With Denis Nowlan.
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 MoiraHickey Shortened rptThu 1.30pm
With Mark Coles and John Humphrys.
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. Producer Rebecca Armstrong Shortened Phone: [number removed] E-mail: home.truths@bbc.co.uk
Sandi Toksvig presents a selection of the best international travellers' tales. Producer Simon Clancy Phone: [number removed] E-mail: excessbaggage@bbc.co.uk
Dennis Sewell presents the political discussion programme. Producer Zillah Watson
The stories and the colour behind the world's headlines with Kate Adie. Producer Tony Grant
Paul Lewis brings you the latest news from the world of personal finance, and impartial money advice. Producer Louise Greenwood Extended
The impish impressionists take more pot shots at the great and the good. Starring Jon Culshaw , Jan Ravens , Kevin Connelly , Mark Perry and Phil Cornwell. ProducerBillDare Repeatedfrom Friday
The last motion of the series is:"Public expectations in the National Health Service can never be met". Chaired by Nick Clarke at Kidderminster Library. To vote YES dial [number removed]. To vote NO dial [number removed]. Producer Nick Utechin
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Phone Nick Clarke with your views on the issues raised in this week's Straw Poll. Call: [number removed] Ore-mail: strawpoll@bbc.co.uk. Producer Nick Utechin
By Ronald Frame.
John Gray served as an Edinburgh policeman for several years in the mid-19th century and, like other officers on the beat at the time, he has had to provide his own police dog: the faithful Skye terrier that came to be known as Greyfriars Bobby. With petty thieves at work in the high street and a gang of ruthless house breakers at work in both the Old and New Town area of the city, the new recruits have their work cut out.
The 13 Seconds That Ended Rower Power. On 4 May
1970, soldiers fired on students at Kent State University, Ohio, who were protesting against the continuing war in Vietnam. Four students were killed and nine injured. Nigel Wrench hears from the injured the academics who have made this moment their life's work, and Richard Nixon 's biographer Richard Reeves , who relates how the American President took a nocturnal walk around Washington DC trying to deal with what had happened. Producer David Cook
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.
To celebrate the 100th birthday of Ealing Studios, Andrew Collins talks to veterans of the classic "Ealing comedies". Producer Stephen Hughes
Join Ned Sherrin for a sparkling agglomeration of music, comedy and conversation. ProducerTorquil Macleod
Rosie Boycott and guests review Porno, the new book by Irvine Welsh . Plus the verdict on the rest of the week's cultural highlights. Producer ZahidWarley
Howard Jacobson concludes his series in which he goes in search of the North he remembers from his youth while observing it as it is now. 3: The Ribble Valley. Repeated from Sunday 5.40pm
To mark the anniversary of the start of the second Cod War, Robert Fox explores how Britain and Iceland engaged in a conflict which almost undermined the whole security of Nato over this unremarkable fish. For Britain the issues were jobs and the demand forfish; for Iceland, it was national survival. With the storming of the British Embassy in Reykjavik and the Royal Navy ramming Icelandic gunboats, the situation almost escalated out of Control. Producer Andrea Kidd
Muriel Spark 's popular novel about flawed idealism and tragic betrayal at a girls' school in Edinburgh during the 1930s. Dramatised in two parts by Patricia Hannah. Parti.
Other parts played by members of the cast
Corporate Responsibility on Trial. Nick Ross chairs a panel of leading thinkers and decision-makers as they debate matters of public policy. In the light of numerous accidents, such as the Zeebrugge ferry disaster, the Piper Alpha tragedy and the Southall rail crash, should the law on corporate responsibility be tightened and boardroom members sent tojail? Repeated from Wednesday 8pm
Two more teams from around Britain square up. Peter SnOW is in the Chair. RepeatofMondayl.30pm
A celebration of African poets and poetry, introduced by Ato Quayson. This week featuring poets from central and east Africa including Okot p'Bitek from Uganda, who also played in the national football team, and Jack Mapanje , who composed poems while imprisoned in Malawi.
by Elizabeth Jolley
Five stories from Australia.
Building a shed proves more satisfying than reading a letter from England. The reader is Madi Hedd.
