with the Rev Noel Battye. Stereo

Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rt Rev
Richard Harries.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Chris Dunkley of the Financial Timesairs your letters and comments on BBC programmes and policy. Producer Nick Utechin
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Isaiah
Part 7.

Ramadan, Passover, Lent - all involve rituals of self-denial and sacrifice.
In a special programme from Birmingham Jenni Mills explores the connections between faith and practice.
(Revised repeat at 7.20pm LW) Serial: Northanger Abbey (5)

Including the chance to contribute to a major book on people and plants in the UK. Presented by Jessica Holm.
Producer Simon Roberts

Presented by John Howard.

Presented by Derek Cooper.
Producers Sheila Dillon and Marie Helly

with James Cox.

(Broadcastyesterday 7.05pm)

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
The second of a six-part adaptation of Thomas Mann 's novel. Stereo

BBC correspondents at home and abroad report on one of the main British or foreign topics in this week's news. Producers Carole Lacey and Howard Rogers

As hundreds of businesses face potential bankruptcy, today's programme considers how far you can read your way out of the recession. Troubleshooter Sir John Harvey Jones and Stuart Rock of The
Director join Nigel Forde to discuss the variety and value of business books.
And Wendy Perriam - who set out to write a book with no Catholicism and no sex
- explains how she managed the first but not the second in her new novel Bird Inside.
Producer Belinda Sample. Stereo

Natalie Wheen is at the Van Gogh in England exhibition at London's Barbican Gallery; and discusses the new work Four Marys by the Second Stride company.
(Stereo)

ABekkersdal
Marathon by Herman Charles Bosman.
In the little South African town of Bekkersdal they had heard of the latest craze for "marathon dancing". But an altogether more extraordinary marathon was about to take place in their own church.
Read by Stratford Johns. Producer Matthew Walters

Presented by Frank Partridge and Hugh Sykes.

The transport programme with Janet Trewin.
This week: a bridge too far - 2,000 tons of motorway bridge on a lorry. Producer Jill Thomas

Cameron doesn't know what he's missing...
Written by Louise Page

This week's panel: Simon Jenkins , editor of The Times;
Charles Kennedy , MP, President of the Liberal Democrats;
Joan Ruddock , MP, Labour Party
Spokeswoman on Transport; and Rt Hon Norman Tebbit.MP . From London.
Producer Anna Carragher

The cases, the courts and the lawyers -
Marcel Berlins 's weekly look at the developments in the law and how they affect our lives.
Producer Sallie Davies

The allegations made against Judge Clarence Thomas, and the fate of the journalists who brought the story to the public consciousness.

More Caribbean
Than Ever
Lucy Duran visits a music festival in Mexico's
Yucatan peninsula. Stereo

by Alistair Cooke.

with Robin Lustig. Stereo

The Last Days of William Shakespeare by Vlady Kociancich. Part 5.

A look back at the week's news with Sally Grace, David Tate , Geoff McGivernand
Simon Godley. Stereo

with Nigel Cassidy. Stereo