With the Rev Mark Oakley , rector of St Paul 's Church. Covent Garden, London

Repeated from Sunday See repeat at 7.45pm for details

6.05 Papers
6.08 Sports Desk

Helen Mark explores rural life across the UK. Producer Gabi Fisher Extended

With Giles Latcham.

With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague.
7.20 Yesterday in Parliament With Keith Macdougall.
7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day
With the Rev Joel Edwards.
8.51 Yesterday in Parliament

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

3/4. Paul Jackson continues his exploration of television programmes that became part of television history. A Still Tongue Makes for a Quiet Life. "So crazy it just might work. With these words Lew Grade gave Patrick McGoohan the go-ahead to replace the massively successful but ultimately exhausted Danger Man. Although it ran for only 17 episodes The Prisoner so entranced its audience that it has grown from a 1960s curiosity into a worldwide cult. Producer Paul Kobrak

Jackie Ashley discusses the week's political events. Producer Peter Mulligan

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 Chris A'Court Repeated tomorrow at 9pm

2/6. A mixture of satire and silliness from Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis , with Mitch Benn , Marcus Brigstocke , Jon Holmes and Laura Shavin. Repeated from yesterday

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion at the Dormston Centre, Dudley. The panel includes the writer and broadcaster Matthew Parris and Christine Hardman , the Archdeacon Of Lewisham. 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

By Martin Jameson.
A psychological thriller set in Broadcasting House in 1956. At an event in support of the British Hungarian Society, actor Bob Rodwell is handed a radio script by a mysterious stranger.

3/3. Lynne Truss looks at the revolutionary impact of everyday things.
It became ubiquitous in the 1980s but the fax was actually invented in 1842. Alexander Bain, a 19th-century Scottish clockmaker, devised the basic technology that is still used today. Lynne Truss finds out why it took another 140 years for the fax to come into its own. Helena Kennedy QC, screenwriter Andrew Davies and weather forecaster Michael Fish argue that the fax remains indispensable.

(FM only)

The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney.
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News and sports headlines, presented by Carolyn Quinn. EditorPeterRippon

Director Sam Raimi and starKirsten Dunst talk about the making of Spider-Man 2; Chris Tookey discusses the new generation of exploitation movies; and Back Row launches a competition to find the lines it is hardest to believe were ever written for a film. Producer Kirsty Pope

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

Saul Bass, the designer who created famous film titles such as Vertigo for Alfred Hitchcock, has an exhibition of his work opening at the Design Museum, London. Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review this and other cultural highlights of the week.

2/3. Clement Freud reflects on contemporary life through undimmed yet increasingly rheumy eyes. Repeated from Sunday

Another chance to hear Paul Allen 's reassessment of the work of Martin Esslin, who died in 2002. As head of BBC radio drama for 14 years in the 1960s and 70s, Esslin championed the work of Samuel Beckett, Bertolt Brecht, Vaclav Havel and Harold Pinter, bringing previously unheard playwrights to radio and a wider audience. Producer Bob Dickinson

3/4. Tethered Love. By Anthony Burgess. Continuing his stumble through the 20th century, popular novelist Kenneth Toomey finds that British Intelligence have turned his book-signing tour of wartime Berlin into a highly dangerous mission. But it is temptingjust to spend his time drinking champagne with Goebbels and Himmler. Adapted by Michael Hastings.
Director Peter Kavanagh Repeated from Sunday

Michael Buerk chairs a debate in which Melanie Phillips, Ian Hargreaves, Claire Fox and Professor Steven Rose cross-examine witnesses who hold conflicting views on one of the week's news Stories.
(Repeated from Wednesday)

1/18. The venerable nationwide general knowledge contest returns with Robert Robinson in the chair. The first round COmeS from London. Repeated from Monday

1/5. Casabianca by Felicia Hemans. Best known for its first line ("The boy stood on the burning deck..."), this poem was written about a true event that occurred during the Battle of the Nile in the Napoleonic wars by a poet who in her time rivalled Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron in popularity. Peggy Reynolds talks to critics, a world-famous yachtsman, a naval historian and trainee Officers about its impact.
(Repeated from Sunday)

5/5. The Dark Watcher. By Thomas Steinbeck , abridged by Libby Spurrier. On a bluff above the road overlooking the Pacific, mounted on his black horse, waits Professor Gill's private nightmare. Read by William Hope. Producer Anne-Marie Cote