With the Very Rev John Miller.

With Miriam O'Reilly.

With James Naughtie and Carolyn Quinn.
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
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament

With Jenni Murray , presented from Manchester.
10.45 Making Hay 4/5. Drama repeated at 7.45pm

Insight and colour from BBC correspondents around the world, With Kate Adie. Producer TonyGrant

A portrait of Thackeray, presented by Al Murray.
When Al Murray presented his stage and television comic character, the Pub Landlord, his family said the satirical genes of his great-great-great-grandfather were coming out. William Makepeace Thackeray wrote his masterpiece Vanity Fair at the age of 35. Murray finds out how that famous book fits in to a career that encompassed Punch cartoons, food writing and travel journalism. Producer Robyn Read
Snobs, the French and a hand in a box: page 111

With Liz Barclay and John Waite.

With Nick Clarke.

Richard Uridge explores rural life across theUK.
Extended repeat from Saturday at 6.10am

Repeated from yesterday at 7pm

By David Napthine. It is 1936 and a group of Glasgow shipyard workers have formed a climbing club with a difference: they have no equipment; they climb where they like- they're trade unionists; and they drink like there's no tomorrow. One stormyweekend, three of them set out on a climb, and are joined by a ^trancpr Rut who is he and can they trust him?
Producer/Director Jonquil Panting

6/6. Andrew Di Inot looks at the numbers behind the news and figures out which stories do and don t add up. Producer Michael Blastland

John Peel presents an appeal on behalf of the WellChild Trust, a charity that researches into treatments, preventions and cures for childhood illnesses.
Donations: [number removed] Repeated from Sunday at 7.55am
Credit Cards [number removed] Repeated from Sunday at 7.55am

4/5. Improbable by Neil Bartlett read by John Quentin. A chance encounter and a missed opportunity lead to a desperate appeal. For more details see Monday

4/5 The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Simple
Ben Rogers considers a seminal British cookbook, one of the first to aim at the woman of the household. It also put British food on the map. Readings by Jean Trend. For details see Monday

Repeated from Sunday at 4pm

Big ideas are nothing new in physics. Predicting multi-dimensional universes and studying unseen sub-atomic particles are all in a day's workforthe jobbing physicist. But forthe next challenge the physicists are looking closer to home; they hope to be able to predict human behaviour. Quentin Cooper delves into the world of "social physics" and asks whetherthe complexities of society can really be reduced to a few universal laws? Producer Jonathan Fildes

With Eddie Mair.

2/4. The satirical comedy starring Stephen Fry and John Bird as those Machiavellian masters of spin, Charles Prentiss and Martin McCabe. When Martin becomes a bestselling author with The Notion of Nation, his scathing attack of Britain under New
Labour, Charles finds himself commissioned by the government to bring his friend down a peg ortwo, a commission he's keen to accept.
Music by Matthew Scott
Producer Dawn Ellis

A grand unveiling for Usha. Repeated tomorrow at 2pm

Mark Lawson chairs the arts magazine. Producer Robyn Read

4/5. BySueTeddem.
Day Four: Pandy to Longtown
For details and cast see Monday Repeated from 10.45am

2/2. In the second of his two programmes examining attempts to crack down on yob culture, Allan Urry hears how police in Leeds are using anti-social behaviour legislation to tackle criminal gangs and to reduce the threat that drug dealers and car thieves pose to their communities. Producer Sarah Lewthwaite

Junk mail is all over the place: from pop-up ads on the internet to computerised phone-calls with no-one on the other end. Millions of Americans have signed up to block telephone marketing, but what about spam and direct mail clogging up our communications? Peter Day reports.

(Repeated on Sunday)

Geoff Watts reports on the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
Producer Andrew Luck-Baker EMAIL: radioscience@bbc.co.uk

With Robin Lustig.

9/10. By Alice Hoffman. "Once he dispatched this meddler who had seen what he was about to do before it happened, there'd be no one to connect him to the crime For details see Monday

2/2. D-Z. From Ducks to Zen via E for Etc. Another chance to hear the second part of Arthur Smith's hit Edinburgh show from 2000, with jokes, poignant humour and some of the best songs ever written.

A round- up of the day's business in Westminster. With Sean Curran.

4/5. Repeated from 9.45am

3.00 Revisewise (ages 9-11) 3.30 Maths Adventure Yr 5 (ages 9-11) 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)