With Denis Rice.

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 Shortened 1.30pm

With John Humphrys and Allan Little.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rev Roy Jenkins.

John Peel takes a wry look at the foibles of family life. Producer Dilly Barlow Shortened 11pm
PHONE: [number removed] E-MAIL: home.truths@bbc.co.uk

Sandi Toksvig presents a selection of the best international travellers' tales.
ProducerSimonClancyco.uk PHONE: [number removed] E MAIL: excessbaggage@bbc.co.uk

Ian Hislop continues his investigation into the confused and conflicting history of the patron saints of Britain and Ireland. How did a Palestinian fisherman become the patron saint of a land he'd never even heard of? Have the Scots got the wrong man? Ian Hislop pieces together a rather unsaintly tale of how Andrew posthumously elbowed out his rivals to the title only to be challenged in later years by a Romantic drunk, a poet ... and Mel Gibson.

Dennis Sewell presents the political discussion programme.
Producer Paul Vickers

The stories and the colour behind the world s headlines with Kate Adie. Producer Tony Grant

Listener Rebecca Dittman joins Lesley Curwen to investigate how the government decides benefit levels.
(Extended 3pm)

Satire from Simon Hoggart , Jeremy Hardy and Francis Wheen. Repeated from Friday

"Cannabis should have the same legal standing as alcohol does at present." Nick Clarke chairs this week's debate in front of an invited audience at the Village Hall, Godstone, Surrey. Listeners can vote on the motion: to vote YES dial [number removed]; to vote NO dial [number removed].
Lines are open until 2.20pm. Calls cost lOp. Repeated from Friday 8pm

Phone Nick Clarke with your views on the issues raised in this week's Straw Poll. Call: [number removed] or e-mail: strawpoll@bbc.co.uk
Producer Nick Utechin

By John P Rooney , adapted from the stage play by Marie Jones.

Belfast-born Ruby Murray was a well-loved international singing star of the 1950s whose career continued up until near her death in 1996. At the height of her fame she had four singles in the U K Top 20, appeared in her own television show at the London Palladium and toured the world. This is a love story about Ruby and Bernie Burgess, her first husband, also a singer with the group the Jones Boys.
Director Tanya Nash

Peggy Reynolds presents a three-part series exploring the cultural history behind our changing attitudes to sexual behaviour and taboos over the centuries.

Dress, costume and adornment give out powerful messages about sexuality. Professor Aileen Ribeiro from the Courtauld Institute and Rosemary Harden of the Bath Costume Museum help to decode the signals. The readers are Jacqueline Tong and John Telfer.

The best of the week on Woman'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.

Cate Blanchett talks to Andrew Collins about baldness, the truth about her Egyptian boxing movie and her new film Heaven. Producer Stephen Hughes

Ned Sherrin hosts another mix of music, comedy and conversation. ProducerTorquil Macleod

Tom Sutcliffe and guests' reviews include Lost in La Mancha, a compelling new documentary about the tragic last-minute disintegration of Terry Gilliam 's plans to film Don Quixote. Producer Mohini Patel

In a three-part series Mark Doyle travels through Liberia, the Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone, and considers the circumstances in which law and order and democracy can collapse and be replaced by anarchy, violence and totalitarianism. 2: Ivory Coast Repeated from Sunday 5.40pm

Stephen Fry and Laurie Taylor explore their own ideas of what a sense of place means to them, as a curtain-raiser to the forthcoming Radio 4 series. They touch on a range of themes from accents to exclusion, from tribalism to landmarks, and play highlights from the programmes, including a Punjabi rendition of On likleymoor BahtAt, dramatic moments on Beachy Head and personal reflections from a hospice in Hereford.
Producer Ian Peacock A Sense of Place: Monday-Friday 11.30pm

By Robert Browning , dramatised in one episode by Martyn Wade. During a trip to Italy in 1838 Robert Browning visited Ferrara, home of the Dukes of Este. Inspired by afresco portrait he saw there, and what he learned of the Este family, he wrote this poetic masterpiece. The duke'sfirstwife, whose portrait is described so vividly in the poem, died very young, and in suspicious circumstances, in the year 1561. This dramatisation examines the mystery posed by the poem.... just what did happen to the duchess, and who did the deed?
Director Marilyn Imrie

1: Relationships. The role of biology in parenthood is put underthe microscope. Chaired by Marcel Berlins. Repeated from Wednesday 8pm

Herefordshire take on London in the contest between the brightest quizteams in Britain, with Peter Snow in the chair. 1.30pm

Christopher Cook is joined this week by Indian poets Sujata Bhatt and Dom Moraes. 4.30pm

Five short stories exploring what it means to live in a foreign land. 5: LearningHowto Talk. ByTracy
Chevalier. Read by Laurel Lefkow . "I had never heard of creosote, but I smelled it everywhere in Britain. It seemed fitting that a chemical which waterproofs wood against the incessant rain would be the defining British smell to me." Producer Julia Butt