Father Paul Clayton-Lea .

Producer Gordon Swindlehurst

With Sue MacGregor and Edward Stourton.
6.25, 7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day The Rt Rev James Jones.

John McCarthy sets out to discover the meaning of home.

McCarthy ends his exploration of the idea of home by returning to the house where he grew up. Is it still home? He meets carers at Strawberry Fields Children's Home trying to create a sense of home for the kids without one, he discusses the myths of domestic safety with victims of marital violence, and he joins an elderly lady as she moves out of her home into sheltered housing.
(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.
Can an invention calibrated for ten thousand years defy death?

With Martha Kearney and guests. Drama: Feelings Under Siege by Bridie Canning. Part 1 of 5. Editor Ruth Gardiner. E-MAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk Drama repeated at 7.45pm

Anthony Schaeffer looks back to 1940 and the intensification of the Battle of Britain. Not content with destroying our airfields and aircraft,
Goering's Luftwaffe turns its attention to bombing British Cities as well. Producer Anthony Schaeffer (R)

A two-part comedy by Lyndon Mallet.

Chaos descends when Jessica decides to rent a room to Rex, who brings only an empty birdcage and dodgy DIY skills to the tranquillity of her home.

Choice
There are two Hare Lane Diaries (11.30am R4). One belongs to a youngish widow, the other to her divorced lodger. Frances Barber and David Bamber star and you can guess what happens - but probably not precisely how...
A little earlier, the man in the white suit reads from his memoirs in the Book of the Week (9.45 am R4 FM): Martin Bell calls himself - a little disingenuously? - An Accidental MP.
One of the great joys of recent years was Radio 3's tercentenary celebration of the music of Henry Purcell. He died a century earlier and a year younger than Mozart and we should be immensely proud of him - as Donald Macleod ably illustrates when introducing the truly sublime music written by the Composer of the Week (9.00amR3).
This evening, don't miss Death Row Rookies (8.00pm R4), our Programme of the Week, see p 115. SG

With Trixie Rawlinson and John Waite.

With Nick Clarke.

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

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

By Lesley Glaister. A dark comic tale of middle-aged and recently widowed Ellen, who finds that joining a writers' group provides greater solace than punching cushions. But fiction can be more revealing than she intends.
Producer Dave Batchelor
Reg Robin Thomson Dan Chris Delaney Daphne Lucy Paterson

Vincent Duggleby and guests are on hand to answer calls on a personal finance issue. Producer Paul O'Keeffe. LINES OPEN from 1.30pm

Niamh Cusack reads Maeve Binchy's bestselling new novel in ten parts. 6: The young business suffers when an ex-employee with a grudge takes his revenge. Producer Lisa Osborne

Five programmes in which Kate Saunders explores ideas of purity and cleanliness in world faiths. Today she learns about some of the rituals practised around pregnancy and childhood by Hindus. Producer Rosemary Dawson (R)

Extended repeat from yesterday 12.30pm

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

With Carolyn Quinn.

Joining Nigel Rees to exchange quotations and anecdotes are Alison Mitchell, Arabella Weir, Michael Coveney and Robin Oakley. Reader Patricia Hughes.
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(Repeated Sunday 12 noon)

Eddie makes the ultimate sacrifice. Repeated tomorrow 2pm

Mark Lawson talks to Fay Weldon whose latest novel charts the relationship between a thirtysomething woman and her 83-year-old grandmother. Producer Stephen Hughes

By Bridie Canning , dramatised in five parts by Catherine Czerkawska. 1: Departures and Arrivals. Bridie arrives from Londonderry at a large public school in England to take up a post as matron.
Director Lawrence Jackson. Repeated from 10.45am

First in a new documentary strand in which individuals or groups give an insight into the challenges faced by the many.
Every summer, a group of British law students travel to the United States to defend convicted murderers on death row. They have six weeks to investigate last-minute appeals in an attempt to save condemned men from the death sentence, but face a community which does not welcome the intervention of well-meaning foreigners in their execution of justice. Producer John Byrne Programme of the Week: page 115

Over 900 murders are committed in Jamaica every year. Tim Whewell talks to citizens across the island who are determined to bring about change, from former politicians to members of a civil action group.
Producer Linda Pressly. Editor Maria Balinska WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/continents (R)

Zoologist Charlotte Uhlenbrook travels around the world, from Equatorial Guinea to Madagascar, in search of some of our closest relatives. She encounters potato-washing macaques and chimps running their own pharmacies.
(Rptd tomorrow 11am)

Repeated from 9am

With Roger Hearing.

Fiona Shaw reads Muriel Spark 's novel, abridged in ten parts by Penny Leicester. Part 6. Producer Duncan Minshull

Repeated from Saturday 9am

In ten programmes, Seamus Heaney reads from his new translation of the great Anglo-Saxon poem. 6: Beowulf's fight with evil Grendel's mother. Producer Susan Roberts (R)