Women in fanning is this week's theme women play a vital role in feeding the world.
With George Macpherson. Producer David Dixon

with James Whitbourn.

with John Humphrys and Susannah Simons.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rev James Jones. Editor Philip Harding

with Cliff Morgan. Producer Rob Nothman

Presented by Ken Bruce. Producer Sara Jane Hall
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With Ned Sherrin and interjections from Arthur Smith , Craig Ferguson and Annabel Giles.
Producer Dymphna Flynn Stereo

Peter Jenkins , Associate
Editor of The Independent, presents a personal view of a week in the life of MPs and peers.
Producer Dennis Sewell

Presented by Gordon Clough.
Producer Maria Balinska

with Heather Payton.
Producer Frances Macdonald

Chairman Barry Took quizzes team captains Richard Ingrams and Alan Coren and guests. Producer Colin Swash. Stereo

The panel includes:
Rt Hon Kenneth Baker , Home Secretary;
Margaret Beckett , Labour Party Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury; and Menzies Campbell, QC, Liberal Democrat
Spokesman on Defence and Disarmament.
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Leicestershire. Chairman
Jonathan Dimbleby. and at 2.00pm
Any Answers? [number removed]with Jonathan Dimbleby. Producers Anna Carragher and John Watkins
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The Wench Is Dead
Colin Dexter 's Inspector Morse tackles an unusual case in this dramatisation of the 1989 Gold Dagger Winner for best crime novel of the year.
The RSC's John Shrapnel plays Morse, in a case that finds him hospitalised and probing a crime that occurred over a century before.
Musical theme Wilfredo Acosta.
Dramatised by Guy Meredith. Director Ned Chaillet.
Stereo

with Barry Cunliffe.
Jonathan Clark , Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, talks to John Miller about the historical differences in the perception of sovereignty between the British and the rest of the European Community. Producer John Knight

Alun Lewis reports from a new exhibition celebrating the first river tunnel at
Rotherhithe. And there's a report on how the glories of glass at York Minster are suffering from the ravages of time and weather - but there is a new method which might offer protection. Producer Feisal Ali

Robin Page reports from
Kenya on exploitation and the environment. And are catalytic converters for cars a political con trick? Producer Jeffrey Olstead

with Simon Hoggart. Producer Brian King

Stereo

with Robert Robinson.
Producer Michael Ember. Stereo

Looking for Rembrandt As the massive
Rembrandt exhibition moves from Amsterdam to the National Gallery in London, Louisa Buck steps back from the marketing hype and controversy surrounding the authenticity of numerous "Rembrandt" paintings, and seeks out the elusive man behind the myth. Producer Anthony Denselow
Stereo

Buddenbrooks: The
Decline of a Family Thomas Mann 's novel, adapted in six episodes. 6: With the death of the Frau Consul , the house in Menstrasse had to be sold. It would be a hard leave-taking for Tony, but the prospect of a change was not without its charm. It was almost like another setting out - the fourth one. Narrator Charles Simpson.
Translated by H Lowe-Porter Adapted by John Peacock
Director Jane Morgan. Stereo

Sue MacGregor meets
Detective Chief Inspector Jackie Malton , community liaison officer for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, to talk about her life and work.

With Brian Kay.
Producer Sarah Devonald. Stereo

with the Rev
Stephen Oliver. Stereo

What has happened to the political novel?
A discussion chaired by Peter Riddell.
Producer Anna Parkinson. Stereo

"We knew about the grammar school. You had to do homework. You couldn't go home at lunchtime. You had to play football, and they were all sissies who wore funny hats and talked posh."
Alf Walker remembers his schooldays in Lincolnshire.
Producer Gillian Hush

with double-bass players Chi-Chi Nwanoku and Rodney Slatford. Stereo

Comedy from Maggie Fox , Sue Ryding and a host of relatives.
This week: Whose
Handbag Is It Anyway? Thai food and the nun connection.
With Denise Coffey and Malcolm Raebum.
Producer Lissa Evans
Stereo