The Rev Dr David Lapsley

With Helen Mark. Producer Sarah Tempest

With Sue MacGregor and James Naughtie.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Cristina Odone.

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: Nicholas Nicklebyby Charles Dickens. Part 1 of 30. Editor Ruth Gardiner. E-MAIL: [address removed] Drama repeated at 7.45pm
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Peter Snow presents a history series in which the stories are provided by a randomly selected edition of a newspaper.2: The Sun - 3 March 1972. The community on Holy Island faces an uncertain future as Newcastle businessmen invade; Franklin Engelmann of Down Your Way dies; Stoke City face Chelsea in the League Cup final; and the Queen's witch doctor deserts her in Malaysia. Producer Andrew Green

A comedy series from the book Tales of a Man
Called Fatherby Ronnie Knox Mawer , adapted in four parts by Carolyn Sally Jones.
3: Holidays. The Knox Mawers ' annual holiday to Newquay provides a challenge to eat the landlady's mackerel and to play cricket for
Atlantic View against Wavecrest Private Hotel.
Young Ronnie is, as ever, "completely hopeless".
Producer Catherine Pinner

With Trixie Rawlinson and John Waite.

Robert Robinson chairs the nationwide general knowledge contest. First round - Wales. Producer Richard Edis. Repeated Saturday llpm

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

By Annie McCartney. A motherfaces a major dilemma when tests for a much-needed bone-marrow transplant reveal that her husband may not be the father of her child,
Director Eoin O'Callaghan (R)

Vincent Duggleby takes calls on an issue affecting personal finance.
Lines open from 1.30pm

In five programmes meteorologist Helen Young recalls some extreme weather conditions that have occurred in the UK. 1: She remembers the worst days of smog in this century with the help of a fireman and doctor who were on duty on London's Streets. Producer Laura Parfitt (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.
41: 1948 - BR, the NHS and the Berlin Airlift Producer Pete Atkin

Repeated from yesterday llam

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

With Clare English and Chris Lowe

Joining Nigel Rees to exchange quotations are
Martin Jarvis , Celia Haddon , Sue Limb and Matthew Engel. Reader Patricia Hughes. Producer Carol smith E-MAIL: [address removed]. Repeated Sunday 12 noon

The case for the prosecution.
Repeated tomorrow 2pm

Mark Lawson gives the verdict on the low-budget, high-profit film that chilled America - The Blair Witch Project. Producer Adrian Washbourne

By Charles Dickens , dramatised by Mike Walker.
Following the death of his father, Nicholas is found a position as assistant to Wackford Squeers at Dotheboy's Hall in Yorkshire. Part 1 of 30.
(Repeated from 10.45am)

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John Waite follows the experience of refugees who have recently arrived in this country, from their point of entry in Doverto what befalls them as they try to create a new home for themselves and their families. Producer Susan Mitchell

In the first of two programmes novelist
James Maw travels across Cambodia to deliver a library of 2,000 books to a school where the VSO is training English teachers, In the company of an aid convoy, he visits the breathtaking temples at Angkor, the former heart of Khmer civilisation.
Producer Rob Ketteridge

Mark Cawardine travels through the countryside discovering how autumn reveals itself in woodlands, by rivers and in towns.
Producer Elizabeth Kelly. Repeated tomorrow 11am

Shortened repeat of 9am

With Claire Bolderson

By Maeve Binchy, read in eight parts by Pauline McLynn. Riaand Danny are a young couple from poor backgrounds who have managed to buy a huge house in Dublin. But Ria's dreams are shattered when Danny finds a very different woman. Part 1. Abridged and produced by Pam Brighton

Shortened repeat of Saturday 9am

Paul Birchard reads the first of five extracts from
Scott Eyman 's acclaimed account of one of the most turbulent periods in Hollywood history-the talkie revolution, In the late summer of 1927 the silent film was at the height of its aesthetic and commercial success. But in October, the release of The Jazz Singerwas to change everything. Producer David Jackson Young. Abridged by Paul Birchard