With the Rev Dr John Holdsworth.

Presented by Miriam O'Reilly.

With Sarah Montague and Alan Little.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Clifford Longley.

Nobel Prize-winning economist and whistleblower
Joseph Stiglitz talks to Jeremy Paxman about his vision of how economics can make the world a better and more equal place; Allison Pearson talks about herfirstnovel I Don't Know How She Does It, which was sold to Hollywood even before it was written and is tipped to be the phenomenon of the summer;
Bill Emmott , editor of The Economist, talks about American leadership in the 21st century; and composer ana human rights activist Nigel Osbourne , talks about his work with children who are victims of war. Producer Ariane Koek Shortened rpt at 9.30pm

Presented by Jenni Murray.
10 45 Drama Anna Karenin. Leo Tolstoy 's s great novel of love and death, dramatised in 15 episodes by Robert Forrest. Part 1. Drama rptd at 7.45pm

In the postwar years a series of unexplained sightings in the skies over Britain helped fuel a growing fixation with aliens and UFOs. Officially Whitehall denied interest, but Gerry Northam reveals details of the secret investigations carried out by a Government terrified of the Russians. Editor David Ross

Dramatised in five parts by Michael Bakewell.

The famous detective Hercule Poirot is at a weekend house party when an elderly clergyman dies while drinking a dry martini. Was the vermouth/gin ratio of the cocktail so poorly mixed that it offended his delicate palate, or was there something else in the glass that shouldn't have been there?

With Winifred Robinson and John Waite.

With Nick Clarke.

Peter Snow hosts another contest in the quest for Britain's brightest amateur quiz team of the year. This week, Merseyside take on Herefordshire. Producer Paul Bajoria Repeated Saturday llpm

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

Tom would be perfectly happy in the Vaughan-Peter residential home were he not tormented by shadows in his own memory which he can only partially identify. In a secret nocturnal expedition to a local spot called Nutkin's Gate, he sets out to lay the ghost of the whole baffling business.

Paul Lewis and guests are on hand to answer your personal finance questions. Lines open 1.30pm. Telephone [number removed]. Producer Penny Haslam

Miriam Margolyes reads Lou Wakefield 's comic tale of the modern British abroad, adapted in ten parts. 1: Marion takes a trip to Tuscanywith two ill-assorted Companions from Leicester. Producer Claire Grove

In a new five-part series naturalist Chris Sperring tries to get close to some of Britain's native wildlife as it goes about its business. 1: Starlings. Today he is in pursuit of a flock of winter starlings as they mass above the reedbeds of the Somerset levels before descending at dUSk to rOOSt. Producer Caroline Williams

Sheila Dillon enjoys the versatile pleasures of the aromatic herb basil. Extended repeat of yesterday 12.30pm

Anne MacKenzie and guests roam the international agenda from politics to popular culture, sports to science, and art to anthropology. Producer Amber Dawson

With Clare English and Caroiyn Quinn.

Paul Merton, Graham Norton, Liza Tarbuck and Clement Freud join chairman Nicholas Parsons in a battle for verbal supremacy. As ever, they are challenged to speak for one minute without hesitation, repetition or deviation.
Producer Claire Jones Repeated Sunday 12.04pm
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: This series is available on six volumes of audio cassette, in addition to a specially designed box set, at good retail outlets or www.bbcshop.com Call [number removed]

Brian's eating for two. Rptd tomorrow 2pm

With Francine Stock. Producer Helen Thomas

Leo Tolstoy 's great novel of love and death, dramatised in 15 episodes by Robert Forrest.
1:Anna Karenin travels to Moscowto make peace between her unfaithful brother and his long-suffering wife - and meets the man who will tear her own marriage apart.
Director Patrick Rayner Repeat of 10.45am
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: This series is available on audio cassette at good retail outlets or www.bbcshop.com Call [number removed]

In an age where pluralism rules and everyone has the right to believe what they like is there still a place for people who believe they've got a monopoly of the truth? Presenter Ernie Rea meets believers to find OUt What drives them. ProducerPhil Pegum

Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone is striving to put aside years of horrific violence and civil war. But what will happen when the international peacekeepers depart and the attention of the world is diverted elsewhere? Julian Pettifer explores how deep the roots of Sierra Leone's reconciliation really run. Repeated from Thursday 11am

Wild and mountainous, Norway is ideal wolf habitat and, in the past, was home to thousands of wolves. Today, there are just 13. Last year a government-organised cull removed a whole pack of eight animals, going against the government's own policy and leaving no intact breeding families in the country. Lionel Kelleway asks why.

Shortened repeat of 9am

With Robin Lustig.

Jason Isaacs reads Tim Lott 's story of one family's experience of life during the Thatcheryears. Abridged in ten parts by Pauline Barley.
6: 1984. Charlie and Maureen are welcomed to their new home in Milton Keynes. Producer Chris Wallis

Shortened

Heaven Part 1. Repeated from 9.45am