Jonathan Agnew introduces news and views live from Cape Town on the start of the Fourth Test between South Africa and England at Newlands.
From St Lawrence, Bourton-on-the-Hill.
Stand Up and Be Counted. Fergal Keane explores the courage and the fear, the necessity and the price of the challenge to stand up and be counted. Including poetry and readings from John Steinbeck , Aung San Suu Kyi, Martin Luther King , Erich Fried , Geoffrey Cox , Nelson Mandela , Seamus Heaney and Stephen Spender. Producer Jane Jeffes. Repeated at 11.30pm
Joanna Wheatley is a single mother whose farm is under financial threat as she battles to keep the land chemical-free. This programme examines her plight. Producer Hugh O'Donnell
Roger Bolton is joined by guests from different faiths to consider the dawning of the third millennium and to reflect on whether the last one lived up to expectations.
Bob Wilson speaks on behalf of a charity working to improve the quality of orthopaedic surgery. Producer Anne Downing. DONATIONS: The Wishbone Trust, [address removed]
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The Rev Roy Jenkins presents the programme from the Tabernacle Baptist Church, the Hayes, Cardiff. Music by Cambrensis, organist Jeffrey Howard. Conductor Kelvin Thomas.
By Alistair Cooke. Repeated from Friday
Alex Brodie asks BBC correspondents around the world for their predictions about the new millennium.
Nicholas Parsons is joined by Clement Freud, Paul Merton, Linda Smith and Graham Norton for radio's most devious panel game.
(Repeated from Monday)
Andrew Jefford pops a cork to celebrate and finds out that all is not well with the well loved bottle stopper.
(Repeated tomorrow 4pm)
With James Cox
In this new series, Tim Healey and fellow musicians from the Mellstock Band re-create the songs of the early Victorians and the stories behind them.
The precursors of the music halls, where men gathered after hours to eat devilled kidneys, drink brandy and sing.
(Repeated Saturday 11pm)
The National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory in Greenwich hosts the second of two millennium specials with contributions from around the world. On the panel are Nigel Colborn, John Cushnie, Pippa Greenwood and Roy Lancaster. With chairman Eric Robson.
(Repeated Wednesday 3pm)
Live from St Paul 's Cathedral in the presence of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. This is one of four services of thanksgiving and dedication taking place in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It includes a newly commissioned setting of Psalm 100 by Peter Maxwell Davies , and specially composed words by Ben Okri. Patricia Hodge and Richard Griffiths read passages which reflect more than 1,000 years of British Spirituality. Producer James Whittwurn. Also on BBC2
James Naughtie and a group of readers talk to author Douglas Adams about his classic global bestseller The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Repeated Friday 4pm
James Naughtie and a group of readers talk to author Douglas Adams about his world-wide bestseller The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Show more
Fiona Shaw introduces the first of three anthologies of new poetry with contributions from Roger McGough , RS Thomas and Jo Shapcott. Featuring a specially commissioned sequence written and read by Lavinia Greenlaw. Producer Tim Dee. Repeated Saturday 11.30pm
Peter Day puts on his bicycle clips to find out how Europe is coping with its new currency almost a year after the whole thing began. Rptd from Tuesday
The last of four programmes in which historian Niall Ferguson explores the details of the most critical days of the 20th century. Monday 19 August 1991. The day the hard-liners held Gorbachev prisoner in the Crimea and Boris Yeltsin stood on top of a tank. Producer Chris Marshall. Repeated Wednesday 8.45pm
Some of the UK's best known thinkers and personalities select a moment of radio from their lifetime that has deeply affected or changed them. Producer Chris Berthoud. Repeated tomorrow llpm
Shula gains some intelligence. Repeated tomorrow 2pm Soap and flannel with Alison Graham : page 37
Laurie Taylor celebrates the year 2000 with an exploration of why melancholy might be good for us - and he considers the historical and artistic merits of wallpaper. With Michael Bywater, UK Setright, Anthony Grayling, Yasmin Alibhai Brown and Lucinda Lambton.
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Repeated from yesterday 2.30pm
Michael Rosen presents a series about words and the way we speak.
2: Spirit of the Dance. What words do you use for something as visual as dance? Rptd from Thursday
Can animals talk? Can chimpanzees be given the power of language? Professor Anthony Clare explores the psychology of animals. Producer Charlie Taylor
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A Better Future. Tony Blair has pledged to ensure that progressive politics dominate the 21st century. Is this anything more than rhetoric? Ian Hargreaves asks whether there are reasons to believe the new century will be better than the last. Repeated from Thursday
A first look at the politics of a new century. Will the issues dealt with change in the new millennium? Andrew Rawnsley talks to a new generation of politicians. Including 10.45 Challenging Britannia. Simon Hoggart with items for the national agenda in the new millennium.
Margaret Forster and her guests discuss three of theirfavourite paperbacks. Repeated from Tuesday
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Repeated from yesterday 4.45pm
By Marina Warner, read by Juliet Stevenson. "To sleep perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub." But not for Princess Imogen, who cannot sleep and yearns forthis magical experience. Producer Tanya Nash
