With Canon Noel Battye.
With Anna Hill.
With James Naughtie and Sue Macgregor.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests set the week's agenda in discussing the latest ideas and issues. Producer Ariane Koek. Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
Minette Walters joins Jenni Murray to discuss her new crime novel Acid Row. Drama: Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell. Part 16. 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. 4: The True Domestick Intelligence, 23 September 1679. How a pathological fibber called Titus Oates managed to send the nation into a frenzy with his lie about a plot to convert Britain to Catholicism and why John Evelyn 's massive gardening encyclopedia, Elysium Britannicum , was left unpublished until last year. Plus a re-creation of a foot-race from Barnet to Highgate and a look at wine in Berkshire, where 1679 seems to have been a vintage year. ProducerAndrew Green
Sue Rodwell's six-part dramatisation of AJ Cronin 's comic medical stories. 5: Wife of a Hero. Finlay spoils the party by nearly killing two patients on the eve of Levenford United's Cup semi-final with Glasgow Rangers.
Producer Jeremy Howe
Consumer advice programme.
With James Cox.
A nationwide general knowledge contest. Including Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants. Chairman
Robert Robinson. Second semi-final: the Midlands and the West Of England. Producer Richard Edis. Rptd Saturday llpm
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
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Lucy Catherine's drama set in 1936. Tired of getting lost in London because all the maps are out-of-date, Phyllis Pearsall dreams of producing the first "A-Z of London". To this end, she starts to walk 3,000 miles in order to map 23,000 streets.
Financial experts answer listeners' questions.
Presented by Paul Lewis. Lines are open on 08 [number removed] from 1.30pm. Producer Jennifer Clarke
Daphne du 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. 6: A ball is proposed in honourof the new bride. Producer Di Speirs
Five weekday programmes in which Mary Kenny invites brothers and sisters to reveal what makes their relationship unique. 1: Hotelier Sir Rocco Forte and his sister, designer Olga Polizzi talk about how losing their family business made them reassess their professional and personal relationship. Producer Liz Senior
Sheila Dillon considers the latest evidence on how diet can reduce the risk of developing cancer. Extended repeat from yesterday 12.30pm
Gavin Esler and guests with international conversation tackling issues ranging from politics to popular culture, sport to science, and art to anthropology. 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 Dillie Keane, Owen Dudley Edwards, Ben Moor and Joyce McMillan. The reader is William Franklyn. Last in the current series.
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A handshake by firelight. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Mark Lawson with arts news, reviews and interviews. Producer Tom Morris
Elizabeth Gaskell 's frank portrayal of Manchester life in the 1840s created shock waves when it was published and established her reputation. The novel is dramatised in 20 parts by Lavinia Murray.
16: Mary's romantic attachment to the murdervictim and the accused make her the centre of attention.
Director Claire Grove. Producers Claire Grove and Tracey Neale. Repeated from 10.45am
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When Professor Preston King stood up against the racist laws of segregation in America's Deep South, he had little idea his protest would result in an exile of 40 years. Now able to return, King travels to his home town of Albany in Georgia for a long-awaited reunion. He talks to black and white, old and young, and explores the legacy of racial segregation and its profound effects on his own life. Producer Linda Pressly. EMAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk
Second in a ten-part series of the international current affairs programme. Since 11 September, the FBI has recorded and is investigating over 100 attacks on Arab-Americans. In a portrait of this community, George Arney visits Detroit, home to the largest number of residents of Middle-Eastern descent in the United States. Repeated from Thursday
Two programmes in which Sue Armstrong visits the world's deserts. 1: Nanuk's Kingdom. In a polar desert in the Canadian high Arctic there exists a rich, yet fragile, ecosystem locked in a frozen sea. It is a land where the plants and animals must seize every opportunity to live life to the full during the short summer season Of midnight Sun. Producer Louise Dalziel
Repeated from 9am
With Claire Bolderson.
Dashiell Hammett's story is abridged in four parts by Neville Teller and read by Stuart Milligan.
On arriving in Izzard, a desert boomtown, sharp-edged Steve Threefall finds that all is not what it seems.
Repeated from Saturday 9am
Repeated from 9.45am
