With Kevin Franz.

With Anna Hill.

With Mark Coles and James Naughtie.
6.25,7.25and8.25SportsNews
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.48 Thought for the Day With Huw Spanner.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament

Michael Buerk talks to people who have faced a life-changing choice. Producer Liz Leonard Repeated at 9.30pm

Is a misplaced apostrophe a catastrophe? Is a semi-colon as good as a whole one? Has the proper use of the comma reached a full stop? Lynne Truss explores the changing fashions of punctuation. 3: And anotherthing-colons and semicolons. Producer Penny Vine

With Jenni Murray.
10.45 Penelope's Experience in Scotland Part 2. Drama repeated at 7.45pm

Winifred Robinson concludes her series on rural enforcement agencies with an investigation of the salmon survival crisis in Britain's rivers, and discovers how the Environment Agency's water bailiffs attempt to outwit the destructive tactics of poachers. Producer John Tuckey

David Benson introduces extracts from Ruth Draper's monologues, with reflections on her talent from Maureen Lipman and Joyce Grenfell.

Years before Joyce Grenfell, or Alan Bennett's Talking Heads, Ruth Draper pioneered the dramatic monologue

Ruth Draper and Her Company of Characters 11.30am R4

Between 1954 and 1956 (the year of her death) the actress Ruth Draper made a series of recordings for RCA. Using these recordings and excerpts from the BBC archives, fellow thespian, master of many voices and huge admirer David Benson paints a fascinating portrait of the woman described by John Gielgud as "the greatest individual performer that America has ever given us." Draper made her debut in 1920, touring the world with her comic monologues. Her favourite subjects for skewering were pretentious New York socialites but she also did a fine trade in British schoolgirls and European divas.

With John Waite and Peter White.
Including at 12.30 Call You and Yours. PHONE: [number removed] LINES OPEN from 10am

With Nick Clarke.

It has been said that John Rutter 's music is as synonymous with the Christmas season as Dickens. Andrew Green looks at Rutter's career as a whole - from his school days in the heady musical atmosphere of Highgate School and the breakthrough heralded by Shepherd's Pipe Carol , to his huge popularity in the USA and the success of his Requiem, which came into its own in the States after the events of 11 September 2001. Producers Anthony Burton and Andrew Green

Repeated from yesterday at 7pm

On the seductive island of Porquerolles, a man is murdered when he claims the friendship of Chief Inspector Maigret. With a Scotland Yard detective in tow, Maigret is sent from Paris to investigate the death, and finds a dangerous and tempting dissolution - and some old acquaintances.

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Sue Cook and the team examine more of your historical queries. If there is a local legend, quirk of history, family curiosity or architectural oddity that has you puzzled, or if you can help with another listener's query, please write to: [address removed], or email: making.history@bbc.co.uk
Producers Ivan Howlett and Nick Patrick

2: The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Too much Prussian obedience saves a patriot. For details see yesterday

2: The Firing Squad. No thanks, I'mtryingtogive them up. For details see yesterday

The series devoted to the powerful, sometimes beautiful, often abused but ever ubiquitous world of numbers. Presented by Andrew Dilnot. Editor Nicoia Meyrick

Rosie Boycott 's guests this week are jazz singer, art historian and aesthete George Melly , and novelist and travel writer Jenny Diski. They discuss three of theirfavourite paperbacks - Quarantine by Jim Crace , Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch.
Producer Jolyon Jenkins Repeated Sunday llpm

With Clare English and Eddie Mair.

The team from Britain's first national local radio station reunite forthe first time in 15 years to look back at the highlights since their last linkup with Radio 4 and to celebrate the launch of their 12 new digital channels, including RA Spare, RA Wrinkly and the children's channel Tiny Mindies.
Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins Music by Philip Pope Producer David Tyler Revised

Can Brian have his cake and eat it?
Repeated tomorrow at 2pm

Mark Lawson presents the arts programme. Producer Robyn Read

2: Scotia's Darling Seat. "Francesca and I have tempered our accents so much forthe sake of the natives that we can scarcely understand each other any more ..."
For details see yesterday Repeated from 10.45am

Jenny Cuffe reports on major issues, changing attitudes and important events at home and abroad. Producer Jenny Chryss Repeated Sunday 5pm

Peter White with news forvisually impaired people. Producer Cheryl Gabriel EMAIL: intouch<8>bbc. co.uk

Emergency Medicine. More than 15 million of us turn up at accident and emergency departments every year - far more than attend any other hospital service. This week Dr Graham Easton finds out how well the NHS looks after us in emergencies - both in hospital and in the crucial minutes before we get there. EMAIL: radioscience@bbc.co.uk
Producer Paula McGrath Repeated tomorrow 4.30pm

Repeated from 9am

With Claire Bolderson.

2: "Perfect, symmetrical, beautiful."
Esko has a vision in the forest of the tallest skyscraperthe world has ever seen. For details see yesterday

Michael Roberts examines the life and career of Groucho Marx , with rare archive radio recordings and witticisms from Michael's own Groucho. Producers Julian Mayers and Frank Stirling

Part 2. Repeated from 9.45am