View schedule at a glance
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00:00–00:30BBC 6 Music1/7. ABC vocalist Martin Fry recalls the heady days of the New Romantic movement.
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01:05–01:30BBC World Service2/4. Owen Bennett Jones explores five crucial battles in the relationship between Christiani...
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09:00–09:30BBC Radio 42/3. John Simpson returns to Prague to speak to those who lived through the Velvet Revolution.
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09:30–09:45BBC Radio 45/5. Matthew Parris on valedictories which embarrassed ministers.
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11:00–11:30BBC Radio 43/3. Jens Jarisch on the identity of several places in the former eastern sector of Berlin.
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11:30–12:00BBC Radio 4Film director Gurinder Chadha discusses the influence of her dual Asian and British roots. (R)
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13:30–14:00BBC Radio 4Composer Matthew King discovers the extraordinary abilities of musical savants.
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15:45–16:00BBC Radio 42/5. It is late spring and the swallows return to the garden. Narrated by Peter France.
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16:56–17:00BBC Radio 4In Prague the police beat protesters as they call for the ousting of the Czech leadership.
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20:00–20:40BBC Radio 4Jenny Cuffe reports from DR Congo on the scale of illegal gold mining.
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21:30–21:58BBC Radio 42/3. John Simpson returns to Prague to speak to those who lived through the Velvet Revolution.
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22:30–23:30BBC Radio 2Jonathan Ross tells the story of one of the biggest UK bands of the 80s.
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23:00–23:15BBC Radio 32/5. Andrew Parrott on researching and performing Purcell's Hail! bright Cecilia. (R)
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23:30–00:00BBC Radio 22/5. Asleep at the Wheel frontman Ray Benson charts the history of Western Swing music.
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23:30–00:00BBC Radio 4Michael Alexander explores the place of Eliot, and poetry in general, in national culture. (R)
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00:00–00:30BBC 6 Music2/7. Martin Fry explores the social and musical conditions behind the Sheffield Sound.
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00:30–06:00BBC Radio Scotland (MW only)Terry MacLeod of the CBC explores the historical links between Scotland and Canada.
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