With Clair Jaquiss.
4/5. Looking at the life of the merchant seaman, Dylan Winter asks what it takes for marriage and relationships to survive long absences and brief shore leave. Producer Frances Byrnes
Exploring rural life around Britain.
Producer Sandra Sykes Repeated on Thursday at 1.30pm
Miriam O'Reilly reports on the food-chain issue of the week. Producer Sarah Swadling
With James Naughtie and Carolyn Quinn.
7.20 Yesterday in Parliament
With Mark D'Arcy.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
With Steve May.
7.48 Thought for the Day
With the Rev Roy Jenkins.
8.51 Yesterday in Parliament
It's real life, but not as you know it. Fi Glover keeps order over a studio so crammed with the unexpected that it has to be reinforced with packing tape. Lemn Sissay lends metrical assistance. Producer Torquil MacLeod
John McCarthy explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel. Producer Harry Parker
1/2 Twenty-five years after the first recorded cases of Aids in the UK, Paul Gambaccini takes a look at the social impact of the disease in this country.
Doctors and campaigners recall the terror of the first cases when the disease rampaged through the gay community survivors recall the public hysteria and popular myths about how the disease was caught; and politicians reveal the national emergency response that saw instructions on safe sex go out to every household in the country. Part two is broadcast next Saturday at the same time. Producer Deborah Dudgeon
Peter Oborne of the Daily Mail takes a look at the week's political events. Editor Alison Macdonald
A lively collection of dispatches from the BBC foreign correspondents. Presented by Kate Adie. Producer Tony Grant RT DIRECT: From Our Own Correspondent, edited by Tony Grant is available for £15.99 (RRP ei6.99) including p&p. Call [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute)
Paul Lewis with the latest personal finance news. Producer Samantha Washington Repeated tomorrow at 9pm
Stephen Fry and John Bird play the claret-swilling masters of spin Charles Prentiss and Martin McCabe. With Tony Gardner , Joseph Kloska , Bethan Walker and Saskia Wickham. Written by Mark Tavener.
Repeated from Friday
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the political discussion from Blackpool in which an audience canvass the opinions of four leading figures. Repeated from yesterday
Listeners' calls and emails taken by Jonathan Dimbleby in response to Any Questions? Producer Lisa Jenkinson
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When a lonely Stockholm GP is visited by a distressed woman patient he takes an unorthodox approach that leads to a terrible conclusion. Hjalmar Soderburg 's play, now regarded as a classic of its time, caused a great scandal when it was first published in Sweden in 1905. Dramatised by Vanessa Rosenthal.
Pianist Lucy Parham ; Producer/Director Chris Wallis
The English Hymnal was published in 1906 under the editorship of liturgist Percy Dearmer and composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. Dr Ian Bradley celebrates its centenary and shows how, from the outset, it challenged the establishment by redefining congregational hymn music for the 20th century. Repeated from Tuesday
The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney. Editor Jill Burridge EMAIL: womanshouriSbbc.co.uk RT DIRECT: Woman's Hour: a Celebration of Mothers, featuring excerpts from the programme, is available on audio cassette and CD for E8.99, inc p&p, from www.bbcshop.com, or by calling [number removed], quoting [number removed]
Round-up of the day's news and sporting headlines. Presented by Carolyn Quinn.
6/9. The biggest names in business talk frankly about the workplace issues in the news, from the boardroom to the shop floor, and from building success to handling failure. Presented by Evan Davis.
Producer Neil Koenig ; Editor Stephen Chilcott
Another eclectic mix of conversation, comedy and music, with Ned Sherrin and his guests.
Producer Cathie Mahoney
3/8. Writer and satirist Alistair Beaton creates a fictional response to a story in the week's news.
Producer Eoin O'Callaghan Repeated tomorrow at 5.40pm
Tom Sutcliffe chairs a discussion on the highlights of the week's cultural events, joined by guests from the fields of culture and the arts. Producer Nicki Paxman
In 1956 Anthony Eden , the Prime Minister, was at loggerheads with the BBC over its coverage of the Suez crisis. At the same time, the Corporation was being praised for its reporting of the Hungarian Uprising and trusted with open access to top-secret MI6 telegrams. Steve Hewlett uses archive recordings and new interviews to explore how 1956 was a defining period for the BBC's editorial independence. With contributions from Douglas Hurd , Charles Wheeler and Alastair Milne. Producer Neil George
3/3. Omar Sharif stars in this saga chronicling the progress of a middle-class Egyptian family. The Second World War is in progress and having a devastating effect on the family business - and one of the grandchildren is sucked into radical Islam. Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon from the novels of Naguib Mahfouz , the Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer who died in August. Recorded in Egypt.
Other cast members: Nairy Avedissian , Salah Fahmy , Yara Goubran ,
Caroline Khalil , Rena Malak , Zeinab Moubarak , Tamer Nasrat, Sherif Nour , Ola Roshdy , Sedky Sakhar , Hany Seef. Saymaa Shalan , Hugh Sowden , Mika Thabet , Yeve Youssef and Ekram Zalat
Producer/Director John Dryden Repeated from Sunday
5/11. Michael Buerk chairs a debate in which panellists Melanie Phillips , Ian Hargreaves , Claire Fox and Steven Rose cross-examine expert witnesses on the moral issues behind the week's news. Repeated from Wednesday
9/17. Four contestants from the North of England compete in the continuing first round of the nationwide general knowledge contest. The chairman is Robert Robinson. Repeated from Monday
5/7. Lullabies. Roger McGough presents a selection of soothing, scary and musical poems in the form of lullabies, read by Josette Simon , Patrick Romer and Rupert Wickham. Repeated from Sunday
4/5. The Memory. It was my father said to me, "Bessie, there's a man being hanged in the street, and if you're good, I'll take you". Tamara Kennedy reads another supernatural short story from the 1949 collection by Scottish author Dorothy K Haynes. Producer David Jackson Young
The Employee - Sebastian Bacziewicz 's dark, near-future comedy about a man at the end of his tether in a world he no longer understands. Ian is head maintenance man in an intelligent building. He loves his work, but his life is getting on top of him
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