With the Rev Ernest Rea.
Editor Chris Burns
Richard Uridge continues his tour of the British countryside.
Producer Karen Gregor. Rptd Thursday 1.30pm
John Humphrys and Edward Stourton.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Elaine Storkey.
Carol Gardiner talks about surviving the sinking of the cruise liner Jupiter, which went down in the Aegean in 1988 with 585 people on board. She was 14 at the time, and she describes how she and her family coped in the aftermath of the disaster. Presented by John Peel. Producer Vibeke Venema. PHONE: [number removed]. E-MAIL: [address removed]
Repeated Monday llpm
Ned Sherrin is joined by musical talent from Iceland and Croydon. Producer Torquil MacLeod
Derek Cooper charts changing tastes in Richmond, Surrey. Producer Rebecca Wells Repeated Monday 4pm
Kate Adie presents analysis and insight from correspondents worldwide. Producer Tony Grant
Paul Chartes investigates in the last of the series.
Producer Paul O'Keefe
Simon Hoggart hosts the topical quiz, with Alan Coren and Jeremy Hardy. Repeated from yesterday
Nick Clarke chairs six debates on issues of interest, in front of an invited audience. Listeners can also vote on the motion.
3: "Team games provide the highest form of sporting excellence." From the Rugby Club of St James, London.
To vote YES dial [number removed]0311. To vote NO dial [number removed]0322. Maximum call cost lOp. Repeated from yesterday
Phone Nick Clarke with your views on the issues raised in this week's edition of Straw Poll. Producer Nick Utechin
E-MAIL: [address removed]
Syd House celebrates the life of David Douglas , the Perthshire botanist born in 1799 who was among the greatest of the pioneering Scottish plant hunters. His legacy to the British landscape and garden ranges from the Douglas fir and Sitka spruce to the flowering currant, lupin and mahonia. With Sir Peter Hutchinson ,
Archie Smith , Jean Stewart , Lord
Mansfield, TC Smout, David Mitchell ,
Ray McLaren , Hamish Kimmens , Paul Matthews and Christopher Dingwall. Producer Billy Kay
by Agatha Christie. Dramatised by Michael Bakewell.
Following the interment of Richard Abernethie, his sister Cora blurts out that he was surely murdered. The next day, she is found dead.
Starring John Moffat as Hercule Poirot. Frank Thornton as Mr Entwhistle, and John Baddeley as Inspector Morton.
With Jennifer Piercey, Tessa Worsley, Jill Balcon, John Hartley, Fritha Goodey, Trevor Rawlins, Tilly Gaunt, Tam Williams and Ian Masters.
Directed by Enyd Williams
The best of the week on Woman's 's
Hour, presented by Martha Kearney. Editor Ruth Gardiner
Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines. Presented by Eddie Mair.
Mark Whittaker with the big picture on the world of film. Plus the expert guide to films on television.
Producer Julia Fleming
WRITE TO: Talking Pictures, BBC Radio 4, London, W1A 1AA
E-MAIL: [address removed] Repeated Tuesday 11.30pm
Radio's most intriguing chat show, with Simon Fanshawe and guests plus live jazz from pianist Jason Robello.
Producers Caroline Barbour and Lucy Willmore
Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss cultural highlights of the week. This edition looks at Roddy Doyle 's latest book A Star Called Henry- a historical novel set during the Irish Civil War, and the first part of a trilogy. Plus
Pedro Almodovar 's film All about My Mother, which won the Best Director award at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Producer Nicki Paxman
The last of four talks byjournalists from the language sections of the World Service. Baqer Moin of the Persian service.
Producer Merilyn Harris
Repeated tomorrow 12.15am
Author David Dabydeen uses diaries and letters to explore the relationship between black people and Britain from the 16th century through to the Second World War.
Producer David Olusoga Repeat
A three-part dramatisation by Bryony Lavery of Mary Elizabeth Braddon 's book. 1: Essex, the 1860s. Sir
Michael Audley is besotted with his young second wife, Lady Lucy Audley , but his daughter cannot tolerate her new stepmother. With Robert Bowman , Terrence Hardiman ,
Francesca Annis and Jonathan Firth.
Repeated from Sunday
In an eight-part series, Nick Ross invites a panel of public figures to hear evidence and offer solutions to an issue of current concern.
1: The Power of the Supermarkets
Commissioners: Prue Leith,
Andrew Neil and Phil Evans.
Repeated from Wednesday
Robert Robinson chairs the nationwide general knowledge contest, including Beat the Brains. Repeated from Monday
Poetry and conversation with Christopher Cook. His guests Maura Dooley and Don Paterson read work from their own collections and discuss the controversial business of putting together anthologies of other poets' works.
Repeated from Sunday
A short story by Julia Darling about people who spend much of their life high above the ground. Read by Kevin Whately. Producer Gillian Hush Repeat
