With Dr Pauline Webb.
Repeated from Sunday See repeat at 7.45pm fordetails
6.05 Papers
6.08 Sports Desk
Richard Uridge reports on rural life across the UK. Producer Gabi Fisher Extended atl.30pm
With Giles Latcham.
With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague.
7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought forthe Day With Rhidian Brook.
John Peel takes a wry look at the foibles of family life. Producer Paula McGinley Repeated on Monday at 11pm 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
England v West Indies
Commentary on the third day's play in the Second Test at Edgbaston from Jonathan Agnew , Henry Blofeld ,
Tony Cozier and Simon Mann , with expert comments from Angus Fraser , Vic Marks and Viv Richards. Including at
12.35 News and A View from the Boundary Writer and broadcaster Darcus Howe reveals his love of the game of cricket.
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On the day of the annual 12-hour lawnmower race, Murray Walker samples a sport that has attracted both Stirling Moss and Oliver Reed. As the grasshead racers gun their Atcos and Qualcasts round a field in Dorset at a dizzying 35mph, Murray is moved to pick up his commentator's microphone once more to describe this most spectacular and democratic of motor sports.
New series Dennis Sewell presents the political discussion programme that sharpens the focus on current ideas and events. Producer Sheila cook
Insight and colour from BBC correspondents around the world, with Kate Adie. Producer TonyGrant
Inside Money
2/6. The programme that explores financial issues that get listeners hot under the collar. I'd Go to Jail. When council tax went up by an average of almost 13 per cent last year, it triggered a wave of protests, particularly from those on low fixed incomes. Pensioner Jeff Ellett ended up in court for withholding part of his bill. He argues passionately that council tax is unfair and joins presenter Lesley Curwen to investigate what the alternatives might be. Producer Philippa Goodrich
Extended at 3pm
4/6 Comedy so topical that it's still slightly damp, starring Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis , with Mitch Benn , Marcus Brigstocke , Jon Holmes and Laura Shavin. Repeated from yesterday
1/6 The private sector does not know how to run the railways. This debate on an issue of perennial interest is chaired by Nick Clarke from the Tower Arts Centre, Winchester. Repeated from yesterday To vote YES dial [number removed] Tovote NOdial [number removed] Calls cost lOp. Lines are open until 2.20pm
Phone Nick Clarke with your views on the issues raised in this week's edition of Straw Poll. PHONE: [number removed] email- strawpoll@bbc.co.uk Producer Nick Utechm
When a recently widowed young woman retreats to a remote part of Scotland to get away from everything, she not only falls in love, but also finds herself caring foraniniuredwhooperswan.BySharonOakes. Director Pauline Harris I
Two wine writersjoin forces to investigate the part played by moonshiners in the histories of Ireland and Scotland and in the development of the modern whiskey (orwhisky) industry. While Susie Atkins goes in search of the poteen makers of Ireland who are still illegally distilling in hidden locations, Dave Broom travels to Speyside in Scotland to find out how the excisemen of the 18th century effectively criminalised much of the Highland population. Producer Paul Kobrak
The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney. Producer June Christie Series editor Jill Burridge EMAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk
News and sports headlines, presented by Carolyn Quinn. Editor Peter Rippon
Ned Sherrin presents another mix of music, comedy and Conversation. Producer Mairi Russell
Frank Oz's remake of the The Stepford Wives is among the week's cultural highlights discussed by Kate Mosse and her guests. Producer Nicola Holloway
1/2. Timed to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the compilation of the Sikh holy scriptures, these programmes feature young British Sikhs talking about the challenges to their faith and identity in 21st-century Britain. This week it is the turn of writer and comedian Sody Singh Kahlon.
(Repeated from Sunday)
Since 1949 Pacifica Radio has been a voice of dissent, an arena for protest and a space in which to imagine an alternative American dream. Raided by the FBI, blown up by the Ku Klux Klan and frequently torn apart by internal troubles, Pacifica has both reported and reacted to the major social upheavals of American life and liberty. Mike Marqusee pieces together an archival history of radical American radio. Producer Mark Burman
By Henry James. A new version of the classic Victorian ghost story. When a new young governess arrives at Bly, a remote country house in Essex, she fears that her two young charges may be hiding a dark secret. Dramatised by Neville Teller.
(Repeated from Sunday)
Michael Buerk chairs a debate in which Melanie Phillips , Ian Hargreaves , Claire Fox and Michael Gove cross-examine witnesses who hold conflicting views on the moral complexities behind one of the week's news Stories. Repeated from Wednesday
The first round of the nationwide general knowledge contest continues, this week coming from the Home Counties. Robert Robinson is in the chair.
Repeated from Monday
3/5. "I, Too, SingAmerica". By Langston Hughes.
Written in answerto Whitman's I Hear America Singing Hughes's poem contains that now famous, bold assertion "black is beautiful". Peggy Reynolds , with the help of Hughes devotees, sets out to understand what produced that shout of joyful defiance. Repeated from Sunday
2/5. The Blackberry Season. Accordingto superstition, blackberries picked after 9 October are poisonous because the devil spat on them. What betterfruit to serve to an enemy? By Jo Mazelis. Read by Siriol Jenkins . Producer Alison Hindell
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