Presented by Canon Noel Vincent.

2/5. The Beaver. The European beaver was driven to extinction in Britain in the 16th century. Dylan Winter travels to Scotland and Devon to meet those keen to see the beaver back. But is it too late tor the largest native rodent in Europe to make its return to our rivers? Producer Sheena Duncan

Exploring rural life around the country.
Producer Benjamin Chesterton Repeated on Thursday at 1.30pm

Presented by Miriam O'Reilly. producer Steve Peacock

With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton.
7.25 and 8.25 Sports News With Garry Richardson.
7.48 Thought for the Day With Elaine Storkey.

David Stafford takes a wry look at the foibles of family life. Producer Jacqueline Smith Repeated on Monday at 11pm
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Sandi Toksvig explores the adventures, frustrations ana joys Of travel. Producer Harry Parker

From James Thurber to John Updike, from Dorothy Parker to Seymour Hersh ...The New Yorker magazine is a roll call of America's greatest writers, cartoonists, journalists and editors. Naomi Gryn is granted access to the inner sanctum of The New Yorker's offices and records a week in the life of this great cultural institution. Producer Sue Ellis
Naomi Gryn gets unique access to The New Yorker

Steve Richards of The Independent takes a look at the week's political events. Editor Marie Jessel

A lively collection of dispatches from the BBC foreign correspondents, who report on stories in 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

4/8. Hugh Dennis joins Steve Punt in the topical comedy Show. Repeated from yesterday

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience in Melbourne, Derbyshire, puts questions to the columnist
Simon Jenkins ; Nick Clegg , the Liberal Democrat spokesman on Home Affairs; and Margaret Beckett. the Secretary of State for the Department for the Environment. Food and Rural Affairs.
Repeated from yesterday

Listeners' calls and emails, taken by Jonathan Dimbleby , in response to Any Questions. producer Lisa Jenkinson
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A season of six ground-breaking plays to mark the 50th anniversary of the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre.

After a week's interrogation in Paddington Green, Roche, an IRA suspect, is ready to make a statement. But then Nelson, a "star" interrogator from the RUC arrives, and things go seriously wrong. By Ron Hutchinson.

The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney. Producer Justine Willett ; Editor Jill Burridge EMAIL: womanshourlpbbc.co.uk
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News and sport headlines, presented by Nigel Wrench. Editor Peter Rippon

5/9. Rosie Goldsmith samples reports from the best of English-language radio on how global warming is affecting local people, from western Alaska to South
Africa. She also hears about some ingenious solutions to the problem. How about using tough prairie grass to make ethanol, or sending 8,000 barges up to the Arctic Sea to help stop the melting of the ice? Producer Arlene Gregorius

Another eclectic mix of conversation, comedy and music, with Ned Sherrin and his guests.
Producers Simon Clancy and Cathie Mahoney

New series 1/8. A drama or fictional work that has been created by a writer in response to an event in the week's news.
Producer Toby Swift Repeated tomorrow at 5.40pm

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests, including Maeve Kennedy , Deborah Moggach and Don Guttenplan , review the cultural highlights Of the week. Producer Nicki Paxman

Tower blocks have been one of the most controversial housing "solutions" of the 20th century - both praised and vilified in equal measure. Presented by the broadcaster and poet Stewart Henderson (a former
Liverpool resident), the programme tells the story of high-rise life in Liverpool through the testimonies of those who have lived in the tower blocks, and also dips into a unique 21st-century archive of material put together by the last remaining tenants. Producer Jules Wilkinson

1/2. A comic tour de force about human folly and one of the jewels of Russian literature. Charmer Chichikov arrives in town with his Narrator (an omnipresent figure who becomes an integral character in the story) in tow, and starts touting for Dead Souls. Why? Suspicions come to a head at the Governor's Ball, the highlight of provincial Russian society. Written by Nikolai Gogol , dramatised by Dan Rebellato , and starring Michael Palin and Mark Heap.
Producer/Director Polly Thomas Repeated from Sunday

4/5. In the Beginning Was Sound. This year's Reith lecturer is the conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim. He now holds the posts of Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and General Music Director of the Deutsche Staatsoper in Berlin. "Music," argues
Barenboim, "lies at the heart of what it is to be human". In this lecture, recorded in front of an audience at the Pontifical Notre Dame Center in Jerusalem, he talks about his East-Western Divan Orchestra, which brings together young Arab and Israeli musicians, and how he has discovered that music is the great equaliser. Presented by Sue Lawley . Repeated from Friday

8/13. Ned Sherrin chairs another contest of varied musical knowledge, from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Repeated from Monday

4/4. TS Eliot and the Blitz. Concluding the series that investigates the connections between historical events and the poems they inspired, Jonathan Bate visits the sleepy village of Shamley Green and the roof of St Paul's Cathedral to uncover the links between TS Eliot's Four Quartets and the raging fires of the Blitz. With historian Jose Harris and Eliot expert Ian Smith. Repeated from Sunday

2/5. 1 Take My Heart Out When I Sleep. A night travelling north through snow reveals the generations to one another - or perhaps it does the opposite. This tale, written by Candia McWilliam , and read by Ralph Riach , continues the series of stories set on board overnight trains. Producer Gaynor Macfarlane

Chernobyl Tales

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