With Norman Ivison.
Presented by Miriam O'Reilly.
Producer Julie Owen
With John Humphrys 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
Presented by Sheila McClennon. Drama: The Translator. Part 5.
PHONE: [number removed]. E-MAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk Drama repeated at 7.45pm
The last meteorite fall of the second millennium landed in a small village in Ireland. It attracted huge interestfrom scientists, amateur astronomers and fanatical meteorite hunters alike. Leo Enright tells the intriguing story of the Leighlinbridge meteorite-how it landed in Ireland but ended up in Scotland, and the quest to return it home. Producer Pamela Rutherford
A series of six monologues about women, written by Lynne Truss. 4: The Other Woman starring Lesley Manville. Sue is tough and ballsy, and works in a man's world editing a football magazine. She is also the dreaded "other woman", snatching alternate
Saturdays with her lover. Then one Saturday he turns up with a suitcase, and instead of the afternoon of passion she was expecting, she has a married man weeping all over her candlewick.
Music composed by Rex Brough . Producer Dawn Ellis
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With Liz Barclay and Peter White.
Editor Chris Burns. PHONE: [number removed] E-MAIL: youandyours@bbc.co.uk
Roger Bolton airs your views and opinions on BBC Radio programmes and policy. Producer Peter Everett Write to: Feedback. PO Box 2100, London W1A 1QT PHONE: [number removed]. FAX [number removed]
E-MAIL: feedback@bbc.co.uk. Repeated on Sunday
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
by Steve Jacobi
In Manchester in the late sixties an unnamed ten-year-old boy grows up under the influence of an eccentric and domineering German mother and a quiet but odd jeweller father. The cosy world of childhood security gradually unravels as the boy makes disconcerting discoveries about the secret lives of his parents.
3: River Swale Regeneration Project. High up in the Yorkshire Dales is the source of the River Swale, a riverthat has become a killer. Chris Baines meets the people who are trying to tame it in orderto breathe life back into their communities.
Producer Laura Fudge. E-MAIL: changing.places@bbc.co.uk
Another short story about the extraordinary goings-on of an eccentric Scottish family. 5: The Reading of the Will by Alexander McCall Smith. "It was all rather odd. He did not even want me to see the will, although I was, of course, his solicitor." Read by Finlay Welsh.
For details see Monday.
5: In this episode, a group of the men return to Ireland on holiday. Fordetails see Monday
Marcel Berlins investigates whether the difficulties encountered in enforcing new rights at work mean they are still worth having.
Producer Simon Coates. Repeated Sunday8.30pm
Conversation about current media trends and modern life, with Jenni Murray and guests, producer Dave Harvey
With Carolyn Quinn and Nigel Wrench. Editor Kevin Marsh
The last in the series of 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
Tim confides in Janet.
Written by Simon Frith. Director Julie Beckett
Editor Vanessa Whitburn. ARCHERS ADDICTS FAN CLUB: send an SAE to [address removed]
Francine Stock chairs the arts show with interviews, news and reviews. Producer EkeneAkalawu
The final part of Leila Aboulela 's contemporary love Story. For details see Monday. Repeated from 10.45am
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a political discussion from Braunstone in Leicestershire. On the panel are John Bercow MP, shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
Producer Lisa Jenkinson.
With veteran commentator Alistair Cooke. Repeated Saturday 5.45am and Sunday 8.45am
With Robin Lustig.
Editors Prue Keely/Jenni Russell. E-MAIL: world.tonight@bbc.co.uk
By Giacomo Casanova from his autobiography History of My Life. Part 5. For details see Monday
The showcase forthe best new writing and the freshest conversation. Each week Chris Bigsby introduces a mix of new talent and established names, writers of fiction and fact, who have been commissioned to write and talk together about the ideas and preoccupations of ourtimes.
2: Taboos - who needs them? Producer Jane Greenwood
News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament and behind the scenes in committee.
5: Birds. From Birders by Mark Cocker.
Repeated from 9.45am
