With Richard Major.
WithAlistairCooke. Repeated from Friday
6.05 Papers
6.08 Sports Desk
Richard Uridge explores rural life across the UK.
Producer Gabi Fisher Extended at 1.30pm
With Miriam O'Reilly. Producer SarahSwadling
With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague.
7.20 Yesterday in Parliament With Rachel Hooper.
7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Shagufta Yaqub.
8.51 Yesterday in Parliament
of family life.
John Peel takes a wry look at the foibles of family life. Producer Pauia McGinley Shortened at llpm PHONE: [number removed] email: home.truths@bbc.co.uK
The adventures, frustrations and joys of travel are explored by presenter Sandi Toksvig.
Producer Jane O'Rourke . PHONE: [number removed] email: excess.baggage@bbc.co.uk
2: Only a Northern Song. For 40 years the music of the Beatles has provided the soundtrack to many people's lives. Each new generation has fallen under their spell. In the second of three programmes looking at their legacy, Phill Jupitus asks whether they really live up to their reputation. Featuring musicians, fans detractors and Beatles insiders, including Peter Brown and Yoko Ono. Producers Alan Hal and Dan Shepherd
Robin Oakley of CNN looks at the week s events in Parliament. Producer Mane Jessel
Kate Adie presents insights and analysis from BBC correspondents around the world. producerTonyGrant
Paul Lewis presents impartial advice and the latest news from the world of personal finance.
(Repeated on Sunday at 9pm)
More satire from Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. With
Mitch Benn. Marcus Brigstocke , Laura Shavin and Jon Holmes. Repeated from Friday
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience in Luton puts questions on issues of the week to a panel that includes the minister for children Margaret Hodge and the former US State Department spokesman James Rubin. Repeated from Friday
Jonathan Dimblebytakes listeners calls and emails in response to last night's Any Questions
PHONE: [number removed] email: any.answers@bbc.co.uk Producer Peter Griffiths
Marie Belloc Lowndes's classic suspense piece inspired by the Jack the Ripper murders. Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan. When wealthy Mr Sleuth moves in to the Buntings' lodging house they think their troubles are over. But they are only just beginning.
Director David Blount
Sexagenarians Alan Coren and Christopher Matthew take their Freedom Passes, which allow the over-60s to travel free of charge on local public transport, and hop on a bus to see where it takes them - through the present, into the past and towards the future, geographically, historically and conversationally. Producer Paul Kobrak
The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney.
Series editor Jill Burridge Producer Vibeke Venema EMAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk
News and sports headlines, presented by Dan Damon. Editor Peter Rippon
In a week when Jane Campion 's new film In the Cut, based on Susanna Moore 's 1995 bestselling thriller, will undoubtedly be the most talked about film, not least for Meg Ryan as you 've never seen her before, Jim White examines the role of women directors in subverting film noir. And director Jim Sheridan talks about his new film In America, the story of ayounglrish immigrant family living in New York - Sheridan's most personal film to date. Producer Mohini Patel
Ned Sherrin presents another mix of music, comedy and conversation. Producer Kevin Dawson
Tim Marlow and his guests review the cultural highlights of the week, including a new production of Thoroughly Modem Millie, and Intolerable Cruelty - the latest film from the Coen Brothers, starring George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones . Producer Fiona McLean
The last in the series of programmes in which writers consider how their atheism has been affected by their religious upbringing, Tariq Ali reflects on his early life, and how it affected his view of Islamic culture. Repeated from Sunday
Stephen Sackur eavesdrops on telephone calls made from the Oval Office and gains an insight into the minds of presidents John F Kennedy , Lyndon B Johnson and Richard Nixon , who all insisted on taping their conversations. Little did they know that highly personal calls and incriminating evidence would be recorded forthe world to hear. Producer Marian na Minns
By Leo Tolstoy , dramatised by Michael Butt.
Tolstoy's last work of fiction is set in Chechnya in the 1850s. 1: Chechen warrior Hadji Murat offers to fight for the Russians if they will help rescue his family, held captive by the imam Shamil.
Repeated from Sunday
Road Pricing. Britain is buckling underthe weight of excess traffic. With the opening of Britain's firsttoll motorway imminent. Nick Ross and three impartial comissioners consider the possible answers to the traffic problem. RepeatedfromWednesday
Peter Snow hosts the challenging nationwide general knowledge quiz. Manchestertake on Liverpool in the first round. Repeated from Monday
Roger McGough visits the Poetry Society in London where he meets the staff and takes members' requests for favourite poems. Readers are Peter Marinker and Alice Arnold. Repeated from Sunday
A series of five commissions from writers living around Europe. 1: The Restorer by Matthew Kneale. Read by Owen Teale. Restoring the peeling splendour of a Baroque church in the centre of Rome, Claudio wonders how he might restore his marriage. Producer Lisa Osborne (R)
