With Bishop George Stack.
WithAiistairCooke. Repeated from Friday
6.05 Papers
6.08 Sports Desk
Helen Mark explores rural life across the UK.
Producer Benjamin Chesterton Extended at 1.30pm
With Miriam O'Reilly. Producer Karen Gregor
With John Humphrys and Martha Doyle.
7.20 Yesterday in Parliament
7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Shagufta Yaqub.
8.51 Yesterday in Parliament
John Peel takes a wry look at the foibles of family life. Producer Harry Parker Shortened at 11pm
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Sandi Toksvigand guests present a selection of the best international travellers' tales. Producer Torquil McLeod
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Sanjeev Bhaskar places possibly the last unchampioned, oppressed group on Earth under the microscope: the vertically challenged. Producer MohitBakaya
The height of discrimination: page 125
Dennis Sewell presents the political discussion programme that sharpens the focus on current ideas and events. Producer Paul Vickers
Kate Adie presents the stones and colour from BBC correspondents around the world. producerTonyGrant
Paul Lewis presents impartial advice and the latest news from the world of personal finance. Producer Jessica Dunbar Repeated on Sunday at 9pm
Starring Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis in the satirical show With Mitch Benn , Marcus Brigstocke , Laura Shavin and Jon Holmes. Repeated from Friday
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience at Wareham, Dorset, puts questions to a panel that includes the shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Michael Howard and the American lawyer and Republican Colleen Graffy.
Producer Anne Peacock Repeated from Fnday
Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners calls and emails in responseto last night's Any Questions.
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By John Clifford.
In Glasgow on 23 March 1857, Emile L'Angelier was found dead of arsenic poisoning. A stack of love letters were found, suggesting he had been involved in a secret affair. Madeleine Smith, the upper-class daughter of a wealthy Glasgow businessman, was arrested for Emile's murder.
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The slave trade was not only about the sale of human beings; they were given away too. These "gifts" were often very young because small, black pageboys were prized as fashion accessories in the stately homes of 17th- and 18th-century England. Michelle Williams tells the remarkable story of some of these boys and what happened when they grew up. Producer Heather Forrester
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 Dan Damon. Editor Peter Rippon
A contemporary British musical, set in London,
Bollywood Queen, is about to have its film premiere. Jim White gauges reaction to this film, which uses Bollywood production values and storyline, and looks ahead to new releases, including The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, starring Sean Connery. Producer Mohini Patel
Ned Sherrin presents another mix of music, comedy and conversation. Producer Kevin Dawson
Tom Sutcliffe and guests Terence Blacker , Ruth Padel and Robert Sandall review the cultural highlights of the week, including Quentin Tarantino 's new film Kill Bill and a Gothic art exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Producer Fiona McLean
The first in a three-part series, in which three eminent writers explore how their atheism has been shaped by their religious upbringing.
1: Scottish- born writer Stephen Walsh reflects on his early life in Glasgow. Repeated from Sunday
Arthur Miller 's work was known to millions, even before he wrote his great stage plays. In the 1940s he wrote for The Cavalcade of America, a series of weekly radio plays broadcast live to a vast American audience. Miller revisits his earliest success with his biographer, Christopher Bigsby , who has tracked down recordings of these plays, and listens again to some extraordinary recordings he made in North Carolina. Producer Julian May
By Iris Murdoch , dramatised in two parts by Nick Fisher. Struggling young writer
Jake Donaghue wanders through London accompanied by philosophers, starlets, singers, bookmakers, his Irish drinking companion, Finn, and a kidnapped dog. 1: A Sophisticated Machine for Producing Falsehoods
Music by Howard Davidson
Director Maria Aitken Repeated from Sunday
With the south-east of England reeling under the increase in its population, should it be saved from overload by developing the north? Some argue that, as the wealthiest part of the country, the south is subsidising the poorer north. Should this be stopped by spreading power, money and people more evenly throughout the land? This week's commissioners include Ruth Lea of the Institute of Directors and leading economist John Kay.
(Repeated from Wednesday)
Featuring the highest-scoring runners-up. Robert Robinson is in the Chair. Repeated from Monday
Roger McGough introduces requests for favourite poems by, among others, Emily Dickinson , Walt Whitman and John Betjeman. Readers are Peter Marinker and Alice Arnold. Repeated from Sunday
By Frank O'Connor. 4: The Bridal Night. "My Denis would go up to her of an evening and sit on the grass beside her. She'd say with that big laugh of hers 'Denis is my beau,'" Read by TP McKenna . Producer Jane Marshall (R)
