With Father Wilfred McGreal.
Presented by Anna Hi !L
With James Naughtie and Carolyn Quinn.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
With Garry Richardson.
With Sean Curran and Susan Hulme.
With Dr Mona S!ddiqu!.
8.31 Yesterday in Parliament
New series 1/6. Beards. When Clarence Willcock refused to present his ID card to a police officer in 1950, it led to a test case in the High Court. Jonathan F Freedland is joined by Shami Chakrabarti of Liberty. Martin Linton MP - who developed the prototype of the new biometric cards - and Peter Byrne, alias Andy Crawford in Dixon of Dock Green, to debate ID cards in 1950s Britain and in Britain today. Repeated at 9.30pm
New series 1/5. Fivemicrobioiog)stsd!scussttie!r relationship with a favourite microbe. DrHaze! Barton takes Joiyon Jenkins underground on a hunt tor one or the world's most abundant organisms - Pelagiba er utMoue. First discovered in the Sargasso sea !n the 1970s, pe/agtbacte lives on practically nothing. But can it survive in cave rocks deep under the Kentucky countrys!de!-Producer Jolyon Jenkins
ByJuiia Darting.
2/5. The Roman's Hour drama.
For details see drama repeat at 7.45pm Juiia Darting. 8/9. Ocean Wanderers. Recent research has shown just how far and fast albatrosses travel. Gi!!ian Burke finds out how understanding the birds' movements may he!p 10 Conserve them. Repeated from yesterday at 9pm
1/2. Associated London Scripts was a workers co-operative formed in the iate 1950s by Enc Sykes, Spike Milligan, Ray Galton, Alan Simpson and Johnny Speight.
This programme looks at how and why it was formed and sheds some tight on their working practices.
Consumer issues, presented by John Waite and Peter White , including a took at how first-time house buyers tare in other countries. And at 12.30 Call You and Yours. PHONE: [number removed]0444 Lines open from Mam
News and analysis, presented by Nick Clarke.
in 1941 Arthur Miller was sent south to Wilmington,
North Carolina, to record the accents of the former
slave port a few weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Christopher Bigsby discovered the material he gathered and hears Miller tell the story of how. quite by chance, the playwright became a music collector. Producer Julian May
Danny Crossley, child prodigy and quiz-show whizz-kid, becomes convinced that TV gameshow host, Mike Cosier, is his long-lost dad. We follow Danny's painful journey as he discovers the truth. By Lloyd Peters
6/13. Listeners' questions about the environment, discussed by Richard Daniel and a panel of specialists
ADDRESS' Home Planet. [address removed] email: home.planet@bbc.co.uk Phone: [number removed]
Producer Nick Patrick
2/5 Numbers. When things go wrong at home. Jim, a mathematician, "retreats into coping, trying not to mind as the details of his life slip into chaos". By Matthew Kneale, read by William Hope. For details see yesterday.
2/5 It's late winter, and the white-tailed sea eagles hunt and scavenge for food: raiding fish farms, scouring the shoreline and chasing eider duck on a loch. In mid-April the first sea eagle chick hatches out of its egg on the island of Mull. For details see yesterday.
12/12 The world of business, money and technology discussed by Heather Payton and her guests. Producer Richard Fenton-Sm !th
2/7. The guide to the wide world of learning, with Libby Purves.
(Repeated on Sunday at 11pm)
News and analysis, presented by Eddie Mair.
5/6 The globetrotting hero deades to help rebuild a village and gets stuck into a bit of voodoo as he goes off to Haiti. Written by Marcus Brigstocke and Jeremy Sasby . with additional material by Graeme Garden. producer David Tyler
BBC AUDIO: Hiqhliqhts from various episodes of Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off are available on CD from www.bbcshop.com and good retail outlets. or by calling [number removed]
Kenton takes some responsibi!!ty.
' For cast see pade 44 Repeated tomorrow at 2pm
Mark Lawson reports from Caravaggio: the Final Years, a major new exhibition at the National Gallery in London.
2/5. 77)6 House of Sp/hfs. MaureenWetherbyhas recent!y teamed that she has a tumour behind her eye. Undaunted, she's made an appointment to see Theresa to find out what the future holds. By Juiia Darting. For cast and detai!s see Monday Repeated from 10.45am
4/9. Speeding and mistakes by drivers are said to be the biggest causes of road accidents in the UK. But is there a factor that is being overlooked? Allan Urry investigates concerns about the poor maintenance and construction of Britain's roads.
(Repeated on Sunday at 5pm)
News of interest to blind and partial sighted people. presented by Peter White.
New series 1/10. The programme dedicated to the mysterious workings of the brain. Dr Raj Persaud examines the latest research and brings together experts from the worlds of psychiatry, psychology and menta! heaith. Executive producer Rebecca Asher Repeated tomorrow 4.30pm
Repeated from 9am
With Brian Hanrahan.
2/10. As Juiiet is released from prison in America, her family in Britain try to come to terms with her return. By Justin Cartwright. ForfurtherdetaDsseeyesterday
New series 1/8. Set in 1991, Jonathan Coe's cult novel is a black comedy, inspired by the immorality, greed and ambition of 1980s Britain. Adapted by David Nobbs.
Director Lucy Armitage
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Today's events at Westminster, with Susan Hume.
2/5. By Tim Jeal. Repeated from 9.45am
British Museums discussion (2/2)
Faithfully Single (1/3)
by Liz Jensen (8/10)
