From Rochester Cathedral, Kent. Repeated at 12.20am
According to historian Edward Gibbon , "Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade." Yet convincing people that something is true by argument or insinuation is a major element in human communication. Mark Tully considers the power, dangers and secrets of persuasion. Producer Beverley McAinsh Repeated at 11.15pm
Today, Quentin Seddon meets
Ian Cumming , an Australian farmer with a poetic soul.
Producer Alasdair Cross
Gerry Northam presents religious news.
8.00 News 8.10 Sunday Papers Producer Rosemary Dawson PHONE: (0161) [number removed]
WRITE TO: Sunday, Room 5031, BBC North, PO Box 27, Manchester M60 1SJ E-MAIL: sunday@bbc.co.uk
speaks for the Week's Good Cause about a charity which seeks to find primary causes of brain damage in babies and to prevent it.
DONATIONS: The Little Foundation, [address removed] CREDIT CARDS: [number removed]
By Alistair Cooke. Repeated from Friday
Hope through Change. The second of five programmes on the theme of hope.
Roger Bolton reviews the media. Producer Sarah Eldridge Repeated Tuesday llpm
John Walsh returns with the literary magazine. Producer Lisa Osborne Repeated Tuesday 2pm
With James Cox.
Nigel Colborn , John Cushnie and Bob Flowerdew are guests of Ipswich
Borough Council. With Eric Robson. Producer Trevor Taylor
Repeated Wednesday 11.30am
Edmond Rostand 's classic play, translated by Anthony Burgess. In the first of two episodes, Cyrano fights a duel, saves a poet from certain death and falls desperately in love. with Jonathan Cullen , Lorcan Cranitch , Kenneth Cranham , David Ross.
Struan Rodger , Dominic Letts , Sean Baker , Chris Pavlo , Alice Arnold , Mark Bonnar , Kim Wall , Keith Drinkel , Janet Maw and Amanda Gordon. Music by Matthew Scott. Director
Hilary Norrish. Repeated Friday 2pm Repeat
With Chris Serle.
Repeated from Friday
Empowering Rita? Repeated from Thursday
Kirit and Meena Pathak tell how they established one of the UK's biggest Indian food manufacturers.
Repeated from Tuesday
Ian McMillan presents the second of two programmes featuring poetry which evokes the hills, valleys and people of Wales. Readers Manon Edwards and Dorien Thomas.
Producer Felicity Goodall
With Chris Dunkley. Repeated from Friday
Mark Lawson concludes his six-part audit of religious belief in 1990s Britain. The Divine Megastore
Jehovah's Witnesses open their doors, Jesus's army marches, Buddhists chant for peace, and old churches knock down barriers. Milton Keynes markets God in a shoppers' paradise. Producer Norman Winter
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The latest holiday and travel news. Repeated from yesterday 9.30am
With Gerry Northam. Repeated from yesterday 4pm
Toyah Willcox and Mavis Nicholson join Thomas Sutcliffe to discuss their favourite paperbacks. Revised repeat from Wednesday
Barbara Myers meets six scientists who have changed the world. In the last of the series, she talks to Karol Sikora , professor of clinical oncology at London's Hammersmith Hospital. Producer Jane Worsley
With Geoff Watts.
Repeated from Tuesday
With David Wilby.
Producer David Browne
Mark Tully considers the power. dangers and secrets of persuasion. Repeated from 6.10am
Repeated from 5.50am
By Rachel Bentham. Read by Sally Cookson. Helen cleans and gardens obsessively. Why is it that everything She grows is poisonous? Repeat
