With Anjum Anwar.

Presented by Mark Holdstock.

With Sarah Montague and Carolyn Quinn.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
With Rachel Hooper and David Wilby.
7.48 Thought for the Day With Martin Palmer.
8.31 UN only Yesterday in Parliament

A lively collection of dispatches from the BBC foreign correspondents, who report on stories in their regions. Presented by Kate Adie. producer Tony Grant
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Artists and writers reflect on the self-portraits of Rembrandt, born 400 years ago. Philosopher
Nigel Warburton explores why the Dutch master, throughout his career, was so fascinated with self-portraiture. Producer Faith Lawrence Repeated Sunday 12.15am

Presented by Liz Barclay and Winifred Robinson.

With Shaun Ley.

Exploring rural life around Britain. Rptd from Saturday 6.07am

Repeated from yesterday at 7pm

A tense drama set around the Suez crisis of 1956. A Liverpool family is already haunted and riven by the loss of too many young men in war - and the British action in Suez deepens these wounds. By David Pownall.
Director Martin Jenkins

7/10. Stewart Henderson presents the interactive problem-solving series, in which he gets to the bottom of the intriguing questions of everyday life. Producer Sarah Cuddon PHONE: [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute) Lines are open from 1.30pm email:questions.questionsi>bbc.co.uk

Jools Holland appeals on behalf of the Amber Trust, which gives blind children access to music.
Donations: [address removed], marked Amber Trust on the back of the envelope; Credit cards: Freephone [number removed] Repeated from Sunday at 7.55am

4/5. Webern and Me. "You don't push back the German
Western Front without doing some things you later regret. The others, I only dream of occasionally; but I can't get his music out of my head." By Jonathan Lennie. Read by Carl Prekopp. For further details see Monday

24/30. They'd Some Queer Ideas at the Clinic.
Michael Morpurgo tells the story of the battle between
Behaviourists and Freudians over how children should be brought up in the first half of the 20th century. The readers are Poppy Friar, Adam Godley ,
Sara Kestelman , Anna Maxwell Martin and Timothy West. For further details see Monday

Mariella Frostrup talks to award-winning children's writer Mal Peet about his new book Penalty, and takes a look at what's hot and what's not in the world of the celebrity biography. Repeated from Sunday at 4pm

imagine trying to reach into a booby-trapped vehicle, repairing the inner recesses of a nuclear power station, or performing surgery inside a person's intestine. It would help to have a long arm as supple as a snake but controlled with an engineer's precision. Quentin Cooper meets a lightweight robotic arm that can reach the unreachable. Producer Fiona Roberts

News and analysis, presented by Eddie Mair.

1/6. Rogue Mail. Does it seem that the media is run by idiots, lying charlatans and moronic 12-year-olds who should've been drowned at birth in a bucket of raw sewage? Welcome to the comical world of Ed Reardon , author, pipe smoker, consummate fare-dodger and master of the abusive e-mail.
Producer Simon Nicholls

Sam has to do a friendly favour.
For cast see page 36 Repeated tomorrow at 2pm

With Mark Lawson , including an interview with Griff Rhys Jones , who has written a memoir recalling the embarrassments and joys of his suburban childhood. Producer Nicola Holloway

4/5. The kidnapper's latest taunt leads the police to the National Gallery. At home, Sue cannot avoid a long-overdue row with her mother; while under Dr Fred's hypnosis
Angela probes deep into a memory that gives the police a vital clue to the kidnapper's identity. By Bill Murphy. For cast and further details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am

1/2. Stemming the Tide. Rising sea levels are threatening low-lying parts of Britain's coast, with the highest tides for 20 years predicted this month.
Jenny Cuffe spends seven days with communities in danger from flooding, as sea defences are prepared to deal with the potential effects Of climate change. Producers Sally Chesworth

8/9. On the Hedge. The rise of a new wave of investors is changing the way high finance works. Companies find their destinies are being shaped by secretive and powerful hedge funds that are a mystery to them. Peter Day investigates whether big business is getting ever riskier, and whether it matters. Producer Paul O'Keefe Repeated on Sunday at 9.30pm

7/10. The latest news from the world of science and technology, with Geoff Watts reporting from the X Prize Cup, in which privately owned rockets compete against one another over the desert of Las Cruces, New Mexico. Producer Pamela Rutherford

News and analysis, presented by Claire Bolderson.

9/10.She Wouldn't Let Go of the Baby
Kitty and Esme's memories begin to collide in this episode of Maggie O'Farrell 's powerful story about a stolen life and a harrowing family secret. For further details see Monday

4/6. Chilling. Local government officer Martin Christmas is horrified to hear that certain individuals are doing despicable things to council waste bins. He makes the mistake of lying in wait for them with "Mad" Matt Jessop , community ranger! By Tony Bagley.
Producer Claire Bartlett

Today's events in Westminster, with David Wilby.

4/5. Repeated from 9.45am