With Robert Rietti.
Editor Chris Burns
Richard Uridge continues his tour of the British countryside.
Producer Gabi Fisher. Shortened 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 Canon David Winter.
8.45 Yesterday In Parliament
John Peel takes a wry look at family life. Producer Paula McGinley. PHONE: [number removed] E-MAIL: home.truths@bbc.co.uk
WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hometruths Shortened 11pm
Arthur Smith presents the travel programme, full of the best travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation. This week he looks at parties, cars, love and ambition south of the Sahara. Producer EleanorGarland
WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/excessbaggage
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Testing the guide books that claim to help us navigate our way around our holidays.
5: This week Hawks finds himself the guardian of a large, but friendly, dog. With the help of Pets Welcome and the extraordinary Your Dog magazine, he sets off for Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to see if he and Billy (a golden retriever) can spend the weekend bonding.
All seems to be going well - they punt down the Cam, go for a walk with some lurchers and take in a doggy spa - but their relationship is tested when Hawks discovers that a night at a smart hotel, where pets are considered the important guests, means that he and Billy have to share a room. Producer Lucy Willmore
Robert Shrimsley of the Financial Times presents a review of the political and parliamentary events in Westminster.
BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the world headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. Producer Tony Grant
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. Producer Chris A'Court
The impressionist show that bites the hand that feeds it - Radio 4. Starring Jon Culshaw , Jan Ravens , Phil Cornwell and Kevin Connelly. Repeated from yesterday
Jonathan Dimbleby is joined in Lord William's School in Thame, Oxfordshire, by panellists including Lord Forsyth, Michael Heseltine MP and Estelle Morris MP.
(Repeated from yesterday)
Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and e-mails in response to last night's edition of Any Questions?
Producer Lisa Jenkinson. LINES OPEN from 12.30pm E-MAIL: any.answers@bbc.co.uk
Who invented the Wild West? Buffalo Bill Cody saw his life as a genuine frontiersman of the American West being retold for hungry audiences back East. He came up with the idea of taking living history- cowboys, horses and buffalo - on tour, even recruiting native American Indians from the very battlefields in which their entire culture was destroyed. Fraser Harrison follows the tourthat brought Queen Victoria out of mourning. Producer Tim Dee
Tony Ramsay's play is a darkly comic detective story set against a background of witchcraft in Elizabethan Norfolk. Billy Rainbow is an actor on the London stage. Following a little difficulty involving a butcher's wife from Wapping, he is persuaded to go to the country and reprise his stage role as an unmasker of devils on the the estate of Sir Edmund Ferrule - where the locals have been troubled by an apparent spate of Satanism.
The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Jenni Murray. Editor Ruth Gardiner
Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines. Presented by Dan Damon.
Andrew Collins presents the film programme.
This week he talks to Julie Andrews about her role in the new film version of Noël Coward's play Relative ValueS.Producer Matthew Dodd
Ned Sherrin and guests with the usual eclectic mix of conversation, comedy and music. Producers Ian Gardhouse and Chris Wilson
Tom Sutcliffe and guests with the review of the week in the arts, including the world premiere of James MacMillan 's Mass at Westminster
Cathed ra Producer Jerome Weatherald
Three programmes celebrating speeches of inspiration and entertainment from graduation ceremonies. 2: As they receive honorary degrees, writer Edna O'Brien and pop legend
David Bowie share with graduates the wisdom of their experiences. Repeated from Sunday
Fifty years ago this week, the Cold War erupted into a real conflict in Korea, and forthe first time American and British soldiers were to fight on strange and alien terrain. Kate Adie looks back at the reporting of the warfrom a few isolated but brilliant correspondents such as James Cameron and Louis Heren , whose powerful witness brought the carnage home to readers and listeners in the West. Producer Alastair Wilson
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's romantic thriller about guilt and redemption, dramatised in three parts by Mike Walker.
In a fever of guilt, Raskolnikov finds himself pursued by unnaturally cunning investigator Porfiry Petrovich. With Barnaby Kay, Poppy Downie and Jim Norton. (Repeated from Sunday)
Michael Buerk chairs an investigation of the moral questions behind the week's news.
Witnesses face cross-examination from
David Cook , Janet Daley , Sean Gabb and Ian Hargreaves. Repeated from Wednesday
Petroc Trelawny explores music making, past and present, sacred and secular, in six British cities. 2: Worcester. The music of Elgar may dominate the city. but there are other musical delights to be found - like the recently discovered Worcester Fragments. Repeated from Sunday
For summer Frank Delaney introduces poems of heat, hops, lust and lime-tree bowers by poets including Helen Dunmore , Coleridge, Brendan Kennelly , Roger McGough and Boris Pasternak. Repeated from Sunday
Love by Clarice Lispector , read by Haydn Gwynne.
Anna thinks she has left behind the rebelliousness of her youth behind, but then a chance sighting of a blind man chewing gum throws her world into disarray. Producer Gemma Jenkins (R)
