With Bishop George Stack.
With Mark Holdstock.
With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
With Sean Curran and Mark D'Arcy.
7.48 Thought for the Day With John Bel
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Lively conversation with Libby Purves and her guests. Producer Chris Paling Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
With Jenni Murray. 10.45 Yaa Asantewaa Part 3.
Drama repeated at 7.45pm
6: Portmeirion. In 1925, when SirClough
Williams-Ellis acquired a North Wales peninsula, he described the location as a neglected wilderness which he would set straight. The village of Portmeirion is the remarkable result. Presenter Julian Richards , with the help of some of Sir
Clough's descendants, traces the tale of how Portmeirion arose. Producer Miles Warde
By Amanda Murphy.
Things come to a head when P.J. dumps Cassie. Does this mean that Pete and Cassie will finally get together?
Presented by Liz Barclay in Manchester and John Waite in London.
With Nick Clarke.
Today's panellists include Sir Clement Freud ,
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall , Barbados-born chef Sonya Kidney and Marguerite Patten. Producer Rebecca Wells
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm
By John Mortimer. In this last tale in the series,
Rumpole solves the conundrum of an ex-con who seems to have been redeemed, and one who evidently hasn't, while also seeking redemption himself.
Director Marilyn Imrie
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John Cushnie , Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Biggs answer questions from an audience in Blackpool and the Fylde College. Eric Robson is in the chair.
Producer Trevor Taylor Shortened at 2pm
3: The Little Willow, read by Emilia Fox. Lisby lives in the shadow of her two glamorous sisters but a new visitor to the house perceives her true worth. For details see Monday
3: Dollar. In a Liverpool market, Biglssue seller
Dollar pours out his domestic trouble down the line toAlanDein. For details see Monday
A belief in the deliberate spreading of plague is ancient but, as Laurie Taylor hears, the scapegoating of "plague propagators" has disturbing echoes in contemporary criminal justice systems. Producer Jacqueline Smith
Dr Raj Persaud grapples with memory and tries to answer the mystery of recollection. How do we know what we remember is what really happened? Just how far can memories be suggested and what impact does childhood trauma have on our brains?
(Repeated from yesterday at 9pm)
With Eddie Mair and Ritula Shah.
New series By Marcus Brigstocke and Jeremy Salsby with additional material by Graeme Garden. The return of Giles Wemmbley Hogg : traveller, backpacker, fearless investigator of cultural diversity, and upper middle-class student ponce from Budleigh Saiterton. This week Giles goes off f to ... Tanzania.
Producer David Tyler
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Ambridge gets political.
Repeated tomorrow at 2pm
Francine Stock and Claire Tomalin review Below
Stairs, 400 years of servant portraits at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Producer Rebecca Nicholson
By Margaret Busby. 3: The conditions in the fort are becoming desperate and the British Governor has finally recognised that he has a formidable opponent in the military strategy of the elderly Queen.
For details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am
Judges. Are Britain'sjudges out of touch with the nation? Could publicly elected judges be the key to shaking up the judicial system? Tonight's impartial commissioners are Dean of the London Business
School Laura Tyson ; head of the Countryside Agency Richard Wakeford and former High Dean of Manchester Grammar School Martin Stephen. Presented by Nick Ross.
Producer Sara Nathan Repeated on Saturday at 10.15pm
In the last of the series on famous by-elections,
Steve Richards looks back to the campaign fought at Eastbourne in 1990. After the Conservative MP Ian Gowwas killed by the IRA, surely voters would return another Tory - or could the Liberal Democrats overcome a 17,000 Conservative majority? Producer Peter Mulligan Repeated from Sunday 10.45pm
3: A Feeling for Snow. As climate change grips the high Arctic, Sue Armstrong meets the climatologists and wildlife scientists who are working beside the Canadian Inuit to gain a better understanding of the factors involved. Producer Louise Dalziel
Shortened repeat from 9am
With Robin Lustig.
By Boris Akunin. 3: Erast Fandorin has traced the mysterious beauty whose photograph he saw on the desk of the Moscow student whose suicide he is investigating. For details see Monday
A re-run of the comedy drama by Gerard Foster about a typically middle-class family.
Beverly hears the patter of tiny feet. Will the snails finally be usurped?
(R)
With Mark D'Arcy.
Part 3. Repeated from 9.45am
3.00 Together: 7-113.15 Time and Tune: 7-9 3.35 Words Alive: 7-9 3.50 Listen and Write: 9-114.10 Megamaths: 7-9
4.25 First Steps in Drama: 7-9 4.45 World Writing: 7-11
