With the Rev Angela Tilby.
Comment, context and colour from the United
States, with veteran commentator Alistair Cooke. Repeated from yesterday
More travels through the British countryside with Richard Uridge. Including 6.40 FarmingToday Radio 4's team of experts assess the week's developments in the foot-and-mouth crisis and examine the implications forthe British countryside. Producers Adrian Holloway and Hugh O'Donnell
Shortened repeat of Open Country Thursday 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.
Why lie on a beach when you could be learning a new skill such as making a souffle, polishing candlesticks or folding napkins? It's not everyone's idea of a good time but this week Arthur Smith explores self-improvement as a holiday option. Producer Eleanor Garland. PHONE: [number removed] WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/excessbaggage E-MAIL: excessbaggage@bbc.co.uk
Four programmes to help you make sense of the digital world. Today Douglas Adams reflects on the potential of the internet for authors and publishers. How will e-publishing affect the book industry? And would Adams consider publishing his next work Online? Producer Mark Rickards (R)
The political discussion programme which aims to sharpen the focus on current ideas and events. Presented by Dennis Sewell. Producer Jonathan Brunert
Colour, wit and observation as BBC correspondents take a look behind the world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. Producer Tony Grant
Impartial money advice and the latest news from the world of personal finance, with Paul Lewis. Producer Paul O'Keeffe. Repeated tomorrow 9pm
The hit impressionist programme stars Jon Culshaw , Mark Perry and Jan Ravens. Repeated from yesterday
Jonathan Dimbleby is joined at the Free Church in London by panellists including The Times sketch writer Matthew Parris and Liberal Democrat Peer
BaroneSS Williams. Repeated from yesterday
Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and e-mails in response to last night's Any Questions? E-mail: [email address removed]
Mike Dorrell's play about Charles Dickens as the author tries to make sense of things during a walk contrasts idealised scenes of marriage from
Dickens's fiction with bitter reality. October 1857. As problems in Dickens's marriage come to a head, he feels the pressure mounting. One night, unable to sleep, he walks the 30 miles from his home in London to Gad's Hill in Kent. But he cannot shake off the voices in his head.
The concluding programme in a series about the visual arts, exploring stories and themes byfocusing on the locations. The Collapse of Genius
Why do some artists start their careers like shooting stars, only to lose theirtouch and be condemned to repeat themselves for decades on end? Robert McNab investigates. Producer David Perry
The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney.
Executive producer Anne Tyley. 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 director John Boorman talks about his new film "The Tailor of Panama" based on the book by John le Carre, starring Pierce Brosnan, Jamie Lee Curtis and Geoffrey Rush. Presented by Andrew Collins.
An eclectic mix of conversation, comedy and music, with Ned Sherrin and guests. Producer Chris Wilson
This week the programme focuses on Dallas on 22 November 1963, where James Ellroy , author of LA Confidential, begins his new novel The Cold Six Thousand- a dark depiction of hoods, cops and killers. With Tom Morris and guests. Producer Erika Wright
Alain de Botton plucks ancient philosophers from obscurity and asks what they can teach us today.
Today he examines Epicurus, the philosopher who got a reputation for loving luxury and pleasure. Repeated from Sunday
Tony Benn commemorates the 75th anniversary of the 1926 General Strike - a dispute which divided the country along class lines. While miners said that they would rather starve than concede, for some it was just a kind of game, with volunteers fulfilling boyhood dreams by driving trams, buses and trains. As well as being a pivotal moment for the development of British industrial relations, it was also important for the future Of the BBC. Producer Andrea Kidd
Stephen Crane's classic, set during the bloodiest period of the American Civil War, is dramatised by James Saunders. Will Henry Fleming, a raw Union recruit, earn his badge of courage (a visible wound), or will he prove to be a coward? With
Matthew Ferguson, Michael Mahonen and Shaun Smyth. Repeated from Sunday
Professor Tom Kirkwood explores the topic of ageing, examining the impact of science on the human lifespan - both now and in the future. Sue Lawley introduces each of the five lectures from various venues. 3: Sex and Death
From the Edinburgh International Science Festival. " Does sex shorten our lives? Can it be, as some have suggested, that ageing and death are the price we pay for sex?" Repeated from Wednesday
John Clare - Country Fiddler. A Northamptonshire poet with a passionate love of the countryside, John Clare is also remembered for his tragic end in an asylum. Yet he was also a fiddler and a pioneer collector of folk songs. Tim Healey talks to poet Tom Paulin and musicians Gordon Tyrrall and Geoff Bowen about the musical side of Clare. Rptdfrom Sunday
Religious spirit in the poetic consciousness, from the fabric of the church to the mystery of the Easter story, presented by Frank Delaney. Repeated from Sunday
The last of five short stories exactly 2,001 words long, written by Adam Thorpe. Mercenary, read by David Calder. Stuart's past both defines and haunts him. Producer Chris Wallis (R)
