With Fr Oliver McTernan.
Editor Chris Burns
Richard Uridge explores the British countryside. Producer Karen Gregor. Repeated Thursday 1.30pm
With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day the Rev Dr Leslie Griffiths
Tim Parks , flanked by his wife and three children, scours the shelves of his local video rental store in the slim chance of finding a film that his family can all agree to watch. The usual eclectic mix of stories, humour and fine writing with John Peel. Producer Fiona Hill
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With Ned Sherrin.
ProducerTorquil MacLeod
In a special programme Steve Richards witnesses the end of the road for hereditary peers who now have to leave the best gentleman's club in London. Editor Vicky Taylor
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
David Aaronovitch invites celebrity guests to re-spin the week's news in the satirical panel game that delves into the shadowy world of spin doctors and media manipulation. Repeated from yesterday
Jonathan Dimbleby is joined at the University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, by panellists including Margo McDonough MSP, Alan Milburn MP and Melanie Phillips.
Repeated from yesterday
Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls in response to this week's edition of Any Questions?
Producers Lisa Jenkinson and Stephanie Browning LINES OPEN from 12.30pm
The temperance movement was one of the biggest and most powerful mass movements in British history. Historian Amanda Foreman explores how temperance changed our national attitudes towards drinking. She travels to Preston to uncoverthe remains of the once mighty British National Temperance League. Producer David Olusoga
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By Val McDermid , starring Charlotte Coleman.
Manchester-based private eye Kate Brannigan is not amused when thieves steal a Monet from a stately home where she had arranged the security. She sets off on a chase that takes her across Europe bringing her head-to-head with organised crime.
Director Melanie Harris (R)
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. This week a look at the people who created the shocking effects in Carrie 2, which is released this week. Plus the expert guide to the pick of films on television. Producer Nicola Barranger
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Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis host the comedy show, with stand-up, sketches and songs featuring Dan Freedman , Nick Romero , Emma Clarke , Jo Caulfield and special guests. Producer Aled Evans. Repeated Tuesday llpm
The first in a six-part comedy set in London's finest hair salon where brothers Rene, Carlo and Charlie Quando chop, snip and crimp their lucky clients into shape. Big Head. The salon is thrown into pandemonium when the President of Uruguay arrives for his annual trim. No one must mention his enormous head. With Rainer Hersch , Mark Maier , Stephen Greif and Catherine Tate. Producer Claire Jones
Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural highlights, including David Fincher's film Fight Club, starring Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter, which revolves around a venue for young professionals who want to indulge in violence and brutality.
The Salmon of Wisdom. In the second of two programmes Scottish poet and playwright
George Gunn gives his personal account of life on the edge.
Producer Mark Rickards. Repeated tomorrow 12.15am
On the eve of Remembrance Sunday Professor Richard Holmes tells the forgotten story of the allied occupation of Germany after the First World War. He reveals how young soldiers who had known nothing but war were affected by everyday life among the enemy.
By Iris Murdoch, dramatised in three parts by Michael Bakewell.
Sex and religion come into conflict in this story of a lay community which is seriously disturbed by the arrival of an errant wife who has decided to return to her husband. With Cathryn Bradshaw, Charlie Simpson and Nicholas Farrell. Repeated from Sunday
Michael Buerk chairs an investigation of the moral questions behind the week's news.
Witnesses face cross-examination from
Janet Daley , Professor Robert Winston , David Starkey and Ian Hargreaves. Repeated from Wednesday
Robert Robinson chairs the nationwide general knowledge contest, including Beat the Brains, in which listeners puttheirown questions to contestants. Second semi-final.
Repeated from Monday
Frank Delaney introduces requests for poems on the theme of loss, featuring a selection from Raymond Carver 's last work before his premature death in 1988. Repeated from Sunday
By Frances Galleymore , read by Barbara Barnes.
Theresa has come to England to visit a sister she has never met and to find out about a mother she never knew.
Producer Pam Fraser Solomon (R)
