With Alison Elliot.
With Anna Hill.
Producer Sarah Hughes
With Sue MacGregor and James Naughtie.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Rabbi Lionel Blue.
Jeremy Paxman and guests debate and deliberate new agenda-setting ideas and the latest issues, with lively and topical conversation. 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: The Furys by James Hanley. Part 11 of 15. Editor Ruth Gardiner
E-MAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
Archaeologist Julian Richards uncovers the hidden histories of towns.
The story of the city that locals like to call "Brummagem" is inextricably linked with the industrial Revolution. In fact, it is easy to believe that is what put this city on the map. However, as Richards discovers, Birmingham's roots as a successful industrial town started long before the 18th century.
The conclusion of Monica Dickens 's witty novel, dramatised by Sam Boardman-Jacobs . Music Maestro, Please! Monty's been cooking badly now for nearly a year. If Isobel can't persuade her to hang up her apron, perhaps Hitler can?
Director Marion Nancarrow
With Peter White and Winifred Robinson.
With Nick Clarke.
Ned Sherrin chairs the quiz that covers all types of music, from classical to jazz and show-tunes to pop. Producer Dawn Ellis
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
In Carolyn Sally Jones 's drama, eleven-year-old Simon is trying for an entrance exam to one of the few remaining grammar schools. His parents have moved house to ensure that they are in the catchment area. For all their best efforts, they are all three aware that he is a borderline candidate. Everything now seems to ride on his interview.
Vincent Duggleby and guests are on hand to answer calls on a personal finance issue. Producer Paul O'Keeffe. LINES OPEN from 1.30pm
As part of Comic Relief, each day this week there are two hilarious stories to pick from. Listeners can vote to hear their favourite by phoning in. Today's choices are John Sessions reading from the uproarious satire on British history, 1066 and All That by WC Sellar and RJ Yeatman, or Josie Lawrence's selection from the ever-popular Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding.
To hear John Sessions: phone [number removed] To hear Josie Lawrence : phone [number removed] Producer Rachel Horan
LINES OPEN at midnight on Thursday 8 March. Each call costs £1.00, of which 66p goes direct to Comic Relief
CASSETTE: All this week's readings are available on a cassette, The Funniest Thing l Ever Heard, price £9.99 from retailers. For every sale at least £2.00 will be donated to Comic Relief
Sue Armstrong presents a five-part portrait of the Bushman hunter-gatherers of southern Africa. 1: The Spirit of a Culture. The Bushmen are squeezed off theirtraditional hunting grounds and the core of their culture is destroyed as cattle-ranching, farming and tourism compete for ; the land. Producer Louise Dalziel
Extended repeat from yesterday 12.30pm
In an increasingly secular society we still need to get to grips with life's big questions about identity, and purpose, love and money, work and growing old. Muriel Gray and guests investigate those who think they have the answers. Producer Lindsay Leonard :
With Clare English and Carolyn Quinn.
Nigel Rees returns with a new series to celebrate
25 years of the popular quiz. With guests
Andy Kershaw , Deborah Maggach , Shyama Perera and . Ned Sherrin. Reader William Franklyn. Producer Carol Smith. Repeated Sunday 12.04pm
Lynda ups the ante. Rptd tomorrow 2pm
Mark Lawson with the arts, including a report on how theatre directors attempt to stage apparently unstageable moments. Producer Erin Riley
James Hanley 's saga follows the fortunes and . misfortunes of the Fury family in Liverpool. Dramatised in 15 parts by Kevin Fegan.
11: Peter'sjail sentence is enough to push his mother Fanny into a state of collapse. Director Melanie Harris. Music performed by Matthew Compton and Julian Gregory. Repeated from 10.45am
As patients we would like to be in partnership with the medical profession - the paternalism of the 20th century is disappearing. The medical school at Leicester University has risen to the challenge of providing a new approach to training doctors. In this concluding programme, DrTrisha Macnair follows the next generation of doctors being taught to succeed in this new world. Producer Julia Durbin. E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk
Netherlands. The violence and unrest in Indonesia is being felt keenly in its expat communities. Olenka Frenkiel visits the Netherlands. Repeated from Thursday 11am
Lionel Kelleway journeys through six European countries to meet the wildlife and the people working to conserve European diversity.
The Dutch Serengeti. In the heart of one of Europe's most heavily managed landscapes, conservationists are carrying out a controversial experiment with wild cattle and wild horses to see what happens if nature is left to its own devices. Producer Grant Sonnex. E-MAIL: nature@bbc.co.uk
WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/bbc/wild_europe
Shortened repeat from 9am I
With Claire Bolderson.
Stella Gonet reads ten tales from RosinaLippi's Pen/Hemingway award-winning collection of stories set in the Austrian Alps. 6: Wainwright's
Katherina-1938 . Abridged by Sally Marmion. Producer Di Speirs I
With David Stafford.
Shortened repeat from Saturday 9am
Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa
Repeated from 9.45am
