With the Rev Roger Hutchings.
Meeting people who are growing their own house. With Claire Phillips.
With Carolyn Quinn and Edward Stourton.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News With Garry Richardson.
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rev Dr Alan Billings.
Andrew Marr and his guests set the cultural agenda for the week. His guests today include photographer Nick Danziger. Producer Victoria Wakely Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
The indomitable pensioners Irene and Vera return for another series. By Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman.
1/5. The Woman's Hour drama. For details see drama rpt 7.45pm
1/2. Courts in England and Wales sentence offenders to more than eight million hours of community service, or unpaid work, every year. Yet the public still sees this alternative to prison as a soft option and no deterrent to crime. Nick Baker finds out who gets selected for this kind of punishment. He joins some of them as they serve their sentences (clearing overgrown parks), and discovers how their lives have changed. Producer Brian King
New series 1/6. Love in a Cottage. Stella's looking forward to early retirement, but her grown-up children refuse to leave home. Lucy Clare and Ian Davidson 's sitcom about a topsy-turvy family returns for a third series, in which daughter Alison has gone to live with her boyfriend - thus making it one down, three to go. Stella and Patrick are thinking of retiring and give weekending in the country a go. But what aoes on back home while they're away?
Producer/Director Elizabeth Freestone
Liz Barclay is joined by The Independent travel writer, Simon Calder to discuss the future of air travel.
Producer Samantha Fenwick
With Brian Hanrahan.
5/13. This week's teams in the nationwide general knowledge quiz are from Belfast and Leeds. Peter Snow is in the Chair. Producer Paul Bajoria Repeated on Saturday at 11pm
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm
In 1875, Abel Ryder. a prosperous Oxfordshire shopkeeper, broke the law and refused to have his child vaccinated against smallpox. His stand led to his arrest and trial, and a public uproar that helped change the compulsory vaccination law. A true story told by Hugh Costello. and Producer/Director Jeremy Howe
Andrew Marr and the I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue team try to uncover the history and rules of this most popular and mysterious of British games. Repeated from Christmas Eve
1/5. In a tribute to Eric Thompson , the voice behind the iconic TV series The Magic Roundabout, actresses Phyllida Law (his widow) and Sophie Thompson (his daughter) read a selection of his witty tales, abridged by Richard Hamilton. In the first, Brian spearheads an ambitious plan to rebuild Dougal's house, and an evening of magical trickery at Zebedee's leads to an unexpected disappearance. Read by Sophie Thompson. Producer Elizabeth Allard
1/5. A Spare Pair of Arms, and Eyes in the Back of My Head In a series that looks at how the body might work if we had a go at remaking ourselves, Len Fisher picks up some tips from the animal kingdom. Producer Monise Durrani
Repeated from yesterday at 12.30pm
New series 1/13. Ernie Rea and his guests explore the place Of faith in today's world. Producer Janet McLarty
News and analysis, with Eddie Mair.
New series 1/11. Nicholas Parsons invites Paul Merton ,
Gyles Brandreth , Sue Perkins and Graham Norton to start the new year without hesitation, repetition or deviation. Producer Claire Jones Repeated on Sunday at 12.04pm
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Bert gets lyrical.
For cast see page 37 Repeated tomorrow at 2pm
Mark Lawson meets Stephen Poliakoff , writer of The Lost Prince, who has created two new dramas for BBC1, focusing on life in Britain in the past 20 years. Producer Sally Spurring
1/5. They're back. Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge star as grandmothers Irene and Vera. Determined to escape the aftermath of their respective Christmasses from hell, first Vera nabs a package deal to Ibiza, then Irene sets out to rescue her friend when she falls prey to the charms of Gaston the seductive Gascon. By Lou Wakefield and Carole Havman.
Irene Prunella Scales
Vera Patricia Routledge
Producer Claudine Toutoungi Repeated from 10.45am
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Andy Janerson and the letters of ladies: page 117
Howard Davies , former deputy governor of the Bank of England and former chairman of the UK's Financial
Services Authority, looks at the impact and legacy of Alan Greenspan , the chairman of the Federal Reserve who retires this month. Producer Paul O'Keeffe
A night in the life of a taxi - as told through its driver and the passengers that ride within it, and recorded entirely inside a cab. Producer Paul Kobrak
7/8. The Twilight Years. Ageing and death come to us all. Aubrey Manning looks at what dictates the length of an animal's life; whether a long life brings respect and wisdom in the wild, and why poor old male antechinuses from
Australia literally die from too much sex. Producer Mary Colwell
Shortened repeat from 9am
Presented by Robin Lustig.
1/5. The Year's Midnight. Her enjoyable swim at the pool is interrupted by a wailing child. Where is mother? The first in a series of short stories by Helen Simpson , abridged by Katrin Williams , that reflect on themes of hardship with an ironic and comic eye. Read by Niamh Cusack. Producer Duncan Minshull
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Repeated from New Year's Eve at 9am
1/5. By Tim Cahill. Repeated from 9.45am
His Daughter By Meryl Trussler from the UK. For details see yesterday
