WithClairJacquiss.
With Anna Hill.
With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton.
6.25,7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Clifford Longley.
Andrew Marr and guests set the cultural agenda for the week. Producer Alice Feinstein Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
Presented byjenni Murray.
10.45 Where Angels Fear to Tread Part 6 of the Woman's Hour drama. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
Peter Snow brings to life stories from historic newspapers. Last in the series. 6: The Penny Illustrated Paper, May 22nd, 1869.
Thumbing the pages of this early illustrated newspaper, Peter Snow discovers the international craze for
Boneshakers - bicycles, but not as we know them. Why did the Boneshaker bubble burst? There are trips to Dublin for a tour of Daniel O'Connell 's
Glasnevin cemetery- last resting place for a host of famous names - and to the site that saw the 1869 Scottish gold rush. Producer Andrew Green
By Marcy Kahan, starring Kenneth Cranham and Eleanor Bron.
Moscow: Dmitri once made a good living writing dull social-realist stories that pleased the ruling communist party. Now times have changed and his work is ignored. So why has a young woman publisher flown all the way from London to meet him?
With Winifred Robinson and John Waite.
With Nick Clarke.
Ned Sherrin chairs the wide-ranging music quiz from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Producer Paul Bajoria Repeated on Saturday at llpm
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm
By David Varela. It's Rome 1962, and Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton , the biggest, most expensive movie ever made, is in production. The film is terribly delayed, hugely over-budget and the co-stars are causing a terrific scandal. Meanwhile, Gil, the production meteorologist, has his eye on Olivia, one of Cleopatra's handmaidensbut she's definitelv not interested.
Director Mary Peate
Vincent Duggleby and guests answer questions about personal finance, Producer Jessica Dunbar
Giving Ourselves Away. By Robert Edric. The first of five specially commissioned stories, read by the authors at the Ilkley Literature Festival. Today's story imagines a world in which fat people fight for their rights. Producer Jill Waters
Five great idle thoughts of ourtime investigated by Evan Davis.
1: Why does the lift take so long? Producer Michael Blastland
Cornwall. The first of a series of collaborations between The Food Programme and BBC Nations and Regions to investigate food cultures in Britain. Extended repeat of yesterday
From art to anthropology, sport to science and politics to popular culture, Anne Mackenzie examines the similarities and differences in cultures across the globe. Producer Amber Dawson
With Clare English and Carolyn Quinn.
Joining Nigel Rees to exchange favourite quotations and anecdotes this week are Jennie Bond ,
Naomi Gryn , Deborah Bull and Bonnie Greer. The reader is Meryl O'Keeffe.
Producer Carol Smith Repeated Sunday 12.04pm
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Ed's causing concern. Repeated tomorrow at 2pm
Francine Stock chairs the arts show, which features a report by John Wilson from one of the contenders forthe Gulbenkian Prize for museums and galleries. Producer Ekene Akalawu
By EM Forster. Adapted in ten parts by Penny
Leicester. Part 6: As Philip and Harriet arrive in Monteriano to rescue the unfortunate Lilia's beastly baby from the horrors of an Italian upbringing, Philip finds himself once more captivated by the country he is supposed to decrv.
Producer/director Di Speirs Repeat of 10.45am
Gavin Esler continues his three-part series asking whether Britain is becomingcloser- politically, economically and culturally-to Europe orto America. Producer Martin Rosenbaum
Kenya. Kenya's new government wants to show that it's serious about change and says it's clamping down on corruption, It has introduced compulsory free primary education and has released prisoners from death row. But schools are bursting at the seams and prisoners only have the clothes they stand up in. So can Kenya's National Rainbow
Coalition government really overturn decades of misrule and corruption? Esther Armah travels to Nairobi to find OUt. Repeated from Thursday
Chris Mead , the Nightingale Man. A new series begins with a special programme paying tribute to birdwatcher and broadcaster Chris Mead , who died earlierthis year. The nightingale had a special significance for Chris, as Lionel Kelleway discovers when he travels to Suffolk.
Producer Sarah Blunt Repeated tomorrow at 11.00am
Repeated from 9am
With Robin Lustig.
Alan Sillitoe 's classic novel set in the 1950s tells the story of Arthur Seaton , a hard-drinking young man who works in a Nottingham bicycle factory by day and lives life to the full by night. Abridged in ten parts by Jane Marshall. Read by Paul Copley.
Shortened repeat of Saturday at 9am
A roundup of today's events in session and behind the scenes in committee.
Part 1. Repeated from 9.45am
