All this week's programmes are broadcast live from Rome with the Radio 4 pilgrims . Presented by Denis Nowlan.
Presented by Alistair Cooke. Repeated from yesterday
News and events from the British countryside, with Richard Uridge. 6.35 Farming Today: This Week Producer Gabi Fisher.
With Sue Montague and John Humphrys.
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 Harry Parker. PHONE: [number removed] WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hometruths
E-MAIL: home.truths@bbc.co.uk. Repeated Monday llpm John Peel: page 12
Do footballers suffer from homesickness when they leave their country to play abroad? Would you ever dream of running across the Sahara? And what's it like to travel with the England cricket team? Arthur Smith is joined by Frances Edmonds and James Henderson to discuss sport and travel. Producer Cathie Mahoney. PHONE: [number removed] WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/excessbaggage E-MAIL: excessbaggage@bbc.co.uk
The first of a new three-part series in which Tony
Hawks investigates the origins and purpose of the weekend, a British invention that was created - and is now being lost- within most of our lifetimes. This week, he visits Morecambe, a town that was apparently made for the weekend, and discovers that the resort, like the weekend itself, has undergone a transformation. Producer Simon Crow Something for the weekend: page 18
The political discussion programme that sharpens the focus on current ideas and events. Presented by Dennis Sewell. Producer Richard Vadon
BBC correspondents take a look behind the world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. Producer Tony Grant
The latest news from the world of personal finance, and impartial money advice, presented by Paul Lewis. Producer Chris A'Court. Repeated tomorrow 9pm
Comedy impressions from Jon Culshaw , Jan Ravens , Mark Perry and Kevin Connelly. Repeated from yesterday
The first in a new series of the political discussion programme with Jonathan Dimbleby. This week's edition comes from Pulborough in West Sussex with Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics Tony Benn, General Secretary of the TUC John Monks and Ann Widdecombe MP. Repeated from yesterday
Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in response to last night's Any Questions? Phone on 08 [number removed], ore-mail any.answers@bbc.co.uk. Producer Lisa Jenkinson
Concluding the adaptation of Marcel Pagnol 's celebrated film trilogy by Juliet Ace from translations by Margaret Jarman. 3: Cesar. Twenty years after the events of the first part of the trilogy, the sad comedy of lost love is replaced by a rich comedy of death and disclosure. A mother's secrets send her son off in search of a father he never knew.
Director Ned Chaillet. Music Neil Brand
Two programmes in which Henry Goodman lifts the curtain on the working lives of today's actors, seeking out the real people behind the theatrical masks and the issues that affect them.
How much are actors involved in the creative process, and how much control do they have over the direction of their careers?
Contributors include Geraldine James, Patrick Marber, Simon McBurney and Pam St Clement.
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.
In the week that Al is released, the weekly guide to the film world presents a Steven Spielberg special. With Andrew Collins. Producer Stehen Hughes
An eclectic mix of conversation, comedy and music, with Ned Sherrin and guests. Producer Chris Burns
Tom Sutcliffe discusses this week's cultural highlights including David Starkey 's newtelevision series, The Six Wives of Henry VIII , and a review of Chekhov's early play Platonov in a new adaptation by David Hare. Producer Erika Wright
The last of four inspirational graduation speeches features Peter Ustinov and Helena Kennedy. Repeated from Sunday
Chris Bowlby tells the story of the Co-operative Movement, the great working class consumer organisation and its struggle to adapt to the modern world. The programme uses previously un-broadcast material from the Co-op's own archives. Producer Smita Patel (R)
Mary McCarthy 's novel about eight graduates from the prestigious American women's college, Vassar, is dramatised in two parts by Moya O'Shea. 2: Three years since their graduation from Vassar College, half the group has married. Kayto Harald , Dottieto Brook and Pokeyto a distant cousin. Polly, Libby, Helena and Lakey remain single. Nevertheless, there are some surprises in store for all the women as theirtangled adventures continue in New York.
Repeated from Sunday
Nick Ross invites a panel of public figures to hear expert evidence on a current issue. Togetherthey look for radical, practical solutions. 2: NuclearPower Is it the safest and cleanest form of energy? With
Bridget Ogilvie , Matthew Taylor and Don Cruickshank. Repeated from Wednesday
A nationwide general knowledge contest to find this year's Brain of Britain. Including Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants. Chairman Robert Robinson. First round: the Midlands and East Anglia. Repeated from Monday
Martin Jarvis and Harriet Walterjoin Frank Delaney for listeners' requests, including Kipling's The Way through the Woods and Larkin's Wedding Wind. Repeated from Sunday
Five classic European stories exploring the weird and the wonderful. 3: The Holes In The Mask. Simon Russell Beale reads Jean Lorrain 's story which journeys into the dark imaginings of the narrator as he dreams his Own death. Producer Gemma Jenkins (R)
