for the Day With Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain.

With Anna Hill.

With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.48 Thought for the Day With Bishop Jim TTiompson.
8.50 Yesterday in Parliament

Libby Purves and guests engage in lively and diverse conversation. Producer Chris Paling Shortened repeat at 9.30pm

Presented by Jenni Murray.
10.45 Don't Know How She Does It
Part 8 Of this week's drama. Drama repeated at 7.45pm

Gavin Esler concludes his examination of the impact on cultural diversity when a language dies by asking what is lost to those who speak the world's dominant languages, SUCh as English. Producer Amber Dawson

Comedy series by Emma Clarke about a group of retired private investors, the Cheadle Chancers. 5: For Love Nor Money Eric is horrified when his daughter Hamble starts dating his arch-rival's son (they had a dispute in 1973 over an encroaching leylandii hedge). Meanwhile, Norma finds love in an internet chat room.
Original music by Big George
Director Jim Poyser Onginal music Dy Big George

With Liz Barclay and John Waite.

With Nick Clarke at the Conservative Party conference in Bournemouth.

Martin Young chairs a new series of the biographical quiz show. Team captains Francis Wheen and Fred Housego and guests Lynne Truss and Anthony Holden do battle to prove once again that it's not what you know but who you knowthat counts. Producer Elizabeth Freestone

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

TheEsn
A comedy set in a West End theatre. Young actor
Reginald Sark finds fame and fortune when he gains the attention of doyenne Emily Flyfax. But can he repay the favour he owes her? Dramatised by Dominic Power. See Monday's choice on page 132.
Director Michael Fox

Matthew Biggs , John Cushnie and Roy Lancaster answer questions posed by staff and students at
Myerscough College near Preston. The chairman is Eric Robson.

3: Good Evening, Mrs Craven Mr Craven receives a posting to North Africa leaving behind two Mrs.
Cravens anxiously awaiting news. For details see Monday

From Cinderella to Thomas the Rhymer, fairy tales are often about desire - and the price paid for instant gratification. Read by Dolina McLennan.
(For details see Monday)

Laurie Taylor examines the success of the TV talk show, with Robert Kilroy-Silk and sociologist
Laura Grindstaff. How do producers make ordinary people such fascinating viewing? Producer Jacqueline Smith

There's a wide range of help available for those with mental health problems, but often the person who needs it refuses to acknowledge the fact. For family and friends trying to encourage someone to seek help can be an uphill struggle. Dr Raj Persaud investigates Strategies for success. Producer Marya Burgess

PM With Clare English and Eddie Mair.

Mark Steel delivers another comedy lecture about the life and work of an iconic figure of history. This week he delves into the life the creator of a monster: Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein.

Keeper's Cottage is under inspection.
Repeated tomorrow at 2pm

Mark Lawson interviews Jeffrey Eugenides , author of The Virgin Suicides, about his new novel Middlesex, an examination of the American dream, which is set in the crumbling Ottoman Empire and the New World. Producer Robyn Read

By Allison Pearson. Adapted by Penny Leicester . 8: Kate faces some sobering truths. For details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am

Gambling on the Future: How Should the Gambling Laws Be Reformed? Do we want a fruit machine in every petrol station or chip shop? Should we turn
Blackpool into Las Vegas-on-Sea? As the government reviews the future of gambling in Britain, Nick Ross asks a panel of leading thinkers and decision makers to finda radical solution to a complex problem. Producer Sara Nathan Repeated on Saturday at 10.15pm

Thirty years after the creation of the first Secretary of State for Northern Ireland - considered the least desirable job in government - four former incumbents explain how their perceptions of the job, the people and the place were confounded or confirmed by their experiences.
Mo Mowlam was in charge of the delicate negotiations which eventually bore fruit with the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. Last of the series. Repeated on Sunday at 10.45pm

Peter Evans investigates one of the largest volcanic systems on the planet, Yellowstone National Park, which has been dubbed a "super volcano". Only a handful exist in the world, but when one erupts (and an eruption is already overdue) it will be unlike any volcano we have everwitnessed. But it is one of the least understood natural phenomena. A new volcanic observatory in the park hopes to change that. EMAIL: radioscience@bbc.co.uk Producer Alexandra Feachem

Shortened repeat from 9am

With Brian Hanrahan.

By Ralph Ellison. 8: The narrator discovers a political movement that promises him a rise to power. For details see Monday

More extraordinary archive radio recordings from the past two millennia of the wireless. DJ Suzanne Canker and her Catholic cohorts do battle with Henry Vlll 's radio Reformation.
Written and performed by Claire Downes, Hazel Grian, Al Holloway, Ben Kozo, Stuart Lane and Patrick McNamara.

[NB Radio Times gives title as Beagle FM in error]

Interviewing a different guest each week, actor and writer Andrew Clover encourages his subjects to confront truths about themselves through improvising a mythical fairytale with hidden meanings. The result is moving, sometimes funny and startlingly revelatory. Producer Gary Reich

A look at Petula Clark 's 1964 chart-topper Downtown, with contributions from Petula Clark herself, songwriter Tony Hatch , jazz musician Django Bates and mobile DJ Dave Jansen. ProducerAlan Hall

Part 3. Repeated from 9.45am