Editor Chris Burns

Richard Uridge with another fresh crop of countryside stories. Producer Gabi Fisher
Repeated Thursday 1.30pm

With John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Elaine Storkey.

While contemplating the extent to which stress has taken over every aspect of her home life,
Nicola Harrison wonders whether certain objects - and indeed certain people - are put on this earth purely to annoy others. Presented by John Peel. Producer Mike Sampey PHONE: [number removed]
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Repeated Monday llpm

With Ned Sherrin.
Producer Torquil MacLeod

Derek Cooper on the whisky roads of Scotland with David Broom , who recently retraced one of the oldest whisky smuggling routes - with a distiller, a tent, two highland ponies and two casks of the finest malt. Producer Rebecca Wells Repeated Monday 4pm

Kate Adie presents analysis from correspondents worldwide. Producer Tony Grant

Alison Mitchell with the latest news from the world of personal finance. Producer Marcia Hughes

Simon Hoggart hosts the topical quiz, with Andy Hamilton , Francis Wheen and Linda Smith.
Repeated from yesterday

Nick Clarke chairs debates on issues of perennial interest, in front of an expert invited audience. Listeners can also vote on the motion. 5: "The profit motive dehumanises." From the Institute of Fiscal Studies, London. To vote YES dial [number removed]0311
To vote NO dial [number removed]0322. LINES OPEN from 8.45pm. 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
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Joe Farrell reveals the triumphant and tragic career of Ferdinand de Lesseps , the great 19th-century promoter who built the Suez Canal, only to embark upon a doomed attempt of a similar construction in Panama. Producer David Olusoga

By Henry James , dramatised by Michelene Wandor. At the turn of the century in Mayfair, a young girl's employment sending post office telegrams leads to her intense involvement in a clandestine affair.
Director Cherry Cookson

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 Eddie Mair.

Brian Sibley with the big picture on the world of film. Plus the expert guide to films on television.
Producer Nicky Barranger
WRITE TO: Talking Pictures. BBC Radio 4, London, W1A 1AA
E-MAIL: [address removed] Repeated Tuesday 11.30pm

Simon Fanshawe 's guests include Cleo Laine and Ian McCaskill. Plus live music from jazz singer Stacey Kent and her band.
Producers Hannah Andrassy and Caroline Barbour

Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's top cultural events, including Stanley Kubrick 's long-awaited film Eyes Wide Shut, starring Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise. Producer Erin Riley

In four programmes, undertaker and poet Thomas Lynch reflects on the mysteries of life and death. 1: All about Eve
Producer Kate McAII
Repeated tomorrow 12.15am

Emily Buchanan presents highlights from the best English-language radio programmes from around the world. This month, a look at "stunt radio" - the bizarre and outrageous antics dreamed up by radio stations to promote themselves, like the New York station that broadcast liposuction live on air. Producer Hugh Levinson

The last in a three-part dramatisation by Bryony Lavery of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's book. Robert Audley has finally uncovered Lady Audley's secret, but having fallen in love with his step-aunt, he now faces a terrible choice.
With Francesca Annis ,
Leonie Mellinger , Terrence Hardiman ,
Jonathan Firth , Trevor Peacock ,
Marcello Magni and Elizabeth Mansfield. Repeated from Sunday

Nick Ross invites a panel of public figures to hear evidence and offer solutions to an issue of current concern. 3: School Exclusion
Commissioners: Sir Stephen Tumin , Meianie Phillips and Roger Opie. Repeated from Wednesday

Robert Robinson chairs the nationwide general knowledge contest, including Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to contestants. First round - Midlands and East Anglia. Repeated from Monday

Frank Delaney presents a fresh selection of listeners' requests in praise of autumn. Repeated from Sunday

Alan Bennett reads from Hilaire
Belloc's classic Cautionary Tales, and poet Ian McMillan reads new contemporary tales of his own. Producer Susan Roberts Repeat