With Lynn Gallagher.
With Mark Holdstock.
With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague.
6.25.7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Dr Mona Siddiqui.
New series 1/5. Adam Hart-Davis dons his hard hat and steel-capped boots to explore some of the most ambitious civil engineering projects currently under construction in the UK.
The first major new railway in this country Since the Victorian era. the Channel Tunnel Rail Link is due to be completed in 2007. Hart-Davis meets the tunnelling supremos who are making engineering history. Producer Sarah Taylor
Repeated at 9.30pm
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Engineering Solutions
9.00am/9.30pm R4
RT columnist Adam Hart-Davis begins a new series on "some of the best engineering know-how around today". And it's nowhere near as dull as I've just made it sound, for it turns out that engineers can be decidedly odd. Today, for example, he meets the men responsible for fashioning the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. One admits that they are all hooked on tunnelling: "You feel part of a family... that sees a lot of muck and concrete!" Read more on p26. (Jane Anderson)
From Edgbaston, the first day of the Second Test Match.
Commentary by Jonathan Agnew, Henry Blofeld, Tony Cozier and Simon Mann, with expert comments from Angus Fraser, Vic Marks and Viv Richards.
Including at 12.35 News: County Talk
Producer Peter Baxter *Approximate time
7/8. Naples is drowning in its own waste. The rubbish crisis may be proving a headache for the authorities but it is a goldmine for the Mafia. Lucy Ash visits the city to investigate why it is failing to deal with both problems - rubbish and organised crime. Repeated on Monday at 8.30pm
Journalist John Collis lives in the same south London road where one of Britain's most protific writers - Edgar Wallace - once lived. At the height of his popularity in the 1920s Wallace was responsible for a quarter of all books sold in Britain. He died in Hollywood as filming had begun on a movie based on one of his stories - King Kong. Presented by John Collis.
Presented by Liz Barclay and Sheila McClennon.
With Nick Clarke.
Helen Mark explores rural life across the UK. Extended repeat from Saturday at 6.10am
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm
A traveller passing through a remote village finds himself the recipient of a desperate request when a mother implores him to cure her only son. A beautiful, touching story, based on a Buddhist fable. Written by Nick Warburton.
7/7. Andrew Dilnot presents the guide to numbers, measurement and quantification of every kind in our personal lives and elsewhere. producer Michael Blastland
4/5. The Crossing. Marta is urging her four young children westwards away from the war that rages in the east when a stranger appears. Read by Zhiviia Roche, from Rachel Seiffert's collection of short stories. For details see Monday.
4/5. Joan Armatrading meets film directors Danny Boyle and Michel Gondry to discuss the relationship between music and the movies. For details see Monday
Repeated from Sunday at 4pm
As well as being Darwin's cousin, Francis Gaiton was the founder of eugenics, the science of controlled breeding in order to reinforce desirable inherited characteristics. Quentin Cooper finds out about the man whose dark motives and naive vision about nature versus nurture would leave their stain on the history of science.
With Eddie Mair.
4/6. The sketch show about life, written and performed by people who've lived a bit. Starring Dudley Sutton, Roger Blake, Eleanor Bron and Paula Wilcox. With music by Ronnie and the Rex and Pierre Hollins.
Pat's dinner-time frustration.
For cast see Fnday Repeated tomorrow at 2pm FM on!y
Mark Lawson hosts the arts show. producer Robyn Read
4/5. A weekend in the country with Violet is not exactly restful.... nor is it dull. By Chris Burgess.
For more cast and further details see Monday
Repeated from 10.45am
From the mountains of Yemen to the furnaces of Sheffield's steelmills they came in their thousands, pursuing a dream of earning enough to return home.
Now, nearly 50 years on. Alan Dein explores the stories of those Yemenis who forged new lives for themselves in the harshest conditions. Producer Mark Burman
4/9. Many of our museums are stocked with the spoils of British imperialism. But, from the Elgin Marbles to aboriginal skulls, there are now growing demands for the repatriation of such artefacts. Kenan Malik asks whether the clash between cultural identity and scientific rationality could spell the end for our museums and their role as custodians of the common inheritance of humanity.
(Repeated on Sunday at 9.30pm)
2/6. Death on the High Seas. Dismantling ships is a dirty and dangerous industry. Alex Kirby asks if it's business for which Britain should be touting. Producer Alasdair Cross
Repeated from 9am
National and international news and analysis.
9/10. By Patricia Highsmith. There is some cleaning up to do at Beite Ombre. For details see Monday
2/6. Tracey Emin. Andrew Clover, the Storyman, invites celebrities to improvise stories.
The artist is coaxed by Clover through a story that begins with her being married to a wonderful, handsome mate. who can cook and is loyal. He's a dog.
2/6. Normal Time. Appleby proves that creatures from the age of the dinosaur had mastered the three Rs - reading, writing and riding bicycles. With Paul McCrink as Steven Appleby and featuring Rachel Atkins, Ewan Bailey, Nigel Betts and Rosalind Paul
producer Toby swift
2/2. John Florance explores musical history to find the pop idols of the past. He looks at the lives of Beethoven. Liszt, Paganini and Wagner, as well as some divas, and asks what it was that drove their public to delirium.
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