With Dr Alison Elliot.
Presented by Mark Holdstock.
With Sarah Montague and Carolyn Quinn.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News
With Garry Richardson.
7.48 Thought for the Day
With Clifford Longley.
8.55 August 1945
6/12. For details see Saturday
Andrew Marr and guests set the cultural agenda for the week. Producer Alice Feinstein Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
England v Australia
The final day's play in the Second Test at Edgbaston.
Including at 12.35pm News; Your Letters Answerea
Producer Peter Baxter *approximate time
5/6. Tidworth in Wiltshire is home to the 1st Battalion Staffordshire Regiment, currently serving in Iraq. It's hard for the wives and children who are left at home to carry on with their daily routines while coping daily with news of injuries and death in a hostile country thousands of miles away.
New series 1/4. Survival. Miles Rummings is determined to run a scout troop, and so four misfits attempt to venture where no scout has ventured before. By Gerard hosier. Producer/Director Sally Avens
Consumer issues, with Peter White and Liz Barclay.
With Nick Clarke.
New series 1/17. Four contestants from London compete in the first round of the nationwide general knowledge contest. Robert Robinson is in the chair. Producer Richard Edis Repeated on Saturday at 11pm
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm
By Liz Kuti.
A commission for a commemorative window saves a glasswright from ruin. But when the recently dead subject begins dictating the style of the work, he is forced to reconsider undertaking the project.
Repeat of Saturday at 12.04pm
1/5 Absent Treatment. Reggie attempts to cure his chum Bobby Cardew of a remarkable weakness of memory. Martin Jarvis reads this series of stories by PG Wodehouse involving idiocy, misplaced good intentions and sheer comic genius. Producer Rosalind Ayres
1/5. Financial Returns. What do the Tory agents accounts in the constituency of Westminster tell us about the election of 1774? Richard Foster reveals lives and stories that stem from old bills - a basic source of research for historians. Technical presentation Neil Gardner Producer Merilyn Harris
Dylan Winter travels to western Canada to explore the foods of the First Nations (indigenous) people and to find out what lumberjacks survive on during their long tour of duty. Presented by Sheila Dillon. Repeated from yesterday at 12.30pm
6/13 Ernie Rea presents more conversations with guests about the place of faith in today's complex world. Producer Kathryn Blennerhassett
News and analysis, with Eddie Mair.
5/9 Paul Merton , Clement Freud , Rob Brydon and Chris Neill try not to repeat, hesitate or deviate from the subject given to them by Nicholas Parsons in the most devious of panel games. From the Mermaid Theatre, London. producer Claire Jones Repeated on Sunday at 12.04pm
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Neil and Susan tighten their belts.
For cast see page 38 Repeated tomorrow at 2pm
Kirsty Lang presents the arts magazine, with news, interviews and reviews. Producer Stephen Hughes
1/5. By Valerie Miner , who, as she grew up in America, used to listen to her mother's memories of her native Edinburgh. Orphaned in her teens, her mother left Scotland in 1930, travelling alone with 50 dollars in her pocket to begin a new life in the USA. Here, the parallel diaries of mother and daughter chronicle Mary's new life in America and Valerie's guest to understand her family's dislocated past. Valerie searches Edinburgh for her mother's old haunts and finds an old man who remembers Fairley's Cafe and Dance Hall, where Mary used to work as a waitress.
Producer/Director Kate McAII Repeated from 10.45am
Thirty years ago the first drops of North Sea oil sailed up the Thames on a Texan tanker. Tom Morton celebrates the lives of the mavericks and risk-takers who created Britain's oil industry. Producer Alasdair Cross
Adam Fowler travels into Interior and Arctic Alaska to meet native Alaskans, who have noticed signs of climate change since the 1970s. Intriguingly, he discovers that many elders believe it to be a result of man exploring the moon. He also finds that it's only recently that scientists have begun to utilise this source of knowledge to help establish the impact and implications of climate change. Producer Kate Bissell
Shortened repeat from 9am
News and analysis, with Claire Bolderson.
1/5. A comedy fairy tale for the summer, in which artist
Sam Penty of advertising agents Wallaby, Dimmock, Paly and Tooks falls in love with Princess Melicent, daughter of King Meliot of Peradore, although he has never met her. By JB Priestley , and read by Nicky Henson. Producer Chris Wallis
Repeated from Saturday at 9am
1/5. The Fattest Day of My Life. John Sessions reads from William Leith 's memoirs of his struggle to lose weight and overcome his addictions. Rptd from 9.45am
Looking at how US military officials fear that the Sahara desert could become the next al-Oaeda base
Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance
