With Father Gerry Patton.

Presented by Mark Holdstock. Producer Chris Impey

With James Naughtie and Carolyn Quinn.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News With Steve May.
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rev Angela Tilby.

Andrew Marr and his guests, including the writer Vic Gatrell , discuss sex and satire in the 18th century.
Producer Victoria Wakety Shortened repeat at 9.30pm

In the 1960s it was the Mods and Rockers - now it's the Chavs and Goths, Emos or Alternatives. Sara Parker goes to Peterborough city centre, where the council is trying to address the conflicts between youth groups. A street warden scheme and war games at a disused RAF base are helping young people to turn their attention away from fighting each other and join together as a team. But will this help the city centre streets? Producer Sara Parker

5/5. Eliza's Family. Now a teenager, mystified by - and critical of - his parents and their circle, Ernest resumes his journal and we see Eliza and her husband through his eyes. Whether it is a seaside family holiday, trouble at school or his university career, Ernest will go, very firmly, his own way. By Barry Pain. Adapted by Jonathan Dryden Taylor.
Producer/Director Ellen Dryden

Consumer affairs, with Winifred Robinson and John Waite.

News, with Shaun Ley.

15/17. Four contestants from Scotland and the north and west of England compete in the third semi-final of the general knowledge contest. Robert Robertson is in the chair. Producer Richard Edis Repeated on Saturday at 11pm

Repeated from yesterday at 7pm

The true story of Britain's most unlikely agent,
Janet Chisholm. She was a housewife and mother of three who smuggled Khrushchev's nuclear secrets out of Moscow during the Cuban missile crisis and helped avert a nuclear war. Written by John Fletcher.
Music by Jules Maxwell ; Producer/Director Charlie Taylor

Personal finance questions answered by Paul Lewis and his guests. Producer Bob Howard
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1/5. A selection of the best entries from the Commonwealth Short Story Competition, including the winner, The Moon, the Cat and the Donkey, by Erin Soros from Canada, read by Garrick Hagon. Also Down South by Peter James in Australia, read by Matt Dyktynski. And Clean Sheets by Sue Seah , read by Jason Chan. Producer Mary Ward-Lowery

1/4. The poet Gwyneth Lewis looks at the links between knitting, poetry and the wider world, and writes some new poems for the series. Today she gets to grips with the craft. Producer Penny Arnold

Cake-making is making a comeback. Sales of baking ingredients have rocketed and people are enjoying cakes, not just for a home-made treat but as a business venture. Sheila Dillon meets makers and bakers, and puts some cake mixes to the test. Repeated from yesterday at 12.30pm

8/10. Andrew Dilnot explores the way numbers can influence different aspects of daily life, and the truth behind the statistics in the news. Producer Michael Blastland

News and analysis, with Eddie Mair.

5/6. Regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor , Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer are joined by Tony Hawks to run the gamut of chairman Humphrey Lyttelton 's ridiculous suggestions. Colin Sell is at the piano. From the Sunderland Empire. Producer Jon Naismith Repeated on Sunday at 12.04pm

Roy learns from his mistakes.
For cast see page 32 Repeated tomorrow at 2pm

Mark Lawson presents arts news, interviews and a selection of the best fiction of the year for anyone in search of literary Christmas presents. Producer Timothy Prosser

RT CHOICE 1/5. By Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell.
A Christmas tale by three eminent Victorian writers working together. Distressed by an unsettling sign of life in a derelict house across from her new London home, Sophonisba relies on the competitive efforts of an elderly admirer and her manservant to unravel the secrets of A House to Let.
Dramatised by Martyn Wade.
Producer/Director Ned Chaillet
Repeated from 10.45am

3/4. The 1945 Labour Government. Clement Attlee 's government is remembered as the founder of the Welfare State. Michael Portillo asks just how radical this agenda was and how much of this memory is myth-making by subsequent Labour governments. He talks to
Denis Healey , Peter Carrington and Tony Benn to uncover the forgotten choices made in a Britain exhausted by one war and on the brink of another. Producer Julia Adamson

5/10. Lebanon. After the war between Israel and Hezbollah, the Islamist party handed out cash for people in south
Lebanon to rebuild their homes. Tim Whewell visits the region to find out how a war intended to weaken the organisation may have made it stronger than ever. Repeated from Thursday

4/8. Ice. Gabrielle Walker is in the Arctic to see how the melt-back of the ice is a sign of things to come, not just for polar wildlife, but thousands of miles away among the atoll communities Of the Pacific. Producer Beatrice Fenton

Shortened repeat from 9am

With Claire Bolderson.

1/10. Evelyn Waugh's portrait of a society marriage brought low by a tawdry affair. The beautiful Lady Brenda Last seems content in her hideous country house, but the arrival of an uninvited guest is about to undermine her certainties. Oliver Milburn reads one of Waugh's wittiest and most devastating novels. Abridged by Sally Marmion. Producer Di Speirs
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2/8. Michael Rosen continues his series investigating the world of words and language.
Producer Mark Smalley Repeated tomorrow at 4pm

Today's events in Westminster, presented by Rachel Hooper.

1/5. By Charles Darwin. Repeated from 9.45am