With Ruth Scott.

Presented by Anna Hill.

With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News With Steve May.
7.48 Thought for the Day With Abdal Hakim Murad.

6/6. Bel Mooney and guest explore the territory between belief and unbelief. This week Bel meets astrologer and historian Nicholas Campion. Producer Malcolm Love Rptd at 9.30pm

New series 1/4. Sigrun Wodars. The East German athlete,
Wodars, won the 800m gold medal at the Seoul Games, running against Britain's Diane Modahl. Shortly before reunification, the GDR allowed the pair to train together, but their conversations were monitored. Modahl travels to Germany to meet Wodars to talk freely in a way that was never possible 17 years ago. Producer Rebecca Sandles

The Fourth Test at Trent Bridge. Commentary on the first day's play by Jonathan Agnew , Henry Blofeld and Jim Maxwell , with experts Vic Marks , Mike Selvey and Rod Marsh.
Including at 12.30pm News; Country Talk and at 3.10 News.
Producer Peter Baxter *approximate time

5/9. Insight, colour, wit and analysis as the BBC foreign correspondents look at the stories in their regions. Presented by Kate Adie. producer Tony Grant

5/5. Pam Ayres entertains an audience at Buscot Park Theatre on the estate of Lord Faringdon. She is joined by Martin Jarvis and Phyllida Nash to read a few of her literary favourites, including poems by Laurence Binyon and Banjo Paterson , and stories from George Orwell , J Meade Faulkner and Richmal Crompton. Producer Viv Beeby Repeated on Sunday at 12.15am

Consumer affairs, with Carolyn Atkinson and Peter wnire.

With Nick Clarke.

Extended repeat of Saturday at 6.10am

Repeated from yesterday at 7pm

A group of male friends in their 60s revive the schoolboy New Orleans jazz band that expressed their purist youthful idealism. Youth and its high ideals have a brier musical re-flowering, until tragedy strikes. By Don Taylor. Music Bob Dwyer 's Hot Six Producer/Director Peter Kavanagh

5/7. Back pain can be just a niggling ache or a disabling agony, and 60 per cent of people experience some degree of it during their lifetime. In one year it cost the NHS boai million and caused 81 million days of sick leave. I you have back pain and want to know how it can be treated, contact Barbara Myers and her specialist guest. Producer Enka Wright PHONE: [number removed] from 1.30pm on day of broadcast

Repeated from Sunday at 7.55am

4/5. On a trip to Dublin to celebrate her 16th birthday on 16 June (Bloomsday), June Arpino discovers the enduring, destructive and healing power of words. By Maeve Binchy , read by Lauren Buglioli. Producer Heather Larmour

4/5. In Porthmadog harbour in Gwynedd sits Cei Ballast, built from the stones, sand and earth that arrived in the otherwise empty holds of ships that had carried slate around the world. What's left in the rocks and plants to tell that story?

(For details see Monday)

Repeated from Sunday at 4pm

While England in the 1660s was racked by civil war, plague and fire a quieter revolution was taking place - the founding of the Royal Society. Twelve "natural philosophers" started a fellowship that began the study of science and changed history. Quentin Cooper talks to John Gribbin , author of The Fellowship: the Story of a Revolution, about the men who shaped the Royal Society - including Robert Hooke , Edmond Halley and Isaac Newton. Producer Mamie Chesterton

With Eddie Mair.

The sketch show about life, written and performed by people who've lived a bit. Starring Roger Blake , Eleanor Bron Dudley Sutton, Clive Swift and Paula Wilcox. With guest Arthur Smith , and music by Ronnie and the Rex. producer Katie Marsden

Tom dispenses with family loyalty. ' For cast see page 35 Repeated tomorrow at 2pm

Mark Lawson presents the arts show and meets the writer Edmund White , who is about to publish My Lives, a book that reveals the facts behind his autobiographical fiction. producer Stephen Hughes

4/15. Anne goes to the opening of the musical Hit the Sky and chorus girl Neely gets her big break.
For cast and details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am

RT CHOICE 1/3. "Neet" is the Government's latest buzz word - an acronym for young people "not in education, ii ' employment or training". According to official figures there are 150,000 of them between the ages of 16 and 19. If they remain Neets, each one could cost the taxpayer £100,000 over a lifetime. A former Labour minister has called Neets "the first non-violent loss of a generation". Simon Cox travels to Barking, which has the highest concentration of Neets in Britain, to report on the search for a solution. Producer Richard Vadon Editor Nicola Meyrick

8/9. Flirting with Armageddon. Nuclear disarmament seems to have been replaced by the targeting of rogue states like Iran and North Korea. Yet the danger of nuclear Armageddon could be more real today than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, with even a "local" nuclear exchange engulfing the rest of the world. Zareer Masani asks if it's time for a new process of multilateral disarmament. Producer Ingrid Hassler ; Editor Nicola Meyrick Repeated Sunday 9.30pm

5/6. Tom Heap asks whether the British countryside has become such a desirable place to live that it is in danger of becoming a victim of its own success. Producer Steve Peacock

Repeated from 9am

With Jackie Hardgrave.

4/10. The Americans travel inland to Boussif, where Port and Kit experience the immensity of the desert. For details see Monday

4/4. Man or Monkey. A look at how so many of the things we imagine to be human characteristics are really just animal ones, and a glimpse at where evolution might take the human race next. Starring award-winning comedian
Chris Addison , with Professor Austin Herring (aka Geoffrey McGivern ), Jo Enright and Dan Tetsell. Producer Simon Nicholls

Did the universe begin when an enormous cow licked the head of a giant buried in ice? Were people brought into being by a bored princess on the banks of the Yellow River, looking for playmates? Creation myths from around the world reveal how it all began. Producers Kim Normanton and Nigel Acheson

4/5. By Dario Fo. Repeated from 9.45am

Don Quixote (10/15) For details see Sunday