With Rabbi Peter Tobias.
Editor Chris Burns
Richard Uridge continues his exploration of the British countryside. Producer Karen Gregor
Repeated Thursday 1.30pm
With Sue MacGregorand Edward Stourton.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Elaine Storkey.
Author Mavis Cheek finds herself raging against the volunteer - the new scourge, she claims, of libraries, stately homes and museums. Presented by John Peel. Producer Fiona Hill
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Repeated Monday llpm
With Ned Sherrin.
Producer Torquil MacLeod
On the menu this week - catching and cooking herring and eels. Plus the role of fish in keeping us free of cancer and heart disease.
Producer Sheila Dillon
Repeated Monday 4pm
Kate Adie presents insight and analysis from correspondents worldwide.
Producer Tony Grant
Alison Mitchell with the latest news from the world of personal finance. Producer Frances MacDonald
More interpretations of the week's events by Alan Coren , Andy Hamilton , Hattie Hayridge and Roy Hattersley. With chairman Simon Hoggart. Repeated from yesterday
Nick Clarke chairs the last of six debates on issues of perennial interest, in front of an expert invited audience. Listeners can also vote on the motion. "The book is a better tool for children than the web." From the Froebel Institute, London.
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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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In 1842, two British army officers on a diplomatic mission in central Asia were beheaded by the debauched and paranoid Emir of Bukhara. Before their execution, they were imprisoned in a series of foul dungeons, including a deep well containing flesh-eating vermin. Carole Rosen investigates. Producer Nigel Acheson
By Rose Tremain. Olga and Bertie's 30-year-old daughter Lottie wishes to marry her Irish poet boyfriend Michael. But Michael is a dreamer, fearful of commitment. He reminds Olga of the love of her life - a Polish pianist. Their love was not enough; why should Lottie's fare any better?
With Eleanor Tremain, Kieran Cunningham, Becky Hindley and Tessa Worsley
Director Gordon House
The best of the week on Woman's
Hour, presented by Jenni Murray. Editor Ruth Gardiner
The day's news and sports headlines. Presented by Eddie Mair.
Brian Sibley with the big picture on the world of film. This week, Professor
Anthony Clare reviews the new psychodrama Analyze This.
Producer Tom Alban. WRITE TO: Talking Pictures, BBC Radio 4, London, W1A 1AA E-MAIL: [address removed] Repeated Tuesday 11.30pm
Simon Fanshawe 's guests are Julian Bream , Marianne Faithfull and Ken Horn. Plus live music from jazz saxophonist Andy Sheppard. Producers Hannah Andrassy and Caroline Barbour
Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's top cultural events, including the film The General's Daughter starring John Travolta as an army investigator who sets out to solve a military murder mystery. Producer Nicki Paxman
Undertaker and poet Thomas Lynch reflects on the mysteries of life and death. 2: Bodies in Motion and at Rest Producer Kate McAII
Repeated tomorrow 12.15am
Professor Jeffrey Richards charts the history of cinemas in Britain and examines the impact of cinema-going on people's lives. Film-makers and filmgoers share their memories and explain what it was like to see the news in pictures. Producer Fiona Bailey
By DH Lawrence , dramatised in three parts by Michael Butt. Paul Morel is born into a Nottinghamshire mining family at the turn of the century. His father is a hard-working, hard-drinking miner, his mother a refined woman of middle-class aspirations. As family conflict grows, Paul's mother turns to her sons. Part 1. With Benedict
Sandiford and Elizabeth Estensen.
Repeated from Sunday
Nick Ross invites a panel of public figures to hear evidence and offer solutions on an issue of current concern. 4: International Rules of Law
Commissioners: Dame Pauline Neville-Jones and Michael Ignatieff.
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 celebrates a famous literary elopement with requests for work by Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
Repeated from Sunday
Alan Bennett reads from Hilaire Belloc's classic Cautionary Tales, and poet Matthew Sweeney reads some contemporary tales of his own. Producer Susan Roberts Repeat
