With the Most Rev Peter Smith , Archbishop of Cardiff.
With Sarah Mukherjee.
With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton.
6.25, 7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Shagufta Yaqub.
Andrew Marr interviews Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison in front of an audience at the British Library. Producer Alice Feinstein Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
Presented by Jenni Murray.
10.45 Darling Mouse, Precious Worm
Part 1 of this week's Woman's Hour drama.
(Drama repeated at 7.45pm)
When Paul Barber used to run away. he called it voting with his feet. Children run off fora reason, usually because they are scared. In this programme the star of The Full Monty finds out what's scaring them, and where, if anywhere, they can go. Producer Miles warde
An unreliable history in six parts, created by Barry Grossman and written by Rene Basilico.
4: Venturing away from home for the first time Anne of Cleves comes to England. Henry thinks he has a demure and compliant wife but he reckons without Mrs Loew.
With Liz Barclay and Winifred Robinson.
With Nick Clarke.
London play Aberdeen in the latest contest in the quest forthe champion amateurquizteamofthe year. Hosted by Peter Snow.
Producer Paul Bajoria Repeated on Saturday
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm
Continuing the series of David Ashton's acclaimed detective stories set in Victorian Edinburgh. 2: A Voice from the Grave
Scorching sunshine, a brutal murder a flood of naughty photographs and Jean Brash walking out with a mystery lover: McLevy is feeling the heat.
Director Patrick Rayner
Paul Lewis and guests answer personal finance questions. Phone:[number removed] Lines open from 1.30pm Producer Jessica Dunbar
Six winning entries from this year Commonwealth
Short Story Competition. 1: A Morning Swim by Madhulika Little from Delhi, the overall winner of the competitition, who was inspired by a newspaper cutting about a young boy and his desperate attempts to make a living. 2: Maggie by Denise Whittaker from New Zealand. A bereaved woman faces a moment of decision. 3: Big Little Man by Immelda Yabara from Papua New Guinea. A rite of passage in a market place. Three more stories follow tomorrow at the same time. Producer Sara Davies
The first of three programmes in which Kate Saunders learns about the practices surrounding pregnancy and childbirth in different religious and cultural traditions. Today she joins in celebrations that mark the birth of a Jewish boy.
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Vanilla. Sheila Dillon celebrates a now ubiquitous flavour that less than a century ago was one of the world's most expensive tastes. Extended repeat of yesterday at 12. 30pm
Gavin Esler confronts our view of the world, examining what unites and divides peoples and Cultures across the globe, Producer Amber Dawson
With Eddie Mair.
The antidote to panel games returns to the Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne. Jeremy Hardy joins Barry Cryer , Graeme Garden. Tim Brooke-Taylor and Humphrey Lyttelton. Colin Sell is at the piano. Producer Jon Naismith Repeated on Sunday
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Emma gets some Christmas cheer.
Repeated tomorrow at 2pm
Francine Stock with arts news and the first of Front Row's recommendations for anyone heading to a bookshop in search of Christmas presents. Producer Thomas Morris
The passionate and turbulent correspondence between writer Katherine Mansfield and her husband John Middleton Murray. Compiled in five parts by Derek Bowskill.
Director/Producer Polly Thomas Repeated from 10.45am
William Dalrymple investigates the roots of spirituality in Britain. 3: The Woman Clothed with the Sun. Dalrymple encounters two very different 18th-century visionaries: the artist and poet
William Blake and Devonshire prophetess Joanna Southcott. He finds out how they drew on the longings of their time to articulate their vision of a new Jerusalem in England. Producer Rosemary Dawson
The Amur river valley in eastern Siberia forms a boundary between Russia and China. Once the river kept the two enemies apart but today thousands of Chinese migrants cross the riverto trade and work. Rosie Goldsmith profiles this remote region and asks whetherthese new tensions between China and Russia on the Amur river can be resolved. Repeated from Thursday
In the second of three programmes that travel progressively deeper underground to meet the bizarre creatures that live and survive in a world devoid of light, biologist Mike Dilger abseils down a gaping hole, following the course of a waterfall into a deep underground cavern in the Yorkshire Dales.
Dilger discovers how insects, bats, fish and birds are adapted to survive in this alien environment.
Shortened repeat of 9am
With Robin Lustig.
By Akira Yoshimura , adapted in ten parts and read by Nicholas Farrell. 1: Japan, spring 1946. The Potsdam Agreement brought humiliation and economic depression to Japan. Having received a cryptic message from an ex-colleague, Takuya Kiyohara is compelled to return to his former headquarters to receive instructions. Producer Lu Kemp
Shortened repeat of Saturday at 9am
The start of the week's business in Westminster. With Susan Hulme.
Part 1. Repeated from 9.45am
