rediscovered again. Repeated from Sunday at4pm

imagine being able to shrink an entire lab down to a silicon chip the size of a postage stamp. These labs on a chip have the potential to make chemical processes faster, cheaper and more environmentally friendly. Quentin Cooperfinds out whetherthe chips will ever replace the test tube. Producer Jonathan Rides EMAIL: material.world@bbc.co.uk

With Dan Damon and Eddie Mair.

Paul Jackson talks to Ricky Gervais. Writer, actor, director, stand-up comedian, DJ and a former pop star, Gervais was recently named the most powerful man in comedy (in a Radio Times survey). Produced by Mario Stylianides and Katie Marsden

Fallon's hair-raising scheme.
Repeated tomorrow at 2pm

Francine Stock presents the arts show, and investigates why tales of Britain's nautical past remain SO popular. Producer Angharad Law

By Bettina Gracias. 4: Coconut Wishes. Pooja is desperate for her Dad to remarry and when she meets Mary the florist, she discovers all sorts of old wives' tales, which mightjust help.
Producer David Hunter For details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am

Hundreds of highly qualified doctors who have fled to Britain to escape persecution are currently working in non-medical jobs. Sarah Vermont meets a group of doctors who are trying to surmount the linguistic, professional and cultural barriers that prevent them from practising here.

Here Comes the Bribe. International business is still besmirched by corruption even though the companies deny it. Peter Day asks what it will take for international business to clean up its act. Producer Sandra Kanthal Repeated on Sunday at 9.30prn

Geoff Watts reports on the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
Producer Adrian Washboume EMAIL: radioscience@bbc.co.uk

With Claire Bolderson.

Bill Nighy continues to read George Orwell 's classic novel. 4: "No animal shall kill any other animal". For details see Monday

Laurence Howarth's sitcom set in the fascinating but misunderstood world of the pathology lab.

When a new coroner is appointed, Ruth sets out to persuade him that he should send the interesting autopsies her way.

Hillary Rodham Clinton Part 4. Repeated from 9.45am