With Canon Noel Battye.
Presented by Mark Holdstock.
With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News With Garry Richardson.
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rev Dr Alan Billings.
6/6. Geneva. The United Nations conference on refugees, held in Geneva in July 1951, took decisions that have created serious aftershocks for the world today. What to do with refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants remains a thorny political question. Gavin Esier is joined by refugee experts and advocates from around the world. Producer Giles Edwards Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
It's not a song by REM. Sometimes, for one reason or another, people begin to question their religion, challenge it and, occasionally, lose it altogether. This documentary hears from those who have taken the decision to forsake their religion, and from faith leaders who discuss what challenges religion faces today. With contributions from Father Keith Baltrop , Farooq Siddique and Rabbi Lionel Blue. Producers Sara Conkey and Nicola Humphries
3/5. When Emily Inglethorp dies suddenly, apparently of strychnine poisoning, Captain Hastings asks Hercule Poirot to look into the case. Then there's a visit from DI Japp of Scotland Yard. Dramatised by Michael Bakewell.
Consumer issues, with Winifred Robinson and John Waite.
National and international news, with Nick Clarke.
7/17. Robert Robinson chairs the first round of the general knowledge quiz with four contestants from the north west of England.
Producer Richard Edis Repeated on Saturday at 11pm
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm
Farai, a Zimbabwean care-worker, and Betty, an elderly Glaswegian, are thrown together in a care home in Glasgow. Betty wants nothing more than to escape. Farai simply wants to be able to stay. By Aileen Ritchie.
Producer/Director Lu Kemp
Listeners' personal finance questions answered by Vincent Duggleby and his guests. Producer chrisACourt
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1/5. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. A week of famous narrative poems begins with Robert Browning 's surprisingly dark, familiar tale of mass child-napping. Read by Stephen Campbell Moore. Producer Lu Kemp
The stories of two urbanites who left the city behind to start new rural enterprises. Repeated from yesterday at 12.30pm
12/13. Ernie Rea in conversation with guests about the place Of faith in the modern world. Producer Janet McLarty
News and analysis, introduced by Carolyn Quinn.
2/9. Exchanging favourite quotations and anecdotes are Jeremy Beadle , Valerie Grove , Lisa Jardine and Christopher Brookmyre. The reader is William Franklyn. Hosted by Nigel Rees from the British Library in London. producer Tilusha Ghelani Repeated on Sunday at 12.04pm
Lynda goes on the nature trail.
For cast see page 43 Repeated tomorrow at 2pm
A review of the exhibition of work by the Crimean war photographer Roger Fenton is reviewed in the arts show hosted by Mark Lawson. Producer Martin Smith
1/5. The Cleaner, the Businesswoman and the Elderly Mother. A week of black comedies by April De Angelis about a circle of women who are bound together by guilt - and cash. Built on the same model as Schnitzler's
La Ronde , each episode contains two two-handed comedies, until the last character meets the first.
Director Jonquil Panting Repeated from 10.45am
New series 1/3. In 1945 Britain and her allies were the occupiers of a devasted Germany. Charles Wheeler describes the attempt to create a new, democratic Germany out of much corruption and apathy. Producer Chris Bowlby
Every summer, an army of giant harvesting machines rolls out across the east coast of Scotland searching out pea fields and hoovering up 8,000 tons of the nutritious little spheres. This documentary portrays a day in the life of this 24-hour, non-stop cycle. Producer Rhona Brudenell
New series 1/9. Great Ape Conservation. As politicians and conservations meet in the Congo to thrash out policies aimed at protecting the dwindling populations of great apes around the world, Paul Evans finds out what really matters to the people who live alongside these apes. Producer Grant Sonnex Repeated tomorrow at 11am
6/6. Geneva. Gavin Esler looks at the United Nations conference on refugees, held in Geneva in July 1951. Shortened repeat from 9am
News and analysis, presented by Claire Bolderson.
6/10. Benedict Cumberbatch reads Honore de Balzac's novel exposing the dubious morals of Parisian society. As Eugene's relationship with Goriot's daughter, Madame de Nucingen, deepens, temptations are all around him.
Abridged by Sally Marmion. Producer Di speirs
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Repeated from Saturday at 9am
1/5. By Richard Francis. Repeated from 9.45am
Who Runs Your World? (1/2)
Animal Farm (2/5) By
George Orwell
