From St Michael and All Angels, Sowton, Essex.
Mark Tully explores the meaning of hope, the life-enhancing conviction that lies at the heart of the Advent season. Producer Beverley McAinsh. Rptd at 11.30pm
A Winter's Catch. Lionel Kelleway visits the roosting grounds of wading birds in Cardiff Bay to survey the birds found in this area as it undergoes major redevelopment. Producer Sheena Duncan
Roger Bolton with the moral arguments and religious and ethical news of the week. Series producer Liz Leonard
The annual Christmas appeal by the Rev Nicholas Holtam, vicar of St Martin in the Fields, on behalf of a charity for the homeless and those in need throughout the British Isles.
DONATIONS: St Martin in the Fields, [address removed]. CREDIT CARDS: [number removed] Repeated Thursday 3.28pm
Lord Runcie introduces the third of four Advent services from around the globe, celebrating the Christian hope for God's coming in today's world. The ComingofChrist-in Struggle. The first ever broadcast from the church on South Africa's
Robben Island, led by former apartheid prisoner Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane. Directors of music Barry Smith and Vuyisile Sutwayi , with marimba player Vuyo Katsha.
Repeated from Friday
Eddie Mair with conversation about the big stories of the week and the weekend. Editor Kevin Marsh
Omnibus edition
The antidote to panel games comes this week from the newly opened Greenwich theatre.
Special guest Andy Hamilton joins regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor , Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden. Humphrey Lyttelton is in the chair. Musical accompaniment comes from Colin Sell. Repeated from Monday
Jean Snedegar has dinner in the late 17th century and discovers the great cuisine that we lostto the Industrial Revolution.
Producer Sheila Dillon. Repeated tomorrow 4pm
With James Cox
Jeremy Sams presents a series of programmes charting the evolution of some of the greatest works of musical theatre. 3: The Marriage of Figaro. A look at how Mozart's opera developed from a controversial comedy written by Louis XV's watchmaker into perhaps the greatest opera ever written. Howard Goodall and Marie McLaughlin are among his guests. Producer David Prest
John Cushnie , Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank are guests ofTameside
Metropolitan Borough Council in Ashton-under-Lyne. With chairman Eric Robson.
Producer Trevor Taylor. Repeated Wednesday 3pm
John Cushnie comes to the rescue of three West
Midlands families who want their gardens transformed. I n the process they learn the basics of gardening. Producer Trevor Taylor
Laurie Lee 's childhood in the Gloucestershire countryside inspired one of the century's best-loved autobiographies. Tim Mclnnerny and Niamh Cusack star in this production recorded in the Slad Valley. Dramatised in two parts by Nick Darke. 1: The Lee family arrive in their new home. with Jennifer Compton. Paul Currier , Briony Fforde , Daniel Clifford. Lisa Kay , Laura Strachan , Jed Blacklock , David Goodland, Constance Chapman , Val Lorraine , Chris Grimes , June Barrie. James Lawton and pupils of Rodborough Primary School. Music Paul Burgess
Directors Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howe. Repeated Saturday 9pm (R)
The end of this century has seen a spate of new publications, but what would readers have found on the shelves of a book shop in 1899? With
David Stenhouse. Producer Lawrence Pollard. Repeated Friday 4pm
Contemporary poetry with Christopher Cook featuring two of Britain's most celebrated poets: journalist, war correspondent and former Oxford professor of poetry James Fenton ; and the millennium poet Simon Armitage.
Producer Lindsay Leonard. Repeated Saturday 11.30pm
In three programmes Mark Tully explores how eastern thought might help solve the problems of the West. 1: The God Of Money Repeated from Tuesday
Richard Uridge presents his selection from the past week on BBC radio.
Producer Bob Carter. PHONE: [number removed]. FAX: [number removed]E-MAIL: potw@bbc.co.uk. WEB SITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw
Special delivery. Repeated tomorrow 2pm Soap and flannel: page 42
Ambridge expects...: page 33
Laurie Taylor and guests suggest ways to improve mind, body and soul.
Producer Chris Wilson. WRITE TO: Room for Improvement, BBC Broadcasting House, London, W1A 1AA
E-MAIL: room.for.improvement@bbc.co.uk
With Roger Bolton. Repeated from Friday
With Marcel Berlins. Repeated from Thursday
Suicide among young men has doubled in ten years. Professor Anthony Clare explores the underlying causes. Producer Charlie Taylor PHONE: [number removed] for more information (R)
Live and Let Live. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto examines the limits to toleration in a liberal democracy. Repeated from Thursday
Andrew Rawnsley with next week's political headlines and the Christmas Quiz. Including
10.45 Sketches from the House. Nick Utechin presents a history of the art of parliamentary sketch writing. 3: How sketch writers saw
Lloyd George announcing the end of the First World War and the first wpman MP taking her seat. Editor John Evans
Bonnie Greer and her guests Sir Jeremy Isaacs and Professor Mary Douglas discuss three of theirfavourite paperbacks. Repeated from Tuesday
Repeated from 6.05am
With Robert Robinson. Repeated from yesterday7.45pm
Derek Jacobi reads Christmas at Dingley Dell from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall (R)
