With the Rev Dr Lesl ie Griffiths.
Presented by Giles Latcham.
With Sarah Montague and John Humphrys.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News With Steve May.
6.45 Yesterday In Parliament
With Sean Curran and Robert Orchard.
7.48 Thought for the Day
With the Rev Dr Giles Fraser.
8.31 Yesterday in Parliament
Insight from BBC correspondents around the world. Presented by Kate Adie. Producer Tony Grant
Bridget Kendall talks to Vladimir Ashkenazy , Viktoria Mullova and other musicians and ballet dancers who defected from the former Soviet bloc, to find out what it was that drove them to the West. Producer Catherine McGhee
Presented by Liz Barclay and Winifred Robinson.
National and international news and analysis, presented by Nick Clarke.
A weekly report on rural life across the UK. Extended repeat from Saturday at6.10am
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm
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New series 1/10. Stewart Henderson presents the problem-solving programme that helps to provide some answers to those intriguing conundrums and questions from everyday life.
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Producer Eve Streeter
Repeated from Sunday at 7.55am
4/5. I Have Been Drowned. Aquirkystoryofasailor's attempt to cheat his fate by daring it to take him if it will. By Tom Hopkinson , read by Jonathan Firth. Fordetails see Monday
4/5. Early recording machines were soon seen as a way of preserving folk traditions and the sounds of indigenous peoples. There are astonishingly vivid recordings of Omaha Native Americans, and of a Thai orchestra visiting Berlin. David Owen Norris also visits the British Library to sample a collection of recordings made by a Cambridge University expedition to the other side of the world in the late 1890s. For details see Monday
Maev Kennedy talks to writer Anita Desai about her new novel The Zigzag Way, and to Alexandra Fuller , author of the bestselling memoir Don Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, about her new book describing her unusual friendship With an African farmer. Repeated from Sunday at 4pm
The kilogram is the only unit of measurement still defined by a physical object. "Le Grand K" spends most of its life in a heavily guarded, subterranean vault on the outskirts of Paris. But what happens if it gets heavier from dirt or lighter through cleaning? What happens to all other kilogram standards across the world? Sue Nelson talks to Ian Robinson from the UK's National Physical Laboratory, who is trying to redefine the kilogram and tie its measurement to the fundamental constants of nature.
Presented by Eddie Mair.
2/4. Attention listeners! Please stand byyourwireless sets while Mr Jeremy Hardy makes a broadcast of major comic import. Pray silence for the funniest man in politics after George W Bush. Written by and starring Jeremy Hardy. Producer David Tyler
Tom and Kirsty look to the future. For cast see Friday Repeated tomorrow at 2pm
Mark Lawson reports on the opening night of The Woman in White, Andrew Lloyd Webber 's new musical, based on the novel by Wilkie Collins , and starring Michael Crawford. Producer Phil Tinline
4/20. Attracted by the possibility of a dashing romance and an inheritance, Becky has charmed wealthy spinster Miss Crawley and her handsome nephew Rawdon. ByWilliam Makepeace Thackeray.
For details and cast see Monday Repeated from 10.45am
2/3. The Press Barons. This programme explores one of Britain's most influential groups: the Press Barons or, as one editor has called them, the rich man's union.
Most don't like to pay British taxes, some don't even live here but they have huge power over our lives. Simon Cox investigates the perks of the club, their cosy relationship with Government and the secret rules that help to ensure that newspaper proprietors are almost never held accountable fortheir actions. Producer Smita Patel
2/9. Keep on Working. Companies with an ageing workforce and workers with pension problems are facing a future in which people will have to work well into what has hitherto been regarded as a pensionable age. Peter Day asks how organisations will motivate their ageing workforces... and what difference it may make to workers of all ages.
Producer Sandra Kanthal Repeated on Sunday at 9.30pm
3/10. Typically, Asperger's syndrome is diagnosed when children are seven years old. Now careful analysis of a collection of home videos has shown that babies who later developed Asperger's don't keep their head straight when their bodies are tilted. This simple home test could be used to screen forthe condition when babies are just six months old. Presented by Geoff Watts. Producers Anna Buckley and Beth Eastwood
News and analysis, presented by Robin Lustig.
4/10. Making His Way. Cananewnamebringthe contentment and acceptance as "an all-American" that Gogol craves? ByJhumpa Lahiri. For details see Monday
3/3. Comic improvisations, gags, and music.
With excellent support from Stephen Frost , Art Malik and Antonio Forcione on guitar. First broadcast earlier this year. Producer JaneBerthould
The news from Westminster in a round-up of the day's business. Presented by Sean Curran.
4/5. Written and read by William Hague. Rptdfrom9.45am
