With writer and broadcaster Joy Mead.
Presented by Sarah Mukherjee.
With Alan Little and Sue MacGregor.
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day
With the Chief Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Sheila McClennon talks to the rising star of the Irish folk scene Cara Dillon and hears her contemporary take on traditional songs. Drama: Degrees of Distance. 5: Jimmyby Gary Owen.
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The last of three programmes in which Mukti Jain Campion explores the social legacy of the English East India Company on 400 years of relations between Britain and the Indian subcontinent.
In the early 17th century India was a land of fabulous riches and opportunity for Englishmen, but less than 200 years later the British view of India changed to one of starving, impoverished victims.
A series of six monologues about women, written by Lynne Truss 3: The Daughter.Starring
Rebecca Front Judy is quite happy with her life, staying at home to look after her octogenarian father and watching Watercolour Challenge in the afternoons.
But when an old school friend looks her up after 20 years, Judy finds herself re-examining her life and relationshipwithherfather.
Music composed by Rex Brough . Producer Dawn Ellis
With Liz Barclay and John Waite.
Editor Chris Burns. PHONE: [number removed] E-MAIL: youandyours@bbc.co.uk
With Nick Clarke.
Roger Bolton airs your views and opinions on BBC Radio programmes and policy.
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Repeated on Sunday
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
Classic science fiction by Isaac Asimov, dramatised by Diana Griffiths.
When ambitious US Robots employee Larry Belmont agrees to his rather mousy wife Claire field-testing a new housework robot - a handsome humanoid called Tony - little does he foresee the effect this will have on Claire's self-confidence and sense of style. But robots are not programmed to be capable of falling in love...
2- Rheged Just off the M6 in Cumbria there is a village in a hill. Built by locals for locals, with a river running through it and a grass-covered roof,
Rheged is a service station that defies belief. Julian Hector explores the new opportunities Rheged is bringing to the local community.
Producer Laura Fudge. E-MAIL: changing.places@bbc.co.uk
by Susan Davis. Effie is not just fat, she's positively lardaceous, but one evening she sees a personal ad marked "Big Hearted Hunk looking for cuddly voluptuous woman." And she decides to answer it. Read by Tracy Wiles. Producer Rosemary Watts
5: The Famous Five Club. Were you one of the million or so members of the Famous Five Club who helped to raise funds forthe Children's Home in Beaconsfield? And who was your hero: Julian, Anne, Dick, George or Timmy the dog? With Richard Coles. Producer Kim Normanton
A new series of the programme that tackles the big legal issues and the everyday ones. Celebrities are beingjoined by those briefly in the news in asserting new rights to privacy. Marcel Berlins asks if this spells the end of dubious stories that ruin lives and careers, orwhetherthe courts could be used to endanger the freedom of the press and limit the public's right to know. Producer Simon Coates.
Conversation about how current media trends affect modern life, with Jenni Murray and guests. Producer Dave Harvey.
With Eddie Mair and Carolyn Quinn. Editor Kevin Marsh
The sharp end of radio satire. Starring Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis with Mitch Benn , Marcus Brigstocke , Jon Holmes and Emma Kennedy.
Producer Adam Bromley. Repeated Saturday 12.30pm
Jennifer sees the doctor.
Written by Adrian Flynn. Director Peter Leslie Wild
Editor Vanessa Whitbum. ARCHERS ADDICTS FAN CLUB: send an SAE to [address removed]
Francine Stock chairs the arts show. Producer Erin Riley
The last of five plays examining the impact on a Welsh community when a local woman disappears. 5: Jimmyby Gary Owen. A house-bound neighbour keeps an unusual vigil.
Producer Alison Hindell. Repeated from 10.45am
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a political discussion from Whitby. On the panel are Minister for Work Nick Brown MP, feminist writer, academic and broadcaster Bea Campbell, and Stephen Alexander, the class law solicitor representing Railtrack shareholders.
Producer Innes Bowen.
With veteran commentator Alistair Cooke. Repeated Saturday 5.45am and Sunday 8.45am
With Claire Bolderson.
Editor Prue Keely. E-MAIL: world.tonight@bbc.co.uk
The final episode of Robert Graves 's war memoires, read by John le Carre. 10: Oxford. For details see Monday.
Chris Bigsby presents a new series of the showcase for the best new writing and the freshest conversation. With novelist Louis de Bernieres and historian Lucy Moore.
News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament and behind the scenes in committee.
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