With the Rev Roy Jenkins.
With Alistair Cooke. Repeated from yesterday
Helen Mark explores the countryside of the Kentish Weald. Producer Moira Hickey.
With Alan Little and Sarah Montague. 7 25 8 25 Sports News
7.48 Thought forthe Day With Harvey Thomas
John Peel takes a wiry look at the foibles of family life.
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As the carnival season begins across the Latin and Caribbean world, Arthur Smith is joined by Simon Callow who tells tales about riotous partying in Rio. Producer Sara Jane Hall. PHONE: [number removed] E-MAIL: excessbaggage@bbc.co.uk
In a new three-part series, Miles Kington tells the story of the legendary French president, from his birth at Lille, through his endless skirmishes with Britain, to his final days amid the red revolutionaries of the sixties.
How the General turned a corner of wartime London into a beacon of freedom for the French whose patrie was under the heel of the Third Reich.
Dennis Sewell presents the political discussion programme which sharpens the focus on current ideas and events. Producer Dennis Sewell
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 Penny Haslam. Repeated tomorrow 9pm
Celebrity doppelgangers take to the microphones in the show that has been a runaway success.
Starring Kevin Connelly , Jon Culshaw , Mark Perry and Jan Ravens. Producer Bill Dare. Rptd from Friday4 January
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a political discussion from Frome in Somerset with a panel including Max Hastings, editor of the London Evening Standard, and singer-songwriter Billy Bragg.
(Repeated from Friday 4 January)
Jonathan Dimblebytakes listeners calls and e-mails in response to last night's Any Questions? Phone in on [number removed], or e-mail any.answerS@bbC.CO.Uk. Producer Lisa Jenkinson
Another chance to hear this classic dramatisation or the epic novel by JRR Tolkien , adapted for radio in 13 episodes by Brian Sibley and first broadcast in 1981.1: The Shadow of the Past. "Three rings for the Elven - Kings under the sky/Seven for the Dwarf-Lords in their halls of stone./Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die./One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne/In the Land of Mordor where the shadows lie."
With Diana Bishop. John Church , Graham Faulkner , Leonard Fenton. Donald Gee , Kathryn Hurlbutt , John Livesey , David McAlister Martyn Read , Gordon Reid , Christopher Scott , Michael Spice, John Webb and Haydn Wood
Music composed and conducted by Stephen Oliver Director Jane Morgan
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: The Fellowship of the Ring, newly edited and with new narration by Brian Sibley , and the classic box sets of The Lord of the Rings are available from all good retailers and from www.bbcshop.com. Call [number removed]
Dotted across rural Northern Ireland are dozens of clubs with names like the Lone Star, the Outlaws and Silver Buckles, where ordinary folk leave behind the 21st century to become Davy Crockett , Judge Roy Bean or confederate soldiers. Gerry Anderson discovers that this is more than just dressing up. Producer Alison Finch
The best of the week on the weekday morning magazine, presented by Martha Kearney.
Series Editor 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.
Andrews Collins presents Radio 4's weekly guide to the film world. Today he talks to Will Smith about his new film Ali. Producer Stephen Hughes
An eclectic mix of conversation, comedy and music, with Ned Sherrin and guests. Producer Chris Burns
As 2002 gets underway, Tom Sutcliffe and guests dip their toes into cultural waters as they try to make sense of David Lynch 's new film Mulholland Drive, and spend a year in the life of an enclosed rural Irish community in John McGahern 's new novel That They May Face the Rising Sun. Producer Jerome Weatherald
The last of acclaimed travel writer Dervla Murphy 's letters. 3: At the age of 70, Dervla Murphy is planning her next adventure.
Producer Caroline Barbour. Repeated from Sunday 30 December
As his radio adaptation of Lord of the Rings is being re-broadcast, Brian Sibley considers the many ways in which artists of all kinds have re-made this epic, with author Philip Pullman, Peter Jackson (the director of the new film) and actors such as Roy Marsden and Peter Woodthorpe. Producer Francis Byrnes
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: J.R.R. Tolkien - an Audio Portrait, presented by Brian Sibley, is available on audio cassette and CD from all good retailers and from [web address removed] Call [number removed]
John Steinbeck 's harrowing novel, dramatised in three parts by Steve Chambers.
1: Exodus. Newly released from prison, Tom Joad returns to the family farm to find the land parched, the farmsteads destroyed and his family gone. So begins his search for his family and theirjourney west.
Director Marion Nancarrow. Repeated from Sunday 30 December
For the second in this series of debates on the diversity of modern Britain, Edward Stourton asks an expert panel and an invited audience to contend the proposition that "multiculturalism has made the UK a far better place to live". How far has the idea of multiculturalism affected our beliefs and attitudes? Is the mutlicultural experience limited for most people to a wider choice of music and food?
Producer Jim Frank. Editor Nicola Meyrick. Rptd from Wed 2 January
Tackling Nick Clarke 's notorious cryptic questions this week are the North of England and Scotland. Producer Paul Bajoria. Repeated from New Year's Eve
Frank Delaney and Poet Laureate Andrew Motion continue their countdown of listeners' favourite poems. Readers Ralph Fiennes and Juliet Stevenson.
(Repeated from Sunday 30 December)
By Fay Weldon. Another in the series of specially written stories on the theme of resolution. Today Rebecca Front readsthe sparky tale of a young woman with an eye for a bargain. Producer Sarah Johnson Producer Kate McAII. Repeated from Sunday 30 December
