With Clair Jaquiss.
Editor Chris Burns
Richard Uridge explores the nature and landscape of Exmoor.
Producer Adrian Holloway. Shortened 1.30pm
John Humphrys and Edward Stourton.
7.20 Yesterday in Parliament
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With the Rev Dr Leslie Griffiths.
8.45 Yesterday In Parliament
John Peel takes another wry look at some of the foibles of family life.
Producer Harry Parker. PHONE: [number removed] WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hometruths
E-MAIL: home.truths@bbc.co.uk. Shortened llpm
ArthurSmith 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
rEvan Davis presents a memory-jogging celebration of the events leading up to and following decimalisation 30 years ago, with recollections and anecdotes about how Britain became like a foreign country Overnight. Producer Helen Garrison
Steve Richards of the Independent on Sunday looks 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 finance. Producer Jennifer Clarke. Repeated tomorrow 9pm
Simon Hoggart chairs the last in the current series of the topical comedy panel game, this week from Loughborough Town Hall as part of the Leicester Comedy Festival. With Alan Coren ,
Jeremy Hardy and special guests. Rptd from yesterday
Jonathan Dimbleby is joined at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, University of Wales in Aberystwyth, by panellists including chair of the Transport Select Committee, Gwynetth Dunwoody MP; deputy leader of the Welsh Assembly, Mike German ; and leader of Plaid Cymru, leuan Wyn Jones. Repeated from yesterday
Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and e-mails in response to last night's Any Questions?
E-mail: [email address removed]
From the Lotus Sutra to the hard-core drinkers at the public bar of the Ship, the characters in Barrie Keeffe 's new play are in search of a salvation that can be painful and comic. Chanting seems to help Mick, but not even a Buddhist romance can quite quell his craving for alcohol.
Director Ned Chaillet
I Archaeologist Professor Barry Cunliffe presents four programmes exploringthe lives of ancient
I peoples who lived on the Atlantic edge of Europe.
Contact. From the cliff-top stone fort of Dun
Aengus in the Aran Islands, to the galley graves of Brittany, Cunliffe explores how facing the Atlantic shaped the thought, beliefs and culture of those who lived on the coast, and how ideas, goods and people moved up and down the Atlantic seaways. Producer John Byrne
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The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney.
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.
Andrew Collins with the guide to the world of film, including Blake Edwards on the making of Breakfast at Tiffany's, and actor Ian Hart on working with British directors, from Ken Loach to Stephen Frears. Producer Nicki Paxman
Ned Sherrin and guests with the usual eclectic mix of conversation, comedy and music. Producer Chris Wilson
Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss Peter Hall 's mammoth production of Tantalus, and review the autobiographical portrayal of a rock critic on the road in Cameron Crowe 's new film, Almost Famous. Producer Erika Wright
Drawing on his own experience, expert analysis and the confessions of ordinary people, Michael Rosen discovers what it is to be wrong.
The Charles Bovary Principle. However kindly and generously Dr Bovary behaves, his wife has decided he will forever live in the bubble labelled "wrong". This happens to individuals and nations and the consequences are surprising. Repeated from Sunday
Film historian John Huntley provides a guided tour of his film archive in a tall Victorian house in north
London. The archive contains material from over
100 years of film-making, from rare early footage to some of the best-known British films of the last
50 years, In telling the stories of precious and unusual holdings, Huntley also reflects on his own career in film, which began in 1939 when he was employed as a tea boy at Denham studios under Alexander Korda. Producer Rob Ketteridge
Robertson Davies 's celebrated trilogy on the life and death of Francis Cornish , international art expert and mysterious millionaire philanthropist, dramatised by Roger Danes.
2: The Knave of Coins. A tragic and long-lost brother, a liking for funeral parlours, a beautiful young artist's model, and a period oftime spent hidden away in a pre-war German castle -the Rev Darcourt 's ferreting into Cornish's past begins to shine light into some very dark corners. With
William Hope , MattZimmerman and Elaine Claxton. Repeated from Sunday
Michael Buerk chairs a live debate in which
David Cook , Janet Daley , Ian Hargreaves and David Starkey cross-examine witnesses on their controversial and conflicting views of the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. Repeated from Wednesday
Russell Davies examines the stories behind the opening nights of well-known musicals.
This week he recalls the musical Canterbury Tales which opened in the spring of 1968. This was the last show to come under the jurisdiction of the Lord Chamberlain's office which ruled that "the fart must not sound throughout the theatre".
(Repeated from Sunday)
Frank Delaney presents a selection of verse from the Victorian era, including poems by Emily Dickinson , Lewis Carol , WS Gilbert and Edward Lear. Readers Susie Brann , Stephen Moore , Tim PiggOt Smith and Bill WalliS. Repeated from Sunday
The last of five stories on the theme of the body.
5: WorkingOutby Helen Kendall , read by Juliet Prew. Down at the gym a young woman is trying to exorcise the ghosts of her childhood. Producer Frances Byrnes (R)
