With Judy Merry.

With Miriam O'Reilly.

With James Naughtie and Sue MacGregor.
6.25, 7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day

Tom Sutcliffe is joined by guests, including physicist Paul Davies , to discuss the latest ideas and issues. Producer Ariane Koek. Shortened repeat at 9.30pm

Germaine Greer joins Jenni Murray to discuss her new anthology of women's poetry. Drama: Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell. Part 11. Drama repeated at 7.45pm

A six-part series in which Peter Snow looks at stories uncovered in a single copy of a newspaper from the past. 3: The Lady's Newspaper, 21
December 1861. How one of the first newspapers targeting women reported the death of Albert, the Prince Consort, on pages lined with black. It describes what Queen Victoria and her subjects wore for mourning. Other stories include 3-D photography, plans for London's huge 1862 international exhibition and how Britain almost went to warwith America. Plus the agony aunt's advice on cod and carrots. Producer Andrew Green

Sue Rodwell's six-part dramatisation of stories by A J Cronin.
4: Wee Robertson. Finlay is caught in the middle when a husband escapes his henpecking wife by losing his memory.
Producer Jeremy Howe

With Winifred Robinson and John Waite.

With Nick Clarke.

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.
Producer Richard Edis. Repeated Saturday 11pm

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

What would have happened in Romeo and Juliet if Romeo had learnt from Friar Laurence that Juliet wasn't dead and there was no reason for either of them to kill themselves? A great tragedy would have become a riotous comedy, which is just what happens in Perry Pontac's irreverent blank verse reworking of one of Shakespeare's greatest plays.
Director David Hunter

What if Romeo and Juliet had not died? Perry Pontac's comedy provides an answer- in iambic pentameters
Afternoon Play: Fatal Loins
2.15pm R4 Early in this play a disguised Friar Laurence finds Romeo and tells him it has been decided that Juliet must marry the County Paris. "What?" replies Romeo, "the whole county?" You will have guessed that this is a comic reworking of the Bard's great love story, and writer Perry Pontac, who is something of a Shakespeare specialist in one way or another, has produced a typically exuberant and often hilarious play. Pontac was inspired to write the play by wondering what would have happened if there had been no reason for either Romeo or Juliet to kill themselves. The result, surely, would have been a comedy. And so Pontac has written it. Sam West is Romeo, John Moffatt is Friar Laurence, Pam Ferris is the Nurse and the cast also includes Nancy Carroll, and Rachel Atkins as Juliet.

Financial experts answer listeners' personal finance questions. Presented by Paul Lewis. Lines are open on [number removed] from 1.30pm. Producer Jessica Dunbar

Daphnedu Maurier 's novel about a young woman haunted by the presence of her husband's first wife -the charming and charismatic Rebecca - is abridged in ten parts by Sally Marmion and read by Emma Fielding. Part 1. Producer Di Speirs

The first of two programmes celebrating the centenary of the garden city movement looks at Bournville, the village built by George Cadbury around his chocolate factory outside Birmingham. Presented by Allan Beswick. Programme two is tomorrow at 3.45pm. Producer Sarah Lewthwaite

Extended rpt from yesterday 12.30pm

Gavin Esler with international conversation.
Producer Amber Dawson

With Clare English and Carolyn Quinn.

In a special edition of the anecdotal panel show recorded at this year's Edinburgh festival, Nigel Rees 's guests are Mary Brennan , Liz Lochhead , Magnus Linklater and Magnus Magnusson. The reader is William Franklyn.
ProducerCarol Smith. E MAIL quote.unquote@bbc.co.uk. Rptd Sunday BBC RADIO COLLECTION: Quote.... Unquote is available on cassette at all good retailers and www.bbcshop.com. Call [number removed]

The bird is not enough. Repeated tomorrow 2pm

Francine Stock with the verdict on The Others, an eerie new film with a cast which includes
Nicole Kidman and Eric Sykes. Producer Sally Spurring

Elizabeth Gaskell 's frank portrayal of Manchester life is dramatised in 20 parts by Lavinia Murray.
11: Jem Wilson confronts Henry Carson and the mill workers present their demands to the employers.
Director Claire Grove. Producers Claire Grove and Tracey Neale. Repeated from 10.45am
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: Mary Barton is available on audio cassette at all good retailers and www.bbcshop.com. Call [number removed]

John Chadwick of Standish, Lancashire, is a third-generation slaughterman and family butcher. He passionately disagrees with the new EC rules about the best way to slaughter cattle, but how far will he go to defend his principles? Dylan Winter describes what happened when a butcher took on the bureaucrats. Producer Peter Everett. E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk

A new ten-part series of the international current affairs series. At the Sydney Olympics, Australia was proud to display its multicultural heritage. Now, one year later, its refusal to allow hundreds of Afghan boat people into the country is presenting a rather different image. As the world faces a mounting refugee crisis, Rosie Goldsmith talks to the people who make immigration policy in Australia and to people who have sought asylum in Australia over the past 50 years - from Afghans on the run to refugees from seventies Vietnam and postwar Eastern
Europe. What lies behind the changes in Australian refugee policy? Repeated from Thursday

Shallow Seas. An ecological detective story revealing the historyof sea otters, sea-cows, and giant reefs of oysters in Britain's coastal seas.
Presented by Mark Carwardine. Producer Grant sonnex

Repeated from 9am

With Robin Lustig.

Edna O'Brien 's sixties romance of a young woman's first love with an older married man is abridged in eight parts by Penny Leicester and read by Tina Kellegher. 6: Caithleen has escaped from herfather's house and returned to Eugene.
Unfortunately, her father and angry cousins have pursued her back to Dublin. Producer Tanya Nash

Repeated from Saturday 9am

in the World Repeated from 9.45am