With Sister Lavinia Byrne.
With Trixie Rawlinson.
Editor Chris Burns
Another fresh crop of countryside stories. Producer Karen Gregor. Rptd Thursday 1.30pm
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With the Rev Roy Jenkins.
8.45 Yesterday in Parliament
Louise Rennison tries counting her true friends and finds herself cheating. With John Peel.
Producer Vibeke Venema. PHONE: [number removed]
. E-MAIL: [address removed]
Repeated Monday llpm
With Ned Sherrin.
Producer Torquil MacLeod
"Transition to organic, freedom foods, conservation grade" - they are all over the supermarket shelves, but what does it all mean?
Producer Sheila Dillon. Repeated Monday 4pm
Kate Adie presents analysis and insight from correspondents worldwide. Producer Tony Grant
Return to Lender. Paul Charles helps listener Sam McDonnell investigate what it means to be young and deep in debt.
Producer Marcia Hughes. Repeated Monday 3pm
The Irish funny man dissects the week's news headlines. Repeated from yesterday
Jonathan Dimbleby is joined from Tyne and Wear by Nick Brown , Secretary of State for Agriculture; Simon Hughes , Liberal Democrat health spokesman; Val McDermid , crime writer; and Theresa Villiers , Conservative MEP. 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 man who held the city of Nottingham for Parliament during the English Civil War had a remarkable tale to tell, but unusually it was his wife and not he himself who told it.
Lady Hutchinson's story is filled with romance, heroism and political intrigue. John Morrill presents the last of three programmes. Producer Ian Bell
By Nicholas Freeling, dramatised in two parts by Philip Martin.
When her husband Piet is gunned down in the street, Arlette Van der Valk decides to take the law into her own hands. with Eric Allan, Nick Waring and Jonathan Broadbent. Director Tamsin Collison
The best of the week on Woman's
Hour, presented by Jenni Murray. Editor Ruth Gardiner
Analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines, with Eddie Mair.
Brian Sibley presents the film programme, including the expert guide to films on television. Editor Simon Elmes
WRITE TO: Talking Pictures. BBC Radio 4, London, W1A1AA
E-MAIL: [address removed] Repeated Tuesday 11.30pm
Radio's most intriguing chat show, with Simon Fanshawe , guests and live jazz. Producers Hannah Andrassy and Lucy Willmore
Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss The Phantom Menace, the long-awaited Star Wars film starring Liam Neeson and Ewan MacGregor. Plus a look at
Abracadabra at the Tate Gallery, which sees contemporary artists turning everyday objects into the surreal. Producer Nicki Paxman
The pursuit and definition of happiness has occupied humanity since time immemorial and continues to be pondered in four highlights of the annual Happiness Lectures at the University of Birmingham. 3: Barrister, author and playwright John Mortimer gives a potted history of happiness through the ages and talks about the lonely but rewarding happiness of the writer. Producer Lynette Quinlan
Repeated Monday 12.15am
The works of Charles Dickens were first adapted for the stage during the author's lifetime and, since his death, have continued to find new life on radio, television and in the cinema.
Professor Chris Bigsby samples some of those adaptations and looks at the way Dickens's characters and plots reflected his own life and career.
The Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is dramatised in two parts by Bert Coules. 2: Death on the Moor The curse of the Baskervilles claims its final victim. With Clive Merrison ,
Michael Williams and Donald Sinden.
Repeated from Sunday
Michael Buerk chairs an investigation of the moral questions behind the week's headlines.
Repeated from Wednesday
Presented by Paul Vaughan and social historian Charles Chilton. The first night of the Proms on Friday signalled another season of music enjoyed by high-spirited audiences, a tradition most people associate with Sir Henry Wood and the BBC. But promenade concerts had existed for hundreds of years and the phrase was coined by a French conductor who put on seasons in 19th-century London. Reader Cameron Stewart.
(Repeated from Sunday)
Cricket, the village pub and afternoon tea - a selection of poetry exploring the essence of England and the English. With Frank Delaney. Repeated from Sunday
A Mother Always Knows by Sara Maitland , read by Diana Quick. The Lady Jocasta tells her version of the events that followed the killing of the king and the outwitting of the sphinx by the young stranger who is her son. Producer Sara Davies Repeat
