Presented by Ruth Kiely. Producer Richard Sanders

with James Whitbourn and his guest. Producer Christine Morgan

with John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Canon Paul Bates.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

with Cliff Morgan.
Producer Caj Sohal

Presented by Eddie Mair. Producer Jill Thomas
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with Ned Sherrin. guests and regulars. Producer Jayne K Morgan

A week in the life of MPs and peers. Producer Dennrs Sewell

Presented by Gordon Clough , including a special report on "Ostalgia" - East Germans looking back at what they now see as the good old days of communism. Producer RosieGoldsmrth

Presented by Alison Mitchell. Producer Frances Macdonald

Chairman Barry Took quizzes team captains Richard Ingrams and Alan Coren , and their guests.
Producer Aled Evans

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by Harry Barton.
An ex-RAF pilot, now a clergyman, returns to Ireland, where he was detained during the Second World War, and finds his life in turmoil when a young nun comes to him with a most unusual request.
Singer Elaine Claxton
Producer Eoin O'Callaghan. Director Robert Cooper

In 1914, four Americans set out from Manchester on a 3,000-mile motoring holiday around Britain. David Foster introduces some of their experiences of a country on the brink of great change. Readers Risa Hall and Peter Marinker Producer Gillian Hush

This week Christopher Cook discovers that "Dixie", adopted as the anthem of the segregationist southern states of America, was written by a family of black musicians from Ohio. He recalls how a ship, built on Merseyside during the American Civil War, inspired a song, and remembers the musical director of the American Band of the AEF whose death 50 years ago created a legend.
Producer John Knight

Peter Evans reports on National Science Week events around the country. Producer Anne McNaught

Reporter Mark Whitaker.

Experiences of life in Spain.
5: Garbage and Self-Assertion. Drew Launay is very nearly assassinated by a black plastic rubbish bag dropped out of a top-storey window. It is all part of the Spanish passion for being individualistic. .An Insight production

Swiping satirical and waxing not so lyrical about the news this week are Sally Grace, Jeffrey Holland , Toby Longworth and Peter Serafinowicz.

I Mark Steyn 's cult New York chat show returns with more opinionated guests and quirky extracts from American radio and TV. And with the green and white bunting still fluttering on a shamrock-strewn Fifth Avenue after the St Patrick's Day parade, Mark sips a pint of green beer and finds out what it really means to be
Irish-American.
Producer Hamish Mykura

The Last Dance
From Torvill and Dean to Peggy Spencer , Frederick Ashton to Matthew Bourne , the waltz has been celebrated and reinvented - a far cry from the Times editorial of 1816 which felt it "a duty to warn every parent against exposing his daughter to so fatal a contagion." Producer Robyn Read

by Peter Lloyd.
When a desperate woman telephones piano tuner and aspiring country music star Spencer Jones , he is flattered by the intimacies of her confessions.
Music by David Chilton. Director Ned Chaillet

Presented by Brian Kay. Producer Anthony Sellors

led by Canon Eddie Neale.

Birds of a Feather star Lesley Joseph recalls her headmistress, Miss Lightwood. Producer Ed Thomason

Radio 4's rock 'n' roll season continues with Roy McGregor 's play about the life and times of Little Willie John , largely forgotten today but one of the most influential black singers of the 1950s.
With Brian Greene , Andy Lucas and James Cadogan. Director Andy Jordan

Nick Baker discovers that the first coin was put in the slot over 2,000 years ago and finds out whether the butler ever did see anything worth more than a penny. Producer Sarah Rowlands