With Dr Pauline Webb.
With AlistairCooke.
Repeated from Friday
6.05 Papers
6.08 Sports Desk
Richard Uridge explores rural life across the UK.
Producer Gabi Fisher at 1.30pm
Sarah Mukherjee asks why beauty parlours are springing up all over rural England. Producer Sarah Swadling
With Stephen Sackur and Edward Stourton.
7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought forthe Day With the Rev Roy Jenkins.
John Peel takes a wry look at the foibles of family life.
(Shortened repeat on Monday at 11pm)
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John McCarthy embarks on three classic imaginary journeys with Rick Wakeman , Frances Wood ana Simon Moore. Producer Torquil MacLeod
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New series 1/3. Comedian Marcus Bngstocke turns a shrewd and sceptical eye on the history of the insurance industry. Why do we buy insurance.
And could we do without it? Tracing the industry back to the Middle Ages, he untangles the ethics of life assurance, uncovers early prohibitions on betting on lives" and reveals some of the cases that helped to create today's industry, producer Paul Kobrak
Dennis Sewell and guests discuss the topical issues in politics. Producer Paul Vickers
Insight and colour from BBC correspondents around the world, with Kate Adie. Producer Tony Grant
Paul Lewis presents impartial advice and the latest news from the world of personal finance. Producer Penny Haslam Repeated tomorrow at 9pm
Simon Hoggart picks the best bits from the News
Quiz in 2003 - with contributions from Alan Goren ,
Jeremy Hardy. Linda Smith , Andy Hamilton and Francis Wheen. Repeated from yesterday
BBC correspondents discuss what they expect to see in the year ahead. With Carrie Gracie. Repeated from yesterday
Peter White shares his own experiences as a blind man reliant on his acute sense of listening with three other men who also listen for minute signs of life - a heart-murmur consultant, a scientist who tunes in to the sound of the universe and a rescue worker who listens for signs of life beneath collapsed buildings.
By PL Travers dramatised by Hazel Marshall.
Juliet Stevenson stars as Mary Poppins in a new play specially commissioned for Radio 4. Poised, punctilious and always practically Perfect in every way Mary Poppins brings her own blend of magic to the role of nanny. The production is based on several stories that have never before been dramatised.
Mary Katie/Mrs Corry/Miss Tartlet stories that have never before been dramatised.
Music by David Chilton
Producer/Director David Ian Neville
Juliet Stevenson on the perfect paradox: page 18
2/3 Continuing a series in which author and Sunday Times critic Anthony Sattin meets people who have moved abroad and then written about it.
An 'Ooligan in Verona. Tim Parks's book Italian
Neighbours was initially rejected, but the book was a steaming success and was followed by An Italian
Education and an account of Parks's life on the road with Italian football hooligans, A Yearwith Verona.
Has almost 20 years of writing about Italy made Tim an Italian? Producer Sarah Jane Hall
The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney.
Series editor Jill Burridge Producer Liz Pearson EMAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk
News and sports headlines, presented by Carolyn Quinn. Editor Peter Rippon
Actor/director Peter Mullan talks about his latest film, Kiss of Life, directed by Emily Young , in which he plays an aid worker in a remote corner of Bosnia who senses his wife is calling him home and begins a difficult journey across Europe. Also, the story of comic book cult writer Harvey Pecker is brought to life in American Splendor, a mix of documentary and fiction. Producer MohiniPatel
Ned Sherrin presents another mix of music, comedy and conversation. Producer Mairi Russell
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests Kit Davis , Peter Kemp and Tim Marlow look back at the highlights and low points Of the cultural year. Producer Fiona McLean
1/3. The first of three radio diaries by overseas volunteer Ruth Charlton who spent a year working in a remote bush school in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. With no teaching experience and no common language, how do you explain the concept Of birthdays and Christmas? Repeated from Sunday
Recently, when clearing a dusty radio storeroom in London, staff uncovered a stack of boxes of BBC LPs labelled simply The Archers. They turned out to be 2,670 episodes of the serial from 40 years ago and hitherto believed lost, when Shula and Kenton were babies and Jennifer was a tempestuous teenager. Now Ambridge's adventures in the sexy, song-filled 1960s can be dusted off and restored for all to hear.
By Halldor Laxness, translated by Magnus Magnusson. In early 20th-century Iceland, Garddar Holm is an enigma: an opera star of international acclaim, yet no one at home has ever heard him sing. Alfgrimur is determined that Garddarwill sing "the one pure note". Dramatised by Arnold Evans .
Music John Handy Producer Alison Hindell Repeated from Sunday
David Baddiel chairs the programme that dares to commit heresy. Armando lannucci, Vicky Coren, Peter Bradshaw and David Walliams challenge some of the most entrenched opinions of 2003. The studio audience decides if the heretics should be burned at the Stake.
(Repeated from New Year's Eve)
Reading meets Manchester in the latest round of the nationwide general knowledge quiz. Hosted by Peter Snow. Repeated from Monday
Roger McGough returns in celebratory mood with a new series of the poetry programme in which listeners choose the poems. Repeated from Sunday
1/4. A rerun series of four short stories by Mollie Panter-Downes documenting the poignant and often traumatic experiences of women who remained in Britain during the Second World War.
FindeSiecle. Read by Sylvestra Le Touzel. Producer Julian Wilkinson
