With Alistair Cooke. Repeated from Friday
6.05 Papers
6.08 Sports Desk
Open CountryHelen Mark explores rural life across the UK. Producer Maggie Ayre
With Miriam O'Reilly. Producer Steve Peacock
The Second Test at Kandy. Commentary on the fourth day's play by Christopher Martin-Jenkins, John Murray, Jonny Saunders and Roshan Abbeysinghe. Including News at 6.30am.
With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague.
7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rev Rob Marshall.
Guest presenter David Stafford takes a wry look at the foibles of family life. Producer Bella Bannerman PHONE: [number removed] Email: home.truths@bbc.co.uk
The adventures, frustrations and joys of travel are explored by presenter Sandi Toksvig. Producers Kevin Dawson and Torquil MacLeod PHONE: [number removed] email: excess.baggage@bbc.co.UK
2: 1964. Elizabeth Taylor wore yellow when she married Richard Burton , but most women still wore white. With the dawn of the pill and the Swinging Sixties, was marriage itself about to change? Couples who married in 1964 discuss their experiences. Producer SaraConkey
Peter Oborne of The Spectator looks back at the political highlights Of the week. Editor John Turnbull
Insight, analysis, wit and colour from the BBC's s team of correspondents worldwide, producer Tony Grant
Paul Lewis presents impartial advice and the latest news from the world of personal finance. Producer Jessica Dunbar Repeated on Sunday at 9pm
A look at the week's news from the Theatre Royal, Norwich, with Simon Hoggart , Alan Coren , Linda Smith , Armando lannucci and Andy Hamilton. Repeated from Friday
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience in Bishop's Stortford in Hertfordshire puts questions on issues of the week to a panel that includes The Times columnist Simon Jenkins.
Repeated from Friday
Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners calls and emails in response to last night's Any Questions.
PHONE: [number removed] email: any.answers@bbc.co.uk Producer Peter Griffiths
By Michael Crompton , adapted by Molly Lefebure in four parts from the book, and starring Emily Bruni and Kevin Whately. 4: The Secret Agent. Autumn. 1942 Forensic experts Hardcastle and Molly find themselves involved in a series of apparently related killings. The speed and viciousness of the attacks is even more alarming when it is realised that a pattern is emerging; all the victims were women in uniform.
Director John Dove (R)
Next month a tiny sundial will arrive on Mars. Why, as we become more technologically sophisticated, are we turning again to the most ancient and simple method of measuring the passage of time- by the movement of a shadow? Paul Allen investigates the renaissance of the sundial as sculpture and technology, science and art. Producer Julian May
The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney.
Series editor Jill Burridge Producer Natasha Maw EMAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk
News and sports headlines, presented by Carolyn Quinn. Editor Richard Clark
As film trilogies go The Lord of the Rings will surely take some beating. With the final instalment The Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King soon to appear at a cinema nearyou, Richard Taylor , the man who is in part responsible for the power of the special effects, talks about the challenges and possibilities the trilogy posed. Producer Jerome Weatherald
Ned Sherrin presents another mix of music, comedy and conversation. Producer Main Russell
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the cultural highlights Of the week. Producer Fiona McLean
New series A three-part series that tells six extraordinary stories of NHS workers as they talk about the most unforgettable moments during the course oftheirworking lives. This programme features a nurse who witnessed the miraculous recovery of one of her patients and a medical geneticist who inspired a man with cerebral palsy to write his life Story. Producer Simon Jacobs
Britain's canals, now part of the leisure industry, were once a vital artery carrying goods to and from industrial centres all round the country. This was the work of the boat people, many of whom lived with their families aboard their moving workplace. Over the centuries they became almost a separate culture. Ivan Howlett tells the story of people who lived a life of near non-stop toil and spent their lives "Working the Cut". Producer Nick Patrick
By John Wyndham.
The conclusion of Dan Rebellato's two-part dramatisation of the gripping science-fiction classic about alien impregnation overturning the prim and proper world of a sleepy English village. Starring Bill Nighy and Sarah Parish.
(Repeated from Sunday)
Michael Buerk chairs another debate in which Ian Hargreaves , Steven Rose , Michael Gove and Claire Fox cross-examine witnesses with conflicting Views. Repeated from Wednesday
London play Aberdeen in the latest contest in the quest for the champion amateur quiz team of the year. Hosted by Peter Snow. Repeated from Monday
Judith Palmer meets members of the Dylan Thomas Society as they gather in Swansea for a special lunch to mark the 50th anniversary of the poet's death. Among the poems she hears is a previously unpublished rhyme jotted down in Thomas's fourth-form physics exercise book. Repeated from Sunday
A series of short stories inspired bywords from the more obscure corners of the Oxford English Dictionary. 3: Nychthemeron by Douglas Young , read by Sandy Neilson. Producer David Jackson Young (R)
Sri Lanka v England Commentary on the fifth and final day's play in the Second Test. e, me Producer Pet er Baxter * Approximate time
