With Dr Pauline Webb.
With Miriam O'Reilly.
With Edward Stourton and Sarah Montague.
6.25,7.25 and 8.25 Sports News With Steve May.
7.48 Thoughtfbrthe Day With the Rev Roy Jenkins.
Today's guest is Sister Frances Dominica, the founder of the first children's hospice.
The sirocco is a hot, dry, desiccating wind that rises in the Sahara when conditions are right and then barrels north across the Mediterranean, covering cities with dust and sometimes driving people to the edge of madness. Paul Vickers follows the mischievous wind northwards and discovers how the sirocco has affected the culture of the people who brace themselves each yearfor its arrival. Producer Paul Vickers
3/6. Filling In. Supply teachers may come in all shapes and sizes but they are invariably in short supply. King Street is lucky to get Mrs Harper. Or are they? Written by Jim Eldridge. Michael Cochrane
Producer John Fawcett Wilson
Presented by Liz Barcley and John Waite. Including at 12.30 Face the Facts.
3/6. John Waite exposes the hidden death toll at
Europe's largest army barracks - Catterick, North
Yorkshire. The bereaved find the deaths even more difficultto accept because of the perceived secrecy and lack of information. One weekend in April 2000, 20-year-old Allan Sharpies visited his family and fiancée before returning, laughingandjoking back to the army life he loved at the barracks. Within 24 hours he was dead, apparently having shot himself.
Producer Richard Mcilroy Shortened at 9pm Series editor Andrew Smith
PHONE: [number removed] email: youandyours@bbc.co.uk
Presented by Nick Clarke. Editor Richard ciark
The controller of BBC Radio 4, Helen Boaden , joins
Roger Bolton to take listeners cans.
Producers VivBlack and Nick Utechin Repeated on Sunday at 8pm Phone: [number removed] Lines open from 12 noon
Repeated from yesterday at 7 pm
When the Elgin Marbles first came to England they provoked bitter battles over taste artistic value and national heritage. Written by Stephen Wyatt and starring Paul Scofield.
New series 1/7. Boudicca's Way. In conjunction with BBC 2's Battlefield Britain, Ramblings explores the areas around our greatest battlefields. Muriel Gray is joined by father and son, Peter and Dan Snow, as they reveal their shared love of history and each other's company. Producer Lucy Lunt Knee-deep in Snows: page 30
5/5. Mama B and the Devil. Mama B grew up in the islands where she was taught to stay out of the reach of the devil. Now she's an immigrant in the big city and works like a slave to give her three sons a good start.
But how will she teach them to reject the devil when she isn't sure she can still recognise his face? By Patncia Cumper, read by Angela Wynter. For details see Monday
5/5 Eccles Cakes. Sheila McClennon visits the Lancashire town of Eccles to taste these sweet currant-and-pastry cakes. FordetailsseeMonday
New series 1/8. Michael Rosen returns with the series that investigates words, language and the way we speak. Producer Paul Dodgson Repeated on Sunday at 8.30pm
Jenni Murray and guests discuss how current media trends affect our lives. Producer Cecile Wright
With Eddie Mair. Editor Peter Rippon
5/6. Songs, sketches and satire from Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis , with Mitch Benn , Marcus Brigstocke , Jon Holmes and Laura Shavin.
Producer Colin Anderson Repeated tomorrow at 12.30pm
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Pat reaches breaking point.
Written by Joanna Toye Director Kate Oates Editor Vanessa Whitburn
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Kirsty Lang reassesses Edward Abbey's newly republished 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang in the arts magazine programme, producer Thomas Morris
5/10. By Louisa May Alcott. Christmas comes round again and Mr Brooke delivers an unexpected present to the March family.
For cast and further details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am
2/6. We should not attempt to legislate against obesity This second debate is chaired by Nick Clarke and comes from the Royal Institute of Public Health, London. To vote YES dial [number removed] To vote NO dial [number removed]
Calls cost lOp Lines are open after 8.50pm until 2.20pm on Saturday. Producer Nick Utechin Repeated tomorrow at 1.10pm
A distinctive American broadcasting voice reflects on everyday America. This week's guest is Charles Gusewelle in Kansas City.
Repeated Sunday 8.50am
Bryony Lavery's gripping thriller is fuelled by the current debate surrounding the cloning of human tissue.
News and analysis, with Shaun Ley. Editor David Stevenson
5/5. By WE Bowman. "Would the mountain ever be climbed, I wondered. And as I looked I had the answer." For details see Monday
3/10. Pomp and Circumstance. Considering the pros and cons of contemporary pomp and circumstance with Matthew Parris are Mary Ann Sieghart of The Times,
Mihir Bose of The Daily Telegraph, and scriptwriter and actor Tom Mitchelson.
Bespectacled poet John Hegley has donated a pair of glasses to Help the Aged. He follows their journey to Zanzibar to meet the needy recipient.
5/5. John Logie Baird 's memoirs. Repeated from 9.45am
