With Leslie Griffiths.

With Miriam O'Reilly. Producer MoiraHickey

With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton.
6.25,7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
With Sean Curran and David Wilby.
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rev Joel Edwards.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas. Shortened repeat at 9.30pm

Melvyn Bragg discusses duty; the concept that others have a claim over our actions has been at the heart of the history of civilised society. Show more

Presented from Manchester by Jenni Murray.
10.45 Aurora Leigh Part 4. Drama repeated at 7.45pm

Rosie Goldsmith travels to Poland to find out how the country is preparing for European Union membership. She meets a small, but growing number of Poles - including a Catholic priest - who are discovering they have hidden Jewish roots. How are they re-examining their identity in the light of the revelation? She also examines whether Poland is siding with its European Union neighbours or the United States in taking military control of multinational troops in central Iraq.

(Repeated on Monday at 8.30pm)

First of two programmes in which novelist Louise Welsh considers what "gothic" really means, and why gothic literature still captures our imagination.

[Caption] The grim splendour of Glasgow's Necropolis provides the backdrop for an exploration of the gothic spirit

A Gothic Quest 11.30am R4
The novelist Louise Welsh (listed recently by The Guardian as one of their "50 women to watch") extends a long pointy finger tipped by an even longer pointy black nail and then slowly coils it back as she requests your company on a dark tour of the gothic genre. Starting in "a spectacular place, a city of the dead" (aka the Necropolis cemetery in her home town of Glasgow), Welsh interviews various experts about the ways in which gothic has popped up in poetry, fiction, art, architecture and film since the first gothic novel, Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, was printed in 1764. Fellow novelist Sarah Waters joins the debate halfway through and provides the best description of gothic as something that "takes us to a place of fear, beyond our place in society, and shows all our anxieties." If the idea of a programme dealing with "death, madness, altered states, scientific abuses and outsiders" puts you off your mid-morning coffee, just remember that one of the great joys of gothic is that it never takes itself too seriously!

With Winifred Robinson and Liz Barclay.

With Nick Clarke.

Extended repeat of Saturday at6.10am

Repeated from yesterday at 7pm

By John Pilkington.
To mark the centenary of the death of the painter Camille Pissarro, the story traces his time as an exile in London when he and Monet gave birth to the French Impressionist movement.

Barbara Myers gives listeners to Sunday's Food Programme (12.30pm) the chance to put questions to an expert. If you want to know answers to questions such as whether bio cultures in yoghurt are really health enhancing, how eggs are injected with fish oils and whether there are real benefits worth the extra cost, contact the programme with questions or comments on [number removed] or email [email address removed].

Libby Purves appeals of behalf of the Prisoners' Education Trust. DONATIONS: [address removed]. Credit Cards [number removed]

4: The Followers. Read by William Thomas. An idle evening in the rain is spent looking through people's windows. Nothing ever happens- until tonight. Producer Alison Hindell For further details see Monday

4: Mobile Cranes Sling Their Hook. The crane industry has been transformed by the technical advances made in the design of large mobile cranes, known also as "taxi cranes" because of the way they swan from job to job. Dylan Winter tries his hand at slinging a load, and decides to keep his dayjob. Fordetails see Monday (R)

Mariella Frostrup talks to Michael Dobbs about his latest book, Never Surrender, and looks at the various ways writers create chapter headings and why. Repeated from Sunday at 4pm

Shattered glass, bent and twisted metal, burst rubber tyres - Quentin Cooper meets materials chemist Professor Mark Eberhart , who shows him how, by looking at how things break, scientists can develop new durable materials. Producer Martin Redfern

With Eddie Mair and Carolyn Quinn.

The Animal Kingdom. Simon Fanshawe 's cornucopia of comedy, quotations and literature. Today he goes among the beasts of the earth with zookeeper Bill Wallis. Other animal handlers offering their insights include Tom Lehrer , Jerry Seinfeld and Randers and Swann. Producer Paul Dodgson

Bad news for Brookfield. Repeated tomorrow at 2pm

Mark Lawson presents the arts magazine Producer Nicki Paxman

By Colin Bytheway. 4: Aurora is now a celebrated poet but her life is somehow still incomolete.
For details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am

In the first of two programmes looking at who wields power in Britain today, Simon Cox investigates the elite club that runs the visual arts. These men and women decide the nation's taste and spend tens of millions of pounds of public money every year Are they giving the public what it wants, or merely serving up repeated helpings of headline-grabbing conceptual art"? Producer Richard Vadon

Europe 's Slow Lane. The Eurozone is now the slowest growing of the major advanced economies and its largest member states are in trouble: Italy and Germany are in recession and the French economy is almost at stagnation point.
Frances Cairncross investigates the causes of Europe's poor economic health and asks whether the Euro is part of the problem or part of the solution.
Producer Innes Bowen Editor Nicola Meyrick Rptd Sunday 9.30pm

A Fire in Provence. Forest fires devastated southern France this summer. Miriam O'Reilly investigates the effects on the region's wildlife and landscape.
Producer AlasdairCross EMAIL: radioscience@bbc.co.uk

With Carrie Grade.

By Erskine Childers. 4: Carruthers and Davies's adventure begins. Fordetailssee Monday

By Karl Minns. 5: Bed Boy Bubby. Chester is hit by car and ends up in a coma. As all good REMs know, when people are knocked unconscious, they literally are - meaning that Chester is wandering around in hisownREM.
Music by the Neutrinos Producer Dawn Ellis

With David Wilby.

Part 4. Repeated from 9.45am

3.00 The Machine Gunners: Age 9-11 3.15 Maths Challenge: Mental Maths 3: Age 9-11 3.30 Children of Winter: Age 9-11
3.45 Word Games 3: Age 9-11 4.00 Drama Workshop: Age 9-11
4.20 Dance Workshop: Age 9-114.40 Music Workshop: Age 9-11