With the Rev Dr Kevin Franz.
Richard Uridge and David Hartley meet seals, skuas and monks on the Orkney islands.
(Repeated Thursday 1.30pm)
With John Humphrys.
7.20 Yesterday In Parliament
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With Canon David Winter.
8.45 Yesterday in Parliament
John Peel hears from Ash Logan about how not to propose to your girlfriend.
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E-Mail: [email address removed]
(Shortened 11pm)
Conversation on the arts world with Ned Sherrin and a mixture of star guests.
Sheena McDonald reviews the political week.
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 those trying to make the most of their money.
Simon Hoggart hosts the satirical quiz, with Alan Coren, Jeremy Hardy, Linda Smith and John Sergeant.
(Repeated from yesterday)
Jonathan Dimbleby is joined in Birmingham by John Edmonds, general secretary of the GMB; Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon; Lord Howe; and Ruth Lea, head of the policy unit at the Institute of Directors.
(Repeated from yesterday)
Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls in response to this week's edition of Any Questions?
Lines Open from 12.30pm
Four programmes in which Richard Holmes follows in the footsteps of some of the great literary elopements.
A young D.H. Lawrence fled a teaching job, an engagement and memories of his recently dead mother to run off with a sex-crazed and very liberated German woman called Frieda von Richthofen, who was married with children. They met at a Sunday lunch and it is quite possible that she seduced him within minutes of their meeting. The pair had a passionate but stormy relationship and, as they travelled south through Europe, their success was always touch-and-go. They had no money, Freida missed her children and they both argued like mad. But it was at Lake Garda in Italy that Lawrence found his writing voice and, with Frieda's help, finished his first masterpiece, Sons and Lovers. So did the warm south work its magic after all?
By Myron Brining.
Chronicling the professional, personal and romantic awakening of three sisters raised in a raw, adventurous Montana mining town at the start of the 20th century.
Dame Barbara Castle evokes the mood of the 1930s through a hit song of the time - On the Sunny Side Of the Street.
(R)
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 Dan Damon.
Andrew Collins presents the weekly guide to the film world including an interview with veteran Hollywood director Norman Jewison and a look back at the British 1940s classic, A Matter of Life and Death.
Simon Fanshawe with conversation and jazz live from the BBC Radio theatre in London. With Stacey Kent and her band and guests.
Tom Sutcliffe and guests with the week's cultural highlights, including the comedy Being John Malkovich, starring John Cusack, Cameron Diaz and John Malkovich.
Six eminent speakers explore the direction of faith in the 21st century. They approach spirituality from contrasting perspectives, considering its impact on society and the individual.
Professor Ursula King of the University of Bristol.
(Repeated tomorrow 12.15am)
"We are horrified to learn that the British Broadcasting Company is to act as the arbiter of English." So worried one newspaper in 1926. But John Reith, the director-general of the BBC, believed that with the advent of mass communication, the BBC was charged with a responsibility to influence the way English should be spoken. The BBC engaged some of the nation's finest minds, including George Bernard Shaw, to consider the best way to speak on the wireless. John Humphrys explores the history and politics of received pronunciation and the people who brought it to the world.
The conclusion of John Steinbeck's novel in Shaun McKenna's dramatisation.
As Adam is freed from the tyranny of his love for Cathy, so his son's battles with life are just beginning.
With Henry Goodman, William Roberts, Lorelei King and David Yip.
(Repeated from Sunday)
Michael Buerk chairs a debate in which Janet Daley, David Starkey, Ian Hargreaves 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)
Richard Coles meets Joan Taylor and her Can't Sing Choir, made up of people who lack the confidence to sing - or who have been begged not to.
(Repeated from Sunday)
Frank Delaney introduces requests for poems on the theme of age. Readers Juliet Stevenson, Tim Pigott-Smith, Paul McGann and June Barrie.
(Repeated from Sunday)
By Hugh Leonard, read by David Kelly.
A self-effacing Dubliner faces a crisis in his family. When he gets support from an old friend, their relationship starts to change.
(R)
