With Dr Judith Champ.
With Mark Holdstock.
With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague.
6.25, 7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Jo Inde.
Self-Experimenting Doctors. Two pioneering doctors who carried out ground-breaking experiments on themselves share their unique stories with Olivia O'Leary. Producer Karen Gregor Repeated at 9.30pm
Scientific phenomena that delighted our scientific forefathers and are now pushing 21st-century medical science to new limits. 4: The fly's eye. Producer Louise Dalziel
Presented by Jenni Murray.
10.45 On the Banks of Plum Creek Part 7 of the Woman's Hour drama. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
In the last of the series, Aubrey Manninggoes underground at Great Orme mines in Llandudno,
North Wales, the biggest prehistoric mine in Britain. But how did the Bronze Age miners dig out the ore and turn it into shining bronze?
Producer Martin Redfern EMAIL: radioscience@bbc.co.uk
In the last of the series, Geoffrey Wheeler goes to Ayr, on the west coast of Scotland, to visit the Gaiety Theatre. In the heyday of variety, entertainers would hone their acts on Gaiety audiences before transferring to the A-list theatres of Glasgow. The Gaiety is famous throughout Scotland for its summer season, the Gaiety Whirl, now one of the last of its kind in the country.
With Winifred Robinson and Peter White.
Including at 12.30 Call You and Yours. PHONE: [number removed] Lines open from 10am
With Nick Clarke.
On 22 August 1903, a Somerset gardener was overheard singing The Seeds of Love by Cecil Sharp. Sharp went on to collect and publish almost 5,000 songs. But did he appropriate the culture of the rural working class or did he restore to the English their vanishing musical heritage? Malcolm Taylor explores the significance of this moment and of the song itself.
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm
In 1880 Thomas Hughes , the author of Tom Brown 's Schooldays, launched a Utopian community in rural America. He called it Rugby, a place where young English gentlemen could escape industrial Britain and work the land. This drama-documentary charts the rise and fall of the colony, using the speeches of Hughes, letters from members of his family who set up home there, and recordings made in Rugby, Tennessee, today.
Producers John Goudie and Phil Tiniine
Richard Daniel presents the programme about listeners' environmental concerns.
EMAIL: home.planet@bbc.co.uk Phone: [number removed] Address: [address removed] Producer Nick Patrick
7: Edie decides to revisit her past; first her childhood home, then the bridge where herfatherdied, and she finds herself drawn to the house where
Ricky Usedtolive. Fordetailsseeyesterday
Linda Smith continues herwry look at Britain's car parks. 2: Nicolette Gordon hunts down abusers of disabled-parking bays. For details see yesterday
Heather Payton and guests explore the world of the service economy and ask why we are willing to pay more for services at a time when we pay less for goods. Are we being ripped off? Producer Paul O'Keeffe
Sue MacGregor is joined by political commentator Tony Howard and financier Ivan Massow to discuss their selection of books, respectively Songs of the Rolling Earth by John Lister-Kaye , Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey , and Memoirs of Hadrian by Margeurite Yourcenar.
Producer Mark Smalley Repeated on Sunday at llpm
With Eddie Mair and Carolyn Quinn.
Actress Nerys Hughes talks about her career, including her roles in The Liverbirds and District Nurse - and about the importance of her family, her Welsh background and being upstaged by Elizabeth Taylor. Producer Claire Jones
Tragedy for Caroline. Repeated tomorrow at 2pm
Mark Lawson passes verdict on the latest novel by JM Coetzee, the first writer to win the Booker Prize twice. Producer Horatio Clare
By Laura Ingalls Wilder. 7: The corn is ready to harvest and Pa is looking forward to using the profits to pay off his debts. But the family are about to learn the meaning of "grasshopper weather". For details see yesterday Repeated from 10.45am
Navid Akhtar looks at the hidden clan network that governs the lives of Pakistanis resident in Britain.
He discovers that the biraderi that helped Pakistanis settle here more than 40 years ago is now threatening to destroy the community. Producer Emma Rippon Repeated Sunday at 5pm
Peter White with news of interest to the blind. Producer Cheryl Gabriel EMAIL: intouch@bbc.co.uk
Graham Easton explores the world of burns medicine, visiting a unit in East Grinstead that has pioneered plastic surgeryfor victims, and looks at the evidence for and against the use of evermore potent suncreams.
Producer Rami Tzabar Repeated tomorrow at 4.30pm See also Check Up on Thursday at 3pm
Repeat of 9am
With Paul Moss.
William Maxwell 's wise and elegant novel tells the story of how a childhood friendship is betrayed in the aftermath of a murder in rural Illinois. Decades later the narrator looks back on the deaths that shaped his early years and seeks to understand what really happened. Part2. For details see yesterday
New series A four-part show in which comedian Simon Munnery debunks the image of iconic characters. 1: The True Confessions of Sherlock Holmes.
Written and performed by Simon Munnery. Producer Ed Morrish
A rerun sketch show, written and performed by Neil Edmond , Justin Edwards and James Rawlings , in which they layout their 1,000-point plan of action. Producer Will Saunders (R)
Lucie Skeaping examines the history of sex in music -from Roman soldiers' marching songs and madrigals with the naughty words discreetly veiled by hey-nonny-nonnies to today's explicit lyrics in popular music. Producer Andrew Green (R)
a Tribute Part 2. Repeated from 9.45am