With the Rev John Fitzsimmons.
Richard Uridge uncovers more stories and characters from the British countryside. Producer Karen Gregor. Repeated Thursday 1.30pm
With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton.
7.20 Yesterday in Parliament
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With the Canon David Winter.
8.45 Yesterday in Parliament
This week Maud Hand talks to three sisters about their memories of being the children of pacifists during the Second World War. Presented by John Peel.
Producer Fiona Hill. PHONE: [number removed]
E-MAIL: [address removed]. Repeated Monday llpm
With Ned Sherrin.
Michael Gove of The Times looks at the stories behind the week's political headlines.
Kate Adie presents insight and analysis from correspondents worldwide. Producer Tony Grant
Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance, and impartial advice for all those trying to make the most of their money. 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 Queen Anne School, Bootham, York, by Lord Hattersley;
Bernard Jenkin MP; Sarah Sands , editor of The Daily Telegraph; and Matthew Taylor , director of the I PPR. Repeated from yesterday
Jonathan Dimblebytakes listeners' calls in response to this week's edition of Any Questions? Producers Lisa Jenkinson and Stephanie Browning LINES OPEN from 12.30pm
Challenging our set ideas about families of the past. 2: An Imprudent Romance. Servants who steal the cream, a husband who drinks and beats her- it is hard for Elizabeth Shackleton to maintain polite society in her 18th-century home. But, as her candid diaries reveal, she succeeds, and her family name survives intact. Biographer Amanda Vickery leads Sarah Dunant through the intricacies of this rich and troubled life. Producer Lyn Webster Wilde
ByGuyde Maupassant, dramatised byAyshe Raif. In the busy seaport of Le Havre, two brothers are good-natured rivals in everything. A family secret propels them into an intensely personal story of jealousy and suspicion.
Director Claire Grove
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.
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis host the comedy show, with stand-up, sketches and songs from the regular team and special guests. Producer Aled Evans. Repeated Tuesday llpm
A comedy set in London's finest hair salon, where brothers Rene, Carlo and Charlie Quando chop, snip and crimp their lucky clients.
3: Fishy Business. By Mark Maier and Rainer Hersch. When the racketeering Fish Brothers pay the Quandos a visit, Carlo is in turmoil, Anthony is in Timbuktu and Charlie is in a world of his own.
With Rainer Hersch , Mark Maier , Catherine Tate and Stephen Greif. Producer Claire Jones
Tom Sutcliffe and guests debate the week's big events in the arts. Producer Erin Riley
Robert Robinson presents the obituaries of men and women who refused to conform.
2: Mrs Patrick Campbell. Readers Jonathan Adams , Jonathan Aris and Lucy Robinson. Producer Jill Burridge. Repeated tomorrow 12.15am
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has just acquired its millionth memberand we are, it seems, a nation of bird-watchers. Mark Cocker presents a natural history of the British bird-watcher, featuring the giants of the past, James Fisher and Eric Simms. These radio ornithologists are quizzed on their early interests, Peter Scott admits to being a twitcher, Desmond Nethersole Thompson recounts running battles with the police as he stole eggs and current bird-watchers picktheirfavourite moments.
Chris Mead , Ian Wallace and Tim Sharrock wax lyrical on great birds as well as great missed birds - the ones that got away. The duffle-coat and the telescope, the osprey and the little auk, the sewage farm and the windy headland, all these and the bird-watcher, watched. Producer Tim Dee
By Iris Murdoch , dramatised in three parts by Michael Bakewell. Raising the bell from the lake required almost supernatural strength, and Dora is determined to continue playing the witch in the holy community of Imber. Final part. With Crispin Redman , Nicholas Farrell and Nicholas Boulton. Repeated from Sunday
Michael Buerk chairs an investigation of the moral questions behind the week's news.
Witnesses face tough cross-examination from David Starkey , Janet Daley , David Cook and Ian Hargreaves. Repeated from Wednesday
Robert Robinson chairs the nationwide general knowledge contest, including Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to contestants. Fourth semi-final. Repeated from Monday
Poetry and conversation with Christopher Cook , whose guests this week are the popular Scottish poets Liz Lochhead and Robert Crawford. Both have drawn on nationality, gender and an acute sense Of place in their poems. Repeated from Sunday
By Brian Lomas , read by Dorothy Tutin. Old wounds begin to heal when Kitty and John revisit an old holiday haunt to remember their daughter. So why does John have to go and spoil it all? producer Liz Taylor (R)
