With the Rev Ruth Patterson.
2/5. The Coffin Works. In the heart of Birmingham, Lucinda Lambton finds a Victorian factory, once famous for its shrouds and coffin-fittings, that has defied time. Producer Peter Everett
Exploring rural life in the UK.
Producer Hugh O'Donnell Extended at 1.30pm
Presented by Miriam O'Reilly. Producer Steve Peacock
With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton.
7.25 and 8.25 Sports News With Garry Richardson.
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rev Rob Marshall.
David Stafford takes a wry look at the foibles of family life. Producer Jacqueline Smith Shortened at 11pm
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Sandi Toksvig explores the adventures, frustrations and joys Of travel. Producer Harry Parker
New series 1/3. Presenter Adam Hart-Davis explores spectacular years in the long history of science, when brilliant ideas emerged from the maelstrom of mad. bad and dangerous thinking.
1799. A young Humphrey Davy wanders the streets of Bristol breathing "laughing gas" from a green silk bag, getting mildly hysterical, and encouraging his literary friends to do likewise. Meanwhile, the gas lamp revolutionises the length of the working day, Alessandro Volta invents his battery, income tax is introduced in Britain, and the Rosetta Stone is discovered in Egypt, inscribed with information - on how to pay your taxes!
Producer John Byrne
New series 1/11. Peter Riddell of The Times reflects on the week in politics. Editor Marie Jessel
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 money advice and the latest news from the world of personal finance, with Paul Lewis.
Producer Jessica Laugharne Repeated tomorrow at 9pm
4/6. Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present 28 minutes of topical satire, sketches and songs, aided by Mitch Benn. Marcus Brigstocke , Jon Holmes and Laura Shavin. Repeated from yesterday
2/13. Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience in Tonbridge in Kent puts questions on the issues of the week to a panel that includes FT editor Lionel Barber and MPs Clare Short and lain Duncan Smith.
Repeated from yesterday
Listeners' calls and emails, taken by Jonathan Dimbleby , in response to Any' Questions. Producer Peter Griffiths
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Aldo is a very ordinary man, save for one thing: he looks and sounds exactly like Mussolini. Being
Mussolini's lookalike is no easy matter, especially when Italy is at war and your wife prefers your new identity. A frantic mix of the surreal and the comic combines in Boothby Graffoe 's new play.
Producer/Director Claudine Toutoungi
1/3. Last November Maria Friedman made her Broadway debut, starring in Andrew Lloyd Webber 's The Woman in White. Three weeks before opening, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. The show's producer, her sister Sonia Friedman , talks about their traumatic experience. Repeated from Tuesday
The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney. Producer Justine Willett ; Editor Jill Burridge EMAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk
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News and analysis, including sport headlines, presented by Carolyn Quinn.
Director Rob Marshall , who followed his film version of Chicago with the sumptuous Memoirs of a Geisha, talks to Francine Stock. Producer Timothy Prosser
The usual eclectic mix of conversation, comedy and music, with Ned Sherrin and his guests. Producers Simon Clancy and Cathie Mahoney
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the cultural highlights Of the week. Producer Nicki Paxman
This is the story of Liverpool's "Cunard Yanks", the young men who worked for the Cunard line in the glory years of the transatlantic liners. They sailed to New York and came back dressed like film stars, laden with exotic consumer goods and music unknown in ration-book Britain. Producer Gerry Holsgrove
2/2. Charles's life as a complacent Victorian gentleman has been overturned by his secret meetings with the mysterious Sarah on the undercliff at Lyme. By John Fowles , dramatised by Graham White.
Producer/Director Peter Kavanagh Repeated from Sunday
2/3. Erasmus v Martin Luther : The Nature of Human
Freedom. Emmanuel College, Cambridge, is the setting as Allan Little chairs a modern-day rematch of the clash between the Reformation heavyweights Martin Luther and Desiderius Erasmus on the nature of free will. Repeated from Wednesday
6/13. Another edition of the general knowledge quiz, this week featuring teams from Edinburgh and Leighton Buzzard. With Peter Snow. Repeated from Monday
2/8. Roger McGough introduces a haunting edition of the poetry request show, including such spooky offerings as Alfred Noyes's The Highwayman, Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven and Walter de la Mare's The Listeners.
(Repeated from Sunday)
4/5. The Walk. A walk for a young girl is complicated by the need for it to be made at night. Her cousin goes with her but offers little protection when they encounter the "thing" that beckons. By Merle Collins and read by Adjoa Andoh. Producer Duncan Minshull
Award Winners -The
Heart of a Dog. Andrew Sachs stars in this adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's 1925 novella about a stray dog that gains human intelligence when a professor transplants the glands of a dead criminal into the dog's body
