With Clive Lawton
Editor Chris Burns
Richard Uridge uncovers more stories and characters from the British countryside. Producer Gabi Rsher. 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
The future of Birmingham's balti houses is under threat because not enough young people are joining the family firm. One restaurant owner talks about his disappointment with the sons who do not want their children to carry on in the curry-making tradition. Presented by John Peel. Producer Paula McGinley. PHONE: [number removed]
E-MAIL: [address removed] Repeated Monday llpm
With Ned Sherrin. ProducerTorquil MacLeod
Steve Richard 's of the New Stateman looks at the stories behind the week's political headlines. Editor Vicky Taylor
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 Paul O'Keeffe
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 Repton School, Repton, Derby, by panellists including Margaret Beckett MP and Sir Brian Mawhinney.
(Repeated from yesterday)
Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls in response to this week'sedition of Any Questions? producers Stephanie Browning and Lisa Jenkinson LINES OPEN from 12.30pm
Programmes challenging our set ideas about families of the past.
3: Bedside Manners. Sarah Dunant explores the life of John Heaton , a doctor in mid-19th-century Leeds, dipping into his diaries with with Dr John Tosh and Dorothy Payne. His entries reflect on the death of his beloved daughter in childbirth, the "new woman" his sister has become, and the failure of his sons to live up to his ideal of manhood. Producer Lyn Webster Wilde
By Harriet O'Carroll, starring Helen McCrory as Jane Austen.
The story of the novelist Jane Austen's real-life love affair with a romantic young Irishman which fuelled her desire to become a writer.
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, including the expert guide to the pick of films on television.
Producer Nicola Barranger. WRITE TO: Talking Pictures, BBC Radio 4. London. W1A 1AA. E-MAIL: [address removed]
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis host the comedy show featuring sketches, songs and stand-up with a subversive twist. With regulars Bert Tyler -Moore, George Jeffrie , Mitch Benn , Simon Munnery and Emma Clarke.
Producer Aled Evans. Repeated Tuesday llpm
A comedy series written by Rainer Hersch and Mark Maier set in London's finest hair salon, where brothers Rene, Carlo and Charlie Quando chop, snip and crimp their lucky clients.
4:Spies. Spies steal the Quandos' secret formula, thereby upsetting the delicate equilibrium that has existed for so long between them and the Quandos. With Rainer Hersch , Mark Maier , Stephen Greif and Catherine Tate. 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.
3: The Fifth Duke of Portland. Readers
Jonathan Adams , Jonathan Aris and Lucy Robinson. Producer Jill Burridge. Repeated tomorrow 12.15am
Emily Buchanan presents highlights of the best English language programmes from around the world. This month a look at poetry - from the delicate nature poetry of Radio Japan's daily haiku to gangsta rap from the mean streets of LOS Angeles. Producer Lucy Ash
Ralph Fiennes and Derek Jacobi star in a two-part dramatisation of Virgil's epic poem, translated by C. Day Lewis and adapted by Tom Holland.
The city of Troy has been destroyed by the Greeks, and Prince Aeneas is forced to seek a new land and a new destiny, as foretold by the Gods. His adventures take him to Carthage, where he falls in love with Queen Dido, but their happiness comes to a tragic end.
(Repeated from Sunday)
Michael Buerk chairs an investigation of the moral questions behind the week's news.
Witnesses face a tough cross-examination from David Starkey , Janet Daley , David Cook and Polly Toynbee. Repeated from Wednesday
Robert Robinson chairs the nationwide general knowledge contest, including Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to contestants. The final. Repeated from Monday
Contemporary poetrywith Christopher Cook , whose guests Penelope Shuttle and Vicki Feaver discuss the influence of mythology, motherhood and domesticity - and how those themes have shaped their work. Shuttle has been a published poet since hertwenties and her provocative work draws on her experience as a mother and the Cornish countryside where she lives with her poet-husband Peter Redgrove. Feaver did not start writing poetry until her four children were at school, but she quickly established herself as a confident and individual voice. Repeated from Sunday
By Gee Williams, read by Sue Jones Davies. Wild fireweed grows on the wasteland opposite Willa's house. How will its destruction by local builders Change her life? Producer Tanya Nash
