with Father Philip Steer.

with John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Umar Hegedus.

3: Affray.
Stereo

Presented by Libby Purves , with birthday guest Patricia Hodge.
Producer Lucy Cacanas. Stereo

Part 23.

with Jenni Murray.
More than one in ten babies in Britain is bom by Caesarian section each year, and the number is growing. Why? Cheryl Armitage investigates.
Story: Bluebeard's Egg (2)

with John Howard.

Eric Williams 's classic wartime escape story, adapted in six parts. 3: Dig For Victory
Work is progressing on the tunnel, but time is running out.
Adapted by Mark Power
Director Adrian Bean. Stereo

with James Naughtie.

Stereo

by Brian Miller.
With Patricia Hodge as Jessica and Maxine Audley as Aunt Herbacia.

It is well known that sooner or later all husbands outlive their usefulness. Jessica is bored with hers and takes decisive action. But she and Aunt Herbacia discover that they are part of a world-wide conspiracy of women....
(Stereo)

In the last programme of the series Rosemary Leach and Michael Fitzgerald read poetry and prose about the weather 3: Wind
Producer Julia Gillett

6: Mark Tully talks to
Swami Agnivesh , India's best-known Hindu monk, whose vows of celibacy and poverty have not prevented him from being a controversial and powerful righter of wrongs. Producer Vanessa Harrison

An interview with Roland Joffe , whose long-awaited film adaptation of The City of Joy is set in Calcutta's teeming slums. Also a review of the Carry On team's version of the Columbus story, and Nigel Andrews investigates the search for long-lost British film classics.
Producer Jerome Weatherakj. Stereo
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

Black Snow Falling by Bemadette Crosthwaite. "She might be Linda Ruthin now, but I remembered her as Linda Coldfield. The queen of Shakespeare Road. My yardstick and my tormentor." Read by Elizabeth Mansfield. Producer Emma Williams

with Valerie Singleton and Hugh Sykes.

Not such a welcome home for Robert. Stereo

John Waite investigates. Editor Graham Ellis

Each week Antony Hopkins explores a different musical work or topic. This week: Schumann songs.
Producer Patrick Lambert. Stereo

The Intensive Care Unit
Corporate casualties have reached epidemic proportions as the plague of the recession continues.
Banks are trying to stop the infection but only a few firms can be nursed back to health. Peter Day goes into a bank's intensive care unit with the man who has the power of business life and death in his hands. Producer Colin Wilde

Stereo
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with Linda Lewis. Stereo

with Alexander MacLeod. Stereo

Talking at the Gates 8: Hundreds Dead. Stereo

Christopher Matthew exhumes late-lamented publications for dissection. For over 60 years, the doings of polite society were chronicled in The
Sketch magazine. Photos of hunt balls and charity dinners vied for space with gossip columns, fashion pages and theatre reviews of undemanding plays. But when the last debutante vanished in the the late 50s, so did the magazine ...

In the first of a series of three programmes
Derek Nimmo , Irene Thomas and Ian Wallace tell tall stories.
You and chairman
Tim Brooke-Taylor have to guess who's hoaxing.
Producer Edward Taylor. Stereo