With the Rev Johnston McKay.
Richard Uridge uncovers more stories from the countryside.
(Rptd Thursday 1.30pm)
With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
7.20 Yesterday in Parliament
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With the Rev Dr Leslie Griffiths.
8.45 Yesterday In Parliament
John Peel takes another wry look at the foibles of family life.
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(Repeated Monday 11pm)
Arthur Smith presents the travel programme.
This week he is joined by Clarissa Dickson Wright, who guides him around her favourite city.
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The series that mixes pop and politics to capture the atmosphere and chart the course of general election campaigns which changed the country.
Miles Kington tunes in to 1979, when prime minister Jim Callaghan was battling not just the unions and the Winter of Discontent but also the new Tory leader Margaret Thatcher. Blondie were in the charts with Sunday Girl, as was Art Garfunkel With Bright Eyes.
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Sheena McDonald presents a review of the London Mayoral elections and hears the reactions from politicians.
BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the world headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie.
Alison Mitchell with the latest news from the world of personal finance.
Simon Hoggart hosts the topical comedy panel game. With Alan Coren, Andy Hamilton, Mark Steel and newcomer John Nicolson.
(Repeated from yesterday)
Jonathan Dimbleby is joined at Westminster University, London, by panellists including Michael Ancram MP, Ken Livingstone MP and Dr John Reid.
(Repeated from yesterday)
Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls in response to last night's edition of Any Questions?
Lines open from 12.30pm
Joe Farrell examines the stories of six great but forgotten people and asks why they have been so neglected.
Millicent Fawcett led the constitutional campaign for female suffrage for over three decades, only to be overshadowed in the history books by the more militant suffragettes. Farrell finds out about the life and legacy of the woman who championed the cause of women's education and emancipation.
By Cornell Woolrich, dramatised by William Spier and adapted by Toby Horton.
Published in 1943, Woolrich's novel was a brooding murder mystery which exposed the sleaze behind the shine of forties Hollywood. This 1948 radio version, which has been remastered for Radio 4, was made more eerie by the incorporation into the plot of many of Hollywood's real-life inhabitants, including the restaurateur "Prince" Michael Romanov.
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 with the weekly guide to the film world, including an interview with Ethan Hawke, who stars in the screen version of the bestselling novel Snow Falling on Cedars. And with the release of Gladiator, the programme celebrates the return of a much-missed Hollywood genre.
Ned Sherrin and guests with the usual eclectic mix of conversation, comedy and music.
Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural highlights, including The Last September, Deborah Warner's first film as director.
In four programmes undertaker and poet Thomas Lynch presents lyrical and humane essays about the emotions that underpin daily life.
He reflects on the disease that has afflicted generations of the Lynch family and now threatens his teenage son - alcoholism.
(Repeated from Sunday)
The art of hoaxing has a special place in history, from the Cottingley fairies to the man who sold the Eiffel Tower. Nick Yapp takes a look at this strange phenomenon and asks what makes people want to carry out a hoax and why are victims so easily hoodwinked?
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By James Hogg, dramatised in three parts by Don Taylor.
Lady Dalcastle's two sons could not be more different: the amiable George and the intense Robert have an uneasy, and occasionally violent, relationship. It is a relationship which has to be questioned when one of them is brutally murdered. With Edward Petherbridge, James Cosmo and Stella Gonet.
(Repeated from Sunday)
Five eminent thinkers speak from around the world on different aspects of the complex theme of sustainable development. Presented by Kate Adie.
In a globalised world, diseases can travel almost as fast as money. Director-general of the World Health Organisation Gro Harlem Brundtland calls for a radical new approach to enable the planet to meet the basic needs of its six billion people.
(Repeated from Wednesday)
In a six-part series Mary Allen talks to musical experts who attempt to convince her of the finest example of a particular genre of music.
A former general, a pipe major and a band leader all cast their votes and play excerpts from their particular choices.
(Repeated from Sunday)
Poems were vital in the war against the Gestapo; the Bedouin use them to teach children hospitality; and some of the most mundane pieces of writing - bus tickets and notices - can become poems. As more and more people turn to verse to mark the milestones of experience - births, deaths and marriages - Judith Palmer reveals the secret life of poetry.
(Repeated from Sunday)
by Julia Widdows, read by Lynsey Baxter.
Five short stories by women writers.
A lonely young man compensates for the emptiness of his own life by believing himself to be a friend of the family across the road.
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