From Howden Minster, East Yorkshire.

Mark Tully explores the meaning of mercy. Producer Beverley McAinsh Repeated at 11.30pm

The Giants of Galapagos.
Lionel Kelleway sets out in search of the elusive giant tortoise. Producer Simon Roberts

Roger Bolton presents religious news. Producer Fiona O'Sullivan PHONE: (0161) [number removed]
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By Jonathan Dimbleby. Repeated tomorrow llpm
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Love Bade Me Welcome. From the Chapel of Eton College. A celebration of the life and work of George Herbert , presented by Canon Jeremy Davies. Let All the World (Luckington); Come, My Way (Come My Way); Teach Me, My God and King (Sandys); King of Glory, King of Peace (Gwalchmai) and other Herbert settings.

By Alistair Cooke. Repeated from Friday

Eddie Mair presents conversation about the big stories of the week. Editor Kevin Marsh

Six programmes exploring the lives of British people who have left this country. 4: Kuching. Clare Hampson has a taste of life in Sarawak's capital, Kuching.
Producer Vibeke Venema
* Face behind the Voice: page 123

Nicholas Parsons is joined by Blythe Duff , Tony Hawks, Paul Merton and Derek Nimmo at the students' union at Glasgow University. Repeated from Monday

With James Cox.

With Denis Quilley. Repeated from Monday

Nigel Colbom , Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood answer questions posed by nudists at the Naturist Foundation, Orpington. With chairman Eric Robson. Producer Trevor Taylor. Repeated Wednesday

Restoration. In the third of six programmes, Simon Parkes visits the historic gardens of Hestercombe in Somerset and Christopher Lloyd's Great Dixter in Sussex. Producer Rebecca Moore

By Giovanni Boccaccio , adapted in three parts by Don Taylor. 1: In 14th-century Florence, ten young aristocrats escape to the country to avoid the Black Death, telling stories to pass the time. with John Grillo , Helen Atkinson Wood ,
Max Digby , Abigail Thaw. LucyTregear, Roger May. Christopher Staines. Eleanor Tremain , Lucy Taylor , Sara Griffiths , Kate Byers , Jonathan Dryden Taylor , Charles Edwards and Anthony Jackson. Translated by Jonathan Dryden Taylor Repeated Saturday 9pm

Humphrey Carpenter turns the torn, travel-worn pages of backpack classics old and new, and tries out guides to identifying trees and wild flowers. Producer Rob Ketteridge Repeated Friday 4pm

In the fourth of six programmes, guest poets Kate Clanchy and Helen Dunmore take a look at the changes that have taken place in the poetry written by women over the last 150 years. Producer Susan Roberts

Europe gives more aid to Palestine than to anywhere else in the world. But how much do we know about how the money is spent? Reporter Mark Whitaker. Repeated from Tuesday

With Chris Dunkley. Repeated from Friday

With Martin Bashir.
Producer Elizabeth Abrahams. PHONE:
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Nigel's got guts.
Repeated tomorrow 2pm

Journalist Allison Pearson hosts the first of four programmes in which guests from around the world observe, parody and dissect topical British stories from a foreign perspective. Producers Julia Fleming and Mairi Russell

With Marcel Berlins.
Repeated from Thursday

Charles Handy retraces his own steps in everyone's journey of a lifetime - the search for meaning and purpose. 6: Tuscany: God on a Human Scale Producer Norman Winter Repeat

Boom or Bust? Each month, the Bank of England agonises about interest rates in the face of conflicting information. Bridget Rosewell asks if the data gives an accurate picture. Repeated from Monday

Andrew Rawnsley presents a guide to the political news of the next seven days. Including at 10.45 A Little Local Difficulty: Labour MP Karen Buck shares the realities of her constituency life. Editor John Evans

With Chris Maslanka and guests. Repeated from Thursday

Repeated from 6.05am

A guest talks about the night.

Never the Bride by Paul Magrs. Repeated from Wednesday