With Elizabeth Templeton.
With Brian Redhead and John Humphrys. Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Tom Butler.
Yesterday in Parliament
With Libby Purves and Brian Hayes. Producer Lucy Cacanas
Hosea. Patrick Malahide reads the first of two selections from the Authorised Version. Introduced by Dr Kathryn Dell. Abridged by Sandra Willingham Producer Elizabeth Taylor
Introduced by Jenni Murray.
The Archers has come a long way from its original purpose of conveying farming information. Sheila McClennon reports on soap operas and public education. Serial: The Very Dead of Winter (3)
This week the team are at the Crarae Glen Gardens Charitable Trust in Inverary.
with John Howard.
Comedy by Sue Limb , starring .
4: Taking It on the Chin
Producer Jonathan James-Moore
with James Naughtie.
Saturday by Pat Anderson is the second play in a four-part series of linked dramas by four Liverpool writers. It stars Cathy Tyson as Carol, a hairdresser.
Working at the barber's, Carol's body clock is ticking, like a time bomb waiting to go off. Her boyfriend's answering machine mocks her, and God deserts her. Carol's life is about to change.
Musicby Sense of Sound Director Kate Rowland
Michael Rosen and Ruth McCarthy pick paperbacks for Christmas. Producer Jill Burridge
Major issues, changing attitudes, and important events at home and abroad.
5: Miles Kington discovers what makes the Russians laugh. "Political humour was our only taste of freedom but now conditions are changing these jokes are disappearing."
Producer Anne-Marie Cole
Is John Buchan more than a dated adventure story author? Mark Steyn investigates. And there's an assessment of Fats Waller on the 50th anniversary of his death.
Producer Robyn Read
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)
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"It was the year 1971. It was the year I got my Flamenco shoes and began my Spanish dancing lessons. It was the year that John-Jin arrived."
Read by Siriol Jenkins . Producer Duncan Minshull
with Chris Lowe and Hugh Sykes.
Frank Delaney presents the programme about words that is what it says.
5: Truly Economical. A look at the language of lying.
Producer Simon Elmes
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Is it pork for the Perks?
Information and entertainment from the programme which investigates all things green. Presented by Roger Harrabin.
Presented by Geoff Watts.
Following the recent Papal Encyclical, Christopher Cook recalls long-forgotten directives from the Holy Father to his bishops, conjures up the memory of the only English Pope and remembers Julius II.
Another chance to hear the three programmes in which Miriam Marx Allen talks to Tony Staveacre about her father, Groucho, and introduces some letters from the correspondence that kept them together. Their relationship had to weather the ups and downs of Groucho's film, radio and television careers, two divorces, two remarriages - and Miriam's often tumultuous young adulthood. Producer Susan Roberts
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
Presented by Tim Bowler.
with Richard Kershaw.
Part 5.
In August 1947, two teenage boys wobbled their way north on a pair of battered bicycles to explore Yorkshire and Lancashire. Now, 46 years later, in the first of four programmes, David Bean and Laurence Cantwell are reunited to retrace their boyhood travels. 1: Into the Unknown