With the Rev Peter Baker.

With Sue MacGregorand Edward Stourton.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With the Rev Colin Morris.

John McCarthy sets out to discover the meaning of home.

McCarthy looks at the mixture of public and private, material and spiritual ingredients that can turn a house into a home, and hears why David Frost and Loyd Grossman are happy to let cameras peep through any celebrity keyholes except their own. (Repeated at 9.30pm)

Francis Spufford digs into the history of four media inventions and discovers what each one says about our relationship with the mechanised world.
A look at the behemoth of printing.

With Martha Kearney and guests. Drama: Central 822 by Sarah Woods. Part 6 of 10. Editor Ruth Gardiner. E-MAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk Drama repeated at 7.45pm

Alan Taylor investigates the key figures behind our passion for consuming. 3: Ernest Dichter.
Demonised by his enemies in fifties America, the founding father of motivational research is credited with using his Freudian training to discover what consumers really want. Producer Mike Lloyd

A comedy series by Anthony Crouch, dramatised by Christopher Scott.

Hollywood comes to Dudley Hewitson's ancestral home to film a cricket match but there is drama on and off the pitch.

With Mark Whittaker.

With Nick Clarke.

Robert Robinson chairs the general knowledge contest, including Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to contestants. First round - London and the South of England. Producer Richard Edis. Repeated Saturday llpm

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

A new production of Alan Bennett's acclaimed satirical comedy. The retiring headmaster of Albion House is outraged by the school's traditional end-of-year play, which is being produced by his successor. The headmaster can only see his own beloved standards being mocked. Yet within the parody lies painful nostalgia for a more peaceful, vanished age.
Choirboys Dominic Conte and Luke Eastman. Music by Colin Sell, performed by members of the East 15 Acting School.

See also Father! Father! Burning Bright tonight at 10.45pm and Talking Head on Thursday 11.30am FM
His master's voice - a feature by Sue Gaisford : page 29
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First of two programmes looking at a pivotal day in people's lives- retirement day. 1: The Fireman Mick Tamplin loved being a fireman. He won the Queen's Medal for Gallantry for rescuing some children from a blazing house. He always knew he would have to retire at 55 but illness has forced him to leave even earlier. Afuture as a florist looks less appealing. Producer Brian King

Derek Cooper visits a water market in Blandford Forum and follows the meandering fortunes of the River StOUr. Extended repeat from yesterday 12.30pm

Anne Mackenzie and guests explore issues from the four corners of the earth - from politics to popular culture, artto anthropology. Producer Amber Dawson

With Winifred Robinson.

Nicholas Parsons is joined at the Pleasance in Edinburgh by Paul Merton, Clement Freud, Graham Norton and Ross Noble for the comedy panel game. Producer Claire Jones. Repeated Sunday 12 noon

Children can be very cruel. Repeated tomorrow 2pm

In a special edition Mark Lawson talks to writers including Martin Amis and Christopher Hampton about the works which famous authors sketched out, tried to write, failed to complete or which have subsequently been created in their name by others.

A ten-part drama charting the career of real-life police detective Carol Bristow. Written by Sarah Woods with Carol Bristow.

Carol trains as the first armed woman in the Flying Squad.
(Repeated from 10.45am)

In the second of two programmes Jenny Cuffe examines the dilemmas involved in providing aid to countries at war and ponders whether help from developed nations can actually fuel misery in developing countries. Producer Sarah Lewthwaite

Julian Pettifer travels to Taipei to explore the growing problem of child obesity in Taiwan. With a fifth of school-age boys now overweight, schools are singling out the heaviest children and giving them three weekly sessions of compulsory exercise. Pettifer investigates the causes of the problem and asks how far doctors can hope for success. Repeated from Thursday

First in a new nine-part series.
House Sparrows. As our most familiar British bird goes into steep decline, Mark Carwardine turns sleuth and investigates the reasons forthe mysterious fall of the house of sparrow. Producer Brett Westwood. Repeated tomorrow 11am

Repeated from 9am

With Claire Bolderson.

Alan Bennett reads his comic story in five parts. 1: The timing was good, Midgley acknowledged that. Onlyhisfatherwould have managed to make his farewell in the middle of a "meet the parents " week. Abridged and directed by Ned Chaillet (R)

Repeated from Saturday 9am

Jonathan Tulloch 's novel, set in Gateshead, is read by Tim Healy in ten parts. 6: Gerry and Sewell's attempts to raise enough money to buy season tickets for Newcastle United are less successful than they had hoped. Abridged and produced by Chris Wallis