With the Rev Sister Una Kroll.
Richard Uridge uncovers more stories and characters from the British countryside.
(Repeated Thursday 1.30pm)
With John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With Canon Eric James.
This week the programme peers through the net curtains lining an Oxfordshire village where over 20 members of the Waters family live in the same street. Presenter John Peel.
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(Repeated Monday 11pm)
Ned Sherrin with Michael Nyman and Luke Slater.
Has history become a dirty word for our future obsessed leaders? Simon Hoggart asks whether modernising politicians have lost all sense of the past.
Kate Adie presents insight and analysis from correspondents worldwide.
Alison Mitchell with the latest news from the world of personal finance and impartial advice for all those trying to make the most of their money.
The topical comedy programme starring the world's biggest names from politics, sport and entertainment - courtesy of impressionists Alistair McGowan, Kate Robbins, Simon Lipson and Jon Culshaw.
(Repeated from yesterday)
Jonathan Dimbleby is joined at the Museum of London by panellists including Simon Hughes MP, Boris Johnson of The Spectator and David Willetts MP.
(Repeated from yesterday)
Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls in response to this week's edition of Any Questions?
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Professor Roy Porter examines four episodes in the 20th century when the state of a leader affected the state of a nation. The Shah was diagnosed with leukaemia five years before he was deposed. Did the knowledge of his disease spur him to speed up the reforms which led to revolution?
By Marcy Kahan.
Actor, playwright, songwriter, director and star - Noel Coward never quite added sleuth to his astonishing achievements. But just before the war with Hitler, there is a gap in his memoirs. Is there a murder mystery within those days?
The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Jenni Murray.
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.
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Boothby Graffoe stars in a comedy programme of monologues, sketches, straw polls and songs. With Simon Evans, Vivienne Soan, Big Al, Kevin Eldon and Antonio Forcione.
Eavesdrop on the semi-detached world of aspiring singer/songwriter John Shuttleworth and his family.
Written and performed by Graham Fellows
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Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural highlights, including the re-opening of the Royal Court theatre after a major three-year refurbishment.
Novelist Carol Shields gives the first of four talks by women writers on the subject of clothes.
Shields was introduced to the world of hats and wigs as a result of her chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer in early 1999.
(Repeated tomorrow 12.15am)
Simon Fanshawe explores a lifetime of keep-fit, from primary school spins and stretches to the rigours of the over-60s.
Clare Chambers's book, winner of the Romantic Novel of 1999, is dramatised by Catherine Czerkawska.
Abigail believes that she has banished the ghost of her first love affair and the catastrophe that ended it, but 13 years later a chance encounter forces her to acknowledge that the spell is far from broken.
(Repeated from last Saturday)
Diana Madill returns with a four-part series of lively debates about the important issues of the day.
This week from Trafford in south Manchester, where parents and professionals face each other to argue their case.
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(Repeated from Wednesday)
Tim Healey and fellow musicians from the Mellstock Band re-create the songs of the early Victorians and the stories behind them.
The precursors of the music halls, where men gathered after hours to eat devilled kidneys, drink brandy and sing.
(Repeated from Sunday)
Fiona Shaw introduces the first of three anthologies of new poetry with contributions from Roger McGough, R.S. Thomas and Jo Shapcott. Featuring a specially commissioned sequence written and read by Lavinia Greenlaw.
(Repeated from Sunday)
Martin Jarvis reads the first of four stories by Grant Allen.
The mysterious colonel first appeared in the Strand Magazine in 1896. His goal - the systematic fleecing of Sir Charles Vandrift, the morally dubious millionaire. But who is Colonel Clay really?
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