With Norman Ivison
Richard Uridge uncovers more stories and characters from the British countryside.
(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 Canon Eric James
8.45 Yesterday in Parliament
John Peel presents the programme with a distinctive take on the family and relationships.
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(Repeated Monday 11pm)
With Ned Sherrin.
Donald Macintyre of The Independent presents a review of the political week.
Kate Adie presents insight and analysis from correspondents worldwide.
Alison Mitchell with the latest news on 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 Stanchester Community School, Stoke-sub-Hamdon, Somerset, by Jackie Ballard MP, Nigel Farage, Dr Liam Fox MP and Ken Livingstone MP.
(Repeated from yesterday)
Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls in response to this week's edition of Any Questions?
Lines Open from 12.30pm
Professor Roy Porter ends his series exploring episodes in the 20th century when the state of a leader affected the state of a nation. P.W. Botha suffered a stroke early in 1989, which caused him to lose first the leadership of his party and then the presidency of South Africa. Porter explains how a common medical condition succeeded - where international and internal pressure had failed - in bringing about political change in South Africa.
By Annie McCartney.
When Alice, an asthma sufferer, starts angling for special attention, it hardly seems unusual. But before long her parents find themselves reeling in disbelief as their lives start to unravel before their very eyes.
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. This week a Scotsman puts Hollywood under the drier in The Big Tease, the big new British comedy about hairdressing in Los Angeles. Plus the expert guide to the pick of films on television.
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Renowned singer and world-class guitarist Richard Thompson joins Boothby Graffoe as he takes to the stage for another Saturday night of songs and sketches. With Vivienne Soan, Big Al and Simon Evans.
Another chance to eavesdrop on the humorous world of John Shuttleworth and his family.
Ken's decision to give his agency a technological facelift makes John question the value of progress. What is wrong with dining at the garden centre, and what is a compass really for? Written and performed by Graham Fellows.
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Peter Robb made his name with Midnight in Sicily. Tom Sutcliffe and guests cast their critical eye over his new book, M, an acclaimed biography of Caravaggio. Plus a review of Kevin Spacey in American Beauty.
The last in the series of talks by women writers on the subject of clothes. Kathleen Jamie recalls her childhood dressed in Aran jumpers and her years as a badly dressed teenage rebel.
(Repeated tomorrow 12.15am)
Traditionally the wireless has been somewhat formal, but there have always been occasions when reporters have been overwhelmed by what they are witnessing - contributors so passionate in argument and commentators overcome by mirth or drink - that the conventions are dropped. Then the communication becomes pure and unselfconscious. Sean Street, professor of radio at Bournemouth University, reports on the moments when radio forgets itself. Some of the examples used include Herb Morrison's vivid broadcast of the Hindenburg airship bursting into flames and Peter White recalls a discussion with Richard Adams during which the author of Watership Down threatened to beat up a fellow guest because he thought him cruel.
Margaret Atwood's chilling vision of 21st-century America is dramatised in three parts by John Dryden.
Offred's life with former television evangelist Serena Joy and the Commander becomes increasingly difficult.
(Repeated from Sunday)
Diana Madill presents debates about important issues of the day. From London, she chairs the final programme in the current series, in which an international audience debates whether charity creates dependency. Would the helpless and the needy be better off with an approach which requires them to help themselves?
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(Repeated from Wednesday)
David Owen Norris explores the life and music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Almost unknown today, this black composer was one of the most popular of young composers in Edwardian Britain.
(Repeated from Sunday)
Frank Delaney, Martin Jarvis, Eleanor Bron and Andrew Sachs celebrate the return of this popular request programme when they entertain an audience at the Watershed in Bristol with some of your favourite poems.
(Repeated from Sunday)
By Orla Murphy, read by Gina Moxley.
A poor, lonely young woman despairs at the drabness of her home and yearns for the great getaway. Then a brainwave offers a solution to both her problems - and it is free.
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