With Stephen Shipley.
Presented by Miriam O'Reilly. Producer Steve Peacock
With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Dr Jonathan Sacks.
Olivia O'Leary talks to Nick Reynolds and Amber Marks about their lives as fugitive children and whether they see their fathers as cons or icons. Read more in the radio choice on page 122.
Producer Sera Lefroy-Owen
Shortened 11.15am
With Martha Kearney.
10.45 The Frederica Quartet: Babel Tower Part 5 of this week's drama.
Series editor Jill Burridge Drama repeated at 7.45pm
The chronicle of Mark Tully 's once-in-a-lifetime journey in a majestic Hindustan Ambassador car along the Grand Trunk Road.
1: Tully starts his epic journey in Calcutta.
Producer Kulwant Sidhu
By Paul Marshall. 4: It Shouldn't 't Happen to a Gardener. Mclntyre and Alec are doing their annual audit- will everything be up to scratch? And Danny's ex-girlfriend Stacy is back in town. Danny still hasn't got over being dumped by her and is humiliated that, while she's now running her own PR company, he's still doing the same dead-end job.
Producer Lucy Bacon
With Liz Barclay and John Waite. Editor Chris Burns
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With Nick Clarke. Editor Kevin Marsh
Emily Buchanan ploughs the radio airwaves to harvest the best crop from farming and agricultural radio.
From the frontline farmers of Mugabe's Zimbabwe to the nudist vintners of Australia, she gets down and dirty with the rural life across the globe. Producer Tanya Datta Repeated Sunday8pm
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Clare Balding is on a mission to convert a young
Frenchman to the wonders of walking as they take a route from the fortified village of Puycelsi, in south-west France. Producer Lucy Lunt
4: My Name Is Lydia Chicken by Annamaria Murphy. Inspired by a photograph of the Bolitho family
(founders of Barclays Bank) with a black servant girl, in Cornwall 1850. The readers are Kwame Kwei Armah, Geoff Hutchings and Susan Salmon. Producer Claire Grove For details see Monday
5: The Little Finger -Diminutive but Dextrous Claudia Hammond finds that the pinkie has more to it than simply revealing one's class in the tea-drinking stakes! And she learns about Chisanbop, the Korean counting system that uses fingers to
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I Scream or Ice Cream. Early talking computers would have had a problem distinguishing between the two phrases in the subtitle but now sophistication is such that we can be easily fooled. Michael Rosen talks to Blade Kotelly , who blends computer technology with psychology and linguistics to create the illusion of a human being. Producer Merilyn Harris Repeated Sunday 8.30pm
Jenni Murray and guests discuss how current media trends affect modern life. producerceciiewright
With Dan Damon and Nigel Wrench. Editor Kevin Marsh
The topical comedy show returns. Starring Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis , with Mitch Benn , Marcus Brigstocke , Emma Kennedy and Jon Holmes. Producer Adam Bromley Repeated Saturday 12.30pm
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Nigel drowns his sorrows.
Jolene Buffy Davis
Written by Caroline Harrington Director Keri Davies
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Francine Stock chairs the arts show.
Producer Aasiya Lodhi
By A.S. Byatt. Dramatised by John Harvey.
Frederica is reunited with Daniel. But can he persuade her to face her family at Christmas for the first time in years?
(For details see Monday) (Repeat of 10.45am)
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Tonbridge in Kent with Roy Hattersley, Norman Lamont, columnist Polly Toynbee and farmer, chef and writer Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.
Producer Peter Griffiths
With Alistair Cooke.
Repeated Saturday 5.45am and Sunday 8.45am
With Paul Moss.
Editor Prue Keely E-MAIL: world.tonight@bbc.co.uk
10: The Representative Council decide that Gulliver, as a human being, can no longer live on their island. Desolate, he returns home to his wife and children. For details see Monday
Cancer. This week Matthew Parris invites writer and soul-singerTony Cassidy , web author and biochemist Helen Whitehead , and television writer and doctor Jed Mercurio to share their thoughts on the subject Of Cancer. Producer Peter Everett
Sarnia Cherie. A look at the way islanders of Guernsey have recycled the debris of five years' occupation by German Forces in the 1940s. Producer Eddie Parks
Part 5. Repeated from 9.45am
