With Catherine Ogle.
Producer Sarah Hughes
With Sue MacGregor and Edward Stourton.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought forthe Day With Rabbi Lionel Blue.
Jeremy Paxman and guests debate and deliberate new agenda-setting ideas.
Producer Ariane Koek. Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
Jenni Murray and guests with the latest news, views and culture from a woman's point of view. Drama: Bayeux Tapestry. Part 1 of 6. Editor Ruth Gardiner
E-MAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk. Drama repeated at 7.45pm BBC Radio Collection: a variety of Woman's Hourshort stories are available on audio cassette from all good retail outlets and www.bbcshop.com
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Archaeologist Julian Richards uncovers the hidden histories of towns. Aberdeen. From the legend that says it was settled on a bend in the river shaped like a bishop's crosier, to the current oil boom, water has always played a vital part in the development and success of this unique northern City. Producer Karen Gregor
Monica Dickens 's witty and humorous novel is dramatised by Sam Boardman-Jacobs . 2: Dinner for One Please, James. As Monty struggles to adjust to life below stairs, her employer decides to throw a party - and to invite all Monty's old chums.
Producer Marion Nancarrow
With Winifred Robinson and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke.
Ned Sherrin chairs the quiz that covers all types of music, from classical to jazz and showtunes to pop. Producer Dawn Ellis
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
Naturalistic performances mix with classic songs from the big musicals in Chris O'Connell 's drama. Griff "has it between the eyes" - persuasion.
Gerry has a passion for musicals and a talent for guessing. Soon Griff has Gerry hooked. Together they are Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, dreaming of the bigtime, although they are stuck in Lewisham. Only when it is too late does Gerry discover the danger in Griff.
Director Anne Edyvean
Paul Lewis and guests are on hand to answer calls on a personal finance issue.
Producer Jennifer Clarke. LINES OPEN from 1.30pm
David Suchet reads a week of stories by the Jewish short-story writer who grew up in Odessa in Ukraine, joined the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution and fought with the Red Army cavalry in Poland in 1920. Translated by David McDuff and abridged by Keith Darvill.
A junior performance of Julius Caesar and the tribulations of learning the violin.
Zina Rohan profiles five extraordinary Europeans.
For decades Battaglia used her camera as a weapon against the Sicilian Mafia. Her stark black-and-white images shocked the world and prompted the first serious investigation into the relations between the Mafia and top Italian politicians.
Extendeclrpttromyesterday 12.30pm
Kevin Bocquet and guests take a global view of news, traditions and human stories from across the world. Producer Phil Pegum
With Clare English and Carolyn Quinn.
Nicholas Parsons hosts the most devious of panel games. This week he is joined by Clement Freud , Paul Merton and Graham Norton at London's Broadcasting House.
Producer Claire Jones. Repeated Sunday 12.04pm
BBC Radio Collection: audio cassettes of Just a Minute,
Volumes 2,3 and 4 are available from all good retail outlets and www.bbcshop.com
Clarrie has nothing On file. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
John Wilson with arts interviews, reviews and news, including a report on audience participation in museums and galleries. Producer EkeneAKalawu
A six-part oral dramatisation of the Bayeux Tapestry by Simon Armitage and Jeff Young.
Harold arrives in Bosham and the air is full of speculation as they wait for a sailing wind.
Further cast details across the week. Repeated from 10.45am
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In the late forties Winston Churchill was a passionate advocate of a united Europe, touring the continent to press his case. But what did he see as Britain's role? Using recordings of Churchill's speeches and eyewitness accounts, David Sells explores the great man's vision of Europe's destiny. Producer Chris Bowlby
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From the East End to the South Seas.
Alexander Frater presents a two-part story of cannibalism, volcanoes, religious fervour and family history in one of the most beautiful parts of the world. This week he returns to Vanuata and the tiny island of Paama to deliver a new bell to a church built for and named after his grandfather, Producer Sara Jane Hall (R)
In a new six-part series, Lionel Kellewayjoumeys through Europe to meet the wildlife and the people working to conserve European diversity.
The Cork Forests of Portugal. He investigates the growing use of plastic stoppers in wine bottles, which is reducing the demand for cork and could be the final nail in the coffin for this ancient landscape and its inhabitants, including the Iberian Lynx. Producer Grant Sonnex. E-MAIL: nature@bbc.co.uk
WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/bbc/wild_europe
Shortened repeat from 9am
Elaine Dundy 's bestselling novel set in mid-fifties Paris concerns Sally Jay Gorce , a young American woman who goes looking for adventure and becomes entangled with the left-bank bohemians of the city. Read in ten parts by Laurence Bouvard. Parti. Abridged and produced by Peter Everett
With John Peel. Shortened repeat from Saturday 9am
Alice Hoffman 's gripping and lyrical tale of a mysterious and watery death in a divided town, is read by Liza Ross and abridged in ten parts by Richard Hamilton. Parti. Producer Sarah Johnson
