With the Rev Ron Ferguson.
Presented by Miriam O'Reilly. Producer Steve Peacock
With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Huw Spanner.
With Martha Kearney.
10.45 The Frederica Quartet: A Whistling Woman Part 15 of this week's drama.
Series editor Jill Burridge Drama repeated at 7.45pm
James Maw asks 92-year-old explorer and travel writer Wilfred Thesiger about his remarkable life. With archive recordings and contributions from friends and colleagues, including his biographer Alex Maitland and fellow travel writer Colin Thubron.
Producer Rob Ketteridge
The second series of Jim Sweeney's comedy-drama, examining the differing lives of three sets of friends.
Billy is determined to hold onto his youth, foolishly meeting a fellow Prisoner fan he's contacted on the web.
With Diana Madill and Winifred Robinson. EditorChrisBums
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With Nick Clarke. Editor Kevin Marsh
Roger Bolton rifles through BBC Radio's mailbag. To air your views on what you've heard on BBC Radio, write to: Feedback, PO Box 2100, London W1A 1QT, phone: [number removed], fax: [number removed], or email: feedback@bbc.co.uk
Producer Margaret Budy Repeated Sunday 8pm
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Juliet Ace. More about Mattie Jones 's childhood in South Wales. It is 1953 and 15-year-old Mattie has to spend her Saturdays cooking for her grandfather and her blind aunt, Catherine Jane , but making pastry is not the only challenge she has to face.
Director Gilly Adams
by W. Somerset Maugham.
A love affair across the classes is more than Duchess de Dos Palos will tolerate, in this story set in Seville.
(For details see Monday)
It has not been possible to try someone twice for the same crime for 800 years. However, in 1817 Abraham Thornton of Castle Bromwich was taken to court not once but twice for the same murder. Deborah Bull finds out what happened and whether there are lessons to be learned today?
Sabre Rattling. With military noises off and memories of the Cuban missile crisis about to be revived, Michael Rosen examines the metaphorical language of the international standoff, in the last of the current series. Producer Mark Burman Rptd Sun 8.30pm
Jenni Murray and guests discuss how current media trends affect modern life.
Producer Cecile Wright
With Eddie Mair and Carolyn Quinn. Editor Kevin Marsh
More from the topical comedy and satirical show, 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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Joe's got high hopes.
Written by Adrian Flynn Director Louise Gifford
Editor Vanessa Whitburn ARCHERS ADDICTS FAN CLUB: send an SAE to[address removed]
Francine Stock meets Will Self, whose new novel reworks Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, and is set amidst the Aids crisis of the 1980s and 90's.
By AS Byatt. Dramatised by John Harvey. 15: Events build to a tragic climax at Dun Vale Farm. Back in London, Frederica is faced with a difficult choice. For details see Monday Repeat of 10.45am
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience at Swindon in Wiltshire puts questions on topical issues to a panel including Menzies Campbell MP, Liberal Democrat spokesman on foreign affairs, and The Times columnist Simon Jenkins.
Producer Victoria Wakely
With Alistair Cooke. Rptd Saturday 5.45am and Sunday 8.45am
Editor Prue Keely EMAIL: world.tonight@bbc.co.uk
Claire Skinner reads the conclusion of Elizabeth Jane Howard 's classic story. Part 10. For details see Monday
Fashionable Opinions. Matthew Parris invites Irish novelist Anne Enright and journalist Bill Hagerty to consider the subject of the week.
The phrase "sent to Coventry" originates from the English Civil War, when royalist prisoners held in the city were shunned by the local population. Today, Coventry's image has taken something of a battering. Going there is still regarded as a punishment by many people, who find little to attract them to a city once dubbed "dead after dark".
(Repeated from 9.45am)
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