With Mgr Mark Langham.
Presented by Mark Holdstock.
With Sarah Montague and James Naughtie.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News With Garry Richardson.
7.48 Thought for the Day With Indarjit Singh.
Libby Purves and guests from a wide variety of backgrounds engage in diverse and lively conversation. Producer Chris Paling Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
The gentleman is an iconic figure whose values many would like to revive. And now you can pay to be taught gentlemanly habits as a way to get on in life. Chris Bowlby looks at what the gentleman really stood for, and whether we can reinvent him for a less formal, less inhibited age.
Producer Michael Blastland
Consumer afffairs, presented by Winifred Robinson and Sheila McClennon.
National and international news and analysis, presented by Shaun Ley.
4/7. More than 150 years ago Titus Salt set up a textile mill in an area of countryside three miles from the centre of Bradford. It became a model town, its visionary scale unsurpassed during the industrial Revolution. Salt didn't just provide well-built homes for his workers, but hospitals, shops and schools. Julian Richards takes a look around this fascinating place, finding out more about it and its elusive founder.
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm
Featuring Ian Holm as JM Barrie. Barrie's biographer Andrew Birkin tells the haunting story of Barrie's relationship with the five Llewelyn-Davies boys, Barrie's adopted sons and the inspiration behind "Peter Pan". He reveals how his own experience, over a 30-year association with the author, has thrown up tragic parallels. Music by Kicks Joy Darkness and Molly Nyman. Poetry by Anno Birkin. Read by Ian Holm, Bee Gilbert, Alice Coulthard and Daniel Evans.
John Cushnie , Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank answer questions from gardeners in Shropshire. Chaired by Eric Robson. Including at 3.25 Gardening Weather Forecast. Shortened at 2pm
3/5. The Christmas Chair
An old man with Alzheimer's is brought home to spend the festive season with his family. By Jules Horne , read by Julie Austin. For details see Monday
3/5. In 1771 Thomas Chippendale furnished actor David Garrick 's house for £931 9s 2d. Richard Foster investigates how ideas of comfort and opulence have changed and how prices compare today.
(For further details see Monday)
Human behaviour, institutions and conventions come under the microscope as Laurie Taylor leads the discussion on topical items and issues arising from the academic and research world. Producer Kevin Dawson
4/4. Depression. How do doctors decide if what's going on inside someone's head is normal? Are multiple-choice-style questionnaires a reliable guide to who's depressed and who's not? Vivienne Parry investigates. Repeated from yesterday at 9pm
News and analysis, with Carolyn Quinn.
2/4. Anna Russell , Queen of Musical Parody. Musician and comedian Rainer Hersch profiles entertainers who have combined comedy and music. Today he looks at the life and work of Anna Russell - now 95 years old - who's best known for her analytical send-up of Wagner's Ring Cycle. Producer Julian Mayers
Clarrie gets her priorities right.
For cast see page 29 Repeated tomorrow at 2pm
With John Wilson.
8/10. "Emma's sweet murmurs and kisses ravish Leon's soul but there seems to Leon something shadowy and ominous slipping between them." By Gustave Flaubert. For cast and further details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am
2/3. A lecture series hosted by the RSA in London and chaired by Edward Stourton, featuring speakers who dare to take on received wisdom, whatever the cost.
Today Rabbi Michael Melchior, a member of the Israeli parliament who wants a Palestinian state and thinks that creating peace is a religious process rather than a political one, states his views and then defends them in discussion with a panel of experts and in response to questions from the audience.
(Repeated on Saturday at 10.15pm)
3/3. What lessons could Edward Gibbon's iconic The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire have for a multicultural Britain today? With Matthew Parris.
(Repeated from Sunday at 10.45pm)
2/3. Chris Riley joins astronomers who are using their telescopes to search for the Cosmic Dawn, the time in the Universe's childhood when the first stars burst into life and billions of galaxies came into being.
Shortened repeat from 9am
News and analysis, presented by Robin Lustig.
8/10. Cicero is climbing the political ladder in Rome, but he has powerful enemies determined to stop his run for consul. By Robert Harris. For further details see Monday
1/4. Andy Hamilton 's hellish comedy about the trials and tribulations of everyday life for the Lord of the Underworld. The series begins with Satan coming under unprecedented pressure. Mankind is now so sinful that they're all coming to hell and the place is full to bursting. The only way to stop the flow is to persuade humanity to be good - but that's quite a tall order for the Prince of Darkness.
With Philip Pope , Nick Revell and Michael Fenton Stevens
Producer Paul Mayhew-Archer
2/3. The Comedy of Characters. Miles Kington examines great characters of comedy, from Chaucer's Wife of Bath to David Brent of The Office. With insight from Terry Jones , Barry Humphries , Dick Clement , Ian La Frenais and Ricky Gervais , plus archive interviews with Margaret Rutherford , Peter Sellers and Mr Pastry. Concludes tomorrow. For further details see yesterday
3/5. By David Profumo. Read by Robert Glenister.
(Repeated from 9.45am)
