With the Rev Peter Baker.
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 Hugh O'Donnell Shortened rptThu 1.30pm
With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton.
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Canon David Winter.
John Peel takes a wry look at the foibles of family life.
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Sandi Toksvig presents a selection of the best international travellers' tales. producer Simon Clancy Phone: [number removed] E-mail: excessbaggage@bbc.co.uk
Couples who married the same year as a famous couple talk about theirexpectations and experiences. 1971:The year of decimalisation and the launch of Apollo 14 also saw the wedding of Mick and Bianca Jagger. It was a time of changing attitudes towards cohabitation before marriage and mixed-race marriages, and Germaine Greer 's recently published The Female Eunuch was beginning to have an impact.
Producer Rosie Boulton
Commentary from Headingley on the third day of the Third Test from Jonathan Agnew , Harsha Bhogle , Henry Blofeld and Simon Mann. With expert comments from Graeme Fowler , Sunil Gavaskarand Vic Marks. The scorer is Bill Frindall.
1.15 A View from the Boundary Henry Blofeld meets the Bishop of Durham.
Producer Peter Baxter * Approximate time
Sheena McDonald presents the political discussion programme. Producer Richard Vadon
The stories and the colour behind the world's headlines With Kate Adie. Producer Tony Grant
PMFa/rShares'lt'sbeenarollercoastersummerfor anyone with money invested in the stockmarket. LesleyCurwen asks if there's a betterwayto save.
The award-winning impressionists are live at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
(Rptd from Friday)
The motion under debate is: "Space exploration is and always has been a waste of time and money". Chaired by Nick Clarke atthe British Interplanetary Society in London. To vote YES dial [number removed]. To vote NO dial [number removed].
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
The final story of the Gorse Trilogy by Patrick Hamilton, adapted by Allan Prior.
The urbane evil genius Ralph Gorse continues to exploit human weakness: here the snobbery and greed of a retired country gamekeeper, Mr Barton, and the naivety of his young daughter Ivy.
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 Dan Damon.
In this week's film magazine, Andrew Collings meets actor Nicolas Cage and director John Woo , who talk about their 1997 collaboration Face/Off and their new film Windtalkers. Producer Stephen Hughes
I I Marcus Brigstocke hosts the annual pick-of-the-festival show with the best stand-up, character comedy and music from the Edinburgh Festival
Fringe, with established favourites as well as the best new acts.
Producer Simon Nicholls
Tim Marlow and his guests sample the best the arts world has to offer this week. Producer Zahid Warley
In the second of a three-part series,
Howard Jacobson goes in search of the North he remembers from his youth, while observing it as it is now. 2: Blackpool
Repeated from Sunday 5.40pm
Sixty years after the first American raid from an English airbase, Ivan Howlett tells the story of the US Army Air Forces' contribution to the war in Europe and the effect it had on communities throughout the Eastern counties. Producer Nick Patrick
By JB Priestley. Dramatised in three parts by Eric Pringle. 3: The Good Companions concert party has hit rock bottom. Their manager and angel, Miss Trant, threatens to pull the plug and leave them to their fate. And they face the wrath of a rival cinema proprietor who accuses them of "stealing his audience." Can they salvage victory from disaster?
Music composed by Mia Soteriou Director Claire Grove Rpt of Sun 3pm
Boozing for Britain - Should We Have a National
Alcohol Policy? Nick Ross chairs a panel of leading thinkers and decision makers who cast a critical eye over matters of public policy. They look at British drinking habits and ask if it's time to make drinking as socially unacceptable as smoking. Repeated from Wednesday 8pm
Two more teams from around Britain square up to each other. Peter Snow is in the chair.
A celebration of African poets and poetry, introduced by Ato Quayson. Absence from home links the three West African poets who feature in this programme, though theirwork explores avarietyofthemes. Abena Busia 's personal and intimate poems are tinged with the sadness of her exile from Ghana. Magic realist Sierra Leonean poet Syl Cheney-Coker is currently the first resident of the Las Vegas City of Asylum, a project to support exiled writers; and Nobel Prize-winning writer Wole Soyinka has been forced to spend long years away from his home country,
Nigeria. He reads from his forthcoming collection Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known.
Five stories from Australia. 3: Lady Weare and the Bodhisattva by Kylie Tennant. "Lady Weare prayed the way other women knitted. She filled in odd moments and kept herself busy. Producer Alison Hindell
