With the Rev Dr Karen Smith.

With AlistairCooke.
Repeated from yesterday at 8.45pm

6.05 Papers
6.08 Sports Desk

Helen Mark explores rural life across the UK.

With Edward Stourton and Sarah Montague.
7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rev Roy Jenkins.

Guest presenter Benjamin Zephaniah 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. Producers Kevin Dawson and Torquil MacLeod
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2/3. Comedian Marcus Brigstocke turns a shrewd and sceptical eye on the history of the insurance industry. It's one disaster after another as Brigstocke looks at the natural and man-made catastrophes that insurance copes with, from the Great Fire of London and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to new dangers such as asteroids and e-smog. He visits Lloyd's, investigates realistic disaster scenarios, and asks what is the worst that could happen. And are we covered? Producer Julia Adamson

Steve Richards from The Independent on Sunday discusses the week's political events. Producer Marie Jessel

Insight and colourfrom BBC correspondents around the world, With Kate Adie. Producer Tony Grant

Paul Lewis presents impartial money advice and the latest news from the world of personal finance. Producer Jessica Dunbar Repeated tomorrow at 9pm

A riotous look at the week's news from Simon Hoggart , with Alan Coren , Linda Smith , Jeremy Hardy and Andy Hamilton. Repeated from yesterday

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience in Peterborough puts questions to a panel that includes Clare Short MP, Conservative candidate for Mayor of London Steve Norris, and Glenn Frankel , London bureau chief of The Washington Post. Repeated from yesterday

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

Mark McDonnell and Steven McNicoll 's dramatisation of Leonard Wibberley 's famous comic novel. Under the benign rule of Her Grace Gloriana XII , Grand Fenwick is a tiny European country almost untouched by the 20th century and happy to remain so. When its vital wine trade is threatened by an American, it'stime to declare waron the United States.
Producer/Director Patrick Rayner

3/3. When Chris Stewart wrote Driving Over Lemons about his life scratching a living on a poor farm on a Spanish hillside, his expectations were low, given that his previous ventures - including drumming for the rock group Genesis - left him destitute. Now his modesty seems misplaced: the book is a worldwide hit. Anthony Sattin asks whether he is still the optimist he once was.

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

This week's programme features reviews of two films starring Scarlett Johansson - who turns up in Tokyo with Bill Murray in Lost in Translation, and in 17th-century Delft, in Girl with a Pearl Earring.
And Tom Cruise finds he can learn a thing or two from Japanese warriors in his new 150-minute epic, The Last Samurai. Producer Jerome Weatherald

Ned Sherrin presents another mix of music, comedy and conversation. Producer Mairi Russell

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the cultural highlights of the week. Producer Fiona McLean

2/3. Volunteer teacher Ruth Charlton continues her year in a remote Bush School in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. She's making good progress with her six-year-old Northern Sotho-speaking pupils. But how do you introduce them to the subject of Aids; and why can't her Afrikaans boyfriend understand her dedication to her black pupils? Repeated from Sunday

There were many Chinese seamen in the merchant navy fleet during the Second World War and their dead were among those killed when U-boats torpedoed the Atlantic convoys. But afterthe war hundreds of Shanghai sailors were repatriated, many forced to leave behind their British-born wives and children. Ivan Howlett tells the story of those Chinese seafarers from Liverpool and hears from the children they were forced to leave behind who have spent their lives trying to find out what really happened to their fathers. Producer Angela Hind

1/3. John Bunyan 's 17th-century tale about the adventures of Christian, a pilgrim who embarks on a perilousjourneyto the Celestial City. Dramatised by Brian Siblev.
Music by David Chilton Director Pam Fraser Solomon Rptd from Sun

A debate that asks if instead of finding ways to meet the demand for road travel we should aim simply to cut it - by getting the driver out of the car. With dramatised scenarios to simulate different outcomes, a panel of experts and public foresee the waytoday's polices may turn out. Hosted by Paul Vickers. Repeated from Wednesday

Peter Snow hosts the last of the league fixtures, between West Midlands and Liverpool. Repeated from Monday

Roger McGough introduces requests for the work of the late Charles Causley , one of the most popular poets Of recent times. Repeated from Sunday

2/4. A series of short stories by Mollie Panter -
Downes describing the experiences of women who remained in Britain during the Second World War. Goodbye, My Love. Ruth has to face the trauma of parting from her husband as he leaves for active service. Read by Sylvestra Le Touzel. Producer Julian Wilkinson