With the Rev Elizabeth Rundle

With Anna Hill. Producer David Street

With Allan Little and Sue MacGregor.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Indarjit Singh

Jeremy Paxman and guests set the cultural agenda for the week.
Producer Ariane Koek. Repeated at 9.30pm

Martha Kearney hosts interviews and discussions from a female perspective. Drama: Ladies of More Letters by Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman. Part 6 of 10. Editor Ruth Gardiner. E-MAIL: [address removed]. Drama repeated at 7.45pm

Peter Snow presents a new six-part history series in which the stories are provided by an edition of a newspaper randomly selected by computer.

Dick Turpin - hero or thug? - is executed at York; the advancing science of obstetrics leads to conflict between midwives and doctors; and architects plunder the Isle of Portland for its unique stone.

A comedy series from the book Tales of a Man
Called Fatherby Ronnie Knox Mawer , adapted in four parts by Carolyn Sally Jones. 2: Relations One of father's objectives in life is to repel all visitors who dare to invade his house, especially relatives. He tries to terrify his American cousins by his appalling driving, but even a description of how black pudding is made fails to deterthem.
Producer Catherine Pinner

With Trixie Rawlinson and John Waite.

With Nick Clarke

Robert Robinson chairs the nationwide general knowledge contest, including Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to contestants. First round - Scotland. Producer Richard Edis. Repeated Saturday llpm

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

By Jane Buckler. When Rom falls in love with Julie, he discovers that real life is different from
Shakespeare.
Director Alison Hindell (R)

Vincent Duggleby takes calls on an issue affecting personal finance.
Producer Paul O'Keeffe. LINES OPEN from 1.30pm

In five programmes Joanna Pinnock examines , the importance of five different groups of animals and birds to the ancient cultures of Britain.
1: The Raven. ProducerBrettWestwood(R)

Radio 4's unique history of Britain tells the story of our present century. Narrated by Anna Massey , with additional readings by Robert Powell. 36: 1943-the Turningofthe Tide and the Beveridge Report Producer Pete Atkin

Repeated from Saturday 11am

Jenni Murray and guests discuss topical international issues behind the headlines.
Producer Abigail Saxon

With Clare English and Chris Lowe

Joining Nigel Rees to exchange quotations and anecdotes this week are Sandi Toksvig , Brenda Maddox , Anthony Howard and David Bamber. Reader William Franklyn.
Producer Carol Smith. E-MAIL: [address removed] Repeated Sunday 12 noon

Robin Hood , Robin Hood ... Repeatedtomorrow2pm

Mark Lawson with the arts programme, including the verdict on a new animated version of the classic jungle tale Tarzan. Producer Stephen Hughes

By Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman. Crossed wires and frayed tempers mark the correspondence of Irene Spencer and Vera Small , but Irene offers an apology in verse. Part 6 of 10. Director Claire Grove. Repeated from 10.45am

Alcohol can be as dangerous as any illegal drug.
In the second of two programmes Wendy Robbins hears from people who have been hooked by bOOZe. Producer Charles Sigler

Initiative Test. Who profits from PR - the Private Finance Initiative? Peter Day investigates. Producer Stefan Armbruster. Repeated Sunday 9.30pm

Mink. The once sought-after mink is now an outlaw, having graced the shoulders of the privileged for many years. It has been blamed for the decimation of the water vole population and many bird species. Mark Cawardine investigates the options faced by some communities -to eradicate the mink or watch their natural environment die.
Producer Elizabeth Kelly. Repeated tomorrow llam

Shortened repeat of 9am

In ten programmes, Seamus Heaney reads from his new translation of the great Anglo-Saxon poem. 6: Beowulf's fight with evil Grendel's mother. Producer Susan Roberts

Presented by Roger McGough. Repeated from Saturday 9am

Rebecca Milligan goes with the Home Affairs
Select Committee to visit two prisons where they talk to the governors, the staff and the inmates on their quest to find an answerto the complex problem of drug use in jail. Editor Anne Tyerman

By Roddy Doyle , read in ten parts by Ciaran Hinds. 6: Fourteen-year-old Henry Smart has taken part in the Easter Uprising: in the basement of Dublin's occupied post office, his formerteacher Miss O'Shea has given him a lesson in seduction. Having escaped by diving down a manhole, Henry is now beginning a new Chapter in his life. Abndged and produced by Jill Waters