With Canon Noel Batty.

With John Humphrys , Sue MacGregor.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Bishop Bill Westwood. Editor Jon Barton
LETTERS: Today. PO Box 2299, London W1A 1PY. FAX: (0171) [number removed]E-MAIL: today@bbc.co.uk

Part 5.
For details see Monday

Chris Dunkley airs listeners' opinions. Producer Anne Mane Cole. Repeated Sunday
6.15pm. WRITE TO: Feedback, PO Box 2100. London W1A 1QT. FAX: (0171) [number removed]E-MAIL: feedback@bbc.co.uk

The news of 50 years ago today.

Introduced from Manchester by Sheila McClennon. Serial: Larry's Party. Part 9.
For details see Monday

Presented by Joanna Pinnock. Producer Simon Roberts. Repeated Sunday 8pm.
WRITE TO: The Natural History Programme, BBC Bristol BS8 2LR

Mark Whittaker presents reports on consumer and social affairs.
Editor Chris Burns. PHONE: (0171) [number removed]to raise issues for investigation

In the second of six programmes,
Derek Cooper visits the Birch Hall Inn in Yorkshire to celebrate the perfect country pub. Here he rediscovers the essential ingredients of a great local. Producer Paul Kobrak Repeat

With Alex Brodie. Editor Kevin Marsh

Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm

Repeated from Sunday 2.30pm

With Laurie Taylor.

Tim Marlow sees Arnold Wesker 's play Chips with Everything, starring Julian Glover , and visits the newly designed Norman Foster aircraft museum. Producer Helen Garrison

By Janice Fox , read by Stephen Thorne. An elderly man is comfortable in his new home until the council decides that his house needs improving. Producer Pam Fraser Solomon

With Clare English, Charlie Lee-Potter . Editor Kevin Marsh

David Stafford presents the weekend leisure and heritage programme.
Singer/songwriter John Shuttleworth spends the day out in Mablethorpe.
Producer David Prest. Call [number removed] if you are organising a weekend event this summer

John is busy off stage.
Editor Vanessa Whitbum. Written by Chris Thompson. Director Joanna Toye. Repeated Monday 1.40pm. FAN CLUB: send sae to [address removed]

With Chris Serle.
Producer Gillian Gray. Repeated Sunday
3.30pm. PHONE: (0171) [number removed]. FAX:
(0171) [number removed]. E-MAIL: potw@bbc.co.uk

Jez Nelson chairs four lively debates on science in society. 3: The Patenting of Life Is a Very Good Thing Indeed Producer Richard Aedy
Repeated Saturday 1.10pm

Four programmes in which writers discuss what they discovered through the process of writing about someone. Queen Victoria, Was she really so unamused? John Florance talks to screenwriter Jeremy Brock and biographers Dorothy Thompson and Lady Elizabeth Longford. Producer Rosie Boulton

The impact of the death of Princess Diana of Wales in the US, and the moral regulation required for freedom of speech and a free press.

Repeated Sunday 9.15am

The Edinburgh Festival
As the Edinburgh Festival draws to a close with spectacular productions, Paul Allen talks about the 50th season and looks to the future.
Repeated from Saturday 7.20pm

With Robin Lustig. Editor Anne Koch

By Virginia Woolf. Part 5. For details see Monday

In the first of four comic conferences of conflab and controversy, Ainsley Elliot and guests, including geneticist Jeff Dodman , chew the fat around the big table and see what they throw up. With Griff Rhys Jones and Graeme Garden.
Producer Paul B Davies

Patrick Hannan and guests take a sceptical look at the events of the past week.
Producer Hilary Green

Stephen Perry , returning to England after working in the USA, compares life here with life there.
Producer Gillian Hush Repeat

By Peter Hoeg. Final part. For details see Monday