With Richard Major.
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 Susan Hulme.
7.48 Thought for the Day With John Bell.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Lively conversation with Libby Purves and her guests. Producer Chris Paling Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
With Sheila McClennon , whotalksto DaisyDonovan about her new series, Daisy, Daisy.
10.45 The Eye of the Day: the Story of Mata Han Part8. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
2: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. Adam Hart-Davis explores the life of a draperfrom Delft who never visited a university or wrote a book but, through his ability to produce tiny powerful microscopes, discovered a brand new miniature universe and is now regarded as the father of modern microbiology. Producer John Byrne
New series By Jonathan Coe , adapted by Simon
Littlefield.Thisfour-parttale of musical, political and sexual passion in 1970s Birmingham is for anyone who ever experienced adolescence the hard way. 1: The Chick and the Hairy Guy
Producer Lucy Armitage
The growing pains of Ben Trotter: page 125
Presented by Liz Barclay in Manchester and John Waite in London.
With Nick Clarke.
New series Gyles Brandreth chairs the quiz show celebratinggossip, scandal and controversy. Team captains Anthony Holden and Stella Duffy are joined by Rosie Millard and Jenny Colgan. Producer Elizabeth Freestone
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm
By Toby Jones and Ed Kemp. Toby Jones is looking for somewhere he can afford to live in London and finds himself holed up in a damp room in Kensal Rise, near Notting Hill. Plagued by the nagging thought that he should give up house-hunting, contrive his own disappearance and seek adventure elsewhere he is invited to audition forthe film
Notting Hill. This is a comic tale based on the true story of how Toby met Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts , how he ended up on the cutting-room floor, and how he began to feel he was being deleted from his own life. Performed by Toby Jones , featuring a cameo by Hugh Grant and radio spot effects by Rebecca Kirby. Director Katherine Beacon
John Cushnie , Bob Fiowerdew and Matthew Biggs answerquestions sent in by listeners in Northern Ireland. Chaired by Eric Robson.
Producer Trevor Taylor Shortened at 2pm
3: Where Your Wings Were. A young boy confesses his dreams of girls and women to his priest. While he tries to ward off these nightly visitations he finds himself visited instead by an angel. For details see Monday
No matter where or why they are fought, wars lead to memorials and monuments. Laurie Taylor hears how no memorial is immune to interpretation and Unsympathetic use. Producer Jacqueline Smith
Children as young as seven have a negative picture of mental health, according to the latest research in the USA. In this week's programme Raj Persaud looks at what can be done to counter such prejudice among young people and asks what role children's literature has to play. Repeated from yesterday at 9pm
With Eddie Mair and Ritula Shah.
By Marcus Brigstock and Jeremy Salsby with additional material by Graeme Garden.
Giles Wemmbley Hogg - traveller, backpacker, fearless investigator of cultural diversity and upper middle-class student ponce from Budleigh Salterton. This week, Giles goes off to... Cuba.
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Alan gets persuasive.
Repeated tomorrow at 2pm
Mark Lawson presents the arts show.
Producer Nicola Holloway
8: Mata Hari finds real love for the first time.
For details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am
New Series Michael Buerk chairs a live debate in which Michael Gove , Steven Rose , Melanie Philips and Ian Hargreaves cross-examine witnesses with conflicting views on the moral complexities behind one of the week's headlines.
Producer David Coomes Repeated on Saturday at 10.15pm
Michael White finds out why the parliamentary practice of pairing can be a matter of life and death. Producer Paul Vickers Repeated from Sunday 10.45pm
The combination of attractive and repulsive forces in a concentrated beam of laser light is sufficient to grab and hold tiny particles. Known as "optical tweezers" or "optical traps", scientists are now harnessing these extraordinary effects to investigate the behaviour of matter at a nano-scale. Peter Evans talks to scientists who are developing and using these optical tweezers in a variety of different fields - from stretching a single fibre of muscle to building tiny motors that one day might power a "lab on a chip". Producer John Watkins
Shortened repeat from 9am
With Robin Lustig.
By Peter Carey. 3: Sarah learns the consequences of Chubb's fraud- an obscenity trial, a suicide and a horrifying Shock for Chubb himself. Fordetailssee Monday
Welcome to Radio 9, where Dark approaches Silly, shakes hands, then realises its trousers are round its ankles. It's all set in a parallel universe, just like ours, but different. The first in a four-part series, written and performed by Johnny Daukes and Hils Barker.
Producers Johnny Daukes and Katie Marsden
Today's business in Westminster, highlighting Prime Minister's Questions. Presented by Sean Curran.
Part 3. Repeated from 9.45am
