With the Rev Ian Mackenzie.

Presented by Mark Holdstock.

With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
6.25,7.25.8.25 Sports News With Steve May.
7.48 Thought for the Day
With the Rev Rosemary Lain-Priestley .

3/5. The New Polytechnics. Martha Kearney looks back at the brief history of the polytechnics. Thirty new institutions were created in the early 1970s, designed as different but equal to the universities. But did anyone really believe in that equality? Featuring the stories of those who taught and studied at the polys, and who championed their existence or derided their
Shortcomings. Producer Julia Adamson Repeated at9.30pm

4/5. Ainsley Harriott is invited into the kitchen of Raju and Seema, who came to Britain from Bhutan. They show him how to cook pork curry with radishes and red rice, and talk about their new life in Yorkshire.
Producer Clare Csonka

A lively collection of dispatches from the BBC s foreign correspondents, who report on stories in their regions. Presented by Kate Adie. Producer Tony Grant

Samantha Bond, who played James Bond's put-upon secretary, Miss Moneypenny, in four films, turns her critical eye to one of the cornerstones of her day-job as a classical actress: the right way to deliver Shakespeare's dramatic verse. As well as taking advice from Peter Hall, Cicely Berry and Derek Jacobi, she also consults Q, that's to say, her fellow "Bond girl", Judi Dench.
(Repeated Sunday 12.15am)

Presented by Winifred Robinson and John Waite.

News, with Brian Hanrahan.

Repeated from Saturday 6.07am

Repeated from yesterday at 7pm

Peter is an award-winning writer with an obsessive-compulsive disorder - if he travels in a car he is terrified that he will run over a child and has to keep stopping constantly to check that there is nothing caught under the wheels. Can he accept the offer of a lift home from his Spanish psychiatrist Llaya? By Gul Y Davis ; adapted by David Calcutt.
Producer/Director Kate Chapman

6/6. Depression. Barbara Myers is joined by consultant psychiatrist Dr Tim Kendall. Phone in if you have any questions on the subject of depression. Producer Erika Wright
PHONE: [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute) Lines are open from 1.30pm email via www.bbc.co.uk/radio4

Repeated from Sunday at 7.55am

4/5. Yellow Coal, Part 1. This Russian short story, written in 1939 is uncannily relevant today. Wars and the elements have left oil wells running dry and water running out. The Commission of the Access of New and Original Energies have launched a competition to discover a new energy source. Forfurther details see Monday

4/5. Unfinished Business. Ex-lovers have a habit of turning up anywhere, like bad pennies. People tell stories of the exes who won't go away. For further details see Tuesday

Repeated from Sunday at 4pm

Subjects such as telepathy, intuition and life after death have traditionally been off limits for the British
Association's annual Festival of Science. Not any more. Before an audience at this year's Festival in Norwich,
Quentin Cooper confronts a panel of scientific heretics and sceptics to assess just how much evidence there is for mind extending beyond the physical brain. Producer Martin Redfern

News and analysis, with Carolyn Quinn .

New series 1/6. Johnny Vegas is the first guest in the comedy series in which Dave Gorman and a celebrity guest chew over the ridiculous, unworkable, but sometimes genius inventions, schemes and policies of the public. Producer Simon Nicholls

Brenda flexes her marketing muscles.
For cast see page 25 Repeated tomorrow at 2pm

The actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg talks to
Kirsty Lang in the arts magazine. Producer Timothy Prosser

4/10. Emma's memory of Leon becomes the core of her despair. By Gustave Flaubert.
For further details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am

2/2. Sarfraz Manzoor follows British Pakistani fans as they travel across the country to watch Pakistan's cricket tour of England this summer. He finds out why an overwhelming majority of second and third generation British Pakistanis still support Pakistan. He looks at the huge diversity of British Pakistani life, and investigates the link between cricket and the radicalisation of young British Muslims. Producer Aasiya Lodhi

New series 1/9. Age Rage. From 1 October, 65 will be the new nationwide retirement age in Britain, the age when employers can legally force workers to retire whether they want to or not. Peter Day finds out what it means for employees, for companies, and for people like him on the verge of being retired at 60.
Producer Sandra Kanthal Repeated on Sunday at 9.30pm

6/6. They are people who believe they can turn the rain on and off like a tap. Miriam O'Reilly travels from the South Downs to Nanjing in search of their secrets. Producer Alasdair Cross Repeated tomorrow at 3pm

Repeated from 9am

Presented by Robin Lustig.

4/10. Cicero has won the right to prosecute Gaius Verres for corruption. Now he must journey to Sicily in the depths of a cold winter to find his evidence. By Robert Harris. For further details see Monday

3/6. The Substance Adventure. Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden star as the Scotsmen who first appeared in I'm
Sorry I Haven't a Clue. Here, they advertise their services as "builders to the gentry" and are soon put to work by the Laird. With Alison Steadman as Mrs Naughtie and Jeremy Hardy as the Laird. Producer Jon Naismith

3/6. Dominic Holland shares his thoughts on TV chefs, cereal manufacturers and teachers. With support from Margaret Cabourn-Smith , Martin Hyder and Ed Weeks , and music by Jim Howard. Producer Victoria Lloyd

3/3. Nick Barraclough goes behind the scenes in corporate Nashville and talks to Garth Brooks , the Dixie Chicks, and the record label executives who control one of America's most powerful musical forms. Producer SarahCuddon

By Bill Bryson.

(Rptd from 9.45am)