Father Oliver Crilly
Editor Chris Burns
Richard Uridge uncovers more stories of rural life. Producer Gabi Fisher
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7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day Canon Eric James
John Peel takes another wry look at some of the foibles of family life. Producer Fiona Hill
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Arthur Smith presents the programme featuring travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation. Producer Eleanor Garland. PHONE: [number removed] WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/excessbaggage E-MAIL: excessbaggage@bbc.co.uk
Sometimes a well-known person has the temerity still to be alive when their obituary is published. Former Times obituarist Anthony Howard spells out the consequences for all concerned whenever someone utters Mark Twain 's memorable riposte. Producer Ian Docherty
Robin Oakley reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Producer Jane Ashley
BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the world headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. Producer Tony Grant
Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance and impartial advice from those trying to make the most of their money. Producer Paul O'Keeffe. Repeated tomorrow 9pm
Paul Lewis on internet banking- Money Know How: page 36
Simon Hoggart chairs the topical comedy panel game, this week with Alan Coren , Andy Hamilton , Jeremy Hardy and Linda Smith. Repeated from yesterday
Nick Clarke is joined at Homewood School and Sixth Form College in Tenterden, Kent, by panellists including Michael Howard MP. Repeated from yesterday
Nick Clarke takes listeners' calls and e-mails in response to last night's Any Questions? Producer Lisa Jenkinson. E-MAIL: any.answers@bbc.co.uk
By Rebecca Bartlett. A son buys his mother a laptop computer for her 50th birthday. When she enters a cookery chatroom she creates a relationship that will change all their lives.
Director Pam Brighton
Richard Stilgoe continues his exploration of the role of our Lord Lieutenants who, for almost 500 years, have acted as the monarch's eyes and ears in the shires. This week he is in Edinburgh with Colonel James Stirling , the Lord Lieutenant of Stirling and Falkirk, to find out if there is a place in the modern army for the ancient institution of the aristocracy. Producer Dixi Stewart
The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Sheila McClennon.
Editor Ruth Gardiner. E-MAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk
Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines. Presented by Dan Damon.
This week on the film programme Andrew Collins talks to Geoffrey Rush about playing the Marquis de Sade in the star-studded new film Quills.
Producer Nicki Paxman
Ned Sherrin and guests with the usual eclectic mix of conversation, comedy and music. Producer Chris Wilson
Tom Sutcliffe and guests with the week's cultural highlights, including the BBC's controversial television drama, Rebel Heart, and Peter Carey 's new novel, The True Story of Ned Kelly , which tells the story from a bushwhacker's point of view. Producer Julian May
Jack and the Beanstalk. If in your childhood you never learned that this tale was a guide to entrepreneurial risk-taking in a free-market economy, that is because the storytellerwas not Bridget Rosewell. In three programmes, she mischievously reworks fairytales forthe pantomime season. Repeated from Sunday
Emily Buchanan highlights the best
English-language radio from around the world. Thismonth she samples experimental radio, from the magnetic sound of the northern lights, to soundscapes of life in the South Pacific. Producer ArleneGreeorius. Editor Maria Balinska
The conclusion of Nick Fisher's dramatisation of Peter Ackroyd's acclaimed novel. Hawksmoor cannot find the murderer, and Dyer, the 18th-century architect, becomes more steeped in evil. Both seem to be heading for madness. Repeated from Sunday
Edward Stourton chairs three debates, this week focusing on the proposition that "Rural people suffer because they have no control over the levers of power." Set in Grantham, Lincolnshire, one of the most rural counties in England, regional chiefs, community groups and landowners argue over who really has political control in rural areas- local people or townies. Repeated from Wednesday
Huw Edwards concludes the real-life history behind the scenes of six favourite operas.
The Mastersingers of Nuremberg. Pride in German art, superiority over other cultures, keeping the race pure-with hindsight it is easyto see Wagner's The Mastersingers as a political piece. But there is also a 19th-century story-the newspapers of the time were taking sides in the struggle between traditionalists and modernists. Wagner used the piece not only to demonstrate his personal greatness, but also to put down his critics and the German cultural establishment through the story and characters themselves. Producer Martin smith (R)
Frank Delaney presents a selection of poems which contain a moment of epiphany. Barbara Flynn , Don Warrington and Sally Cookson read poems by, among others, Wordsworth, Seamus Heaney and Raymond Carver. Repeated from Sunday
Five stories on the theme of the body. 1:
Vincent Vice 's Rainbowby Caspar Walsh , read by Jack Davenport. When gangster Vincent is in need of a new identity after an incendiary incident, who betterto help him out than Serge Lafronze , plastic Surgeon to the Stars? Producer Sara Davies (R)
