With the Rev Ian Mackenzie.
11/15. For details see repeat at 7.45pm and on Sunday at 5.40pm
Exploring rural life across the UK.
Producer Hugh O'Donnell Extended at 1.30pm
Presented by Miriam O'Reilly. Producer Chris Impey
With John Humphrys and Carolyn Quinn.
With Garry Richardson. and 8.25
With the Rev Dr Giles Fraser.
Michael Rosen takes a wry look at the foibles of family life. Producer Dilly Barlow Shortened at 11pm PHONE: [number removed]234 email: home.truths@bbc.co.uk
Sandi Toksvig explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
Imagine a stretch of road lit up by your favourite western dreams - log cabins, teepees and cowboy rodeo signs. Joe Queenan drives from Albuquerque to Las Vegas in pursuit of the history of the motel - gangsters, psychos and hot-pillow trade all allowed.
7/10. Elinor Goodman discusses the week's political events.
A lively collection of dispatches from the BBC's foreign correspondents, who report on stories from their regions. Presented by Kate Adie. Producer Tony Grant
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Impartial advice and the latest news from the world of personal finance, with Paul Lewis.
Producer Louise Greenwood Repeated on Sunday at 9.00pm
5/8. Francis Wheen , Alan Coren and special guests take a comedic tour through the top news stories of the week. Simon Hoggart is in the chair. Repeated from yesterday
12/16. Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience in Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, puts questions on the issues of the week to a panel that includes the leader of the House of Commons, Geoff Hoon , and Conservative leader candidate David Davies. Repeated from yesterday
Listeners' calls and emails, taken by Jonathan Dimbleby , in response to Any Questions. Producer Peter Griffiths
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A chance encounter on the Malvern Hills between an unsettled teenager and a famous ghost proves alarming and instructive to both. By Alick Rowe.
Producer/Director Celia de Wolff
1/3. Hurricane Katrina may have demolished the fabric of New Orleans but did it destroy its soul? For more than 200 years the city's music has been inextricably linked with its geography, climate and people. Stephen Evans travels to the Big Easy to look for its musical past, present and future. Repeated from Tuesday
The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney. Producer Justine Willett ; Editor Jill Burridge EMAIL: womanshour(Sbbc.co.uk
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News and sports headlines.
The actor Colin Firth and director Atom Egoyan talk to Francine Stock about their latest film, Where the Truth Lies. Producer Sally Spurling
Another eclectic mix of music, comedy and conversation with Ned Sherrin and his guests.
Producers Simon Clancy and Cathie Mahoney
The cultural highlights of the week are reviewed by Tom Sutcliffe and his guests Malorie Blackman, John Cole and Tim Marlow.
11/15. Every week an international writer reflects on the latest developments - political, cultural and social - in their part of the world. This weekend, French journalist Esther Leneman reflects on the state of secondary education in France.
Producer Arlene Gregorius Repeated from 5.45am
Walking enthusiast Mark Radcliffe discovers the life and legacy of Alfred Wainwright , fell-walker and creator of Britain's most famous series of walking guides.
Radcliffe takes these books as his starting point in an exploration of the man, his life and his achievements. On the way he interviews Hunter Davies , Wainwright's biographer; meets Chris Jesty , who has taken on the task of updating all of Wainwright's guides; and hears archive recordings of Wainwright himself, such as his appearance on Desert Island Discs, in which this most difficult of men preceded his record selections with the insistence that music has always been an irritation to him. Producer Geoff Bird
1/4. Frederic Raphael adapts his own novel following the fortunes of a group of students at Cambridge during the early 1950s. The common link between them is Adam Morris, whose ambivalence towards his Jewishness is reinforced as he makes new friends whose backgrounds are greatly different from his own, in particular Donald, his college room-mate.
(Repeated from Sunday)
8/11. Michael Buerk chairs a debate in which Melanie Phillips , Professor Steven Rose , Claire Fox and Ian Hargreaves cross-examine expert witnesses on the moral issues behind the week's news. Repeated from Wednesday
16/17. The fourth semi-final of the nationwide general knowledge quiz, featuring the highest-scoring runners-up. With Robert Robinson in the chair.
Repeated from Monday
1/6. Peggy Reynolds returns with the series that explores a well-known poem and looks at how it became embedded in the collective consciousness.
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Reynolds begins with Shelley's early 19th-century poem about the ruins of empires and the transience of power. Contributors include Shelley's biographer Richard Holmes and BBC foreigh correspondent Rageh Omar. Repeated from Sunday
4/5. The Strangest Fruit. Now a successful businesswoman, Rhoda dreams of buying a farm where inner-city black kids can come and enjoy country life. But her visit to Chinaberry Farm makes it plain that the locals aren't going to welcome her plan with open arms. Another in this series of stories inspired by Zora Neale Hurston 's collection of folk tales. Written and read by Pauline Black. Producer Kate McAIKR )
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Me by Judith Johnson. Wayne, a wayward black youth, and Jessica, an over-achieving, privileged white girl, suddenly become the mature voices of reason in a hostage situation
