Stories, poemsand songs
as 8pm
as 9.15pm
as 9.30pm
as 5pm
as 5.30pm
1976 comedy
as 7.30pm
Robin Boyle looks back at the programmes and personalities that entertained troops during the Second World War
James Naughtie talks to author Sebastian Faulks about his 1993 novel Birdsong
A pick of the last week's aired comedies, including at 2.30 Dad's Army, at 3.00 Ring around the Bath, at 3.30 Brothers in Law, at 4.00 Lines from My Grandfathers Forehead, and at 4.30 The Navy Lark
Mark Radcliffe explores famous comedians, continuing with Liverpudlian one-off Ken Dodd (5/6)
Nicholas Parsons talks to comedians and musicians who entertain cruise passengers (M
Matthew Broughton sci-fi (8/10)
Robert Glenister reads JG Ballard's 1962 sci-fi tale set in a 2145 post-apocalyptic submerged London, where global warming and tropical conditions have triggered people's primal memories (2/4)
Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison
Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales star in the acidic satire about two perversely genteel women determined to out-sting the other, first heard in May on BBC Radio 4 - omnibus edition (1-5/5)
Patricia Hodge reads the 1926 tale of a woman's grief over the death of her nephew, killed at the Battle of the Somme
with Desmond Barritt and Brenda Blethyn (2/6)
30 October edition of BBC Radio 4's topical quiz, with Sandi Toksvig
Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell's 2008 family sitcom set in a Birmingham record shop, with Lenny Henry, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Larrington Walker (1/4)
(2/4)
