With Professor Gordon Graham.
Another 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 Uridge explores rural life across the UK.
Producer Benjamin Chesterton Extended at 1.30pm
With Miriam O'Reilly.
With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague.
7.20 Yesterday in Parliament With Simon Jones.
7.25 and 8.25 Sports News With Garry Richardson.
7.48 Thought for the Day With Martin Palmer.
8.51 Yesterday in Parliament
John Peel takes a wry look at the foibles of family life. Producer Paula McGinley Shortened at llpm 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
out of London
Adam Hart-Davis charts the uses of human urine through history, finding out how the Romans used it to harden leather and whiten their teeth, and why thousands of gallons of urine were shipped from London to fuel the alum industry on the North Yorkshire coast in the 18th century. First broadcast last year. Producer John Byrne
Steve Richards discusses the week political events. Producer Peter Mulligan
Insight and colour from 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 Louise Greenwood Repeated tomorrow at 9pm
2/4 A second series of the topical historical, satirical panel show hosted by Clive Anderson. With team captains John O'Farrell and Gyles Brandreth, the panellists set out to prove that there's nothing new under, or in, The Sun.
(Repeated from yesterday)
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion at Frodsham Community Centre, Cheshire. The panellists include Gwyneth Dunwoody, Labour MP and chair of the transport select committee; Leon Brittan , the former EU commissioner and Cabinet minister; Tony Sewell , education consultant and columnist for Voice newspaper; and Max Hastings , the columnist and president of the Council forthe Protection of Rural England. Repeated from yesterday
Jonathan Dimbleby takes 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
An American writer and comic looks back cynically but affectionately at an episode in his life. With a degree in aesthetics from a "micro-ivy" college, Mike Daisey went to Seattle with no plan in mind and found himself in 1998 working at Amazon.com because he suddenly needed dental insurance. He claws his way up from the crazy hours, targets and work sirens of customer service to the more sedate world of Business Development in the hope that some day soon he can cash in his stock options. And then he realizes that, early on in this dehumanised world of e-commerce, he lost himself. Written and performed by Mike Daisey. Producer Judith Kampfner
Gerry Anderson meets Father Michael Keane who set up the Knock Marriage Introductions Bureau in County Mayo 35 years ago and is responsible for more than
800 marriages in Ireland since 1968. Producer Maggie Doyie
The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney.
Producer June Christie SerieseditorJillBurridge EMAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk
News and sports headlines with Carolyn Quinn. Editor Peter Rippon
With the release soon of the Coen brothers' version of one of the blackest of Ealing comedies, The Ladykillers, starring Tom Hanks , Matthew Sweet profiles the director of the 1955 classic with Alec Guinness ,
Alexander Mackendrick , one of the most distinguished film-makers to emerge from the British film industry. Producer Mohini Patel
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
1/3. What is life really like in British secondary schools today? Catherine Chanter , head of inclusion at a large British secondary school, tells a series of individual stories set againstthe details of contemporary school life. Philip's Story. Has Philip stopped coming to school because of how fat he has become, because he has been bullied or because his mother likes him to keep her company at home? Repeated from Sunday
Made famous by concrete cows, experimental architecture and a proliferation of roundabouts,
Milton Keynes is often the butt of jokes. But a unique archive that charts the rise of the last New Town built tells a different story. Jonathan Glancey - architectural correspondent for The Guardian - looks back at its history through the voices of its residents and assesses the town's impact on planning, architecture and the British psyche. Producer Jonathan Fildes
1/2. Molly Keane 's novel is regarded as a classic Irish drama chronicling the lives of the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family. Adapted by Clare Boylan.
Aroon, the plain and self-conscious daughter of the family, must learn to cope with the trials of growing up amid the decaying grace and loose morals of her peculiar and dysfunctional family.
Director Gemma McMullan Repeated from Sunday
Michael Buerk chairs a debate in which Melanie Phillips , Claire Fox , Steven Rose and Michael Gove cross-examine individuals who hold conflicting views on the moral complexities behind one of the week's news stories. Repeated from Wednesday
The first of the semi-finals in the eclectic music quiz. Chaired by Ned Sherrin. Repeated from Monday
6/6. Roger McGough presents requests for poems that celebrate travel and the allure of life on the open road. Among the poets represented are John Masefield ,
Thorn Gunn and Seamus Heaney. The readers are Alice Arnold , David Collins and Bonnie Hurren. Repeated from Sunday
1/5. The Night Guide. Little Frank has a native Indian mother and a settler father, but it's his mother's extraordinary gifts that help him save her life. Written by Thomas Steinbeck , who follows in his father's footsteps with this collection of stories set in California. Abridged by Libby Spurrier and read by William Hope. Producer Anne-Marie Cole
