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With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton.
6.25, 7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
With Sean Curran and Robert Orchard.
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rev Angela Tilby.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
James Naughtie
Unknown:
Edward Stourton.
Unknown:
Sean Curran
Unknown:
Robert Orchard.
Unknown:
Angela Tilby.

3/4. A series that examines items belonging to famous people, found after their deaths, that shed new light on them. Sister Wendy Beckett goes to Tate Britain in London to delve into JMW Turner's sketchbooks and talks to Turner biographer James Hamilton about the richness of the painter's work and his surprising interest in erotic imagery.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sister Wendy Beckett
Expert:
James Hamilton
Producer:
Rachel White
Producer:
Sera Lefroy Owen

The composer Zoltan Kodaly was one of the great musical educators of the 20th century and he set up schools in his native Hungaryto teach his unique approach. He believed that learning music was a route through which emotionally, spiritually and intellectually well-rounded human beings could be nurtured. Ivan Hewett goes to Hungary to find out more about how and why Kodaly developed his musical-teaching philosophy and considers whether it has stood the test oftime. Producer Rachel Hopkin

Contributors

Unknown:
Zoltan Kodaly
Unknown:
Ivan Hewett
Producer:
Rachel Hopkin

By Alexis Zegerman. Alice spends her day recording animal sounds. Ronnie spends his caring for reptiles. When will they each start showing an interest in a fellow human being?
Producer/Director Peter Kavanagn

Contributors

Unknown:
Alexis Zegerman.
Director:
Peter Kavanagn
Ron:
Toby Jones
Alice:
Rachel Atkins
Tim:
Simon Every
Nature commentary:
Ben Crowe

2/6. Andrew Dilnot takes his weekly look at the ways we use numbers to describe and argue about the world. Among the questions for this week's programme: what have the Government's attempts to improve performance in the public sector got to do with the collapse of the Soviet economy? Producer Michael Blastland

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Dilnot
Producer:
Michael Blastland

4/5. Three Stories and Ten Poems:
Ernest Hemingway. When in the early 1920s,
Ernest Hemingway 's wife lost his entire unpublished literary output on a Paris railway station platform, he was on the point of giving up all ambitions of being a writer. But an American expatriate published the rest of what he had left. For details see Monday

Contributors

Unknown:
Ernest Hemingway.
Unknown:
Ernest Hemingway

Mariella Frostrup talks to the writer Susanna Moore about a vivid evocation of the British in India and offers a guide to the novels of Anne Tyler. Repeated from Sunday at 4pm

Contributors

Talks:
Mariella Frostrup
Unknown:
Susanna Moore
Unknown:
Anne Tyler.

We assume that water is an essential ingredient of life and that without it life could not exist. But what if this central tenet of science is wrong?
Quentin Cooper investigates this intriguing possibility and discovers that life's intimate link with the "wet stuff" may not be as important as we once thought. What does this challenge to basic science mean for our search for life on Other planets? Producer Jonathan Fildes

Contributors

Unknown:
Quentin Cooper
Producer:
Jonathan Fildes

The Australian comic Adam Hills introduces three comedy acts from London's Comedy Store:
Jo Enright , Phil Nichol and Michael Redmond. Producer Tilusha Ghelani

Contributors

Introduces:
Adam Hills
Unknown:
Jo Enright
Unknown:
Phil Nichol
Unknown:
Michael Redmond.
Producer:
Tilusha Ghelani

Mark Lawson chairs the arts show and reports on spoof musical films, as Christopher Guest , star of Spinal Tap, takes on folk music in his new release The Mighty Wind. Producer Robyn Read

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Lawson
Unknown:
Christopher Guest

9/10. AnotherVisit. Laurel has been accused of wearing pearls given to her by a soldier. Her dreadful Aunt Lindsey comes to school to try and get to the bottom of the situation.
For details and cast see Monday Repeated from 10.45am

Christopher Okoh struck boxinggold in 1995 by winning the Commonwealth cruiserweight title. When his time in the ring was over he took on his next challenge-training to be a probation officer. "I thinkthe most common excuse for someone on probation not turning up for their appointment with me is their grandmother dying- 1 had to point out to one person that this was the third time this year his grandmother had died. "Jo Morris follows Okoh's new career. Producer Sarah Taylor

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Okoh
Unknown:
Jo Morris
Producer:
Sarah Taylor

Fast Boat to China. A huge demand for vessel capacity has sent the cost of shipping rocketing.
It's a symbol of the way world trade is changing, says presenter Peter Day , and the implications are profound for global jobs, diplomacy and the way the world works. Producer Neil Koenig Repeated on Sunday

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Day
Producer:
Neil Koenig

4/5. A chilling short drama.
Sally Go Round the Moon by Natalia Power. Are the pressures of herjob the reason Sally is hearing the voice of a child that no-one else can hear? Or is she being haunted?

Contributors

Writer:
Natalia Power
Musical director:
Clement Power
Director:
Pauline Harris
Producer:
Pauline Harris
Sally:
Jaimi Barbakoff
Voice:
Jessica Crossley
Laura:
Rachel Atkins
Receptionist:
Frances Jeater
Stacey:
Ioan Meredith
Simon:
David Thorpe

3.00 KS1 Starship English (ages 6-7) 3.15 KS1 Starship English (ages 6-7) 3.30 New series Maths Adventure (ages 7-11) 3.45 Words Alive (ages 7-9) 4.05 Drama Workshop (ages 9-11) 4.20 Dance Workshop (ages 9-11) 4.40 Music Workshop (ages 9-11)

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