With the Rev Dr Mary Cotes.

EditorChris Burns

Richard Uridge explores the British countryside. Producer Adrian Holloway. 1.30pm

With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague.
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Canon David Winter.

John Peel takes a wry look at the foibles of family life. Producer Paula McGinley. PHONE: [number removed] WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hometruths
E-MAIL: home.truths@bbc.co.uk. 11pm

Arthur Smith dons pantaloons and powdered wig to considerthe history of the grand tour-an essential part of a gentleman's education or an opportunity for burgundy louts to work off their youthful excesses? Author Tim Moore talks about his travels through Europe on the trail of Thomas Coryate , whose 1608journeyto Venice was the unlikely template for the grand tour. And Fiona Sax Ledgergoes in search of sinful Switzerland. Producer Eleanor Garland. PHONE: [number removed] E-MAIL: excessbaggage@bbc.co.uk

David Stafford examines the music that has provided the backdrop for "wascally wabbits", road runners and feuding cats and mice, with a tribute to cartoon composers old and new. He talks to animators Bob Godfrey and Chuck Jones , as well as composer Carl Davis. David Prest (R)

Dennis Sewell presents the political discussion programme. Producer Sheila Cook

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

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the topical comedy programme. With Steve Furst ,
Emma Kennedy , Paul Putner and music from Mitch Benn. Repeated from yesterday

Jonathan Dimbleby isjoined at Nunney Village Hall near Frome in Somerset, by panellists including
Jackie Ballard MP, musician Billy Bragg and Oliver Letwin , shadow spokesman forthe Department of Trade and Industry. Repeated from yesterday

Jonathan Dimblebytakes listeners' calls and e-mails in response to last night's Any Questions? Producer Lisa Jenkinson. E-MAIL: any.answers@bbc.co.uk

Kevin Whately and Emily Bruni star in Michael Crompton 's latest wartime adventure, adapted by Molly Lefebure. The Secret Agent
Back in London in the early forties, forensic experts Hardcastle and Mollyfind themselves involved in a series of apparently related killings. The speed and viciousness of the attacks is even more alarming when a pattern begins to emerge - all the victims are women in uniform.
Director John Dove. Producer Marilyn Imne

Professor Barry Cunliffe explores the lives of ancient peoples who lived on the Atlantic edge of Europe.

The Vikings have a reputation for savagery, but they were also farmers, traders and settlers. Professor Cunliffe travels to Orkney to trace the voyages of the Vikings, and looks at how others have taken to the ocean in search of wealth over the last 6,000 years.

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.

Ned Sherrin and guests with the usual eclectic mix of conversation, comedy and music. Producer Chris Wilson

Tom Sutcliffe explores Paris in the thirties through the lens of Brassai, the celebrated photographer, whose black and white pictures of the Moulin Rouge, Parisian street life and Picasso are on show in a major new exhibition. Plus a look at the new novel by Israeli author AmOS Oz. Producer Erika Wright

Writer, wit and raconteur Gerry Anderson takes the first of three askance glances at some of the stranger doings of the great, good and not so good in Northern Ireland today.
Pseudo-Intellectual Refuseniks and the Lone
Golfer of the Apocalypse Repeated from Sunday

Although jazz flourished throughout the twenties, it wasn 't until the late thirties that the BBC finally allowed regularjazz on air. Veteran BBC man
Charles Chilton describes his part in the process, including a little white lie to the Master of the Queen's Music. Producer Nick Baker (R)

A new version for radio of the bestselling verse autobiography by John Betjeman. Voiced by the author from a recording made in the sixties, he remembers his Highgate Hill childhood, Cornish holidays, school in Oxford and the masterwho inspired his growing love of architecture. 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.
Evita. Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Tim Rice took their biggest risk to date putting on the musical stage a story of political intrigue, little known outside experts on 20th-century South American history. Davies hears about events that led up to the opening night on 21 June 1978, with memories from Rice and Lloyd-Webber, Joss Ackland , lighting director David Hersey and theatre critic Michael Billington , as well as those recorded at the opening, including Elaine Page , the first Evita. Repeated from Sunday

Christopher Cook with poetry and conversation, includingguest poets Ruth Padel and Carol Rumens. Repeated from Sunday

Five short stories about the family. 2: Sheets by Celia Bryce , read by Nicola Hemsley. A teenage daughter persuades her father that it is time to wash the sheets. It is a simple, everyday action, but it is almost more than they can bear. Producer Jane Dauncey (R)