With Father Oliver Crilly.

7/15. For details see repeat at 7.45pm and on Sunday at 5.40pm

Exploring rural life across the UK.
Producer Hugh O'Donnell

Presented by Mark Holdstock. Producer Sarah Falkingham

With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague.
7.20 Yesterday in Parliament With Mark D'Arcy.
7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rev Roy Jenkins.
8.51 Yesterday in Parliament

Tom Robinson takes a wry look at the foibles of family life. Producer Karen Pirie PHONE: [number removed] email: home.truths®bbc.co.uk

The joys of travel, with Sandi TokSVig. Producer Harry Parker

In the 30 years since the group Queen extravagant, existentialist six-minute pop production about a poor boy" who'd "just killed a man" first topped the British charts, Bohemian Rhapsody has become woven into our musical, visual and literary fabric. An exception is
Times music critic Hilary Finch , who offers a fresh review, having somehow never heard it before. Other musicians and writers - including the classical singer Jane Manning , tribute band member Rob Comber , singer/songwriter Andy Watts , film buff Tommy Pearson , broadcaster
Andrew McGregor , and composer Joby Talbot - evaluate the song s cultural legacy, with glimpses of Queen themselves and references to Camus, the Koran, commedia dell'arte and of course, the film comedy Wayne's World. Producer Alan Hall

3/10. Elinor Goodman discusses the week s political events.
Editor Marie Jessel

Now in its 50th year, a lively collection of despatches from the BBC's foreign correspondents. Presented by Kate Adie. Producer Tony Grant for DIRECT: (RRP Our Own Correspondent, 0870 by Tony Grant , is rate) for £15.99 (RRP £16.99) 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 Jessica Laugharne Repeated tomorrow at 9pm

1/8. The finest topical comedy panel game known to radio returns, chaired by Simon Hoggart.
(Repeated from yesterday)

8/16 Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience in Richmond upon Thames, London puts questions on the issues of the week to a panel that includes the Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell , and the historian and journalist Max Hastings. 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: any.answers@bbc.co.uk

By Aleksei Arbuzov , adapted by Jonathan Holloway from a translation by Ariadne Nicolaeff. The Gulf of Riga, August 1968 Lydia Vassilyevna (played by Marcia Warren ) is an eccentric new patient at the sanatorium where
Rodion Nikolayevich (Geoffrey Whitehead ) is head of medicine. They are neither of them youthful, they have both suffered in life and they have very different characters, but something draws them to each other and a rapport is built beyond the doctor-patient relationship. When her stay is up can Lydia leave him for MOSCOW? Director Anastasia Tolstoy

3/4. No wonder Verdi had terrible trouble getting his
Un Ballo in Maschera past the censors. With the fight for
Italian independence gathering strength, the last thing the aristocrats needed was the assassination of one of their number on stage - especially when the plot was based on real events. Huw Edward tells the story. Repeated from Tuesday

The best of this week's Woman's Hour programmes. Introduced by Martha Kearney.
Producer Justine Willett ; Editor Jill Burridge
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News and sports headlines, presented by Carolyn Quinn.

Francine Stock talks to actress Susan Sarandon about her latest film Elizabethtown and discusses the new French film The Beat That My Heart Skipped. 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 Robert Sandall , Deborah Moggach and Rowan Pelling review the cultural highlights of the week. Producer Nicki Paxman

7/15. Every week, an international writer reflects on the latest developments - political, cultural and social - in their part of the world. This week US journalist Tim Egan writes from Seattle.
Producer Sue Ellis Repeated from 5.45am

Commentator and satirist Joe Queenan takes a look at the past 35 years of American history through the news reports and documentaries produced by NPR-National Public Radio. Subjects covered include international news coverage and national scandals, must-hear features and "Driveway Moments". Queenan introduces clips from the NPR archive that span 9/11, life as a minister, small-town America, the death of a child, the Watergate scandal, working in New York, OJ Simpson , the Iraq War, a tribute to Mary Tyler Moore , Dr Kevorkian and many more. With contributions from the people behind the programmes, including Robert Siegel and Susan Stamberg. Producer Neil Gardner

1/2. By John Updike. In the town of Tarbox, in sophisticated 1960s New England, six married couples embark on a series of adulterous relationships, each convinced that their activities are invisible to the rest. Dramatised by Shelagh Stephenson.
Producer/Director Eoin O'Callaghan Repeated from Sunday

4/11. Michael Buerk chairs a debate in which Melanie Phillips , Steven Rose , Claire Fox , and Clifford Longley cross-examine expert witnesses on the moral issues behind the week's news. Repeated from Wednesday

12/17. The nationwide general knowledge quiz, with contestants from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Robert Robinson is in the chair. Repeated from Monday

5/8. Another assorted selection of listeners' favourite poems, presented by Roger McGough. Including works by Amy Lowell , Billy Collins and Colette Bryce. The readers are Daniel Hart and Noni Lewis. Repeated from Sunday

5/5. Quantum Man. A man finds an unexpected connection with his teenage son in the complexities of quantum physics. Another story from a miscellany by new and established radio writers, read by Robert Gwilym. Producer Sara Davies