From St Leonard, Hythe, Kent. Repeated at 12.20am

Denis Tuohy explores the spiritual and secular associations of December. Producer Will Cantopher

The Mermaids
In the last of the series,
Lionel Kelleway comes face to face with the manatees of Rorida. Producer Simon Roberts

Trevor Barnes with religious news.
8.00 News 8.10 Sunday Papers Producer Phil Pegum
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speaks for the Week's Good Cause on behalf of Unicef's race to eradicate polio from the face of the globe.
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With Alistair Cooke. Repeated from Friday
* Alistair Cooke 's Kind of Day: page 138

Thy Kingdom Come - to Which We Are Witnesses
Morning service for the third Sunday in Advent, from Holy Trinity Church, Brompton, London. Led by the Rev
Sandy Miller. Preacher Bishop Lesslie Newbiggin. Isaiah 43, wlO-13;
Matthew 28, wl8-20; Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending; We Worship and Adore You (Piercy); We Believe (Smale); Now Faith Is Being Sure
(Smale); Great is the Lord (McEwan). Director of music Charlie Groves.

Vincent Hanna reviews the media. Editor Leslie Robinson
Repeated Tuesday at 11.00pm

1: London. Michael Goldfarb remains ambivalent after 11 years as a foreign correspondent in Britain, and he finds other earlier correspondents were equally mixed in their views. Producer Kate Whitehead

With James Cox.

The team answer questions from gardeners in Gloucestershire. With chairman Eric Robson.
Producer Trevor Taylor
Repeated Wednesday at 11.30am

Edmond Rostand 's classic play, translated by Anthony Burgess. Broadcast in surround sound.
In the second of two episodes, Cyrano masquerades as his rival to woo the woman of his dreams, and goes to war. with David Ross , Struan Rodger , Sean Baker , Alice Arnold , Dominic Letts. Mark Bonnar , Keith Drinkel , Chris Pavlo , Kim Wall , Janet Maw and Amanda Gordon Music Matthew Scott. Director
Hilary Norrish Repeated Friday at 2.00pm

Repeated from Friday

Repeated from Thursday

Four writers in search of a sense of place. 1: Ferdinand Dennis explores Harlem. Producer Kate McAII
Repeated from Tuesday

Gareth Owen introduces the second of two programmes celebrating the work of the Salamander Oasis Trust, who have collected a unique archive of the poetry of the Second World War. Producer Paul Dodgson

Repeated from Friday

Funny Business. The world's best management insights appear in a newspaper cartoon strip called Dilbert. Peter Day finds out why. Producer Neil Koenig

The last of a three-part dramatisation of L Frank Baum 's classic tale. with David Holt , Eva Stuart , Peter Yapp. Jilly Bond and Michael Tudor Bames. Dramatised by Marcy Kahan. Music Dominique Legendre Director Sally Avens Repeat

Roger McGough , Miles Kington , Mark Thomas and Dillie Keane play the irreverent literary game. With chairman Ian McMillan. Last in the series. Producer Marc Jobst Repeat

With Mark Curry. 5: La Musica

Chantal Cuer with her pick of the BBC's French archives. Producer Merilyn Harris

Repeated from Tuesday

Repeated from yesterday 9.30am

Presented by Robert Orchard . Producer David Browne
E-MAIL: in.committee@bbc.co.uk

Angela Tilby talks to four leading theologians from tonight's BBC1 series Lives of Jesus.
3: Dominic Crossan talks about why he left the Roman Catholic priesthood. Producer Anna Cox

Repeated from 5.50am

By Daphne Glazer.
Repeated from Tuesday