With Dr Joe Seferta.

To mark more than five decades of the world's longest-running speech radio programme, a chance to hear one of Alistair Cooke 's vintage broadcasts.
Repeated from yesterday Repeated on Sunday at 8.45am

6.05 Papers
6.08 Sports Desk

Richard U ridge explores rural life across the UK.
Producer Benjamin Chesterton

Presented by Miriam O'Reilly.

With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton.
7.20 Yesterday in Parliament With Rachel Hooper.
7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought forthe Day With Brian Draper.
8.51 Yesterday in Parliament

John Peel takes a wry look at the foibles of family life. Producer Bella Bannerman PHONE: [number removed] email: home.truths@bbc.co.uk

Sandi Toksvig explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
Producers Kevin Dawson and Torquil MacLeod I

1/4. Group Think. Why did the Trojan rulers insist on dragging that suspicious-looking wooden horse inside their walls despite every reason to suspect a Greek trick? Francis Wheen examines the perennial tendency of politicians, scientists and others in authority to act perversely and how, when more rational alternatives are clearly present, the best and brightest can blithely march into colossal blunders. Producer Jolyon Jenkins

Peter Oborne discusses the week's political events. Producer Marie Jessel

Insight and colour from BBC correspondents around the World, with KateAdie. Producer Tony Grant

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

A tongue-in-cheek look at the week's news from Simon Hoggart , with Andy Hamilton , Alan Coren , Linda Smith and Jack Dee. Repeated from yesterday

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience at Queen's University, Belfast, puts questions on the issues of the week. Panellists include David Trimble, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and Mark Durkan, who leads the SDLP. 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 Anne Peacock

After a shell explodes on the Western Front, Adrien Fournier regains consciousness in the silence of the Officers' Ward. He understands little except that his life has been altered for ever. He begins an unprecedented journey to the remotest outposts of human experience, where heroism, friendship, pity and humour take unexpected new forms.

Dramatised by Mike Walker from the novel by Marc Dugain.

2/2. A look at the work of a team of nurses in inner-city
Birmingham as they care for frail , sick and dying patients intheirhomes. FrankStitch is 94 years old, proud, demanding and frail. He relies almost entirely on his weekly visits from community nurse Lisa Rowe. And she tries to find out why other agencies are failing to provide the support to which he is entitled, Producer Brian King

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 Dan Damon. Editor Peter Rippon

With the release of Secret Window, Jim White wonders why so many Stephen King novels are a must for movie-makers. And is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, starring Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey , really the best film Of the year? Producer Mohini Patel

MUSIC LIVE

Ned Sherrin hosts the eclectic show from the Lyric
Theatre, Belfast, as part of the BBC's festival of live music. Producer Simon Clancy

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests discuss the cultural highlights Of the week. Producer Fiona McLean

2/3. Jim Crumley visits three landscapes that are part of his belief system.
Cam Elrig. A lowly outlier from which to view the great
Cairngorms. " . . . the loch is hidden until the last stride, as it is from the headwall. Sometimes in June it is host to a small flotilla of icebergs, barging into each other, crackling the space with echoes." Repeated from Sunday

The writer Caryl Phillips uses startling new evidence from a huge slave burial site discovered in New York City to expose the extent of slavery in both the northern and southern parts of the United States. The human remains discovered during routine building work in Manhattan smash the idea of slavery as a largely "Southern" phenomenon. The programme also draws on oral archive of the last people to be born into slavery in the American South and contrasts their experiences with surprising new detail about the lives of their northern counterparts.

1/2. The first great dystopian novel of the 20th century, written in secret in early Soviet Russia by Yevgeni Zamyatin , and adapted by Sean O'Brien.
In a post-revolutionary future, OneState is ruled according to the principles of rationality. The penalty for dissent is death. D-503, the chief engineer of the state, meets the beautiful 1-330. Her initial intentions seem innocent, but soon D starts to question her identity-and indeed his own.
Director Jim Poyser Repeated from Sunday

3/5. Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright Wole Soyinka argues that we are living in a new climate of fear, and examines the challenge this presents to democracy.
The Rhetoric that Binds and Blinds. How language can stoke up the flames of fear. From the I max Theatre,
Bristol. Presented by Sue Lawley . Repeated from Wednesday

Ned Sherrin hosts another edition of the eclectic music quiz, from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Repeated from Monday

This month, 100 years since his birth, the poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis is remembered as having been a pillar of the Establishment. But in his youth he was a member of the Communist Party, dreaming - and writing- of revolution. With contributions from fellow poets Stephen Spender and Benjamin Zephaniah. Poems are read by David Holt. Presented by Muriel Gray. Repeated from Sunday

3/5. Alma Martyr. Written and read by Susie Maguire. Radiating success, Midge is determined to give her old friends a day out to remember. They deserve it. Producer Lu Kemp