With Dave Kitchen.

Editor Chris Burns

Richard Uridge uncovers more stories and characters from the British countryside. Producer Adrian Holloway
Repeated Thursday 1.30pm

With John Humphrys and Winifred Robinson.
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Christina Rees.

Can you blame children for their parents' mistakes? John Peel interviews a man whose life was changed irrevocably by the fact that his parents were on the wrong side during the Second World War. Presented by John Peel
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(Repeated Monday 11pm)

Ned Sherrin collapses, exhausted after chasing a coach party of cucumber warehousemen along the M54.
Producer Torquil MacLeod

This week the programme goes to Holyrood to look at how devolved power in Scotland is working. Peter Riddell of The Times reports from Edinburgh.
Editor Vicky Taylor

Kate Adie presents insight and analysis from correspondents worldwide. Producer Tony Grant

Paul Charles 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 Marcia Hughes

David Aaronovitch and a celebrity panel pick through the week's news. Repeated from yesterday

Jonathan Dimbleby is joined at Dean Close
School, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, by Ann Atkins , Tony Benn , Michael Howard and Baroness Shirley Williams. Repeated from yesterday

Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls in response to this week's edition of Any Questions?
Producers Lisa Jenkinson and Karen Turner LINES OPEN from 12.30pm

1,000 Years of Spoken English
Michael Rosen concludes his assessment of examination English from the 1960s to the present day with Professor Ted Wragg and other educators and examiners. Will creative writing and multiple choice permanently replace parsing? Producers Pam Wardell and Julia Butt

by Ngaio Marsh. Dramatised by Michael Bakewell
When a leading actor is found gassed in his dressing room, it looks like suicide. But it transpires he was so detested that everyone had a motive for his murder.

The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney. Editor Ruth Gardiner

Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines. Presented by Dan Damon.

As a new caper about the Gulf War is released,
Andrew Collins questions how much we can really laugh at films about war. Producer Matthew Dodd

Nicholas Parsons hosts the spoof "search for a star" show where the host, the celebrity judges and the audience are all too real. Producer Tim Green

Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss Matt Damon's latest film The Talented Mr Ripley, and artistic interpretations of Christ over the centuries in a major new exhibition Seeing Salvation at the National Gallery.

Maggie O'Kane has reported from many of the most dangerous war zones in recent years. In three talks she gives the inside story of her encounters with violence. 2: Timor. She describes her assignment to East Timor in the wake of the vote for independence and the subsequent violence carried out by the supporters of the Indonesian occupation.
Producer Richard Bannerman. Repeated tomorrow 12.15am

Comedian Arnold Brown examines the BBC archives to find evidence of life at home in the days before television, when families had to invent ways of spending time together. They played parlour games, sang around the piano, tuned into the wireless to listen to game shows and dance bands. Was life really more fun, or did television bring much-needed entertainment to a boring existence?

By Frances Sheridan, adapted in two parts by Louise Page.
2: Tricked by her husband's conniving mistress into meeting her former fiance, Sidney has been banished from her home and children. Will anyone accept her now?
Other parts played by members of the cast 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. 4:
Jocelyn Pook's credits include the Golden Globe-nominated score for Eyes Wide Shut.
She compares the act ofwriting for dance and film with the experiences of Jonathan Dove , whose music has been heard in the Millennium
Dome and at Glyndebourne Opera. Repeated from Sunday

Frank Delaney and readers Douglas Hodge ,
Patricia Brake and Brian Gear delivera mixed bag of yourfavourite poems, from Thomas Hardy to Simon Armitage. Featuring the winners of the national Speak a Poem competition. Repeated from Sunday

By Richard Cutler , read by Matthew Zajac. Andrei hates sunlight. Since his retirement, he has lived as a recluse, but when a cold north-east wind arrives, he finds new purpose and love. Producer Claire Grove (R)