With Rev Ann Lewis.

With Brian Redhead and John Humphrys. Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day With Rev James Jones.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

With Libby Purves and Brian Hayes. PrOducer Lucy Cacanas

Isaiah. Part 12.

Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Corinne Julius on the jewel amber. Serial: Strong Poison (8)

With John Howard.

Last in the series by Gary Brown.
Past, Present and Future. "It's all coming together isn't it? What with Sophie starting school, and your Promotion, and me getting my work noticed."
Producer Ann Jobson

with James Naughtie.

The first of a new three-part series by Elaine Feinstein. With Jenny Agutter as Katya and Jennie Stoller as Lena. immersed in her Cambridge life and preoccupied with her divorce, Lena has almost forgotten her childhood friend, Katya. Then an unexpected letter stirs up memories of their Jewish upbringing in Leicester in the early 1970s.
Director Marion Nancarrow

Federation of Children's Book Groups. Michael Rosen celebrates the silver jubilee of the Federation of Children's Book Groups.
Producer Jill Burridge

Miles Kington discovers what makes people laugh around the world.
1: Ireland Irish humour is characterised by a great sense of the ridiculous which they say the English misunderstand. Producer Anne-Marie Cole

Quentin Cooper reviews the latest
Merchant Ivory film, The Remains of the Day, and the rest of the week s releases. Mike Harding , author of The Virgin of the Discos is in studio.
Producer Jerome Weattierald (Revised repeat 9.15pm)

by Jonathan Treitel.
"The original plan was to build a ziggurat - a jagged, winding monument of baked clay spiralling up to the heavens ..." This story has something to do with Babel, lots of hot air and a reluctant adventurer called Bes. Read by Peter Jeffrey. Producer Duncan Minshull

with Chris Lowe and Linda Lewis.

Frank Delaney returns with the programme about language that is what it says. This week: Patsy and the Hot Banana. Jargon from Belfast to Bruges.
Producer Simon Elmes

Whose panto is it anyway?

Four writers give a personal view of today's Britain.

Dave Hill tweaks the net curtains to reveal Ann Summers parties in the Home Counties, spanking in Surrey and bizarre crimes in Tunbridge Wells. Why do we cling to collective views of respectability when our actions belie them?

(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with Roger White.

with Alexander MacLeod.

Part 3.

Six telling trials from the last century. 3: Beautiful Forever. Nicholas Stewart , QC, tells the story of Mary Tucker Borrodaile who was persuaded to part with her entire fortune in return for beauty products which didnt work.
With John Baddeley , John Evitts and Jillie Meers