With Ian MacKenzie.
Richard Uridge uncovers more stories and characters from the British countryside.
(Repeated Thursday 1.30pm)
With John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
7.20 Yesterday in Parliament
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With Christina Rees.
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.
Steve Richards of the New Statesman presents a review of the political week with interviews and extracts from Parliament.
Kate Adie presents insight and analysis from Correspondents worldwide.
Alison Mitchell with the latest news from the world of personal finance plus impartial advice for all those trying to make the most of their money.
David Aaronovitch and a celebrity panel pick through the bones of the week's news, separating the truth from the spin.
(Repeated from yesterday)
Jonathan Dimbleby is joined at the Forum@Greenwich, south London, by panellists including Rene Carayol and the Rt Hon Lord Tebbit.
(Repeated from yesterday)
Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls in response to this week's edition of Any Questions?
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During the 19th century various kings, chiefs and maharajahs from across the expanding empire visited Britain. Novelist David Dabydeen uses several accounts to reveal their experiences and to discover the impact their visits had upon Victorian Britain.
Mary Stewart's postwar revenge thriller is set in the hills around Delphi, where classics teacher Camilla Haven is having an uneventful holiday. Then she meets Simon, who is intent on uncovering the mystery of his brother's death during the Second World War.
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 the unveiling of Leonardo Di Caprio's new film The Beach.
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In the last of the current series Boothby Graffoe and friends bring songs, sketches and satsuma soup to Saturday night. With special guests Steve Frost and guitarist Antonio Forcione.
Another chance to eavesdrop on the humorous world of John Shuttleworth and his family in the last in the series.
Mary spies a mouse in the kitchen. Or is it a leaf blown in on a summer's breeze? John investigates with the help of neighbour Ken Worthington and his clarinet. Written and performed by Graham Fellows.
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Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural highlights, including Neil Jordan's new film adaption of Graham Greene's The End of the Affair, and an American production of David Mamet's play American Buffalo.
In the first of two programmes BBC correspondent Matt Frei, born in Germany and raised both there and in Britain, explores British attitudes towards the Germans, our fear of Teutonic efficiency and our sense that they have no sense of humour.
(Repeated tomorrow 12.15am)
The undergrowth crackles, twigs snap, there is tension in the air. After lying motionless in cold, cramped conditions for several hours, will the patient badger watchers be rewarded? When does a perfectly harmless hobby become an obsession, and just how many secret experts are out there? Presenter Charlotte Smith looks at why Britain is a nation of animal lovers and joins bat expert Phil Richardson to play the waiting game. The sound archives of the BBC are also delved into and forgotten gems are brought out that illustrate the watchers' eccentricities, while also acknowledging the serious side to animal watching.
Oscar Wilde's famous novel is dramatised in two parts by Nick McCarty.
"...it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old... I would give my soul for that."
The story of a gilded and spoilt hedonist who, Faust-like, makes a foolish wish - the granting of which destroys him.
(Repeated from Sunday)
Michael Buerk chairs a debate in which Janet Daley, Ian Hargreaves, David Starkey and David Cook cross-examine guests who have conflicting views on the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories.
(Repeated from Wednesday)
Stephanie Hughes presents a six-part series exploring the mysteries and mechanics of writing music.
Anthony Payne, who made a performing version of Elgar's third symphony, compares notes with television and film composer Christopher Gunning.
(Repeated from Sunday)
Frank Delaney talks to anthology editors Christopher Ricks and Jo Shapcott and introduces listeners' requests for favourite poems from the volume they have compiled.
(Repeated from Sunday)
By James Joyce, read by Bosco Hogan. Abridged in two parts by Maurice Leitch.
When poor Mr Kernan collapses in the lavatory of a public bar, his friends decide tough action must be taken.
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