With Gordon Graham.
Presented by Mark Holdstock.
With James Naughtie and John Humphrys.
6.25, 7.25,8.25 Sports News With Steve May.
7.48 Thought for the Day With Martin Palmer.
4/5. Key figures of the bitter disputes between the government and the arts world during the 1980s speak to John Wilson.
(Repeated at 9.30pm)
3/4. If I Had a Hammer- Hammers and Nails
The hammer is the oldest known tool, developed from the idea of hitting one thing with a hard lump of something else. The breakthrough came when someone lashed a stick handle to the lumpy bit- but what advantage does a handle give? Physicist Len Fisher investigates.
Music by Tom Bancroft Producer Amanda Hargreaves
3/3. The 1971 Ibrox stadium disaster, in which 66 football fans died when terracing collapsed. With Roisin McAuley. Producer Sharon Mair
5/5. The words of a psalm sung by a village church choir have opened Poirot's eyes to the pattern of the enigma.
By Agatha Christie, dramatised by Michael Bakewell.
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Presented by John Waite and Winifred Robinson.
Presented by Nick Clarke at the Labour Party conference in Brighton.
12/18 The first round continues with contestants from Scotland and Northern Ireland. Chaired by Russell Davies. Producer Richard Edis Repeated on Saturday at llpm
Francis Spufford recalls his voracious childhood reading habit and the poignant family drama that lay behind it. In this radio adaptation of his acclaimed memoir, he hears again the stories that once filled hishead.
Producer Beaty Rubens
Vincent Duggleby and guests answer listeners' personal finance questions.
PHONE: [number removed] Lines open from 1.30pm Producer Samantha Washington
1/5. Short stories by Ronald Frame , set in the fictitious Perthshire village of Carnbeg. First broadcast last year. The Doocot. A Carnbeg woman has an impetuous affair with an artist visiting from Glasgow one summer between the two wars. Read byTamara Kennedy. Producer David Jackson Young
1/5. For people who have left their own countries and cultures to move to Britain, starting a business has often been the only means of economic survival.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown visits five such businesses and uncovers the stories of their enterprising founders.
Dr Qudrat Amir was forced to flee his native Afghanistan in 1989, leaving behind the home and medical career that he loved. After years of struggle, he has reinvented himself as a car trader on the outskirts of London. Producer Clare Csonka
Quinces. Still a staple in the Middle East, the quince has fallen from favour in the British kitchen. Sheila Dillon finds out why. Extended repeat from yesterday at 12.30pm
13/13. Ernie Rea in conversation with guests about the place of faith in today's complex world. Producer Rosemary Dawson
News and analysis, presented by Eddie Mair.
Newseries 1/10. Minette Walters , Julian Fellowes , Simon Fanshawe and Clive Aslet exchange favourite quotations and anecdotes. Chaired by Nigel Rees , with reader Peter Jefferson.
Producer Carol Smith Repeated on Sunday at 12.04pm
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The pressure takes its toll on Pat.
For cast see Friday Repeated tomorrow at 2pm
Mark Lawson presents the arts show and reports on a major exhibition of paintings and drawing by Gwen and Augustus John , which is about to open at Tate Britain. Producer Nicola Holloway
11/20. After George's death, Amelia and William return to England, where Miss Crawley is still trying to decide who'll inherit her money. Stephen Fry narrates Thackeray's comic novel. Dramatised by Stephen Wvatt.
Producer/Director Marc Beeby Repeated from 10.45am
5/5. Emma, Queen of Spin. On the trail of a queen who married two kings, fathered two more, was rumoured to have had an affairwith a bishop, but had the good sense to commission her own life story. With Mike Thomson. Producer Tom Alban
A celebration of quarter-inch magnetic tape - an invention that revolutionised the whole world of recorded sound. Users of tape, including the Beatles' sound engineer Geoff Emerick and composer Jonathan Harvey, explain its colourful history, its fabulous sonic possibilities and the simple poetry of a brown oxide-covered tape gliding past at 15 inches per second.
2/9. The Raven's Return. Persecution byfarmers and gamekeepers drove ravens out of the lowlands far into the west, but now these big, black birds are returning. Paul Evans discovers why. Producer Joanne Stevens
Repeated from 9am
Presented by Claire Bolderson.
1/10. Marking the centenary of Graham Greene 's birth, this adaptation, by Lisa Osborne , of his classic thriller opens on a freezing February day in postwar
Vienna. Read by Mark Strong , producer Lisa Osborne
Repeated from Saturday at 9am
1/5. Norman Sherry's biography. Repeated from 9.45am
3.00 Listen and Play (ages 3-5) 3.15 Music Box (ages 4-5+)
3.30 Alphabet Time (ages 4-6) 3.40 Find Out with Auntie Mabel and Pippin (ages 4-5) 3.55 Reading Tree stories (ages 5-6)
4.10 Hopscotch: (ages 5-7) 4.25 Stop, Think, Wonder (ages 7-9)
4.40 Scottish Resources (ages 10-12)
