with The Rt Rev Peter Firth.
with Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Elaine Storkey.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament
with Libby Purves and birthday guest Harvey Goldsmith , music impresario.
Producer Lucy Cacanas
Episode 10.
Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Serial: The Women in Black (8)
Question Time
with John Howard.
by Martin Davies. 5: Found Wanting
To Robert's dismay, his sister Barbara is about to succumb to temptation in the shape of biker
Andy Hunt. His mother can't help to save her, so he enlists the help of Fr Benedict , and a knee to the groin.
Producer Richard Wilson
with James Naughtie.
Seven classic mysteries starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Dr Watson.
Why does a highly respected builder ask a junior legal clerk to draw up his will and then make him the sole beneficiary?
BBC Radio Collection Cassettes: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (three volumes) available from retailers.
In the first of four talks, Dr Irving Finkel of the British Museum deciphers the secrets of wedge writing and bridges the gulf of millennia between us and the world of ancient Iraq.
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad.
Reporter Jolyon Jenkins.
The fourth of six programmes in which
Christopher Cook delves into the BBC Sound
Archives to discover something of the great figures of the past through the memoirs of those who were fortunate enough to meet them.
Producer John Knight
As Malcolm X opens in this country,
Nigel Andrews reviews this week's releases and considers the atmosphere in which we see the final product - from popcorn to pop advert. Plus a review of Julia Bardsley 's production of Macbeth at the Leicester Haymarket. Producer Abigail Appleton
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)
The Radio Astronomer by Joyce Carol Oates. A hired nurse tends a retired professor of astronomy who still searches for hope in the stars.
Read by Liza Ross. Producer David Hunter
with Wendy Austin and Frank Partridge.
The fifth heat in the wide-ranging musical quiz with Ned Sherrin posing questions on anything from Aaran Copland to ZZ Top.
Where can Tom go?
Radio 4's environmental programme reports from California.
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care.
The Queen called her "annus horribilis". Christopher Cook looks back to the Coronation which, 40 years ago, seemed to herald a new dawn; considers how its subjects have perceived the monarchy down the ages; and discusses the relationship between church and state.
Concluding the eight-part series about life in Walsgrave Hospital,
Coventry, one of Britain's largest hospitals.
The hospital anxiously awaits a government announcement on its application to become a self-governing trust.
Producers Sarah Rowlands and Brian King
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Roger White.
with Alexander MacLeod.
Queen of the Tambourine
Episode 8.
In the last in the present series of light-hearted stories from the past,
Dr Christopher Andrew looks at television adverts - disposable trash or important research material? Also, a man who literally keeps a tradition alive - the Ravenmaster of the Tower of London - and: why do we still love to invent our past?
