With Dr Alan Unterman.
4/15. For details see repeat at 7.45pm and Sunday at 5.40pm
Exploring rural life across the UK.
Producer Gabi Fisher at 1.30pm
Presented by Miriam O'Reilly. Producer Moira Hickey
With Edward Stourton and Carolyn Quinn.
7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Brian Draper.
Tom Robinson takes a wry look at the foibles of family life. Producer Jacqueline Smith at 11pm PHONE: [number removed]234 email: home.truths@pbc.co.uk
The adventures, frustrations and joys of travel explored by Sandi TokSVig. Producer Kevin Dawson
Decades before the advent of the cell phone, a "mobile" was a dusty disco unit in the back of a borrowed van.
Former mobile disc jockey Andy Turvey celebrates 60 years of DJs "on the road", with contributions from two British pioneers of the 1940s and Radio 1 veterans Paul Burnett and Adrian Juste. Producer Chris Eldon Lee
Ever since the autumn of 1945, BBC radio has broadcast a late-night account of the day's proceedings in the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Mark D'Arcy talks to the people behind a broadcasting and political institution.
Insight, colour, wit and analysis as the BBC's foreign correspondents look at the stories in their regions. Presented by Kate Adie. Producer Tony Grant
RT DIRECT: From Our Own Correspondent, edited by Tony Grant , is available for E15.99 (RRP E16.99) including p&p. Call [number removed]042 (national rate)
Impartial advice and the latest news from the world of personal finance, presented by Paul Lewis. Producer Chris A'Court Repeated tomorrow at 9pm
4/6. Series 11 of the peerless impression show in which politicians, celebrities, sports stars and Radio 4 favourites are all subject to merciless topical lampooning. Starring
Jon Culshaw , Jan Ravens , Kevin Connelly , and Mark Perry. From the City Hall, Hull. Repeated from yesterday
5/16. Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience in Tilehurst, Berkshire, puts questions on issues of the week to a panel that includes the Conservative deputy leader Michael Ancram, broadcaster and columnist Amanda Platell, and Ed Davey, Liberal Democrat spokesperson on education. Repeated from yesterday
Listeners' calls and emails, taken by Jonathan Dimbleby , in response to Any Questions. Producer Peter Griffiths PHONE: [number removed]0444 Lines open from 12.30pm email: anv.answers@bbc.co.uk
By Josephine Tey. The Franchise is a dark and ugly house on the outskirts of the village, inhabited by two women who keep themselves to themselves. When they are accused of abducting and torturing a young girl, people begin to take notice, and local solicitor Robert Blair finds himself involved in the most extraordinary case of his life.
Producer/Director Ellen Dryden
The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney. Producer VibekeVenema: Editor Jill Burridge EMAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk
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News and sports headlines, presented by Carolyn Quinn. Editor Peter Rippon
Francine Stock talks to animator Nick Park and actress Helena Bonham Carter about the latest Wallace and Gromit film, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, due to be released in the UK in mid-October. Producer Sally Spurring
Another eclectic mix of music, comedy and conversation with Ned Sherrin and his guests.
Producers Simon Clancy and Cathie Mahoney
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests Gabriel Gbadamosi , Louise Doughty and Terence Blacker review the cultural highlights of the week. Producer Nicki Paxman
4/15. Every week, an international writer reflects on the latest developments - political, cultural and social - in their part of the world. Today's guest is Farish Noor , who writes on Malaysian political and religious matters. Producer Sue Ellis Repeated from 5.45am
In the 1930s, thousands of American farmers fled their drought-ridden and Depression-ravaged homelands of Oklahoma and Arkansas for
California, where they hoped to find a better life. What they did find was exploitation and more misery, as memorably chronicled by John Steinbeck in his novel The Grapes of Wrath. Two young academics recorded the stories and music of these all-American refugees, and it is their first-hand accounts of events that can be heard in this programme. Producer Jolyon Jenkins
3/3. By Jane Austen. Catherine's suspicions about the tyrannical General Tilney grow and she is determined to to discover the secrets of Northanger Abbey. Dramatised by Dominic Power.
Music by Peter Wiegold ; Producer/Director Pam Fraser Solomon Repeated from Sunday
1/11. Michael Buerk chairs a debate in which Steven Rose , Ian Hargreaves , Claire Fox and Clifford Longley cross-examine expert witnesses on the moral issues behind the week's news.
Repeated from Wednesday
9/17. Another round of the general knowledge quiz, with contestants from the north of England.
Hosted by Robert Robinson. Repeated from Monday
2/8. The natural world, including some of the winners of BBC Origin's Wildlife Magazine poetry competition, is this week's theme. Presented by Roger McGough , read by Susan Jameson , Bill Wallis and the poets themselves. Repeated from Sunday
2/5. A miscellany of stories from new and established radio writers.
Twenty Gods and the Pomegranate Seeds
A family story begins with a marriage in Uganda and continues with the handing on of a treasure in London. Written by Azmeena Ladha , and read by Renu Brindle. Producer Sara Davies
Ipi Zombi
By Brett Bailey. A reworking of a successful stage play, recorded on location in South Africa, based on the horrific events in the aftermath of a school bus accident