With Dave Kitchen.
With Trixie Rawlinson.
Richard Uridge meets more characters from the British countryside.
Producer Alasdair Cross. Rptd Thursday 1.30pm
With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Canon David Winter.
8.45 Yesterday in Parliament
Tim Parks reflects on taking his children to the funeral of a grandparent. Presented by John Peel. Producer Alison Hughes PHONE: [number removed]
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Ned Sherrin grills Simon Callow , while Arthur Smith probes Sam Fox. Producer Torquil MacLeod
John Blythman gains entry to an intensive chicken unit and investigates how their dependence on antibiotics is affecting our health Producer Min Raisman Repeated Monday 4pm
Kate Adie presents analysis and insight from correspondents worldwide. Producer Tony Grant
Alison Mitchell with the latest news from the world of personal finance plus impartial advice for all those trying to make the most of their money. Producer Frances MacDonald
A comedy series featuring radio's first quality weekend newspaper.. Repeated from yesterday
Jonathan Dimbleby is joined in Narberth, Pembrokeshire, by panellists including Ron Davies MP. Repeated from yesterday
Phone Jonathan Dimbleby with your views on the issues raised in this week's edition of Any Questions? Producers Lisa Jenkinson and Stephanie Browning
LINES OPEN from 12.30pm
The Strange Tale ofLafcadio
Hearn Richard Dowden , Africa editor for The Economist, traces his eminent yet mysterious ancestor, the writer
Lafcadio Hearn , back to Japan. He discovers distant Japanese relatives, stories of pre-industrial traditions, and more about his famous relation.
Producer Sara Jane Hall
By Mrs Gaskell , dramatised for radio by Jeremy Front. A young surgeon arriving at the village of Duncombe confronts a most perplexing illness.
His female patients seem to require a singular remedy - marriage to the new doctor. with Gillian Bevan , Stephen Critchlow , David Timson. Christine Kavanagh and Colleen Prendergast. Director Sally Avens Repeat
The best of the week on Woman's
Hour, presented by Jenni Murray. Editor Ruth Gardiner
Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines. Presented by Nigel Wrench.
Nick Robinson with the latest film news. Producer Tom Alban
Repeated Tuesday 11.30pm
Simon Fanshawe and guests broadcast live from the Radio Theatre in the heart of London.
Producers Tim Dee and Lucy Willmore
Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the new film of Toni Morrison's book
Beloved, and life in the Chinese police force in Phil Agland 's documentary series Shanghai Vice.
Producer Jerome Weatherald
A Woman's Work. Astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell recalls her struggle to become an astrophysicist and then to win acceptance once she got there. Producer Karen Holden Repeat
Former ITN correspondent Desmond Hamill recalls one of the bloodiest uprisings in the last days of the British Empire - the Mau Mau emergency in Kenya which claimed more than 10,000 lives.
The conclusion of Henry Fielding's four-part comic masterpiece, dramatised by Dominic Power. Joseph is raised to the gentry but finds this is no consolation when his sweetheart, Fanny, is revealed to be his long-lost sister. With Norman Rodway , Matthew Dunster and Gabrielle Drake. Repeated from Sunday
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Michael Buerk and regulars
Janet Daley , David Starkey , Ian Hargreaves and David Cook investigate the moral questions behind the week's news. Repeated from Wednesday
Richard Coles explores the diverse sounds of Victorian English music. 4: While the Scots, Irish and Welsh are always seen as the rightful owners of British folk music, Tony Engle argues passionately for the traditional English singers and players whose music rang out from the pubs and kitchens of the working classes. Producer Dilly Barlow
Repeated Monday 11.30pm
Contemporary poetry with Christopher Cook , whose guests
Christopher Logue and Edwin Morgan discuss the business of translation and the poets whose work they have tackled, including Homer and Pushkin. Repeated from Sunday
The story of our struggle to understand the cosmos, from the earliest times to the present day. The Afterglow of Creation. Readers Nigel Carrington and Fenella Hadingham. Producer David Perry
By Frank Dunne , read by Ronan Wilmot. An Irishman remembers his childhood, in particular the daughter of the local village blacksmith. Producer Roland Jaquarello
