With the Rev Ian Mackenzie.
Presented by Mark Holdstock.
With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News With Steve May.
7.48 Thought for the Day With Indarjit Singh.
New series Libby Purves and guests from a wide variety of backgrounds engage in diverse and lively conversation. Producer Chris Paling Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
In the days following the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Iraq
Museum in Baghdad was looted, apparently by professionals, of thousands of priceless antiquities. Dr Neil Brodie , research director at the Illicit Antiquities Centre, Cambndge
University, seeks to find out what really happened and what has been done about it since. Producer Martin Kurzik
With Winifred Robinson and Stuart Flinders.
News, with Brian Hanrahan.
3/7. Liverpool. Archaeologist Julian Richards looks tor clues to Liverpool's cosmopolitan history of the last 300 years in its architecture and in the shape of the modern map. Producer John Byrne
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm
In Robert Shearman 's dark comedy, Peter has just bumped into his old French mistress, Mrs Townsend. It seems that teacher and pupil have had a remarkable influence on each other's lives - but is this meeting really just a coincidence?
Director Martin Jarvis
Chris Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank answer questions from gardeners in Buckinghamshire. Peter Gibbs is in the chair. Including at 3.25 Gardening Weather Forecast.
3/5. The Unbitten Elbow. The Weekly Review had issued a questionnaire to their readers. One of the completed forms aroused the editor's interest and eventually became a cause célèbre, for the respondent had entered against the enquiry "Goal in life?", "To bite my elbow." For further details see Monday
3/5. Let's Be Friends. We're all supposed to be grown-ups, but is it realistic to think that you'll ever be friends with your ex? And how does your new partner deal with it? For further details see yesterday
4/4. The Swedish cradle-to-grave welfare system is so ingrained in the national consciousness that Swedes are content to pay high taxes to ensure its continuation. Laurie Taylor looks at one aspect of Swedish welfarism, where
"cultural integrators" live amongst immigrants and help them to integrate into Swedish society. Producer Natasha Maw
3/4. Repeated from yesterday at 9pm
News and analysis, with Carolyn Quinn .
1/4. Musician and comedian Rainer Hersch profiles entertainers who have combined comedy and music.
Today he talks to American satirist Peter Schickele about his unique brand of classical music humour. Schickele's alter ego, a professor of musicology has been "unearthing" and performing the "lost" works of one PDO Bach for more than 40 years. Producer Julian Mayers
Debbie shows where her loyalties lie.
For cast see page 25 Repeated tomorrow at 2pm
Arts magazine, with Mark Lawson. Producer Robyn Read
3/10. By Gustave Flaubert. Charles and Emma Bovary have moved to a new town. There she meets Leon Dupuis , a young solicitor.
For further details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am
New series 1/3. A lecture series hosted by the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in London, and chaired by Edward Stourton , featuring speakers who dare to take on received wisdom, whatever the cost. Tonight the philosopher Peter Singer , who has been dubbed "the world's most controversial ethicist", and who wrote an influential book on animal liberation, explains his beliefs and then defends them in discussion with a panel of experts and in response to questions from the audience. Producer Phil Pegum Repeated on Saturday at 10.15pm
2/3. How is Edward Gibbon 's iconic The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire relevant to Britain today? Matthew Parris looks at the British public through Gibbon's eyes.
Producer Anna Scott-Brown Repeated from Sunday at 10.45pm
New series 1/3. Are there other planets like the Earth, in orbit around distant stars? Astronomers believe that they can detect such worlds and even find out whether life has evolved on them. Chris Riley meets the world's most successful planet hunters to discover how rivalry and technological ingenuity are vital in the quest for those faraway pale-blue dots. Producer Andrew Luck-Baker
Shortened repeat from 9am
News and analysis, presented by Robin Lustig.
3/10. Cicero has received a setback to his political ambitions: Pompey will not support his aspiration for the political position of aedile. Time to take his future into his own hands. By Robert Harris. For further details see Monday
6/6. Making Britain Great Again. As an investigation begins into the sabotage of a blimp belonging to one of their colleagues, the eccentric three-man think-tank consider how to bring back to Britain the kind of glory it might have had once. Written and performed by John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman , and featuring Chris Addison , with Peter Dickson , Matthew Holness and Lucy Montgomery. Producer Richard Grocock
2/3. Dolly Parton , Charley Pride and Loretta Lynn are among some of the stars of country music that Nick Barraclough talks to as he continues his journey into the heart of this most American of musical forms. Tonight he looks at the growth of country music in the 1960s and 70s, an era that produced feminism and the civil rights movement. Producer Sarah Cuddon Concludes tomorrow
3/5. Written and read by Bill Bryson. Repeated from 9.45am
