With Canon Noel Vincent.

6.05 Papers
6.08 Sports Desk

Helen Mark explores rural life across the UK.
Producer Hugh O'Donnell

With Miriam O'Reilly.

With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton.
7.20 Yesterday in Parliament With Sean Curran.
7.25 and 8.25 Sports News With Garry Richardson.
7.48 Thought forthe Day With Rhidian Brook.
8.31 Yesterday in Parliament

John Peel takes a wry look at the foibles of family life.
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Sandi Toksvig explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
Producers Kevin Dawson and Torquil MacLeod

4/4. We've Always Done It like That. Francis Wheen looks at the folly of conservatism. Down the ages, the Establishment has championed old and false ideas against new and true ones. Galileo got into trouble for sayingthe Earth went round the Sun, military planners have persisted with fatally flawed but venerable tactics, and senior doctors have quashed underlings who tried to stop them killing their patients. Producer Jotyon Jenkins

Jackie Ashley discusses the week's political events. Producer Marie Jessel

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 JenniferClarke Repeated tomorrow at 9pm

5/8. Simon Hoggart presents "the finest topical comedy panel game known to radio" with the help of Alan Coren , Andy Hamilton , Armando lannucci and Peter Oborne. Repeated from yesterday

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience at Cockermouth School in Cumbria puts questions on the issues of the week. The panellists include the work and pensions minister Maria Eagle, the Liberal Democrat education spokesman Phil Willis and The Times columnist Michael Gove. Repeated from yesterday

Jonathan Dimblebytakes listeners' calls and emails in response to Any Questions ?
PHONE: [number removed] Lines open at 12.30pm email: any.answers@bbc.co.uk Producer Anne Peacock

A vintage thriller featuring William Chandos and Jonathan Mansel , who set out to investigate the dastardly goings-on at the Chateau Jezreel and its enchanting but sinister mistress, Vanity Fair.
Written by Dornford Yates and dramatised by Michelene Wandor. Starring Honor Blackman as Vanity Fair.
Director Chris Wallis

Nicholas Hawksmoor , who lived from 1661 to 1736. designed and built some of England's most dramatic buildings. Their bold personal style has always divided opinion but, in recent times, theories of malign intentions and dark forces have surrounded his works.
Alyn Shipton looks behind the occult speculation to discover the ideas that are really at work in his structures. Producer Chris Taylor

The best of the week on Woman "s Hour, presented by Martha Kearney.
Series editor Jill Burridge Producer Anne-Marie Cole EMAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk

News and sports headlines, presented by Carolyn Quinn. Editor Peter Rippon

Two of Britain's finest actors are back on screen this week and Jim White gets to talk to both of them: Peter O'Toole , who plays Priam in the long-awaited release of Troy, the big-budget Hollywood version of Homer's epic; and, liberated from the long white hair and beard of Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Ian McKellen chalks up another fine performance as he confronts some very personal ghosts in a new film, Emile. Producer Jerome Weatherald

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

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

2/3. Ordained in 1971, the Rev Dr Joyce Bennett was the first English woman priest in the Anglican Communion. It would be another 23 years before women would be ordained in the Church of England.
Whilst working as a missionary in Hong Kong she sent home a weekly airmail to her parents for more than 30 years. In between talking about the period in which she became a deacon, she reads excerpts from those letters. Repeated from Sunday

The award-winning science-fiction author Brian Aldiss examines the social history of science fiction on the radio and asks: "Does science fiction hold a mirror up to progress?" This Archive Hour features radio drama, satire, commercials and music, and looks at the news and debate from which the sci-fi series sprang.

[Picture caption] The colourful world of space-hero Buck Rogers, from an illustration by the American artist Anton Brzezinski.

Weird Science 8.00pm R4 For some people, sci-fi, or "sky-fi" as they pronounce it, will only ever be turgid fiction, wobbly flying saucers and geeks at conventions. Which is a shame, as it's a remarkably versatile, entertaining and prescient genre, as Brian Aldiss sets out to prove. For decades radio science fiction has been used to mirror contemporary society and foresee its future. Clips from The War of the Worlds, The Martian Chronicles and many other stories show not only how astonishing the parallels and predictions have been, but also how well the genre translates to radio. For instance, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been a book, a play and a computer game (it'll soon be a film), but its Radio 4 incarnation from 1978 remains the best by light years. A hugely enjoyable documentary, then, and not a flying saucer in earshot. Well, maybe a few. (Mark Braxton)

2/2. Written by Robert Louis Stevenson , dramatised by Chris Dolan. Two brothers engage in a bitter struggle over money, power and love in this dark and dramatic adventure story, set in 18th-century Scotland and America. The House of Durrisdeer is shattered when the Master returns from the dead for a second time.
Director Bruce Young Repeated from Sunday

1/3. Some of our best-known institutions are putto the test in a series of debates.
The General Medical Council. The final report of the Harold Shipman inquiry, due in the summer, is expected to be critical of the GMC -the body responsible for regulating the medical profession. Diana Madill chairs a debate between the GMC's president, SirGraeme
Catto, leading health lawyer Ann Alexander and a forum of experts about how best to police the medical profession. Repeated from Wednesday

Three more contestants join Ned Sherrin for another edition of the eclectic music quiz, this time from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.

1/6. Roger McGough introduces requests for much-loved poems such as TS Eliot's The Love SongofJ Alfred Prufrock and work by UA Fanthorpe and Alfred Noyes. The readers are Alice Arnold and Peter Marinker. Repeated from Sunday

1/5. Another chance to hear a series of stories by women that take a short, hard look at men. First broadcast in January last year.
A Naked Eye. Written by Sarah Duncan and read by Clare Corbett. Producer Peter Everett