With the Very Rev John Miller.
WithAlistairCooke.
Repeated from yesterday
6.05 Papers
6.08 Sports Desk
Richard Uridge explores rural life across the UK, from the Shetlands to the Channel Islands and from Ireland to East Anglia.
Producer Gabi Fisher Extended at 1.30pm
With Miriam O'Reilly.
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 look at the foibles of family life. Producer Harry Parker Shortened at llpm PHONE: [number removed] email: home.truths@bbc.co.uk
Sandi Toksvig presents more adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
Producers Kevin Dawson and Torquil MacLeod
PHONE: [number removed] email: excess.baggage@obc.co.uk
Newseries 1/3. Julian Petiffertells the story of the unsung heroes of the conservation movement. In postwar Britain the priority was to feed the nation from the land and to reconstruct industrial development. Only a few pioneers questioned the way progress was changing the landscape. But by the end ofthel950s a shadow was being cast across the countryside and, for those who looked, catastrophe was looming. Producer Adam Fowler
Robin Oakley discusses the week political events. Editor Peter Mulligan
Insight and colourfrom BBC correspondents around the world, with KateAdie. Producer Tony Grant
Paul Lewis with personal finance news and advice.
Producer Jennifer Clarke Repeated tomorrow at 9pm
3/6. Another in the series of prime sketches from the hit impressionist Show. Repeated from yesterday
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience in Southampton puts questions on issues of the week
Panellists include writer Tariq Ali and shadow secretary of state for culture and the media, Julie Kirkbride. 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
By Lisa Holdsworth. A student at a university freshers' disco dies aftertakingtwo Ecstasy tablets. Detective Inspector Sarah Tully is shocked to find the source of the drug. Clare Corbett
Producer/Director Pauline Hams
Newseries 1/4. The Colditz Story. The first of four programmes exploring the truth behind film versions of history.
The Colditz Story. In the Second World War Colditz Castle was a high-security camp for those allied prisoners considered the greatest escape risk. But what was life like inside? Gerry Northam travels to Colditz Castle, interviews some former prisoners and theirguards, and looks at the legend of this notorious German PoWcamp. Producer John Byrne Adam Hart-Davis on Colditz: page 29
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
Lars von Trier 's controversial dark thriller Dogville, starring Nicole Kidman , caused a stir in Cannes last year. Jim White delves into this three-hour experiment with "a new Dogme formula". Plus a look at the documentary Osama, about the harshness of life under the Taliban, told through the eyes of a 12-year-old girl. Producer Jerome Weatherald
Ned Sherrin presents another mix of music, comedy and conversation. Producer Main Russell
Kate Mosse and her guests Don Guttenplan , Maev Kennedy and James Runcie discuss the cultural highlights of the week, including a theatrical adaptation of Milton's Paradise Lost atthe Bristol Old Vic and Something's Gotta Give, a new film starring Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton. Producer Fiona McLean
3/3. The last of three talks by Thomas Lynch , the writerfrom Michigan whose dayjob is undertaking. Great Hatred. Little Room Repeated from Sunday
In the 1930s, thousands of American farmers fled theirdrought-ridden and Depression-ravaged homelands of Oklahoma and Arkansas for
California, where they hoped to find a better life.
What they did find was exploitation and more misery, as memorably chronicled by John Steinbeck in his novel The Grapes of Wrath. Two young academics recorded the stories and music of these all-American refugees, and it is their first-hand accounts of events that can be heard in this programme. Producer Jolyon Jenkins
2/12. Dramatised by Martyn Wade from the novels of Anthony Trollope.
Two new characters arrive on the scene: Phineas Finn and Lady Laura.
Meanwhile, Lady Glencora has married Plantagenet Palliser, and Alice Vavasor, having broken her engagement to John Grey, is now engaged to her disreputable cousin George. But has either lady been true to her heart?
(Rptd from Sunday)
Michael Buerk chairs a debate in which
Melanie Phillips , Ian Hargreaves , Professor Steven Rose and Michael Gove cross-examine witnesses who hold conflicting views on the moral complexities behind one of the week's news stories.
Producer David Coomes Repeated from Wednesday
Wales take on the Midlands in the third match of the fiendish quiz. Nick Clarke is in the chair. Repeated from Monday
Roger McGough presents an edition devoted to the verse of Rudyard Kipling , who is not only the author of the nation's favourite poem (If....) but also the most requested poet on the programme. With reader Bill Wallis. Repeated from Sunday
2/5. Aqua Blue. By Naylah Ahmed. A Muslim woman, born and brought up in Britain today, finds solace in her routine of prayer within the house, but one small action changes the way she feels forever. Read by Mina Anwar. Producer Peter Leslie Wild