With the Rev Dr Karen Smith.

With John Humphrys and Carolyn Quinn.
6.25, 7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
With Susan Hulme and David Wilby.
7.48 Thought for the Day With Indarjit Singh.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament

Newseries 1/8. Fergal Keane talks to people who have taken risks and made personal sacrifices for theirbeliefs. Producer Jane Beresford Repeated at9.30pm

4/5. Luck expert Richard Wiseman puts
Martin Plimmerthrough a series of psychological tests to determine if he is a naturally lucky or unlucky person. Producer Brian King

With Jenni Murray.
10.45Saplings 7/10. Woman's Hour drama. Drama repeated at 7.45pm

Lions in Decline. Lionel Kelleway investigates whether people and lions can live together. Repeated from yesterday at 9pm

Fred Housego celebrates more unsung heroes of comedy from his personal archive, including Robert Klein and other politically inspired performers of the 1960s and 70s. Producer Paul Bajoria

With Winifred Robinson and Peter White.
Including at 12.30 Call You and Yours. PHONE: [number removed] Lines open from 10am

With Nick Clarke.

1/4. Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Ken Clarke indulges himself in his passion for jazz. This week Duke Ellington is the focus of his attention. He is joined by band leader, trumpeter and Ellington aficionado Humphrey Lyttelton.

Repeated from yesterday at 7pm

By Louise Ramsden.
Among the collection of Victorian samplers in London's Victoria and Albert Museum , there is a piece of needlework: catalogue number Sampler T6-1965. In tiny red stitching on plain linen cloth, it tells the extraordinary life-story of its creator, Elizabeth Parker. This play imagines how it came to be made, and why Elizabeth chose this particular medium to tell her story.

Richard Daniel presents the programme in which listeners set the agenda with their environmental concerns.
ADDRESS: Home Planet, PO BOX 3096, Brighton BN1 1PL Email: home.planet@bbc.co.uk Phone: [number removed] Producer Nick Patrick

2/5. Five stories set in countries that are recovering from revolution. They Never Go Away by Moses Isegawa , set in Uganda. Fordetails see yesterday

2/5. Sons and Lovers: DH Lawrence
The first English psychoanalytical novel of working-class life written from the inside, Sons and Lovers, is a quasi-autobiographical account of Lawrence's inner struggles with his love for his dominating mother and the other two women in his life - one herself an entrapping influence, the second a liberating force. For details see yesterday.

Heather Payton and guests discuss the ceramics industry. How can it survive the twin threats posed by a move away from formal dining in the UK and the arrival of ever cheaper, good quality products from the Far East? Producer Rosamund Jones

Cellist Steven Isserlis and writer Ardashir Vakil talk to Sue MacGregor about their favourite books. Producer Mark Smalley Repeated on Sunday

With Eddie Mair.

1/5. Another chance to hear this dark comedy series starring Johnny Vegas as a failed Butlin's redcoat who is forced to return to his home town to work as a night-class potterytutor. Written by Johnny Vegas , Tony Burgess and Tony Pitts.
Music by Paul Heaton , performed and arranged by Paul Heaton and Tony Robinson Director Dirk Maggs

Ian gets an introduction to Ambridge. Repeated tomorrow at 2pm

Mark Lawson finds out that there's more to the work of the American composer John Cage than his best-known piece, which offers listeners four minutes and 33 seconds of silence and is to be performed in full on Friday as partoftheBBC Symphony
Orchestra's Cage Weekend at the Barbican. See Radio 3 on Friday at 7.25pm Producer Timothy Prosser

7/10. In Between. The Wiltshire children have been sent to stay with their dreadful Aunt Lindsey while their mother recovers from a nervous breakdown. For details see yesterday Repeated from 10.45am

1/2. As Britain emerges from the hottest year on record, Gerry Northam looks at the heated politics that underlie the science of climate change. This week he reports on the fights in Washington over which of the scientists to believe. Producer Roland Pease Repeated on Sunday

Peter White with news of interest to blind and partially sighted people. Producer Cheryl Gabriel

Sexual Health. Britain is in the grip of an epidemic of sexually transmitted infections. The number of cases of gonorrhoea has doubled in the last five years and the number of confirmed syphilis cases has risen tenfold. But chlamydia remains the most worrying disease: as many as one in ten men and women under the age of 25 now carries the infection, and it's a major cause of female infertility. Most will have no symptoms and remain unaware that they, ortheir partners, have a problem. Dr Mark Porter investigates. Producer Helen Sharp Repeated tomorrow at 4.30pm

Repeated from 9am

With Claire Bolderson.

12/15. 1 want as good a tomb as you can give me for L27. Troy seeks to make amends with heartsease and forget-me-nots. For details see yesterday

3/6. Marriage. A sketch showwhere anything is possible, written by James Cary. This week a couple are forced to put an exact price on love, a hi-fi obsessive goes too far and Turing needs IT support. Starring Robert Webb , Beth Chalmers , Catherine Shepherd , Steven Kynman , Abigail Burdess and Chris Pavlo. Producer Adam Bromley

The news from Westminster and a roundup of the day's business. With Susan Hulme.

Woman 2/5. Repeatedfrom9.45am

3.00 Something to Think About (ages 5-7) 3.15 Let's Move (ages 5-6) 3.35 New series Time to Move (ages 4-6)
4.05 New series Let's Sing Phonics (ages 5-7) 4.25 New series Just Prose (ages 7-11) 4.40 Talking Points (ages 10-12)