With Professor Gordon Graham. producerMarkO'Brien
With Miriam O'Reilly. Producer Sarah Swadling
With John Humphrys and Margaret Doyle.
6.25, 7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament With Mark D'Arcy and Robert Orchard. Editor Peter Knowles
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rt Rev Richard Harries.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Sri Lanka v England
Commentary on the fourth's day play of the First TestatGalle. Including News at 6.30.
Producer Peter Baxter "Approximate time
Sri Lanka v England
Commentary on the fourth's day play of the First TestatGalle. Including News at 6.30.
Producer Peter Baxter "Approximate time
Presented by Martha Kearney.
10.45 Fathers Part 5. Series editor Jill Burridge Drama repeated at 7.45pm
Every summer, an army of giant harvesting machines rolls out across the east coast of Scotland searching out pea fields and hoovering up 8,000 tons of the nutritious little spheres. This programme portrays a day in the life of the 24-hour, non-stop cycle. Producer Rhona Brudenell
Four-part comedy series by Paul Marshall.
2: Zen and the Art of Gardening. Danny receives a cryptic postcard and is sure that an old colleague has buried his fortune somewhere in the scheme. macIntyre has foreign visitors.
Other parts played by Stuart Sinclair Blyth Producer Lucy Bacon
With Liz Barclay and John Waite. Editor Andrew smith
PHONE: [number removed] email: youandyours@bbc.co.uk
With Nick Clarke.
Editor Richard Clark
Rosie Goldsmith brings out the best of English-language radio stations around the world. This week, Goldsmith turns detective to investigate law and order with a report from African radio on the alleged rape of Masai women by British soldiers. Plus a segmentfrom Tasmania.
Producer Leonida Krusheinycky Repeated on Sunday at 8pm
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm
A new play by Tony Coult, starring Michael Maloney and Rula Lenska.
Born 500 years ago in December 1503, Nostradamus lived in dangerous times. He was hounded by the Inquisition, especially when rumours circulated that he could cure the plague. Somehow, he had to protect himself and his family.
Seaweed and soy sauce, mooli and miso - Gregg Wallace and Charlie Hicks peer beyond the sushi counter to venerate the vegetable in Japanese food. Phone: [number removed] Lines open from 1.30pm Producer Rebecca Moore
5: The Half Pair by Bertram Chandler. Read by Bill Nighy. In deepest space there is domestic strife. For details see Monday
Simon Fanshawe and guests are in Dublin, where they tuck into Leopold Bloom's famous breakfast from James Joyce 's Ulysses. For details see Monday
New series Michael Rosen returns with another series of the programme about words and the way we speak. 1: Compliments of the Season. The art of praise, faint praise and downright dissing; plus the toe-curling language of feet and other parts of the anatomy. Producer Tom Alban Repeated on Sunday
Jenni Murray and guests discuss how current media trends affect our I ives. Producer Cecile Wright
With Eddie Mair. Editor Richard Clark
A tongue-in-cheek look at the week's news with Simon Hoggart , Alan Coren and guests. Producer Simon Nicholls Repeated on Saturday
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Sid faces a panic on the cricket pitch.
Written by Simon Frith Director Julie Beckett Editor Vanessa Whitburn
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Francine Stock with arts news, interviews and reviews. Producer Sally Spurring
By Damian Lanigan. Five plays exploring different father/child relationships. 5: First Words. Peter has never met his real father, ex-cabinet minister Harold Jameson. But one day he gets a call - the aged Jameson is dying in hospital and wants Peterto come to his bedside.
For details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience in Leeds puts questions to a panel that includes the Home Secretary David Blunkett and the Bishop of Birmingham, the Right Rev
Dr John Sentamu. Producer Anne Peacock Repeated on Saturday
By Kevin Fegan. Chocker is an ex-minerwho hates the daylight. Obsessed with tuning in to other people's conversations, he gets caught up with the mysterious radio girl -who knows details about his past.
Sound design and music by Andrew Langmanis Diey Director Nadia Molinari
With Robin Lustig.
Editor David Stevenson
By Bram Stoker. 10: Jonathan, Van Helsing , Dr Seward and Mina journey to Transylvania for the final battle. For details see Monday
Mary Kingsley. For the last programme in the series, journalist Ann Leslie nominates the pioneering
19th-century writer who defied convention with her explorations of West Africa. With Dea Birkett and Humphrey Carpenter. Producer Toby Field
With David Wilby. Editor Peter Knowles
Part 5. Repeated from 9.45am
Sri Lanka v England
The First Test at Galle. Commentary on the fifth and final day's play by Jonathan Agnew , John Murray ,
Jonny Saunders and Roshan Abbeysinghe. Including Newsat6.30am. * Approximate time
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