With the Rev Johnston McKay.
Presented by Alistair Cooke. Repeated from yesterday
News from the British countryside, with Richard Uridge. Producer AlasdairCross.
With John Humphrys and Allan Little.
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Canon Eric James.
John Peel looks at the foibles of family life.
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The best travellers' tales, anecdotes and surprises, presented by Arthur Smith. Producer Eleanor Garland. PHONE: [number removed] WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/excessbaggage E-MAIL: excessbaggage@bbc.co.uk
The mastery of the art of invective is a crucial skill for politicians. Michael White examines the tradition of political insults and looks at how they can define an opponent's image, rebound counter-productively or simply add to the humour of politics. Producer Martin Rosenbaum
The political discussion programme that sharpens the focus on current ideas and events. Presented by Dennis Sewell. Producer Kirsten Lass
BBC correspondents take a look behind the world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. Producer Tony Grant
The Hard Sell. Is the advertising of financial products always fair? Listener Mark Stevens thinks it is often cynical and misleading. He objects to massaged performance figures and the increasing use of famous faces which may tempt consumers to buy the wrong products. He joins presenter Lesley Curwen to hearfrom victims of the hard sell. Producer Jennifer Clarke.
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis with the topical comedy show that looks at everything "now". Rptd from yesterday
Six debates on issues of perennial interest, chaired by Nick Clarke. 1: "The sixties were a better time to be young than the present decade." LINES CLOSE at 2.20pm. To vote YES PHONE: [number removed] To vote NO PHONE: [number removed]. Maximum call cost lOp Repeated from yesterday
Phone Nick Clarke with your views on the issues raised in last night's edition of Straw Poll. Producer Nick Utechin. E-MAIL: mail@testbed.co.uk
Shirley Cooklin 's drama in which British justice is put on hold when a paroled murderer kills after his release. A prisoner caught in a Home Office freeze on new paroles challenges the ruling and demands a psychological profile from a hard-line female psychiatrist. Their meetings prove explosive. Director Ned Chaillet
The first of three programmes exploring the history of the rose. This week Miriam O'Reilly learns how roses existed before mankind, how the Greeks revered them and how the Romans entombed their dead with them.
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 a report on an inevitable change in British films, from gangster movies to prison flicks, as The Parole Officer and, Greenfingers open in the same week. Presented by Andrew Collins. Producer Stephen Hughes
An eclectic mix of conversation, comedy and music, with Ned Sherrin and guests. Producer chriswiison
The week's cultural events, with Tom Morris and guests. Producer Erika Wright
Writers on Writing and Migration. Three audio essays exploring the experiences of novelists who have chosen to live- and write - in countries other than their own. This week British journalist and author
Michael Pye , who spent 20 years living in New York City and later moved to rural Portugal.
Repeated from Sunday
When John Buchan completed his novel The Thirty-Nine Steps in 1915, he set in motion the British 20th-century love affairwith secret agents, gentlemen heroes, cads and bounders. Nigel
Fountain looks back at a peculiarly British type of thrillerthat fared especially well on radio, television and in the cinema.
Producer Bob Dickinson (R)
Tess Durbeyfield, the most tragic of Thomas Hardy 's heroines, struggles to overcome the pitfalls of poverty and ignorance. Adapted in four parts by Alan Sharp. 1: When herfather discovers that the family is related to the aristocratic d'Urbervilles, Tess is sent to see if she can find preferment. She meets Alec d'Urberville, who is to have a dramatic effect on her life.
Repeated from Sunday
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Michael Buerk chairs a live debate in which Gerald Butler , Claire Fox , Ted Harrison and David Starkey cross-examine "witnesses" who hold passionate but conflicting views on a moral dilemma arising from one of the week's stories. Repeated from Wednesday
The general knowledge quiz reaches the final, with this year's two top-scoring teams fighting for the title of Radio 4 Master Team 2001. With chairman Peter Snow. Repeated from Monday
This week cross-cultural experiences of poverty, prejudice and hypocrisy in English and Asian society, with poets Roshan Doug , Birmingham's poet laureate, and Imtiaz Dharker. Presented by Christopher Cook. Repeated from Sunday
Fourshort stories by Susie Maguire. 1: A Night In read by Alexander Morton. An encounter with a noisy group of women in a bar convinces James that sexism really does work both ways. Producer David Jackson Young (R)
