With Brian Haymes.
With Alistair Cooke.
(Repeated from Friday)
6.05 Papers
6.08 Sports Desk
Helen Mark meets the people and wildlife of the British countryside.
Producer Moira Hickey at 1.30pm
Presented by Miriam O'Reilly. Producer Hugh O'Donnell
With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Canon Eric James.
John Peel takes a wry look at the foibles of family life. Producer Abiola Awojobi at llpm PHONE: [number removed] Email: home.truths@>bbc.co.uk
Arthur Smith presents a selection of the best international travellers' tales.
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The return of the series which reflects on great sporting events that were propelled from the back pages of the newspapers to the front.
On Valentine's Day 1984, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won Olympic gold when they danced across the ice to Ravel's Bolero. Their perfect scores overshadowed all other news, including the leak at Sellafield, cruise missiles and the prologue to the year-long miners' strike.
Simon Barnes, chief sports correspondent of The Times, remembers those four magical minutes with Jayne Torvill, coach Betty Calloway and Lord Steel.
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 impartial money advice and the latest news from the world of personal finance. Producer Louise Greenwood Narrative at 9pm
Topical comedy show starring Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis , with Mitch Benn , Marcus Brigstocke , Jon Holmes and Emma Kennedy. Repeated from Friday
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Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the political discussion from Swindon in Wiltshire. This week the panel includes Menzies Campbell MP, Liberal Democrat spokesman on foreign affairs, and The Times columnist Simon Jenkins.
Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in response to last night's Any Questions. PHONE: [number removed] or Email:any.answers@bbc.co.uk
Producer Victoria Wakely
by Ngaio Marsh, dramatised by Michael Bakewell
The glamorous Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn enters a rarefied atmosphere when the unpleasant head of a spendthrift aristocratic family meets a gruesome end.
On 17 October, the English cricket team will set off for Australia from Heathrow Airport; their journey will be dull, routine and quick. But for 101 years from 1861, the trip was a slow and arduous one by boat, as detailed in the diaries, memoirs and reminiscences of players who undertook the journey, including Compton, Hobbs, Graveney, Ranjitsinhji and Trueman, and journalist John Woodcock. Producer Mark Whitaker
The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney.
Series editor/producer Jill Burridge EMAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk
Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines. With Dan Damon.
Actor Robin Williams is playing the baddie for the second time in a month, first in Insomnia and now in One Hour Photo. Tonight's programme investigates the history of casting against type - the successes and the failures.
Producer Stephen Hughes
Join Ned Sherrin fora sparkling agglomeration of music, comedy and conversation. Producer Torquil Macleod
This week, as the Natural History Museum unveils the new Darwin Centre, for the first time visitors will be able to go behind the scenes and explore the vast storerooms, housing more than 22 million zoology specimens. Tom Sutcliffe and guests also give their verdict of Caryl Churchill 's new play, A Number, which explores our continuing fascination with science and genetics.
Almost a million people live in Kibera, Africa's biggest, dirtiest, poorest slum. Situated in a narrow valley on the edge of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, it's a world away from the beaches and safaris the tourists enjoy. In the first of two programmes, Andrew Harding meets the muggers, vigilantes and children struggling to survive in the vast maze of mud and poverty. Repeated from Sunday
This month is the 50th anniversary of This Is Your Life. Barry Cryer tells the story of the programme that began on American television in October 1952. He recalls celebrity appearances, from Laurel and Hardy to Douglas Bader, and talks to current presenter Michael Aspel. He also discovers the secret codes and devices that keep people in the dark, and meets some of the "victims", including Bill Oddie and Max Bygraves.
The Archive Hour 8.00pm R4
Tonight's programme celebrates the 50th anniversary of This Is Your Life but, just for the record, the series actually started on radio back in 1948. Barry Cryer, himself a recipient of the "big red book", looks at how celebrities and "ordinary people" are lured into the studio. In the case of Oliver Hardy, featured tonight, he was so shocked he "couldn't eat for a week". Hmmm. (Jane Anderson)
By George Gissing. Dramatised by Tony Ramsay.
3: In the concluding episode, the legacy of John Yule is about to transform the lives of Marian Yule and Amy Reardon. but not in Quite the way they had imagined.
Music by Mia Soteriou Director janet Whitaker Repeated from Sunday
Should Sperm Donors Be Identified? This week's panel asks whether people conceived through donor insemination have the right to information that would identify their biological father. Chaired by Nick Ross. Repeated from Wednesday
The first round in the nationwide general-knowledge contest continues, with a second set of contestants from the Home Counties. The chairman is
Robert Robinson. Repeatedfrom Monday
Roger McGough presents poems concerning the capricious ways of cats, including verse by Stevie Smith and Charles Causley. Repeated from Sunday
Computer Seance. Read by Lesley Joseph. A medium comes face-to-face with her dead brother.
Producer Julia Butt
