With Leslie Griffiths.
With Alistair Cooke. Repeated from Friday
6.05 Papers
6.08 Sports Desk
Richard Uridge explores rural life across the UK. Producers Benjamin Chesterton and Gabi Fisher
With Miriam O'Reilly. Producer Steve Peacock
With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton.
7.20 Yesterday in Parliament With David Wilby.
7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Dr Jeevan Singh Deol.
8.51 Yesterday in Parliament
John Peel takes a wry look at the foibles of family life.
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The adventures, frustrations and joys of travel are explored by presenter Sandi Toksvig. ProducerTorquil Macleod
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The hymns from the Victorian age are distinctive, memorable and eminently hummable. In an age when females were excluded from many parts of society, hymnody became the preserve of creative, devout and often very colourful women, Ian Hislop goes to church to decode the lives and works of these remarkable but historically invisible ladies. Producers Philip Sellars (R)
Jackie Ashley of The Guardian looks back at the political highlights of the week. Producer Marie Jessel
Kate Adie presents insights and analysis from BBC correspondents around the world, producer Tony Grant
Paul Lewis presents impartial advice and the latest news from the world of personal finance. Producer Penny Haslam Repeated on Sunday at 9pm
Satirical show starring Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. With Mitch Benn , Marcus Brigstocke , Laura Shavin and Jon Holmes. Last in the series. Repeated from Friday
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Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience in Lady Margaret Hall , Oxford, puts questions on issues of the week to a panel that includes the author and broadcaster Germaine Greer , the Mail on Sunday columnist
Peter Hitchens and the Conservative former minister Francis Maude MP. Repeated from Friday
Jonathan Dimblebytakes listeners' calls and emails in response to last nights Any Questions. PHONE: [number removed] email: any.answers@bbc.co.uk Producer Peter Griffiths
By Marcy Kahan. The celebrated playwright returns with a new adventure. Noël Coward is in the post-liberation Paris of 1948 to play the lead in his own play, Present Laughter, in French. But the murder of a promiscuous mannequin provides a stylish distraction.
Director/Producer Ned Chaillet
In 1991 the Aids epidemic in New York City was at its height. A group of artists got together to try to find a simple way of promoting public awareness of the virus and came up with a simple symbol, worn on the lapel, easily made, and now recognised all over the world - the Red Ribbon. Nigel Wrench travels to New York to meet the artists.
The best of the week on Woman 's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney. EMAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk Series editor Jill Burridge Producer Vibeke Venema
News and sports headlines, presented by Dan Damon. Editor Richard Clark
Jim White investigates the enduring appeal of the late actor James Mason and looks ahead to the best Of next week's film releases. Producer Mohini Patel
Ned Sherrin presents another mix of music, comedy and Conversation. Producer Kevin Dawson
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the cultural highlights of the week, including Olivia Joules and the Overactive Generation - the latest book from Helen Fielding, author of Bridget Jones's Diary.
2: "Michael Rosen continues to ruminate with wit and humanity on the subject of exams." Discuss. With contributions from A-level pupils, from Oxford undergraduates and from those studying for vocational qualifications in the building trade,
Rosen looks at the way we mark attainment in higher education, what this says about our priorities and assumptions and whether or not we "could do better." Professor Ted Wragg helps him cheat. Producer Jane Ray Repeated from Sunday
Kenneth Cranham profiles St Dunstan's, an institution set up in 1915 to support and care for servicemen and women who came back blind from the trenches of the Great War. Producer David Battock
Charles Dickens 's classic about struggles in the industrial north, dramatised in four parts by Doug Lucie. 1: The arrival of Sleary's circus challenges the provinicial thinking of the local businessmen.
Music by Nina Perry Director Janet Whitaker Repeated from Sunday
Michael Buerk chairs another debate in which
Michael Gove , Steven Rose , Melanie Philips and Ian Hargreaves cross-examine witnesses with conflicting views on the moral complexities behind one Of the week's headlines. Repeated from Wednesday
Peter Snow hosts the challenging nationwide general knowledge quiz. This week's teams are from
Aberdeen and the West Midlands. Repeated from Monday
Delight in the natural world, relationships and an Iraqi poem of peace all feature in Roger McGough 's selection of listeners' favourite poems. The readers are David Collins and Bonnie Hurren. Repeated from sun
Another chance to hear a series of new commissions from writers living around Europe. 3: Elenitsa's Marble Pillow by Lucretia Stewart.
As tourists from every country in Europe descend on her Greek island, Eleni dreams of love. Read by Jane Whittenshaw. Producer Lisa Osborne (R)
