With Father Paul Clayton-Lea .
With Alistair Cooke. Repeated from yesterday
6.05 Papers
6.08 Sports Desk
Helen Mark meets the people and wildlife of the British countryside.
Producer Gabi Fisher
Food-chain news with Miriam O'Reilly.
With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton.
7.20 Yesterday in Parliament
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rev Roy Jenkins :
8.45 Yesterday in Parliament
John Peel takes a wry look at the foibles of family life. Producer Harry Parker
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Sandi Toksvig presents a selection of the best international travellers' tales. Producer Simon Clancy
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Ian Hislop begins the first of four forays into the confused and conflicting history of the patron saints of Britain and Ireland. Is there more to St Patrick than shamrocks, snakes and stout? He's possibly the most popular of the patron saints but who was the real St Patrick? Ian Hislop finds out why a fifth-century British fundamentalism preacher became the toast of Dublin, Manhattan and even Lagos.
Jackie Ashley of The Guardian looks behind the Scenes at Westminster. Editor jane Ashley
The stories and the colour behind the world s headlines with Kate Adie. Producer Tony Grant
A new series of the programme that sends out
I listeners to investigate the financial issues that make their blood boil. Would You Creditlt?One of the UK's biggest lenders is accused of aggressive and unfair treatment of customers in financial difficulties. Debt advisor Tim Lett joins
Lesley Curwen to find out what finance houses, who are happy to lend out money, do to clients who cannot afford to pay them back.
Producer Jennifer Clarke
The week's news digested and regurgitated by chairman Simon Hoggartwith Alan Coren , Jeremy Hardy and Linda Smith. Repeated from Friday
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the debate from Penzance in Cornwall with a panel including Martin Bowley QC -the president of the Bar Lesbian and Gay Group - and Liberal Democrat spokesman on transport, Don Foster MP. Repeated from Friday
Jonathan Dimbleby takes 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
By Peter Wolf.
A middle-aged airline pilot with a drink problem begins receiving mysterious phone calls offering him a job. At the same time he is made redundant and, faced with the medical bills for his disabled son, he is seriously tempted. But when he discovers exactly what the job entails, he is torn between the need for money and his conscience.
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
The best of the week on Woman's 's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney.
Series editor/producer Jill Burridge E-MAIL:womanshour@bbc.co.uk
Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines. With Nigel Wrench.
Andrew Collins meets Robert Wagner who talks about his career from 1950s heart-throb to his new role as Number Two in Austin Powers in Goldmember. Producer Stephen Hughes
Ned Sherrin hosts another mix of music, comedy and Conversation. ProducerTorquil Macleod
Tom Sutcliffe and guests give their verdict on the cultural highlights of the week which include ivans xtc, a film adaptation of Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Illyich directed by Bernard Rose, with Danny Huston (son of John) in the title role. Set in modern-day Hollywood, Huston's Ivan is a successful agent with a lifestyle that goes with the territory- dripping in drugs, money and sex - until he discovers his body is riddled With cancer.
The last of three illustrated talks about bereavement and coming to terms with our own mortality.
3: The "English Patient" Principle. Michael Rosen talks about how a "primitive pride in our own existence" informs our understanding of our own death and asks whether some kind of belief in an afterlife helps or hinders this process? Repeated from Sunday 5.40pm
The Pit Brow Lasses of Lancashire were the last female mine-workers in Britain. By the early 1960s mechanisation rendered their role of hand-sorting the coal at the pithead redundant. Author Kay Mellortells their story and explores the roles that women have played in mining communities in Britain and beyond. Producer Libby Cross
By Charlotte Bronte. Dramatised in three parts by Jane Rogers. 2: Spring 1811. The tension mounts as Robert waits for an attack from the unemployed mill-hands wanting to smash his new mill machinery.
Music composed by Oily Fox Director Susan Roberts Repeated from Sunday
Michael Buerk chairs a live debate on the moral conundrums behind one of the week's news stories. Repeated from Wednesday 8pm
Peter Snow hosts another contest in the quest for Britain's brightest amateur quizteam of the year. Repeated from Monday 1.30pm
Poetry and conversation, with Christopher Cook.
Recorded at the recent BBC Poetry Weekend at the Lowry in Salford, Rommi Smith and Lemn Sissay discuss writing and performing poetry, and perform their poems to the audience.
(Rptd from Sunday 4.30pm)
Five short stories exploring what it means to live in a foreign land. 3: Yellow Label Tea by Ruth Thomas. Read by Natasha Little. Producer Julia Butt
