With Bishop Peter Firth.
The world's longest running speech radio programme, with AliStairCooke. Repeated from Friday
6.05 Papers
6.08 Sports Desk
From the Shetlands to the Channel Islands, from Ireland to East Anglia, Richard Undge explores rural life.
Producer Gabi Fisher Extended repeated Thursday at 1.30pm
Presented by Miriam O'Reilly. Producer Hugh O'Donnell
With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague.
7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day
With the Rev Rob Marshall.
John Peel takes a wry look at the foibles of family life.
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Arthur Smith and guests take a look at some more unusual destinations, ways and reasons to travel. PHONE: [number removed] EMAIL: excess.baggage@bbc.co.uk Producer Penelope Gibbs
Robin Oakley looks behind the scenes at Westminster. Producer Marie Jessel
The stories and colour behind the world headlines, With Kate Adie. Producer Tony Grant
Paul Lewis with impartial money advice and the latest news from the world of personal finance. Producer Penny Haslam Repeated tomorrow 9pm
More comical slants on the week's news with Simon Hoggart , Alan Coren , Linda Smith , Jeremy Hardy , and Andy Hamilton. Repeated from Friday
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience at Wells puts questions to a panel that includes Lord Hattersley and the journalist Will Hutton. Repeated from Friday
Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in response to last night's Any Questions. PHONE: [number removed] E-mail: [email address removed]
By Alick Rowe.
A chance encounter on the Malvern Hills between an unsettled teenager and a famous ghost proves alarming and instructive to both.
During the Second World War, people formed special bonds in extraordinary times, often to lose contact when life returned to normal. Edi Stark follows the stories of comrades, friends and lovers reunited - and of those still searching.
1: Britain at War. Wireless operators Gordon Rofe and Raymond Turner meet again after 60 years. Meanwhile, Mildred Veal and Vera Greenhalgh revisit Rame Head in Cornwall, where they helped bring down enemy aircraft almost a lifetime ago. Producer Clare Csonka
The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney. Series editor Jill Burridge Producer VibekeVenema EMAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk
News and sports headlines presented by Mark Coles. Editor Peter Rippon
Jim White infiltrates one of the original gangs of New York when he revisits the cinematic masterpiece Once upon a Time in America. And who is going to come off best when Charlie 's Angels 2: Full Throttle is pitted against The Hulk? Producer Anne-Marie Cole
( until 6.30) Ned Sherrin presents another mix of music, comedy and conversation. ProducerTorquil Macleod
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the cultural events of the week, including a new novel, The Murder Room, by PD James and an exhibition of Bridget Riley's at Tate Britain.
Robert Rietti , scion of an ancient Italian-Jewish family, actor, writer and rabbi, begins a three-part series with a meditation on the Sabbath and the Friday-night prayerthat precedes it. Repeated from Sunday
At the end of the 19th century, sound recording gave the world a new resource of immense historical importance - the evidence of authentic witness. Or did it? Oscar Wilde, Queen Victoria and Henry Irving are all in the BBC archives, but are these recordings really their voices? Sean Street, Professor of Radio at Bournemouth University, investigates these voices, revealing how "true" they are, how we know, and if it matters anyway. Producer Julian May
CP Snow's epic novel sequence about the English Establishment continues with further books dramatised by Jonathan Holloway.
Roger Quaife is a rising star of the Conservative government who enlists Lewis's help to formulate a policy that may be political suicide.
(Repeated from Sunday)
Michael Buerk chairs another live debate in which Michael Gove, Steven Rose, Claire Fox and Melanie Phillips cross-examine witnesses who hold passionate but conflicting views on the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories.
(Repeated from Wednesday)
Celebrating its own golden jubilee, the Mount Everest of all general knowledge quizzes begins a new series with its first round starting in London.
Robert Robinson is in the chair. Including "Beat the Brains" in which listeners can put their own questions to the contestants.
(Repeated from Monday)
Roger McGough introduces listeners' choices of poems for the new-born and for the recently dead.
Readings by Stephen Rea , Jill Balcon , Helen Sheals and new father Michael Maloney. Repeated from Sunday
A series of five short stories offering a fresh perspective on some existing literary characters.
3: Big Brother by Des Dillon. The arch-schemer lago plots to keep his place in the Big Brother house.
Read by Steven McNiCOll. Producer DavidJacksonYoung
