With the Rev Katherine Meyer.
With AlistairCooke. Repeated from yesterday
6.05 Papers
6.08 Sports Desk
Richard Uridge explores rural life across the UK.
With Miriam O'Reilly.
With John Humphrys 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.
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The adventures, frustrations and joys of travel explored by guest presenter Caroline Wyatt. Producers Kevin Dawson and Torquil MacLeod
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3/3 Julian Pettifer concludes the story of some of the unsung heroes of the conservation movement. Once dismissed as cranks, their voice is finally heard as conservation enters the political arena in the 1970s. producer Adam Fowler
Dennis Sewell discusses the week's political events. Editor Dennis Sewell
Insight and colourfrom BBC correspondents around the world, With KateAdie. Producer TonyGrant
Paul Lewis presents impartial advice and the latest news from the world of personal finance. Producer Jennifer Clarke Repeated tomorrow at 9pm
5/6 More selected cuts from the impression show, including a Doctor Who prank phone call. With
Jon Culshaw , Jan Ravens , Mark Perry and Kevin Connelly. Repeated from yesterday
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience in Polmont Young Offenders Institution,
Stirlingshire, puts questions on issues of the week. Panellists include the former Conservative cabinet member Lord Forsyth of Drumlean; the Liberal
Democrat spokesman fortransport and Scotland, John Thurso ; Clive Fairweather , former chief inspector of prisons in Scotland, and Anne McGuire , a minister in the Scottish Office. 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
When a man is shot dead in the piazza of a small Sicilian town and no witnesses stepforward,
Captain Bellodi suspects Mafia involvement. His investigation stirs up a hornets' nest. Written by Leonardo Sciascia , translated by Archibald Colquhoun and Arthur Oliver , and adapted by Andrew Farrell Readman. Producer/Director Nadia Molinari
3/4. The Exorcist. William Friedkin 's cult shocker outraged and disgusted in equal measure yet cinemagoers queued up enthusiastically to see if they could last the course. In his series on how
Hollywood reflects real life, Gerry Northam asks what the film had to do with the reality of exorcisms and how its success affected those authorised to cast
OUt demons. Producer John Byrne
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 Peter Rippon
With a week to go and a gold statue already on the mantelpiece for his role as Gandhi, Ben Kingsley talks to Jim White about his latest Oscar-nominated role as the Iranian refugee in the powerful and tragic new film House of Sand and Fog, an unsettling exploration of the American Dream gone awry. Producer Jerome Weatherald
Ned Sherrin presents another mix of music, comedy and conversation. Producer Mairi Russell
A new production of Shakespeare's Othello from the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford, starring Antony Sher , is among the cultural highlights this week reviewed by Tom Sutcliffe and his guests. Producer Hilary Dunn
2/3. Three talks in which Gerry Anderson takes to the byways of Northern Ireland to discover the little details of difference that make life in the Province a very particular puzzle.
Suffer the Children. One Unionist described the topography of North Belfast as "orange dots in a sea of green". And it does look as if some mischievous higher power has taken small isolated clumps of Protestant council houses, tossed them randomly in the air and giggled when he saw where they'd landed. Let the games begin ... Repeated from Sunday
Possibly the most famous radio producer ever, Charles Chilton was the man who captured the radio world's imagination with his hugely popular 1950s series Journey into Space. Chilton was a working-class orphan from King's Cross who joined a youthful BBC and found his life transformed.
Russell Davies rides the range with one of the BBC's most outstanding talents. Producer Mark Burman
4/12. By Anthony Trollope , dramatised by Martyn Wade. Phineas Finn has at last won a seat in Parliament. But his romantic ambitions are going less smoothly as he finds himself falling, once again, for a young lady whose heart lies elsewhere. Little does he know that he is soon to cause anguish to a new arrival on the scene.
Music by Elizabeth Parker Director Cherry Cookson Repeated from Sunday
Michael Buerk chairs a debate in which Melanie Phillips , Michael Gove , Claire Fox and Professor Steven Rose cross-examine witnesses who hold conflicting views on the moral complexities behind one of the week's news stories. Repeated from Wednesday
Nick Clarke is in the chair for the fiendish cryptic quiz, which this week sees the north of England lining up against the Midlands. Repeated from Monday
Roger McGough brings the current series to a conclusion with a selection of listeners' requests. Repeated from Sunday
M 4/5. TheHijab byAvaMing.Wearingthehijab, the clothing of a devout Muslim woman, is supposed to make you blend into the background, but it seems to have the opposite effect for Aisha. Read by Lorna Laidlaw . Producer Rosemary Watts
