With Father Owen Hardwicke.

With Sue MacGregor and James Naughtie.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Charles Handy.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

A topical discussion.
Producer Anne Peacock. LINES OPEN 8.00am

The history of Britain.
183: Florence Nightingale For details see yesterday

Introduced by Jenni Murray. Serial: Praisesong for the Widow (2) For details see yesterday

The workplace is changing - short-term contracts and redundancies are the order of the day. Professor Anthony Clare investigates stress at work.
Producer Nick Utechin. Rptd Sun 10.15pm

With Lesley Riddoch.

Joining Nigel Rees to exchange quotations and anecdotes this week are John Cole , Philip Franks , the Rt Hon Roy Hattersley MP and Peter Jones. The reader is Patricia Hughes. Producer Chris Neill

With Nick Clarke.

Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm

By Julia Stoneham. The death of a farmer forces Jean to re-examine her relationship with an old aquaintance.
Director David Blount

A conversation with Russian-born soprano Kyra Vayne is illustrated with excerpts from her recordings from the 1930s to the 1960s.
Producer Ray Abbott
Repeated Saturday at 11.00pm

With Daire Brehan.
Editor Sharon Banoff
PHONE/ANSWERPHONE: (0171) [number removed]E-MAIL: afternoon.shift@bbc.co.uk

Paul Vaughan reads Babel Tower - A S Byatt's novel set in the sixties, sees Simon Gray 's play Simply
Disconnected and talks to the new
British tenor Ian Bostridge. Producer John Boundy Revised repeat 9.30pm

By Jane Gardam. "I have seen a ghost.... it was the ghost of someone who is still alive."
Read by Marion Reed. Producer Rob Ketteridge

With Chris Lowe and Charlie Lee-Potter .

Elizabeth Proud's six-part dramatisation of Barbara Pym 's novel. 4: Mr Mold has a surprising proposition for Harriet. Belinda's dreams nearly come true. But Agatha will soon be back, and what then?
Singers Harvey Brough. Phyllida Hancock and Mary Lincoln
Director of music by Malcolm McKee Producer Sioned William Rpt

Kathy is making big plans. Repeated tomorrow at 1.40pm

Major issues, changing attitudes and important events at home and abroad.
Reporter Jenny Cuffe. Producer David Lewis
Repeated Saturday at 5.00pm

Professor Lewis Wolpert , a developmental biologist from
University College, London reviews the week's scientific discoveries and developments.
Repeated from Saturday 4.30pm

The future of the mass media is in narrowcasting: specialist broadcasting for special interest groups. But advertisers want their message to reach as many people as possible. Alun Lewis asks whether these two conflicting interests can be reconciled. Producer Toby Murcott
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WEB SITE: http://www.bbcnc.org.uk/radio /radio4/network

Peter White with news, views and information for visually impaired people. Producer Karen Turner
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Revised repeat of 4.05pm

With Isabel Hilton.

By Joanna Trollope.
2: Caro travels to England and a chance meeting with Robin Meredith , who offers her the safe place under "an unbreathing English sky" she believes she is searching for. For details see yesterday

The week's events in the media.
Repeated from Sunday 11.15am

By Carol Shields. 2: Birth 1905
For details see yesterday