With Clair Jaquiss.
Repeated from Sunday See repeat at 7.45pm for details
"Ploring rural life across the UK.
Producer Gabi Fisher Extended
Presented by Mark Holdstock. Producer Chris Impey
With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
7.25 and 8.25 Sports News With Garry Richardson.
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rev Rob Marshall.
r°m Robinson takes a wry look at the foibles of family life. Producer Kate Murphy Shortened
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I Hans Christian Andersen was born 200 years ago
( today. Sandi Toksvig travels to his birthplace, Odense in Denmark. Producer Kevin Dawson
Strapping on his haversack, Ian McMillan sets off around England and Wales to see how the Youth Hostel Association is coping with old age. Founded In the depression years to give young people and city workers a chance to visit the countryside, the YHA has changed with the times. Seventy-five years on, Ian hears from the early pioneers of the movement and the young People who are discovering it anew.
The political discussion programme that sharpens the focus on current ideas and events. Presented by Dennis Sewell. Producer Paul Vickers
insight, colour, wit and analysis as the BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the stories in their regions. Presented byKateAdie. producer Tony Grant
Impartial advice and the latest news from the world of Personal finance, presented by Paul Lewis. Producer Jessica Dunbar Repeated tomorrow at 9pm Win E100,000 off your mortgage: page 17
3/8. The topical sketch show continues with Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis at the helm, Mitch Benn providing the music, Marcus Brigstocke being angry/middle class, Laura Shavin being a properly trained actress and Jon Holmes being picked on for being short. Repeated from yesterday
Answering questions from an audience in Witham, Essex, is a panel that includes the former Conservative party leader lain Duncan Smith. Chaired by Jonathan Dimbleby. Repeated from yesterday
Listeners' calls and emails, taken by Jonathan Dimbleby.
In response to Any Questions?
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By Daphne du Maurier. When Stella's daughter comes home to visit, she brings her new husband with her. There are a few surprises in store, especially as this is the first time mother and son-in-law have met. Adapted by Moya O'Shea. Starring Paula Wilcox and Jonathan Firth.
Producer/Director Tracey Neale
The exodus from Britain of women who married Canadian servicemen during the Second World War was one of the strangest migrations in modern history, as tens of thousands of young wives and mothers travelled across the ocean in "brides and babies convoys" to start their new lives. From the dance-halls of wartime Britain to the vast empty spaces of Canada, the pilgrim mothers had to adjust to a very different way of life, often with husbands they scarcely knew. Edi Stark taps into the Canadian war brides network and meets the women who gambled their whole lives on love.
Producers Luisa Stucchi and Lynne Mennie
The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Ritula Shah. Producer VibekeVenema
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News and sports headlines, presented by Carolyn Quinn.
In another edition of the weekly Francine Stock talks to director Ken Loach and actress Charlotte Rampling , and explores Nottingham's Silent Cinema Festival. Producer sally Spurring
Another programme of music, comedy and conversation with Ned Sherrin and his guests.
Producers Simon Clancy and Cathie Mahoney
The cultural highlights of the week, discussed by Kate Mosse and her guests - Cahal Dallat , Kathryn Hughes and Jameela Siddiqui. Producer Nicky Barranger
1/2. The Ties That Bind. American satirist PJ O'Rourke makes his UK radio debut with frank and funny insights into Anglo-American relations. Repeated from Sunday
Matthew Parris uncovers the remarkable story of the first sound broadcasting service to operate in Britain. Using telephone lines to pipe in the audio of theatres, opera houses and news events into people's homes, the Electrophone had a major impact. Included here are rare recently restored archive recordings from this lost era of radio broadcasting, providing a hitherto unheard glimpse of life in Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
Producer Christina Captieux
1/2. Recounting the high adventures and low behaviour of that renowned bounder, blackguard, liar, lecher and self-confessed coward, Sir Harry Flashman VC. A two-part dramatisation by George MacDonald Fraser from one of his novels. It is 1848 and Flashman is considering a career in politics. But a calamitous game of pontoon with Disraeli plunges our hero into hair-raising involvement with a homicidal sea captain, the West African slave trade, and Congressman Abraham Lincoln.
Producer/Director Patrick Rayner Repeated from Sunday
10/10. A debate, chaired by Michael Buerk , in which Melanie Phillips , Steven Rose , Ian Hargreaves and Claire Fox cross-examine witnesses who hold conflicting moral views on one of the week's news stories.
Repeated from Wednesday
7/12. Marcel Berlins and Fred Housego of the South of England team play Diana Collecott and Philippa Gregory of the North of England. Nick Clarke is in the chair. Repeated from Monday
6/12. Coasts and Edges. How has our island character found its way in to our poetry? Andrew Motion continues his exploration of the landscapes of British poetry, with contributions from Barry Cunliffe and Adam Nicolson and poems by Matthew Arnold , Ezra Pound, John Masefield , Stevie Smith , Coleridge, Sylvia Plath and Tennyson. Readers include Philip Madoc and John Nettles. Repeated from Sunday
4/5. Miss Froom, Vampire. A young passer-by stops to help an attractive, middle-aged spinster in her garden, but recognises over tea that there is something peculiar, and irresistible, about his hostess. A series of stories written by John Connolly. Read by Jacqueline Pearce. Producer Lawrence Jackson
Drop Dead Gorgeous A comedy of conscience by Marcy Kahan , starring Elaine Stritch
