With Father John McCu !!agh
With Anna Hi!). Producer HughO'Donne!!
With Sue MacGregor and James Naughtie.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With Chief Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks.
Jeremy Paxman and guests set the cultural agenda forthe week.
Producer Ariane Koek. Repeated at 9.30pm
Martha Kearney presents the latest news, culture and informed debate from a woman's point of view. Drama: Geofg/ana, Duc/iess of Devons/webyAmanda Foreman. Part 1 of 15. Editor Ruth Gardiner. E-MA!L: womanshour@bbc.co.uk Drama repeated at 7.45pm
John McCarthy presents a series about his attempt to understand the Bible.
Joshua fought the battle of Jericho, and the walls came tumbling down.... McCarthy searches for the truth and meaning behind the Bible stories of ancient Israel, visiting the sites and sifting the evidence.
Michael Bakewell's dramatisation of the novel by Agatha Christie. In the last of five parts, Hercule Poirot must fit each of the clues into its correct place - a delicate task for the grey cells. (R)
With Trixie Rawiinson and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke
Lionei Keiieway presents the witdiife quiz in search of Britain's top naturalist. This week the programme comes from the Wiidfowi and Wettands Trust reserve at Martin Mere in Lancashire. Producer BrettWestwood
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Helen Brandom. Starring Alison Steadman as Kathleen Fox.
For Kathleen, dinner with her husband's managing director and his wife is a chore in itself, but when fawning secretary Lavinia is invited along as well, Kathleen begins to lose her reason. Something has got to change.
Vincent Duggiebytakes yourcaiis on a topical issue that affects your finances.
Producer Marcia Hughes UNES OPEN from 1.30pm
in the 150 years since the bowier hat was commissioned by a Norfolk landowner for his gamekeepers to wear, the bowier has been a democratic and indispensable item of city headgear and an international symbo! of the English mate. A short programme of celebration of the hat that once sotd in millions and is now a threatened Species. ProducerSaraDavies
The story of our present century. Narrated by Anna Massey, with additional readings by Robert Powell and Patience Tomlinson.
Repeated from yesterday 12.30pm ,
Jenni Murray and guests take a g!oba! view of news, traditions and human stories. producerPautBajona
With Chris Lowe and Nigel Wrench.
Jonathan Agnew reports live from Port Elizabeth on the fifth and final day's play in the Second Test between South Africa and England.
The antidote to panel games closes the series with a special millennial broadcast from Greenwich theatre. Andy Hamilton joins regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden. Humphrey Lyttelton is in the chair.
Musical accompaniment comes from Colin Sell.
(Repeated Sunday 12 noon)
Not wanted on voyage. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Mark Lawson provides suggestions for anyone overwhelmed by the CD choices on offer this Christmas. Producer Stephen Hughes
By Amanda Foreman, dramatised in 15 parts by Jennifer Curry.
1: Society Wedding, 1774.
In the late 18th century, Georgiana Spencer married into the powerful Duke of Devonshire's family and became the most celebrated woman of her age.
Repeated from 10.45am
Beautiful, clever, influential, rich, fashionable and the darling of the press, Georgiana seemed to have it all. Yet this 18th-century Duchess of Devonshire endured many trials, including a miserable marriage to a serially unfaithful man. Amanda Foreman's magnificent, best-selling biography has been elegantly dramatised, with a splendid cast, and is the new Woman's Hour serial. It has taken ages for R4 to fill this slot adequately but at last it is getting very much better.
Jenny Cuffe presents a series comparing public services in Britain and Europe through the experiences of people living in Bristol and its twin cities.
Local politicians in Bristol and Bordeaux hope to woo motorists on to public transport, but their approaches to spending on public works set the two apart. Producer Sheila Cook
Clare Hampson concludes her series expioring the lives of British people who have chosen to live in Asia. 6: Calcutta. Judy Hague moved to Calcutta and became swept up in the excitement that goes with being in the cultural centre of)ndia. The chaos that so often goes with Indian cities seems trebled in this densely populated metropolis, renowned for its humour and arts. Producer Sara Jane Hall
Mark Carwardine travels the globe in three programmes looking at whales.
Once a nation of whale hunters, Iceland is now a Mecca for whale watchers. Carwardine has an encounter with the world's largest mammal - a blue whale and her calf. Producer Sarah Blunt
Shortened repeat of 9am
With Robin Lustig
An itaDesai'staie of two families and two cultures. After her disastrous marriage, can Uma escape her destiny? Read by Sudha Bhuchar. Abridged in ten parts by Elizabeth Bradbury. Part 6. producer Di spears
Shortened repeat from Saturday 9am
Messandro Baricco's novel is read by Sean Barrett and Joanna Monro. Tension mounts as the purpose behind the gathering of six strangers at the Aimayer inn is slowly revealed. Abridged in ten parts by Paul Kent. Part 6. producer Gemma Jenkins
