with Dr Karen Smith.
with Brian Redhead and John Humphrys. Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rt Rev Tom Butler
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament
Chairman Michael Buerk , with Ruth Deech , Rabbi Hugo Gryn , Edward Pearce and Professor Roger Scruton. Producer David Coomes
Ian McMillan sees some reflections from his own past. 4: Dump It.
Producer Dave Sheasby
judges. Episode 2: The Song of Deborah.
Introduced by Jenni Murray. Emma Kingsley looks at the work of the 12th-century composer and mystic, Abbess Hildegard of Bingen.
Serial: Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee , read in 12 episodes by Souad Faress. Jane Ripplemeyer lives in America, but once she was Jhoti/Jasmine in India. Abridged by Meg Clarke
Music: Howard Blake 's Piano Concerto
with Tasneem Siddiqi.
Gill Pyrah challenges a panel of literary guests including Roger McGough , Brian Patten , Adrian Henri and Gladys Mary Coles, with readings by Dominic Letts. Producer Gareth Edwards
with James Naughtie.
by Harry Quinn and Colin Douglas.
Heather and Fraser meet for the first time outside school in the out-patients' clinic of their local hospital. Over the next year of treatment, Heather gently teaches Fraser to cope with the reality he has been trying so hard to avoid....
Director Hamish Wilson
Robert Dawson Scott reviews Swan Lake and talks to the mountaineer's favourite author Joe Simpson. Plus photographs by Wilfred Thesiger.
Producer Mike Greenwood (Revised repeat at 9 15pm)
by Gwyn Thomas. A fishy, feline tale.
Read by Laurence Allan. Producer Caroline Sarli
with Chris Lowe and Linda Lewis.
Comedy with Stewart Lee and Richard Herring , Rebecca Front, Armando lannucci and the voice of Tom Baker.
3: The Human Body. Producer Sarah Smith
Canvassing for the cricket committee hots up.
The final leg of Simon Dring 'sjoumey along the hippy route east.
4: SomeKiiidofPilgrimage. Every traveller in India is a seeker of sorts....
Producer Joy Hatwood
A six-part series by colin McLaren.
Three centuries of English family life told through diaries and letters. Interpreting the material are historians Ralph Houlbrooke , Linda Pollock and Roy Porter. Narration by Lesley Dunlop. 1: The Great Perils of Childbirth
Fiddle music by Rosemary Fumiss Producer Louise Purslow
Presented by Ted Harrison. For listeners with disabilities.
Producer Marlene Pease
PHONE: 071.[number removed](Mon-Fri 10.00am-5.00pm) WRITE TO: Does He Take Sugar?, BBC, London W1A1AA
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
Presented by Nigel Cassidy.
Presented by Robin Lustig.
Part 4.
Seven traditional stories of love, magic and mystery. With Derek Jacobi as the King and Carolyn Backhouse as Shahrazad. 4: The Ninth Pedestal. A prince inherits eight priceless statues. But the ninth is missing, and will equal the value of all the others, and more besides...
Music: Sue Harris and Steafan Hannigan Adapted by Colin Haydn Evans Director Nigel Bryant
James Naughtie introduces coverage of the Christchurch by-election result and gives you the chance to phone in and talk politics on [number removed]. Producer Charles Sigler