From llminster Church, Somerset.
Mark Tully looks at human rights at the beginning of Amnesty
International's Human Rights Week. A Unique Broadcasting production
Lionel Kelleway with the nature series. 5: Spider Spied a Fly.The fascinating world of the spiders on our doorsteps. Producer Simon Roberts
Religious news with Colin Morris.
8.00 News
8.10 Sunday Papers
Write to: Sunday, [address removed]
Phone: [number removed]
Robert Elms and guests answer queries about learning Spanish.
Lines open from 7.00pm: [number removed]
Producer Mick Webb.
E-MAIL: [email address removed]
8.45 The French Experience: 10: L'Art de Seduire.
Chantal Cuer looks at romance in French cinema.
Producer Mick Webb
(Revised)
9.15 Short Stories in French: 2: Voyage Circulaire
by Emile Zola.
Producer Iris Sprankling
9.30 When In Italy: 5: Travelling
Denise de Rome's five-part guide.
Producer Mlck Webb
(Rpt)
speaks for the Week's Good Cause about an annual appeal for various social causes throughout the country. DONATIONS TO: [address removed] CREDIT, DEBIT or CHARITY
CARDS: (0171) [number removed]until 5.00pm and (0171) [number removed]thereafter
Repeated from Friday
A Word for Our Time
A series for Advent reflecting on the revelation of God.
2: The Word within Us. Gregorian
Chant Mass from Ampleforth Abbey in Yorkshire, celebrated by the Abbot, the Rt Rev Patrick Barry. Lighten our darkness; Deus genitor alme; Romans 15, w 4-9; Excita Domine potentiam tuam; Matthew 3, w 1-12; Teach me, 0 Lord, the way of thy statutes (Byrd). Schola Director Ian Little. Monastic choirmaster Fr Benjamin O'Sullivan. Organist Simon Wright.
Omnibus edition.
Producer Lindsay Leonard. Rptd Tues 11.00pm
Fergal Keane reports from Sri Lanka, Adam Fowler from Russia and Cleo Paskal from the Isle of Man, as the series ends with a look at separatist movements.
With James Cox.
Pippa Greenwood, Geoffrey Smith and Anne Swithinbank answer questions from gardeners from Blacon, Cheshire.
A Taylor Made production.
(Rptd Wed 11.30am)
By Charles Dickens , dramatised in three parts by Elizabeth Proud.
Joe and Edward are caught up in bitter feuds. with Michael Siberry, Janet Dale, John Webb, Christopher Scott, Kim Durham, Rob Swinton, Terry Molloy, Brian Miller, John Hollis, Sue Wilson, Richard Pearce, Gareth Tudor Price, Carolyn Backhouse and Cathy Sara.
(Rptd Fri 2.00pm)
Repeated from Friday
Michael Prest asks whether recent trends have undermined the concept of "poor countries": Repeated from Thursday
Four stories of private lives in Italy. 1: Intrigue in Umbria Repeated from Tuesday
Gareth Owen presents the first of two programmes about the poetry of Thomas Hardy. Read by Stuart Clapp. Music by Roger Trim. Producer Paul Dodgson
First in a series of six programmes reflecting aspects of life in Ireland today. Repeated from Friday
India Logs On. Bangalore in southern India has become a world-class centre for hi-tech electronics. In the last of the series, Peter Day reports from India's silicon plateau. Producer Mark Gregory
By J M Barrie, dramatised in four parts by Philip Glassborow.
2: In the Mermaid's Lagoon with Justin Webb , James Cohen , Roy Hudd , Max Wrottesley , Freddy White , Ken Gordon ,
James Daley , Chris Emmett. Eve Karpf, Mervyn Stutter , Simon Treves and Graham Hoadly
Music by Wilfredo Acosta. Director Dirk Maggs
The last of three relationships revealed through their correspondence.
A Beautiful Bondage. The doomed love affair between artists Dora Carrington and Mark Gertler , written by Jane Beeson. Narrated by Peter Yapp. With Amanda Root and Joshua Towb. Producer Matthew Walters Rpt
Repeated from Friday
Repeated from yesterday at 4.00pm
Ho Chi Minh City, or Is It Saigon? From 1966 until the fall of Saigon, Julian Pettifer reported for the BBC from Vietnam and Cambodia. In the first of two programmes he explores how the country has survived the postwar period. Producer Sara Jane Hall Rpt
Mark Whittaker seeks tranquillity. Repeated from Wednesday
With Geoff Watts.
Repeated from Tuesday
5: Barbara Myers talks to Nobel Peace Prize-winner Joseph Rotblat. Producer Anne McNaught
Presented by Tim Fenton. Producer David Browne
A service of prayer for Advent from the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge.
By Rhys Davis. Read by Helen Griffin. Repeated from Tuesday