With Kevin Franz.
With Alistair Cooke. Repeated from Friday
See also Alistair Cooke America, BBC4 Sat-Thu 7.10pm, and Alistair Cooke: Postcards from America, BBC4 Thursday 9pm.
6.05 Papers
6.08 Sports Desk
Helen Mark in the British countryside.
Presented by Charlotte Smith . Producer Hugh O'Donnell
With Mark Coles and John Humphrys.
7.20 Yesterday in Parliament
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Elaine Storkey.
8.45 Yesterday in Parliament
Helen Lederer takes a look at the foibles of family life.
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Helen Lederer on being John Peel: page 119
Arthur Smith presents a selection of the best international travellers' tales.
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In the summer of 1967 Haight Ashbury was the epicentre of the American counterculture. Fuelled by a potent mixture of optimism and psychedelic drugs, a generation of young people thought they could change the world. Robert Sandall assesses what difference they made then and now. 1: The Rise of the Love Generation Producer Alison Vernon-Smith
Steve Richards of The Independent on Sunday takes a look behind the scenes at Westminster.
Editor Marie Jessel
The stories and the colour behind the world's headlines, With Kate Adie. ProducerTonyGrant
Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance, and impartial money advice. Producer Jessica Dunbar
A tongue-in-cheek review of the week's news. with Simon Hoggart. Alan Coren. Jeremy Hardy , Linda Smith and Francis Wheen.
Producer Simon Nicholls Repeated from Friday
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the debate from Droitwich Spa High School in Worcestershire with a panel that includes former leader of the Lords Baroness Jay, Ann Widdecombe MP. Liberal Democrat defence spokesman Paul Keetch, and Guardian columnist Gary Younge.
Producer Victoria Wakely
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
Dramatised by Bert Coules from the novel by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, one of a hugely successful series of Swedish detective novels featuring Detective Superintendent Martin Beck, the Scandinavian Inspector Morse.
One stormy and rain-soaked night, the driver and all eight passengers on a city-centre bus in Stockholm are gunned down in their seats. What possible motive could there be for such an act? And what was an ambitious young police detective doing on the bus, fully armed, when he was supposed to be on leave?
Director Bruce Young
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The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney.
Series editor/producer Jill Burridge EMAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk
News and sports headlines. With Dan Damon.
Joe Cornish presents the weekly film programme.
This week a spy movie is created based on listeners' suggestions for what James Bond should do next. Producer Stephen Hughes
Join Ned Sherrin for a sparkling agglomeration of music, comedy and conversation. Producer Torquii Macleod
Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss Stephen Frears 's new film Dirty Pretty Things and Nicholas Maw 's new opera Sophie's Choice, directed by Trevor Nunn and conducted by Simon Rattle. Producer Jerome Weatherald
The second in a series in which writers who have published memoirs compose and read a letter to themselves when young. This week
Andrea Ashworth addresses herself as a young girl growing up in the shadow of domestic violence and neglect. Producer Erin Riley
In 1965 a group of Australian students set out in a hired bus to highlight racial discrimination against sections of the Aboriginal population. The Freedom Ride, as it became known, stirred up bitter controversy as it exposed racial tensions in Australia. The scenes on board the bus were captured by an Australian radio reporter but were not allowed to be aired until several years later. Phillip Knightley assesses how effective the Freedom Ride was as a force for change. Producer Emma Kingsley
By Virginia Woolf. Dramatised in two parts by Eileen Atkins. 2: Ten years later, and the Ramsay family are making a second visit to Scotland with poignant memories of those who have died in the intervening years. As Lily Briscoe watches on the shore, the promised visit to the lighthouse is finally achieved.
Director Cherry Cookson
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Michael Buerk chairs another live debate on a topical moral conundrum. Producer David Coomes RptdfromWed
The third semi-final in the nationwide general knowledge contest features contestants from the west and north of England, and from Wales. Producer Richard Edis Repeated from Mon
4: Snow. By Louis MacNeice. Paul Muldoon , Michael Longley , Tom Paulin , Anthony Thwaite and Jill Balcon , with MacNeice's biographer Jon Stallworthy join Peggy Reynolds to explore this poem. The reader is Stephen Rea. Producer Frances Byrnes Rptd from Sunday
Written and read in ten parts by Alan Bennett.
With customary wryness, Alan Bennett reminisces about growing up in Leeds. 9: Unsaid Prayers Music by George Fenton Producer Mary Kalemkerian
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