With Andrew Graystone.
Repeated from Sunday See repeat at 7.45pm for details
Richard Uridge reports on rural life across the UK.
With Miriam O'Reilly.
With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton.
With Garry Richardson.
John Peel takes a wry look at the foibles of family life. PHONE: [number removed] email: home.truths@bbc.co.uk
Sandi Toksvig goes caving at Stump Cross Caverns in North Yorkshire. Producer Kevin Dawson
New series 1/4. Adam Hart-Davis explores spectacular years in the history of science, when brilliant ideas emerged from the maelstrom of mad, band and dangerous thinking...
1665. A young Isaac Newton retreats to the isolation of Lincolnshire to escape the plague. Sitting in the family garden, he watches an apple fall and unlocks the secrets of gravity - or does he? Hart-Davis explores the truth behind the famous moment in the history of science and discovers that Newton wrote his own account more than 40 years after the supposed event. Producer John Byrne
Adam Hart Davis on the discoveries of 1665: page 26
3/3. Simon Heffer of the Daily Mail talks to
Jack Jones , the former general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union and life president of the National Pensioners' Convention. Producer Dennis Sewell
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 Jennifer Clarke Repeated tomorrow at 9pm
2/6 How do you harpoon a jelly and does the jelly feel any pain? With the answer to these questions and everything else, here is the finest topical comedy panel game known to radio. Chaired by Simon Hoggart , with Alan Coren and special guests. Repeated from yesterday
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion at
St Bernard's Convent School, Slough. On the panel are Peter Hain Leader of the House of Commons; Boris Johnson the Conservative spokesman for the arts; the Liberal Democrat mayoral candidate,
Simon Hughes ; and Amanda Platell , columnist and former press adviser to William Hague. Repeated from yesterday
Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners calls and emails in response to Any Questions?
PHONE: [number removed] email: any.answers@bbc.co.uk Producer Anne Peacock
A fascinating journey into the childhood of one of the world's best-loved writers, CS Lewis. Geoffrey Palmer as Lewis guides us through the writer's early life to illustrate how Lewis's boyhood in County Down inspired the magical stories of Narnia. By Brian Sibley
Gerry Anderson follows in the wake of John P. Holland, the Irish schooteacher who invented the modern submarine so that Fenian rebels could attack the British navy.
The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney. Producer June Christie EMAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk
News and sports headlines, presented by Carolyn Quinn. Editor Peter Rippon
Francine Stock meets Damien O'Donnell , director of East is East, to discuss his latest comedy drama, Inside I'm Dancing, which tackles the subject of independent living, with two disabled characters in the lead roles. Producer Anne-Marie Cole
Ned Sherrin presents another mix of music, comedy and conversation. Producer Mairi Russell
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests Piers Plowright, Stuart Maconie and Jameela Siddiqi review the cultural highlights of the week.
1/3. Robert Rietti recounts the tales of individual survivors of the Holocaust in his inspiring talks around the themes of love, peace and reconciliation. The first tells the story of Reuben, a gentle Jewish cap-maker and a German refugee, whose dreams of becoming a florist are thwarted by his wife. Repeated from Sunday
Half a century ago, teddy boys were the first great working-class, postwar British youth cult. Teds were stylish, loud and occasionally violent and provided the first evidence to suggest that the grey world of austerity and rationing might be on the verge of a big change. Ray Gosling was one of Britain's first teddy boys, and in this programme he returns to his home town, Northampton, attends a rock 'n' roll dance, and meets the barber who gave him his first quiff. But he also addresses the bad side of the teddy-boy phenomenon, and their involvement in the 1958 Notting Hill riots. Producer Bob Dickinson
2/2. William Golding 's novel portrays the struggle between one man and his ambition. Dean Jocelin has set himself an impossible task: to add a 400ft stone
SDire to his foundationles?; ratheriral regardless nfthp consequences. Dramatised by Gary Brown
Producer/Director Susan Roberts Repeated from Sunday
1/10. Michael Buerk chairs a debate in which
Claire Fox , Ian Hargreaves , Professor Steven Rose 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
13/18. The first semi-final begins with contestants from London and the Home Counties. Chaired by Russell DavieS. Repeated from Monday
A chance to hear some of last Sunday's special anniversary edition in which Roger McGough celebrates the programme's quarter century with a selection of highlights from the archive. Shortened repeat from Sunday
2/4. Short stories from some of the best-known Japanese writers.
Mr Carp by Mukoda Kuniko , translated by Tomone Matsumoto and read by Michael Maloney. A carp is mysteriously left in a bucket in the kitchen while a family is sitting round the dinner table. Only the father knows who put it there but he is terrified that his secret will be discovered. Through the presence of the fish he is haunted by a past affair and is compelled to take his young son on a tour of the district where he associated with his former lover.
Producer Katherine Beacon
