Rabbi Peter Tobias.

With Miriam O'Reilly.

With Allan Little and Sue MacGregor.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Gabrielle Cox.

Charles Wheeler presents a six-part series about national service. 5: Demob Suits at Dawn. This week, when demob day finally arrived, the national service men found it difficult fitting in with civilian life. Producer David Prest. Repeated at 9.30pm

Fergal Keane travels across America to discover another side to the country - away from the headlines and the political spin - in the run-up to the presidential election. Producer Mark Savage

Martha Kearney talks to Richard Francis about his biography of Ann Lee , founder of the Shaker movement. Drama: Dear Little Burneyby Fanny Burney, adapted by Jennifer Howarth. Part6 ofl5. Editor Ruth Gardiner. E-MAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk Drama repeated at 7.45pm

(or until close of play)England v West Indies
Commentary on the fifth and final day's play in the Third Cornhill Test at Old Trafford. Your Letters Answered at 1.18 and News at 1.15 and 3.45. "Approximate times

Julian Richards presents the series showing you how to discover the hidden history of your town through the streets and buildings of today. 5: Dublin. How invasion and immigration have shaped the development Of this City. Producer John Byrne

Last in the current series of the comedy by Alex Ferguson about a boy and his uncle, set on Tyneside in 1939. Blue Birds Over. Lecky and Charlotte run away to Gretna Green where they meet Gracie Fields who gives them some useful advice. To Lecky's heartbreak, Charlotte is evacuated when war breaks out. He agrees to be sent away to the country believing he will never see her again. Director Melanie Harris

Daily consumer news.

With Nick Clarke.

Robert Robinson chairs the nationwide general knowledge contest. First round - Home Counties. Including Beat the Brains. Devised by John P Wynn. Questions by Ian Gillies Producer Richard Edis. Repeated Saturday 11pm

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

By Jacqueline Wilson , dramatised by Amanda Swift from the award-winning children's novel. Loveable, loud-mouthed, joke-cracking ten-year-old Elsa is the heroine of the hourwhen she triumphs over parental misunderstandings, hard times and danger to win through to a happy ending. Producer Catherine Bailey. Director Marilyn Imrie

Repeated from Saturday 12 noon

Among the Ruins, read by Gerard McSorely. When Joe and his family return to Corradinna, his childhood home, he is visited by old memories. Director Judy Friel. Producer Andrew Welch

Will I Live for Ever? Jez Nelson goes in search of the eIixir of youth. Producer Ruth Linton
(R) EMAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk

Extended repeat from yesterday 12.30pm

Anne Mackenzie and guests explore issues from the four corners Of the earth. Producer Amber Dawson

With Clare English and Carolyn Quinn.

Nicholas Parsons is joined by Clement Freud, Linda Smith, Paul Merton and Stephen Fry for the panel game that gives short shrift to repetition, hesitation and deviation.
(Repeated Sunday 12 noon)

There is an upset at Grey Gables. Repeatedtomorrow2pm

Mark Lawson meets playwright Alan Ayckbourn who is about to revive his House/Garden at the National Theatre: two plays performed simultaneously in two theatres, by the same cast.

Jonathan Glancey tells the story of Fairford Leys, a housing estate deliberately designed as a ready-made village. Producer Rebecca Nicholson (R)

; Phil Rees examines how Montenegro is preparing forwhat could be the bloodiest and most fratricidal of all Yugoslavia's wars. Repeated from Thursday

Is it possible to resurrect habitats destroyed by human activity? In the first of three programmes, Jolyon Jenkins charts the rise of an ecological movement which hopes to restore the Earth. Its potential is demonstrated in efforts to reconstruct the prairies of mid-west America. Producer Alison Ayres. E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk

Repeated from 9am

With Roger Hearing.

By Ivan Turgenev , translated by Richard Freeborn and abridged in ten parts by Doreen Estall. Samuel West begins a classic tale of thwarted love. 1: When Lavretsky returns from a failed marriage to his
Russian homeland, he must reconcile himself to a different future. Producer Di Speirs

Repeated from Saturday 9am

Patricia Hodge reads five extracts from the autobiography of Beryl Markham (1902-1986), a record-breaking aviator and successful racehorse trainer in Kenya. 1: Why Do We Fly? Produced and abridged by Sarah Kilgarriff (R)