With the Rev Gethin Abraham Williams.
With Miriam O'Reilly.
With Sue MacGregor and James Naughtie.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Rabbi Lionel Blue.
Playwright David Edgar joins Jeremy Paxman to discuss how far the theatre is a suitable place to stage the intricacies of international politics. Producer Ariane Koek. Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
Presented by Jenni Murray , live from Manchester. Drama: Adam Bede by George Eliot. Part 6 of 15. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
(or until close of play) England v Australia
Commentary on the fifth and final day's play of the First N power Test from Edgbaston. Including News at 1.15 and Your Letters Answered at 1.18. Approximate times
We are losing the differences between our homes, villages, towns and cities. Everywhere in the country is startingto look the same. Why is it happening and what can be done to stop it? Villages. Lucinda Lambton goes in search of the perfect English village for the 21st century, taking in Ambridge, Dorset, the Cotswolds and the Greenwich Millennium Village. Producer Peter Everett
In Nick Warburton's drama Antonia has chucked in her City job and aims to move to the country. She can't believe that the idyllic cottage she has found is going so cheaply. She'll soon discover why....
With Winifred Robinson and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke.
Radio 4's general knowledge quiz continues, with Edinburgh and West Yorkshire competing this week. With chairman Peter Snow. Producer Paul Bajoria. Repeated Saturday llpm
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
A four-part drama series by Michael Butt , adapted from Michael Gilbert 's stories. 3: Death Watch. Petrella is charged with protecting Desmond Vereker , a Nuremberg trialsjudge, from an avenger of exceptional ingenuity who is determined to kill him. Director John Taylor
Listeners' calls on a personal finance issue are answered by Paul Lewis and guests. Producer Georgina Davies. LINES OPEN from 1.30pm
Martin Jarvis chooses and reads five stories, originally broadcast to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the first appearance of Richmal Crompton 's immortal 11-year-old. 1: April Fool's Day Director Pete Atkin. Producer Rosalind Ayres
A week-long exploration of the love affairs that bloom between individual gardeners and particular plants, presented by Charlotte Smith . Today she travels to the Cotswolds to meet the woman whose garden contains over 130 varieties of snowdrop. Producer Dixi Stewart
This week Sheila Dillon goes in search of scallops. Extended repeat from yesterday 12.30pm
Lively conversation and an exploration of some of the big questions that preoccupy our age. With Muriel Gray and guests. Producer Lindsay Leonard
With Clare English and Carolyn Quinn.
Nicholas Parsons is joined in Brighton by Julian Clary, Jenny Eclair, Clement Freud and Paul Merton for the panel game that challenges even the most loquacious of guests. Producer Claire Jones. Repeated Sunday 12 noon
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Just a Minute 6.30pm R4
Sorry about the lack of punctuation in this preview but I am obliged to write for 60 seconds without hesitation repetition or deviation about the return to the airwaves of one of the most popular panel games around in which contestants such as Paul Merton Graham Norton Sir Clement Freud Julian Clary Jenny Eclair and others of the comedy gameshow elite are obliged to speak for 60 seconds on a subject provided by Nicholas Parsons all of which sounds simple until you try to do it yourself only to discover that you run out of ideas at the last sec...
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David gets a driving idea. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
The pick of books to read for the summer holidays, selected by Rosie Goldsmith. Producer Rob Ketteridge
George Eliot 's haunting story of love betrayed and rewarded, dramatised in 15 episodes by Robert Forrest. 6: The lovers meet in the Donnithorne Woods.
Director Patrick Rayner. Further cast details across the week Repeated from 10.45am
Sir David Ramsbotham , Chief Inspector of Prisons, has earned himself a reputation as a straight talker on conditions in Britain's jails. As he prepares to step down, Jenny Cuffe joins him on one of his final inspections and discovers that, typically, he isn't bowing out quietly. Editor David Ross
USA Energy. President Bush has pledged to maintain the energy-rich American way of life, whatever it takes. On a journey from Texas to
Arizona, Julian Pettifer meets oil barons and ecowarriors, as well as the ordinary Americans dependent on their gas-guzzlers, as he reports from the front line of the United States' energy wars. Repeated from Thursday
The first of a two-part exploration of the wonderful but undervalued sense of touch and an examination of suggestions that a mother's touch affects her baby's mental and social development throughout life. Presented by Dr Gillian Rice.
Producer Grant Sonnex. WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/nature
Shortened repeat from 9am
With Robin Lustig.
Liza Ross reads Anne Tyler's story of a 53-year-old woman who discovers that she has turned into the wrong person. Abridged in ten parts by Doreen Estall. 6: A new grandchild, an apology and a chance to Start Over. Producer Di Speirs
John Peel takes a wry look at the foibles of family life. Shortened repeat from Saturday 9am
Simon Winchester 's story of William Smith , read by Philip Franks. Repeated from 9.45am
