with Rev Patrick Baker.

with John Humphrys and Peter Hobday.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Clive Lawton.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Michael Buerk chairs the last in the current series of investigations into the moral questions behind the news. With Janet Daley , Rabbi Hugo Gryn , Edward Pearce and Professor Roger Scruton. Producer David Coomes

Anthony Hyde reads from Consolation of Philosophy.

Introduced by Jenni Murray. Short
Story: Margaret Robertson reads the first episode of Differently, abridged in twoparts by Meg Clarke from Friend of My Youth, a collection by Alice Munro.

with Tasneem Siddiqi.

This week, the flavour of February
1961 cooked up from a few old Radio Times back issues and a slice of the BBC sound archives. Hosted by Rory McGrath with guests Jon Glover , Sally Grace and Peter Goodwright. Producer Kathy Smith

with Nick Clarke.

Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm

Last in the series of specially commissioned plays broadcast on Radio 4 and around the world on World
Service Radio. Pen Pals by Peter Tinniswood. With Jane Lapotaire as Fay Fuller and Lorelei King as Beth Camacho. Fay and Beth have been pen pals since they were 11. Fay describes her life with her dentist husband and three children in Bristol, and Beth her lovers and her loneliness freewheeling between San Francisco and Florida.
They have never met. Then Beth announces she is arriving at Gatwick and won't be put off. Fay is terrified. Director Shaun MacLoughlin

with Daire Brehan and guests.

Paul Allen attends a rare staging of Purcell's King Arthur at Covent Garden and sees Bernard Kops 's new play, Call in the Night, at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
Producer Helen Garrison. Rvsd rpt 9.30pm

by Ellen Lyons. "I'm what you call happily divorced. The way I see it is he did us a big favour leaving when he did. But the money's tight and I've always got my eyes open in the charity shops, looking for some of the things me and the kids need". Read by Susan Nisbet. Producer David Jackson Young

with Jon Sopel and Linda Lewis.

Four-part comedy series written by and starring Nick Ball as the unemployed son of a high-flying mother. 3:
Angus Dry 's mum has a business career and a string of lovers. He feels sorry for her.
With Louisa Rix as Mum, Robert Harley , Toby Longworth and Julie Gibbs. Producer Gareth Edwards

Mauvaise cuisine for Lynda. Repeated tomorrow at 1.40pm

Last of the series in which people revisit places they have lived in the past. Yasmin. Twenty-five years ago in Kampala, a Ugandan Asian student played Juliet to an African Romeo in a radical school production cast on racial lines. Now, for the first time since
Idi Amin expelled her community in 1972, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown returns to her African mother-country. Producer Nigel Acheson

Politicians who have had a lasting impact on modern politics. 4: Anthony Crosland : Revisionist of the Left.
Anthony Howard considers the reputation of a man who influenced Labour Party thinking for over 20 years and whose book The Future of Socialism was the revisionists' bible.
With contributions from the former
Labour Prime Minister Jim Callaghan , Shirley Williams and Roy Hattersley.
Producer Mark Savage. Rptd Sunday 4.15pm

Ian Mcintyre steps back from the fray and offers some fresh observations on the arguments of the day.

Presented by Sian Vasey.
Phone: [number removed] (Mon-Fri 10.00-5.00)

Revised repeat of 4.05pm

with Robin Lustig.

Crawford Logan reads part 2 of James Hamilton-Paterson 's comic story. For details see yesterday

Part 5 of Patrick O'Brian's best-selling Napoleonic seafaring adventure.
Dramatised by Roger Danes