With the Rev Stephen Shipley.
With Trixie Rawlinson.
Richard Uridge introduces a breath of fresh air for lovers of the countryside. Producer Karen Gregor
With Anna Ford and John Humphrys.
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7.45 Thought for the Day With Terry Waite.
John Peel takes a warts-and-all look at the British weekend. This week, Frank Wilson seeks to defend men against the accusation that they are the malingering sex.
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With Ned Sherrin and guests. Producer Julian Mayers
Four programmes celebrating Italian food exports. 1: Pizza. Simon Parkes traces the authentic pizza from its roots in Naples to its first appearance on British menus in the 1950s. Producer Lauretta Reynolds Repeated Monday at 4pm
Kate Adie presents analysis and insight from correspondents worldwide. Producer Tony Grant
As Easy as AVC. Is a fresh scandal over the mis-selling of pensions looming? Listener Gillian Rogers asks if many of us have been wrongly advised over pension top-ups. If so, who is to blame? Presenter Paul Charles. Producer Sarah Pennells Repeated Monday at 3pm
Australian comedian Mark Little chairs the news-based improvisation game. Repeated from yesterday
Two programmes in which
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown , her audience and guests look at issues from the perspective of different cultures in Britain.
1: The Individual and Society: Me or Us? Repeated from yesterday
Julian Pettifer goes to Baffin Island, off the Arctic coast of Canada, to meet the Inuit, formerly known as Eskimos. Producer Tim Whewell Repeat
As war overran Russia, Rosa Rust -accustomed to a civilised life in Moscow - found herself on a nightmarish journey to Kazakhstan with thousands of desperate exiles. It was here that she was to spend the next three years. Historian Colin Holmes hears her story. Producer Mark Burman
By Nick Darke. The year is 1789. The place, just off the Cornish coast. In one direction is a nation on the brink of revolution, in the other a country with a famously demented monarch and in which smuggling flourishes. with Bee Applebee , Charlie Bamecut , Mary Woodvine , Tristan Sturrock and Duncan Law Director Nigel Bryant
The best of the week on Woman's
Hour, presented by Sheila McClennon. Managing editor Nadine Grieve
Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines. Presented by Nigel Wrench.
Russell Davies presents Radio 4's programme about films and film-going. Producer Harry Parker. Rptd Tuesday 11.30pm
Stephen Fry tries his hand at wizardry and turns a section of the A421 near Bicester into a tray of chives. Guests include John Sessions ,
Emma Thompson , Joan Armatrading , Matthew Freud , Laurie Taylor and Tom Baker. Producers Cathie Mahoney and Chris Wilson
Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural events. This edition includes reviews of Andrew Miller 's latest novel and Samuel L Jackson 's new film, Eve's Bayou.
Producer Adrian Washbourne
Four talks in which Kurdish journalist HazhirTeimourian reflects on his 39 years' living in Britain.
3: William Shakespeare and /. In which Hazhir steers a course towards earning a living as a wordsmith. Producer Nigel Acheson
Repeated Wednesday 8.45pm
Milk Chums, a Porter and a Cat on a Seat. In the second of two programmes, social historian Jeffrey Richards looks at the country station, which has long been depicted in the work of writers, artists and film-makers. Producer Ivan Howlett
The conclusion of Melissa Murray 's dramatisation of Rebecca West 's story. It is 1905, and Laura is involved in plans to exterminate her grandfather's secretary. With Sarah-Jane Holm ,
Kenneth Cranham and John Carlisle. Repeated from Sunday
Justin Webb chairs a debate on the motion: "Sex is responsible for more trouble than pleasure." From the LSE Gender Institute in London.
Repeated from Wednesday
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Dick Barton running up a tab in the pub? Strange behaviour from the unretirable special agent in the last in the current series of Lol Mason's comedy. with Julian Dutton. Iain Cuthbertson and Carolyn Jones. Producer Jo Clegg
Simon Fanshawe talks to poet Michael Donaghy about Francis O'Neill
(1848-1936), the chief of police in Chicago who collected Irish folk tunes. Music played by Michael Donaghy , Edel Sullivan and Paddy Gallagher Producer Susan Roberts
Repeated Monday 11.30pm
A series listening closely to the usually unheeded music of four contrasting environments. 2: Marina. Recorded in the harbour at Ramsgate, Kent. Producer Alan Hall
Kit Wright reads his own story of an anniversary meal laced with poison. Repeated from Tuesday
